Fan Request: Captain Beefheart's Last Appearance With Dave

Fan Request: Captain Beefheart's Last Appearance With Dave | Letterman

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6 ай бұрын

Fan Friday Request:"
"Hi Letterman KZfaq
can you please post the interview Captain Beefheart did with Dave? The second one where he was wearing black. It's probably one of the last appearances of the man on camera!
Thanks for all this amazing work on the channel - it is more than appreciated!
-- Nicholas"
(From "Late Night," air date: 8/17/83)
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@lorip.1110 6 ай бұрын

"The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter." - Cpt. Beefheart

@JKTube 6 ай бұрын

+@lorip. 1110: "Everybody's colored or else you wouldn't be able to see them."

@GreenManalishiUSA 5 ай бұрын

"There are only forty people in the world, and five of them are hamburgers."

@bob733333 3 ай бұрын

Except it does matter. Oh, well, still kinda clever and quirky.

@michaelzuccaro1 2 ай бұрын

I got to meet Don and Jan at one of his concerts and interview him in his hotel room. When I ask for his autograph he draw a sketch of Rockette Morton which I framed. I was so blessed.

@liammcgonigle9594 2 күн бұрын

Oh but it really does matter ….. me

@ralphbrainard4207 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Dave for being cool enough to get this particular art turtle out of his shell. This is great.

@kgilliagorilla2761 2 ай бұрын

Dave showed total respect. A wonderful interview, with a multi level mind. Text book tough interview.

@kgilliagorilla2761 2 ай бұрын

A multi level mind. We should all be so free. Dave showed respect, great interview.

@sirgilmour 6 ай бұрын

I would hope to see all the existing footage of this man Peter Jackson style, 9 hours of him doing his magic in great quality. This man is truly fascinating.

@geoffreylogsdon162 20 күн бұрын

I am so grateful that Dave was so fascinated by the Captain. He is a genius musician and quite a character. I can tell through my own interactions with similar folks that he is very high on the autistic spectrum...one of the keys is to watch when he asked a question...he seems puzzled and then offers an answer which may be germane but often he will find an "item" which in his mind is relevant but will not appear to be, to everyone else. I love that Dave is able to roll with him as that is something most interviewers would not be able to handle...even going along with his fanciful tale of his upbringing. He went to high school.

@gilwood7530 4 ай бұрын

He left us with SO MUCH to enjoy ...Music , Art , poetry etc ...I still feel I WANT MORE !!! Very cool guy

@JustK009 6 ай бұрын

Captain Beefheart is a Legend’s Legend

@colinwilliams553 4 ай бұрын

This man deserves to be in the ROCK &ROLL HALL of FAME a.s.a.p!!!!

@geoffreylogsdon162 20 күн бұрын

The only hall of fame that matters is yours. The "Hall" is just politics and who you know. That is why Mary J Blige is in and, l don't know...Styx isn't. It's a farce.

@BakedRBeans 19 күн бұрын

@@geoffreylogsdon162 Absolutely! "The Hall" is not important. The best artists are the ones that you like.

@lanceash 3 ай бұрын

Poor old Don. Shafted by Frank. Shafted by Gail. His music was great. His paintings were great. His poetry/lyrics were great. In the UK he'd have been given a knighthood. Here, he rotted away in the Mojave. I'd like to see an interview with his wife, Jan. Whatever happened to her?

@SorendeSelbyBowen 6 ай бұрын

Van Vliet! Awesome. I wish he hadn't retired from music in the early eighties.

@sydbarret1973 2 ай бұрын

The most original human being in the history of mankind

@vicente8705 6 ай бұрын

Don was so ahead of his time, he’s like Andy Kauffman except he was 100% the real deal !!

@zappa4ever 6 ай бұрын

Want to really know Beefheart's music? Check out tunes like: Odd Jobs Floppy Boot Stomp Owed T'Alex Dirty Blue Gene Harry Irene Golden Birdies Bat Chain Puller Ashtray Heart 1010th Day of the Human Totem Pole Big Eyed Beans From Venus Sun Zoom Spark Click Clack Grow Fins Love Lies Tropical Hot Dog Night Abba Zabba When Big Joan Sets Up Well China Pig When I See Mommy That's 20 great tunes that are pretty accessible, he's got another 20 that are in the same realm, then the more avant-garde and odd stuff which can take more time to appreciate (or not ;) ) Great artist who forged his own path and never strayed R.I.P. Don

@trevor9917 6 ай бұрын

If it's ok, I would like to add - "Gimme Dat Harp Boy" and "25th Century Quaker". Go Captain!

@BreezyandtheBlazers-vd3xw 5 ай бұрын

@@trevor991725’th Quaker for sure

@brucenator 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for this list!

@gilwood7530 4 ай бұрын

You cant leave the BONGO FURY sessions out ...Beefheart and Zappa had a great groove ...And I didnt see ZIG ZAG WANDERER on yer list , but I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW ya wantedta...SUE EGYPT and ELLA GURU are lookin for you !

@CommanderGeorgeLincolnRockwell Ай бұрын

ZIG ZAG WANDERER

@mcbillygoat 6 ай бұрын

Nobody slays the Captain. Even now, Captain Beefheart is well ahead of his time.

@craigmurdock4740 6 ай бұрын

Hes the type of artist that doesnt take a time into account. Ever timeless.

@aakkoin 5 ай бұрын

@@craigmurdock4740He was well rooted in the blues, and the great painters from the Netherlands and stuff, he was rooted in tradition and history, unlike all other post-modern artists who make just random garbage and think they are unique

@adamfindlay7091 5 ай бұрын

You got it.😻

@MrFreedomGotAnAK 6 ай бұрын

In my book, Beefheart was the most important musical figure in the United States in the 20th century. Trout Mask Replica is possibly the greatest rock album of all time, but Mirror Man is up there as well for me and it is very underrated. He had the blues in his bones but as a true artist he was able to transcend it even further. Mad, but genius.

@BreezyandtheBlazers-vd3xw 5 ай бұрын

Ice Cream for Crow! And Bongo Fury 😏

@jakechat2716 5 ай бұрын

I love Trout Mask Replica. Safe As Milk was also the first and only time I listened to an album 10 times within the first week of getting a copy.

@PatrickJLynch2654 4 ай бұрын

Loved Safe As Milk. I really like the Shiny Beast album as well.@@jakechat2716

@tompine2738 3 ай бұрын

mirror man is crazy underrated due to it being released 4 years later and being terribly mixed until 1999. but mirror man and tmr stand far above the rest of his work, which is all good

@zootsoot2006 3 ай бұрын

Clear Spot

@markpower9081 3 ай бұрын

I've never seen him being interviewed before. I like him even more. He's as mercurial as I'd expect him to be, but cheerful and friendly.

@jamesrowden303 6 ай бұрын

I like the Closed Captions :"Captain Beefart". An apt name which describes his music to a T.

@jamesabrams6908 6 күн бұрын

The woman who laughs at 8:20 in this video....I love you. I think it's heartfelt for a genuinely nice person, Don Van Vliet. I love this clip and he's a unique guy, eccentric, and I'd have loved to have met him.

@RegisWilkins 2 ай бұрын

As Jimmy Carl Black (Mothers of Invention), Zappa was great but Captain Beefheart was the real deal.

@maplelafe7671 21 күн бұрын

I met mr Black in the Netherlands. He toured with the MuffinMan. Talked with him about a our and thats what he also told me with a big smile on his face😊

@alexfletcher5192 3 ай бұрын

Don's artistic audience was in Europe, where he knew he would be taken seriously. 'This is a song from.... Doc at the Radar Station...' - he didn't always know. His paintings were about the inside coming out. And that's why he remains an inspiration.

@canobenitez 27 күн бұрын

what does he say after "This a song from... Doc at the Radar Station?" I can't understand .

@Mrsilenciobackgammon 6 ай бұрын

Great, great post! Thank you! ❤

@alexfletcher5192 3 ай бұрын

It is still difficult to tell how much of Don's innocence was real or deliberate. I do suspect he was playing at this point.

@Crazyfeline 6 ай бұрын

A truly uncomfortable interview done without shopping bags.

@johncornell3665 6 ай бұрын

Interesting fellow, thanks Dave!

@vertyisprobablydead 4 ай бұрын

Imagine living with this guy and he makes you play guitar for 13 hours a day.

@ColterHarris 6 ай бұрын

0:27 - I recognize that hand!

@KungEMuller 6 ай бұрын

You can't get stuff like this anywhere else anymore, can you?

@CommanderGeorgeLincolnRockwell Ай бұрын

His eyes are super glassy lol

@geoffreylogsdon162 20 күн бұрын

That is because he sees things differently. And l am not being flip.

@PatrickJLynch2654 4 ай бұрын

I saw Captain Beefheart with Frank Zappa sometime in the mid 1970's. I saw him again around 1981 at a place called Center Stage in East Providence Rhode Island (where I'm origin]ally from). I think it was the tour for The Shiny Beast Album. The music was great. His music is very creative and a bit strange but very cool. The band played great and it was a different experience hearing them play his music live and also his voice was perfect.

@roccon1338 2 ай бұрын

What a facsinating guy.

@dianeandersen4106 6 ай бұрын

I miss you Dave

@CommanderGeorgeLincolnRockwell Ай бұрын

"How did you come up with the name Captain Beefheart?" - Society "Because society has a beef with the heart" - Captain Beefheart

@Warp75 6 ай бұрын

He was brilliant. Nowadays it’s the tyranny of the talentless

@SorendeSelbyBowen 6 ай бұрын

Chew mustache wetly, pound cane! Too bad that you lost interest for living.

@gongqi67 6 ай бұрын

Look at that Beefheart.

@A_to_Zappa 5 ай бұрын

Don is a genius... Trout Mask Replica

@lanceash 3 ай бұрын

You know, I'd seen him on Letterman as a teenager, but didn't know who the hell he was. Then one day when I was about 22, I was out shoplifting at Kmart and saw Trout Mask among the CDs. I didn't know anything about it, but I saw "Produced by Frank Zappa" on the back and I knew I had to have it. I think most people would have recoiled on first hearing that album, but when I played it, I knew, I KNEW, this was exactly what I needed. And the cover! The front, the back, the pictures of the band inside. Reminded me of the pictures included in Hot Rats. That picture of Don holding the space age vacuum cleaner. Some have made the claim that Don was a bigger influence on Frank than the other way around and I think that's true. I think Frank had these artistic/aesthetic leanings, but he didn't know how far you could push it until he met Don. But Frank had a head for business and Don didn't.

@Max.J.H. 6 ай бұрын

great! thanks!

@Draxtor 5 ай бұрын

THANK YOU!!!!!!

@adamfindlay7091 5 ай бұрын

He's quite sane. Artists are the true leaders.

@public.public 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting that.

@gobuns2 4 ай бұрын

wow thanks for the upload

@JerzyBorowski-ot3ie 6 ай бұрын

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART'S GENIUSZ GENIUSZ GENIUSZ nad GENIUSZAMI KOSMOS KOCHANI na zawsze dziękuję BARDZO

@DdossAttacks 6 ай бұрын

Beef❤ a true legend

@panwu6602 4 ай бұрын

What an interesting man.

@funkflexonsoundcloud 4 ай бұрын

I am the biggest fan of the Late Show with Dave. Went twice. Greatest broadcaster of the last 30 years.

@aakkoin 5 ай бұрын

Don Van Vliet in HQ (Don Van Vliet caught in 4K)

@TheElectricBallroom 6 ай бұрын

Excellent. Captain Beefheart was a true original. We have Frank Zappa to thank for pulling him out of obscurity.

@gerald_legerdemain 6 ай бұрын

We used to put paintings on TV in this country… what happened………..

@wallybeery4058 2 ай бұрын

Well, I think that difference of today is that It's hard to keep paintings from falling over when you put them on flat-screen TV's! 😅

@sayeager5559 6 ай бұрын

Fast and bulbous.

@tylerrae2018 6 ай бұрын

That's right, The Mascara Snake

@BrettBorovic 6 ай бұрын

@@tylerrae2018 Bulbous also tapered?

@KaijuInvadesNYC 6 ай бұрын

@@BrettBorovic Also, a tin teardrop.

@JKTube 6 ай бұрын

+@sayeager5559: Electric black shadow run cross the sun

@robertomarinus4615 3 ай бұрын

Captain Beefheart the man from the dessert hot sun full moon

@turnerlotter3011 6 ай бұрын

bulbous…also tapered

@TRICK-OR-TREAT236 2 ай бұрын

THIS MAN COULD SING THE BIRDS FROM THE TREES !

@GamesWithBrainz 2 ай бұрын

What does that mean exactly? Don: exactly? I dont know, i had fun doing it though. 👌

@lubernaut 6 ай бұрын

I’m still allergic to chapstick 😢

@S1L3NTG4M3R 6 ай бұрын

Hey David

@blakejohnson7148 Ай бұрын

Seems like a very nice guy.

@liammcooper 6 ай бұрын

I still don't know what the war is a pimple on the pope's pet dragon means

@jjryoungjr Ай бұрын

Beefheart & Zappa is what inspired the band PHISH the most. This is exactly why nobody understands PHISH.

@user-uc8sr7ly6b 2 ай бұрын

Man Van.

@rsgabrys---- 6 ай бұрын

---------------------- fully functional eccentricity .....thanks4sharing

@SecretFriend 6 ай бұрын

That musta been some good acid :D

@vicente8705 6 ай бұрын

He stopped doing acid around ‘74-‘75

@DistantLights 3 ай бұрын

It's wild this interview happened

@maplelafe7671 21 күн бұрын

Don van Vliet the best the Dutch has to offer to America.

@lowe-quay-shush 4 ай бұрын

Did he do a lot of acid?

@MENFUSSMIKE 6 ай бұрын

BEEF❤ > Zappa

@karlmadsen3179 6 ай бұрын

That guy was nuts.

@mawangdwei3866 6 ай бұрын

The Parkinson's disease is already apparent.

@KaijuInvadesNYC 6 ай бұрын

I noticed that too. I think it's because we are looking for it, but if you are you can definitely see it.

@Emlizardo 6 ай бұрын

Yes, at the time I wouldn't have thought of it, but in hindsight we can see it.

@DieGroteske 6 ай бұрын

It was Multiple Sclerosis

@lanceash 3 ай бұрын

He had multiple sclerosis, not Parkinson's.

@geoffreylogsdon162 20 күн бұрын

Nope. Autism. MS has nothing to do with the mind.

@LorenStClair 2 ай бұрын

Alcohol is the Devil

@jahuti5065 14 күн бұрын

Don was not drunk here. He was beginning to show the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. It was this illness that forced him to retire from music.

@amjh4lah809 6 ай бұрын

10th minute 😊

@LW-no9sm 2 ай бұрын

Oh dear. Flop.

@kstepko 6 ай бұрын

How could anyone have watched this late at night? 😴

@dianeandersen4106 6 ай бұрын

I watched this show every night it was on.I even watched when he was on daytime TV. I love Dave so much.

@kstepko 6 ай бұрын

I was implying that this particular guest/interview was exceedingly boring - although Dave was doing everything that he could.

@lanceash 3 ай бұрын

Oh, my dear, you just don't understand...

@midlifemotox 5 ай бұрын

Awful.. Being extrinsic isn't art.

@gcangur1 4 ай бұрын

learn english before writing in english now get the funk out of my face

@lanceash 3 ай бұрын

But being intrinsic is?

@muffinman4353 6 ай бұрын

What the hell was Frank doing with this clown???

@Emlizardo 6 ай бұрын

Zappa's music was to Beefheart's as a novel by Harold Robbins was to Melville.

@MENFUSSMIKE 6 ай бұрын

Lmao. 😂😂 if BEEF was a clown then I don't know what Zappa was

@muffinman4353 6 ай бұрын

@@MENFUSSMIKE Zappa gave FART that nickname. When Zappa had him sing on the,"Bongo Fury" Album, FART sang so out of key that Frank purposely have to over sing to drown him out....look it up. FART was so overrated... it's pathetic.

@geoffreylogsdon162 20 күн бұрын

...said all the clowns who don't get the complexity in his music. Try again.