Cap'n Beefheart Gone

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Did you know he helped develop the 2 litre cask of fine wine?

 

Was in Eildon Road on a sunny winters afternoon with Frugal and Ryder enjoying the sweet taste of Langwarra flagon ($2.42 a bottle) when a knock on the door.

 

Survey person knocked on the door, and I believe it was I who moved the empties aside to open the door.

"What was our opinion on cask wine?"

It was fine; drank it all the time.

 

"Would we be interested in fine wine in a cask wine store?"

 

Hmmm...  needed to ask the boys? Whadday ya reckon?

"How much?"

"How good the wine?"

 

Ah, yes, we would be interested. The surveyman put the tick in the box.

 

And in a few months there it was in the POW bottle shop; 2 litre fine wine. In casks.

 

The Cap'n? Well he was the soundtrack that made the surveyman popping looks over my shoulder into our bottle crowded living room...

 

Our heads our only house until it rains...

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  • This commment is unpublished.
    · 15 years ago
    I believe it was the classic Troutmask Replica playing...
  • This commment is unpublished.
    · 15 years ago
    There were rumors that he had an unusually large Vampyroteuthis infernalis (which translates literally to “vampire squid from Hell”) in his lab named Mr. Bulbous. Vampire squid have red eyes that glow in the dark, and are the largest for their size than any other animal, and eight arms covered with sharp fang-like spikes, and an additional pair of arms that can extend twice its body length to capture prey. He rescued it while deep sea diving because it seemed too injured to survive on its own. Mr. Bulbous is over two and a half feet long, even though scientists claim that no specimen over 16” had ever been spotted in its natural environment, nor kept alive in captivity. People would occasionally confront Fester about the rumor, which he usually denied. But a few lucky souls would be invited to Fester’s lab. High school students Frank Zappa and Don Vliet made a pilgrimage to the lab, and Dr. Fester took a liking to them, cracking fart jokes and introducing them to the music of Stravinksy, Ornette Coleman and Harry Partch. Zappa teased his friend by borrowing the name of Dr. Fester’s monkey Baron Beefheart, calling him Captain Beefheart. An animal lover famous for making sculptures of animals as a small boy, Vliet embraced the nickname. Years later, Beefheart would make a sly reference to Dr. Fester’s more legendary pet with the phrase, “A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast ‘n’ bulbous, got me?” on his third record, Trout Mask Replica.


    While Dr. Fester was thrilled with what his young friend achieved with his Magic Band, he quickly grew bored with the psychedelic scene and the hippies centered on The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. He was also disgusted with his old acquaintance Ken Kesey, whom he accused of damaging a lot of already dangerously feeble minds, and generally called him a “twat.”

    Who is Dr. Fester?
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  • This commment is unpublished.
    · 15 years ago
    And the house. Well it sold for a fucking measly 350 grand. Oh well another opportunity lost to buy a house once ruled by a psychotic vunderchild.
  • This commment is unpublished.
    · 15 years ago


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