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Originally Posted by Mortte Jousimo
Captains Holiday is quite horrible, I think itīs his worst song. Maybe he truly was on holiday when that song was recorded?
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Quote from Don Van Vliet, via (now out of print, so pick up a copy before this thing costs $500; it's really really worth it -- it's nearly 900 pages long and is
fucking extensive, tells some hilarious / embarassing / heart wrenching / tearjerking / wonderful / stupid / ridiculous / unholy stories via JOHN "Drumbo" FRENCH, who is smart and talented as hell -- I had no idea he played many drum and bass parts on the later material AS WELL AS playing guitar on every song on DOC... did you guys know that he played the guitar parts on Odd Jobs, Seam-Crooked Sam, and Thousandth and Tenth Day of the Human Totem Pole, on the original version of Bat Chain Puller? These are the most fucking complex songs ever. Technically, he might not have been as talented -- i.e. "the ability to play lots of notes really fast" -- as someone like Gary Lucas, but as far as having a musical memory and a great EAR, John was the man, and you know, he actually helped Beefheart compose just about every Beefheart song ever, except some of the stuff on DECALS, which Zoot did; some of the stuff on SAFE, which RY did; and most of the stuff on ICE CREAM, which Lucas did) BEEFHEART: THROUGH THE EYES OF MAGIC........
"Look at this song!" Don exclaimed, pointing at a song called
Captain's Holiday. "I didn't even play on this one... I didn't go to the studio that day, so they did a whole song without me, and it ended up on the record!"