Captain Beefheart freaks out over microphone during Germany set (1972)

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2 жыл бұрын

Found this gem within the full 30 minute set Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band did at the Beat Club in Germany to promote Beefheart's sixth studio album, 1971's The Spotlight Kid. I guess there was a problem with his microphone, so he stops during the first take of Booglarize You Baby and storms off as the PA works to woo back the troubled Beefheart. Video purposefully distorted to avoid copyright infringement.
Here's the description from the original upload of the 30-minute set:
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - ARD / Radio Bremen - WDR - Germany
Audio Remastered by BrunoSamppa, 2017
1. Mascara Snake [Bass excerpts from "Trout Mask Replica"]
2. Click Clack (2 Takes)
4. Golden Birdies
7. I'm Gonna Booglarize You, Baby (2 Takes)
8. Steal Softly Thru Snow
9. I'm Gonna Booglarize You, Baby (Original Final Broadcast Take)
DON VAN VLIET (CAPTAIN BEEFHEART): Vocals, Harmonica, Soprano Sax
BILL HARKLEROAD (ZOOT HORN ROLLO): Guitar & Slide Guitar
MARK BOSTON (ROCKETTE MORTON): Guitar & Bass Guitar
ELLIOT INGBER (WINGED EEL FINGERLING): Guitar
ROY ESTRADA (ORÉJON): Bass Guitar
ART TRIPP III (ED MARIMBA): Drums & Marimba

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@3replybiz 3 ай бұрын

Looked polite and civil enough to me. The man was a gentleman after all.

@icecreamforcrowhurst 9 ай бұрын

I’d hardly call it a freak out. He’s just telling the guy it’s not working.

@artrock101 2 ай бұрын

that's what they call 'clickbait'

@Coby_Got 10 күн бұрын

He quits in the middle of the song it’s most def a freak out.

@freshwidow 2 жыл бұрын

I saw Capt. Beefheart at the Troubadour in Hollywood CA, circa 1978. He verbally berated the sound guy because "it sounds like I'm coming through cotton." I have the performance on a cassette tape made on a stereo cassette recorder I hid inside a Wheaties box. Upon entry I was asked "what's up with the Wheaties box" and I told the guy it was snacks. He said "alright then, in ya go!"

@skoto8219 Жыл бұрын

we would love to hear the "cotton" clip if not the whole show!

@JOXCY 11 ай бұрын

You have an obligation to humanity to upload the set!

@coleyoutubechannel 10 ай бұрын

I want to hear the Wheaties Captain Beefheart bootleg

@gobuns2 6 ай бұрын

uhh sir/ma'am pretty PLEASE can you share the tape with us? by maybe recording it again digitally uploading to youtube?

@DMSeniorZeroInTheBank 4 ай бұрын

Would love to hear it!

@iangreenhalgh9280 Жыл бұрын

No freak out there, he barely got annoyed.

@dbob3405 2 ай бұрын

Whoever called this a freakout never saw a fistfight on stage between Ray and Dave Davies

@dagnabbit6187 Ай бұрын

You got to see that ! I remember reading about their tour and their chaotic sets with the Davies’ brothers feuding . consider yourself privileged .

@Goomer 2 жыл бұрын

What a find, someone must have used a green screen to put a much older Don in the background, lol. Why?

@vicente8705 2 жыл бұрын

I had to distort the video in order to get passed the copyright censors plus that’s a really funny photo of Don lol

@Goomer 2 жыл бұрын

@@vicente8705 Clever

@davidaston5773 2 ай бұрын

Can you do that then@@vicente8705? Distort the image? I find copyright moronic. Allowing fans, of anything, to share what they have passion in allows that company to get to a wider audience and create a new generation of fans.

@bongofury1975 2 жыл бұрын

he was right it sounded weak.. fix it and we'll continue

@theyapsta Жыл бұрын

He wasn't "freaking out" at all. I've seen a few singers freak out when they get a crappy monitor mix and this is actually a very tame reaction. Beefheart and his band might be putting unrealistic expectations on the studio's equipment going by the two mics taped together. Either way it's up to the sound guy to sort it out. Easy job when the gear is up to it. A nice monitor mix will massage any size singer ego.

@donvanvliet9477 Жыл бұрын

@@gongbash3223 I always though the two mikes was because one was used for the band's mixer an PA and the other was for the people recording the gig so they could control the mike level for the recording, but could be wrong.

@BaalDavaR999 6 ай бұрын

@@donvanvliet9477 That is why, you're correct.

@richpeltier9519 4 ай бұрын

It may also be a technique pioneered by The Dead and later picked up by other artists, before the industry started adding the capability to all vocal mics. The mics are run 180 degrees out of phase and work to cancel out background noise.

@user-vx7ml6mp8b 2 жыл бұрын

キャプテンビーフハートの動画を初めて見れました。ありがとう。

@ElSantoLuchador 3 ай бұрын

People get lulled into thinking Beefheart isn't an exacting and precise group of talented musicians. If one thing isn't right, none of it is right.

@CptEtgar Ай бұрын

Never seen this. Thanks ❤

@BreezyandtheBlazers-vd3xw 5 ай бұрын

Boy gotta boogie!!

@cliffspencer9989 Жыл бұрын

Don’t mess with the captain 👊👊

@hellomcflyy 2 ай бұрын

maybe he's freaking out because there is a picture of him from 20 years in the future behind him (yes..blue screen..etc)

@pit2ryan3 Ай бұрын

At 0:35 he's either saying "I don't have any monitor" or "I don't have a pneumonia"...

@ilikethisnamebetter Ай бұрын

After intensive research, I've found that he didn't have pneumonia at this time, so it's probably the latter.

@wsplatinum Ай бұрын

@@ilikethisnamebetter keep up the good work!

@lukehauser1182 2 жыл бұрын

Well, it does feel rotten when you step up to sing and your mic doesn't cut it - pros can handle it, but personally I've lost it a few times!

@idesofmarch1375 Жыл бұрын

Rotting in some new kinda cotton

@gobuns2 6 ай бұрын

@@idesofmarch1375with his throats sorin' and his low notes back n forgotten!

@zackzallie8735 3 ай бұрын

Captain Beefheart looks like Fred Durst disguised as Captain Beefheart

@wallisliss 3 ай бұрын

Don Don Don Don Don rip 😢

@shavingdave1 3 ай бұрын

I love it!

@idesofmarch1375 Жыл бұрын

Same thing happened at mother's in Chicago in the 70's. Wess reeves from the audience ran up and fixed it.

@dandruff4462 2 жыл бұрын

God bless the Captain!

@vicente8705 2 жыл бұрын

he knew how to slow your machine right down!!

@matthawkins5006 5 күн бұрын

My new band is going to be called 'The Captain Beefheart Microphone Freakout'. But we will not play a single CB song in our set. Just Hootie and the Blowfish covers.

@geraldstafford2240 4 ай бұрын

Mister zoot horn rollo...hit that long meaning note...and make it float.

@TheBlackbelair 7 күн бұрын

Oh, yeah! Total freak-out! Storms off stage! Oh... ok.

@bartonseagrave9605 Ай бұрын

This is something you will never see with all those girls and boys who can't sing live and there are a lot of them.

@user-tx3zx2yf8h 3 ай бұрын

I thought it sounded better when the mic didn't work and he walked away

@Lanooski 3 ай бұрын

lol that final shot

@nigel900 Ай бұрын

The Freak, Freaks Out…

@wolfgangdevries127 Ай бұрын

That hair though

@felixfelix7447 Жыл бұрын

He liked it way too loud......sound guy probably didn't know what to do...🤔

@d_walsh Жыл бұрын

What's he say " I can't hear " ?

@dreamwell2020 2 ай бұрын

The problem there was that even two microphones was not enough.

@kerbygator 3 ай бұрын

Potato Head Bobby was a friend of mine.

@jaypickett3552 9 күн бұрын

Was that in San Berdino? Or Lancaster?

@martinconcannon7140 Ай бұрын

Its not like he was doing a cover version and he didn't seem to be giving the sound guy a hard time.Nice footage though😁😁😁.

@pussy8229 2 жыл бұрын

hey man! coudl you upload the full video somewhere? it keeps getting taken down from yt

@vicente8705 2 жыл бұрын

You can catch it here fb.watch/bukzF6nfE1/

@dsdaniels4727 4 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t exactly call that a freak out.

@chrisspringer2744 2 ай бұрын

That was freaking out?

@thomasmcalear8673 2 ай бұрын

IT WOULD PISS ME OFF TOO.

@jaymuise6924 Ай бұрын

sounds like yoko ono

@public.public Ай бұрын

So didn't freak out and just informed the stage crew the mic was faulty.

@ilikethisnamebetter Ай бұрын

My God! I hope that roadie got some counselling!

@awrogers3013 5 ай бұрын

Why is backdrop 80s Don?

@vicente8705 5 ай бұрын

It's just a really funny photo of Don lol

@jackkelly6251 Ай бұрын

Zero freaking out in this video

@johna5087 3 ай бұрын

Who????

@Ondwurk 10 ай бұрын

Freaking out?

@brucenator 3 ай бұрын

He didn't freak out. He just stopped performing because the microphone wasn't working properly, as any professional would do.

@jamestreible4545 2 ай бұрын

Freak out? Where? When?

@JohnDeWeese-lq4pf 2 ай бұрын

I think I was at that concert t.... The sound was horrible! They got boooed of the stage.

@tubbers20 4 ай бұрын

Where's the beef?

@Larry-Art179 2 ай бұрын

Over exaggerative headline. He is just saying the mic don't work.

@burpreynolds3250 3 ай бұрын

Whoa, he really freaked out! I thought he was gone kill that guy and everyone within the tribe-state region! Whoa…

@johnny316b 2 ай бұрын

epic freak out, like he just lost his reproductive right to kill his own child

@alexvince461 5 ай бұрын

you must have a pretty intense experience of life if that's what you think freaking ou is

@vicente8705 4 ай бұрын

ok tough guy

@brianmorrison6863 4 ай бұрын

you have to admit 'freaking out' isn't really all that accurate . that said, thanks for the upload. i enjoyed watching that. i'm no audiophile and i was curious to hear what CB thought was unacceptable

@vicente8705 4 ай бұрын

@@brianmorrison6863he was pretty pissed and walked off. I stand by my original title

@brianmorrison6863 4 ай бұрын

fair enough, thanks again@@vicente8705

@3rdcoastnyucka 2 ай бұрын

@@vicente8705because you’re lame-also weak.

@aubreylear 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know rob zombie played guitar

@jamesewanchook2276 3 ай бұрын

pretty calm normal musician complaining about his mic. Quit click trolling.. side note... Down with the tyrant... Slava Ukraini! 🇨🇦🇺🇦

@dinorockwell7670 3 ай бұрын

The dude was flipping out. Stone crazy!

@iananderson3799 2 ай бұрын

CLICK BAIT TITLE

@benjaminhawthorne1969 3 ай бұрын

Is replacing the mic in its stand and calling the stagehand over to fix it, now, in 2024 considered "FREAKING OUT?" 🤔 What "woke snowflakes" YOU have become! 😮‍💨