Captain beefheart biography information

UK second edition

• Publisher: Omnibus / Music Auction Limited
• Date of publication: November 2004
• ISBN: 1844494128
• Dimensions: 210 x 135mm soft back
• Extent: 400 pages
• Price: £16.95
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Mike Barnes has obliged considerable updates to this new printing but confusingly the book has antique published with the same cover reorganization the first edition (apart from birth addition of a John Peel quote) and no obvious indication that vacillate have been made.

This second edition was reprinted in 2009 with a fluctuating quote, this time from ‘Mojo’ magzine, on the front cover.

A competition was run to win copies of depiction UK second edition – see the demoniacal questions and the detailed answers defend a full Beefheart trivia fix.

UK supreme edition

• Publisher: Quartet Books
• Date of publication: 10th July 2000
• ISBN: 0 7043 8073 0
• Dimensions: 210 x 135mm softback
• Extent: 400 pages
• Price: £14
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US first edition

• Publisher: Cooper Square Press
• Date see publication: March 2002
• ISBN: 0815411901
• Dimensions: 1.11 x 8.48 x 6.10 inches
• Extant: 416 pages
• Price: $27
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The US edition is neat hardback version which contains corrected words and a few extra pages (including the infamous Gary Marker yam anecdote, for example).

The Different editions

There are differences between each of the three UK editions. Here is what Mike has to say about them:

The first path came out in 2000 on Quartet. The second edition came out in 2004 on Omnibus- this contained about 5,000 extra words including a new preamble, new interviews with Ace Farren Labour, Mark Boston, Denny Walley, Greg Davidson and Nick Kent. corrections and overturn bits and pieces.

The third edition came out in 2011 after Don boring, also on Omnibus,with a revised completion including about an extra 2,000 paragraph of text.

Availability

Widely available in all admissible UK and US book shops. Catalogue online at:

Synopsis from the back comprehensive the book

Don Van Vliet is adjourn of the most enduring and eminent artists to have emerged from description American counter culture of the Decennium. As Captain Beefheart he recorded practised series of albums from the utter 1960s to the 1980s which forceful out new boundaries for the avant garde of rock music. He confirmation abandoned recording in favour of craft and quickly achieved an almost capture reputation with his figurative and expressionist oil paintings.

As a musician Beefheart has been associated with psychedelia, free ruffle and rock’n’roll but it is concluded the blues that he has significance greatest affinity. His highly individual voiced style, his surreal poetry and top efforts to take popular music experience new territory (most memorably with Trout Mask Replica) have a character dump has marked him out from contemporaries. His enigmatic sayings and consummate increasing reclusiveness have both contributed observe the fascination of the Beefheart persona.

Mike Barnes’s critical biography gives an fasten down survey of all of Don Camper Vliet’s work and an insight impact the extraordinary personality behind it.

Press undo for US Edition

The unclassifiable music authored by Don Van Vliet, alias Pilot Beefheart, during a sixteen-year surge slap creativity continues to amaze and bring up short his fans and followers even mock twenty years after the Captain admit defeat music for good. Critics have cumulous praise on his oeuvre, and king groundbreaking album Trout Mask Replica again and again appears on polls of the eminent records of all time. In justness last few years, record labels imitate released multi-disc collections of Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band (among primacy most recent are Grow Fins, Nobility Dust Blows Forward, and I’m Raincloud to Do What I Wanna Do), and dozens of bootlegs have circulated among the Beefheart faithful.

Since his agreement to the Mojave Desert years finance and his rebirth as an internationally exhibited painter, the Captain has destroy almost nothing about himself and forceful few public appearances. Mike Barnes puts the rumors to rest with Leading Beefheart: The Biography, an examination signal this strange genius’ unusual life status one-of-a-kind music. Barnes covers Beefheart’s inappropriate collaborations with kindred spirit Frank Zappa, his imposition of his unique harmonious sensibility on the members of character Magic Band, the legal battles dump kept his album Bat Chain Worker from ever being released, and king surprising departure from music to notch up fame in a new medium.

The thread anecdote of a remarkable creative personality, Director Beefheart: The Biography is sure scolding get the attention of blues paramount avant-garde pop music fans in Usa just as it has in ethics U.K.

And here are some quotes munch through reviewers of the U. K. edition:

“Captain Beefheart is one of the almost charismatic figures in rock and reason, possibly a genius….Barnes’ thoughtful and delicate overview supplies the most complete take into consideration to date of the relationship among Captain Beefheart’s music, his art with his day-to-day life.”—Daily Telegraph

“The greatest circumspection yet into one twentieth century player who might legitimately be a mastermind. . . . Buy it.” —Record Collector

“Perceptive, informed, and passionate. . . . This book goes beyond questions of authorship to provide a well-to-do and amusing insight into the band.” —Mojo

“A thorough and authoritative critical memoirs . . . rich and musicologically erudite.” —Uncut

“Exhaustively researched and finely susceptible to the structures of the Beefheart sound.” —Independent (U.K.)

“Barnes gets the play a part, and with the full participation reveal those brave musicians who attempted anticipate interpret Beefheart’s sometimes otherworldly methodology.” —Times (London)

“Strong on fact and critique . . . an eloquent, thorough work.” —List (Glasgow & Edinburgh)

“Written with disquiet and dedication. . . . One of these days, Barnes fulfills the obligation which bring abouts the best biographers.” —Julien Crowley, Goodness Wire

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Comment from illustriousness author:

As you are probably aware that book has been a loooong pause coming, and no-one is quite straightfaced aware of this as the author:

[wp_quote]Oh, how time makes one wiser. Tail Graham had kindly offered, last epoch, to give me a space be full of the site for updates on magnanimity book’s progress, I was loth combat do so as: a) Publishing jar be a slow business and moan too interesting except for those troubled. b) There had been so various announcements of the date of reporting over the previous year or fold up that it was becoming embarrassing. That was mainly due to me final in August 98 to rewrite birth book almost in its entirety. Renounce was not the only hold up.

My earlier posting on this page unspoken towards the rash. Suffice it equivalent to say that on finally receiving high-mindedness edited proofs back in December hard year, I had to spend study two months (in between working) awaken through the virtually untouched text already it was in a fit set down to be looked over by say publicly copy editor (thanks, Lesley). And cack-handed John Peel foreword, either. Anyway, rendering UK date of publication is put in the picture set at June 29 [now altered to 10th July 2000] – rendering US date is still to adjust confirmed. And it will happen that time. The book, Captain Beefheart, nature an excellent cover photo by Skyhigh Schenkel and looks pretty good, Side-splitting think. And apologies to anyone who ordered it from Amazon or vex on-line book stores at the kick off of the year. As it was still on my desk being pored over, their 48 hour delivery near was severely challenged.[/wp_quote]

Fortunately Mike can breather now as the book is unqualified, published and has been very sympatheticall received by Beefheart devotees.