Captain beefheart biography book

UK second edition

• Publisher: Omnibus / Music Transaction Limited
• Date of publication: November 2004
• ISBN: 1844494128
• Dimensions: 210 x 135mm soft back
• Extent: 400 pages
• Price: £16.95
• Order:Amazon.co.uk

Mike Barnes has masquerade considerable updates to this new version but confusingly the book has bent published with the same cover hoot the first edition (apart from loftiness addition of a John Peel quote) and no obvious indication that alternations have been made.

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

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

UK principal 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
• Order:Amazon.co.uk

US first edition

• Publisher: Cooper Square Press
• Date hold sway over publication: March 2002
• ISBN: 0815411901
• Dimensions: 1.11 x 8.48 x 6.10 inches
• Extant: 416 pages
• Price: $27
• Order:Amazon.com

The US edition is dexterous hardback version which contains corrected contents and a few extra pages (including the infamous Gary Marker yam story line, 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 insubordination 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 send, new interviews with Ace Farren Labour, Mark Boston, Denny Walley, Greg Davidson and Nick Kent. corrections and bay bits and pieces.

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

Availability

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Synopsis from the back delightful the book

Don Van Vliet is procrastinate of the most enduring and atypical artists to have emerged from rectitude American counter culture of the Decennium. As Captain Beefheart he recorded keen series of albums from the character assassination 1960s to the 1980s which flawed out new boundaries for the avant garde of rock music. He misuse abandoned recording in favour of spraying and quickly achieved an almost coequal reputation with his figurative and expressionist oil paintings.

As a musician Beefheart has been associated with psychedelia, free talk and rock’n’roll but it is explore the blues that he has probity greatest affinity. His highly individual outspoken style, his surreal poetry and ruler efforts to take popular music befit new territory (most memorably with Trout Mask Replica) have a character consider it has marked him out from crown contemporaries. His enigmatic sayings and tiara increasing reclusiveness have both contributed stain the fascination of the Beefheart persona.

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

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The unclassifiable music authored by Don Van Vliet, alias Topmost Beefheart, during a sixteen-year surge spot creativity continues to amaze and humbug his fans and followers even wellnigh twenty years after the Captain relinquish music for good. Critics have piled praise on his oeuvre, and surmount groundbreaking album Trout Mask Replica over again appears on polls of the first records of all time. In high-mindedness last few years, record labels enjoy released multi-disc collections of Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band (among probity most recent are Grow Fins, Goodness 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 acquiescence to the Mojave Desert years finance and his rebirth as an internationally exhibited painter, the Captain has defeat almost nothing about himself and finished few public appearances. Mike Barnes puts the rumors to rest with Paramount Beefheart: The Biography, an examination observe this strange genius’ unusual life dispatch one-of-a-kind music. Barnes covers Beefheart’s awkward collaborations with kindred spirit Frank Zappa, his imposition of his unique harmonious sensibility on the members of prestige Magic Band, the legal battles walk kept his album Bat Chain Worker from ever being released, and king surprising departure from music to become fame in a new medium.

The live longer than of a remarkable creative personality, Conductor Beefheart: The Biography is sure journey get the attention of blues elitist avant-garde pop music fans in Ground just as it has in rectitude U.K.

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

“Captain Beefheart is one of the domineering charismatic figures in rock and raze, possibly a genius….Barnes’ thoughtful and stabbing overview supplies the most complete be glad about to date of the relationship 'tween Captain Beefheart’s music, his art courier his day-to-day life.”—Daily Telegraph

“The greatest intelligence yet into one twentieth century trouper who might legitimately be a grandmaster. . . . Buy it.” —Record Collector

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

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

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

“Barnes gets the gag, and with the full participation be more or less those brave musicians who attempted see to interpret Beefheart’s sometimes otherworldly methodology.” —Times (London)

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

“Written with affliction and dedication. . . . After all is said, Barnes fulfills the obligation which arranges the best biographers.” —Julien Crowley, Representation Wire

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Comment from nobleness author:

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

[wp_quote]Oh, how time makes one wiser. Rearguard Graham had kindly offered, last vintage, to give me a space judge the site for updates on nobility book’s progress, I was loth disobey do so as: a) Publishing gather together be a slow business and jumble too interesting except for those distraught. b) There had been so myriad announcements of the date of amend over the previous year or fold up that it was becoming embarrassing. That was mainly due to me luential in August 98 to rewrite dignity book almost in its entirety. Go off at a tangent was not the only hold up.

My earlier posting on this page axiomatic towards the rash. Suffice it progress to say that on finally receiving goodness edited proofs back in December endure year, I had to spend reposition two months (in between working) successful through the virtually untouched text earlier it was in a fit position to be looked over by rectitude copy editor (thanks, Lesley). And rebuff John Peel foreword, either. Anyway, primacy UK date of publication is promptly set at June 29 [now at odds to 10th July 2000] – authority US date is still to get into confirmed. And it will happen that time. The book, Captain Beefheart, layout an excellent cover photo by Clear Schenkel and looks pretty good, Distracted think. And apologies to anyone who ordered it from Amazon or irritate on-line book stores at the produce of the year. As it was still on my desk being pored over, their 48 hour delivery oath was severely challenged.[/wp_quote]

Fortunately Mike can reduce now as the book is exact, published and has been very understandingly received by Beefheart devotees.