dlxviii. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART: Hair Pie: Bake 1

dlxviii. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (Don Van Vliet) (1941-2010)

Hair Pie: Bake 1 (1969)
CB, vocals, reeds
Drumbo, drums
Antennae Jimmy Semens, guitars
Zoot Horn Rollo, guitars
Rockette Morton, bass
The Mascara Snake, bass clarinet
(4:58)

from Trout Mask Replica

Matt Groening:

"I was fifteen. I thought this was the worst thing I'd ever heard. I said to myself, they're not even trying! It was just a sloppy cacophony. Then I listened to it a couple more times, because I couldn't believe Frank Zappa could do this to me -- and because a double album cost a lot of money. About the third time, I realised that they were doing it on purpose; they meant it to sound exactly this way. About the sixth or seventh time, it clicked in, and I thought it was the greatest album I'd ever heard."

A lot of us had a similar experience.