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John French (musician)
John Stephen French (born 29 September 1948) is an American drummer and former member of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, where he was known by the nickname Drumbo. He was the principal drummer on several of Beefheart's albums, including 1969's ''Trout Mask Replica'', for which he also acted as arranger. He later released several albums as a solo artist as well as with the collaborative group French Frith Kaiser Thompson. Early life French grew up in Lancaster, California; the same area of Southern California as Frank Zappa, Don Van Vliet and other members of The Magic Band and The Mothers of Invention. He was interested in the local music scene as a teenager, hanging out with Doug Moon and watching The Omens perform live. Playing career Around 1964, he played and recorded with Merrell and The Exiles, a band led by Merrell Fankhauser and featuring Jeff Cotton on guitar. French and Cotton joined Mark Boston in another band in 1966, never recorded, called Blues in a Bottle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Bernardino, California
San Bernardino (; Spanish language, Spanish for Bernardino of Siena, "Saint Bernardino") is a city and county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, the city had a population of 222,101 in the 2020 census, making it the List of largest California cities by population, 18th-largest city in California. San Bernardino is the economic, cultural, and political hub of the San Bernardino Valley and the Inland Empire. The governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico have established the metropolitan area’s only consulates in the Downtown San Bernardino, downtown area of the city. Additionally, San Bernardino serves as an anchor city to the 3rd largest metropolitan area in California (after Los Angeles and San Francisco) and the 13th largest metropolitan area in the United States; the San Bernardino-Riverside MSA. Furthermore, the city’s University District, San Bernardino, California, University Dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockette Morton
Rockette Morton (born Mark Boston; July 14, 1949 in Salem, Illinois) is an American musician, best known as a bassist and guitarist for Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band in the 1960s and 1970s. Career In 1963, after moving to Lancaster, California, Boston joined up with future Magic Band member Bill Harkleroad (aka Zoot Horn Rollo) in a band named B.C. & the Cavemen. He was given the nickname "Rockette Morton" by Captain Beefheart after becoming a member of the Magic Band. Morton played on five of Beefheart's albums: '' Trout Mask Replica'' (produced by Frank Zappa in 1969), ''Lick My Decals Off Baby'' (1970), ''The Spotlight Kid'' (1972), '' Clear Spot'' (1972) and '' Unconditionally Guaranteed'' (1974). He originally played bass, but switched to rhythm guitar after former Little Feat bassist Roy Estrada joined the band. In the book ''Lunar Notes: Zoot Horn Rollo's Captain Beefheart Experience'', guitarist Bill Harkleroad details some of the tensions that aros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Thomas (keyboardist)
John Thomas may refer to: Politics United Kingdom * John Thomas (c. 1490–1540/42), British Member of Parliament for Truro * John Thomas (c. 1531–1581/90), British Member of Parliament for Mitchell * John Aeron Thomas (1850–1935), British Member of Parliament for Gower, 1900–1906 * John Thomas (Welsh politician) (born 1852), Welsh county councillor and miners' agent * John Thomas (British politician) (1897–1968), British Member of Parliament for Dover * John Stradling Thomas (1925–1991), Welsh Conservative Party politician * John Thomas, Baron Thomas of Cwmgiedd (born 1947), British judge * Sir John Thomas, 1st Baronet, Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1700 United States * John Chew Thomas (1764–1836), U.S. congressman from Maryland * John Thomas (New York politician) (1792–1866), New York politician * John Warwick Thomas (1800–1871), North Carolina state legislator and founder of Thomasville, North Carolina * John Addison Thomas (1811–1858), U.S. Assistant Secre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bat Chain Puller
''Bat Chain Puller'' is the 13th studio album (and first official posthumous album) by Captain Beefheart, released on February 22, 2012. It was recorded in 1976 by DiscReet Records, who had intended to release it with Virgin Records as Captain Beefheart's tenth studio album. It was co-produced by Beefheart and Kerry McNab. The album was a subject of friction between DiscReet cofounders Herb Cohen and Frank Zappa. Cohen had used Zappa's royalty checks to fund the album's production, and this led Zappa to withhold the master tapes from Virgin. Beefheart recorded a new album for Warner Bros., '' Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)'', with no involvement from Cohen or Zappa. Following a lawsuit which was settled in 1982, the album remained unreleased until 2012, after Zappa's family had announced in 2011 that they would release the original ''Bat Chain Puller'' in its intended form. Background After recording the album '' Bongo Fury'' with Frank Zappa, Don Van Vliet formed a new Magic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bongo Fury
''Bongo Fury'' is a collaborative album by American artists Frank Zappa and the Mothers, with Captain Beefheart, released in October 1975. The live portions were recorded on May 20 and 21, 1975, at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas. Tracks 5, 6 and 9 (intro only) are studio tracks recorded in January 1974 during the sessions which produced ''One Size Fits All'' (1975) and much of ''Studio Tan'' (1978). Overview The album is a notable entry in Zappa's discography, because it was the last to feature a majority of his early 1970s band, which appeared on '' Over-Nite Sensation'' (1973), ''Apostrophe (')'' (1974), ''Roxy & Elsewhere'' (1974), and ''One Size Fits All'' (1975). Napoleon Murphy Brock's vocals are featured both on the sprawling "Advance Romance" as well as on the three-part harmonies of "Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy". Captain Beefheart, in his only tour with Zappa's band, delivers vocals and harmonica on several tracks, including his two short prose readin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Tripp
Arthur Dyer Tripp III (born September 10, 1944) is an American retired musician who is best known for his work as a percussionist with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band during the 1960s and 1970s. Tripp retired from music in the 1980s and works as a chiropractor in Mississippi. Early career Arthur Dyer Tripp III was born September 10, 1944, in Athens, Ohio. He grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He started playing drums in fourth grade with school bands, then later while at high school at weddings, fraternity parties and dances. In the mid-1950s he studied drums with noted Pittsburgh jazz and big band drummer, Al Hammond. In 1959 he became a student of Stanley Leonard, a timpanist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, with whom he learned to play other percussion instruments, including the xylophone, tympani, marimba, and dozens of others. In 1962, Tripp enrolled at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music to study percus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spotlight Kid
''The Spotlight Kid'' is the sixth studio album by Captain Beefheart. Released in 1972, it is the only album credited solely to Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) rather than Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, although every member is featured, and its material is considered part of the band's repertoire. Often cited as one of the most accessible of Beefheart's albums, it is solidly founded in the blues but also uses instruments such as marimba and jingle bells that are not typical of that genre. The incarnation of the Magic Band on this album was Bill Harkleroad and Elliot Ingber, guitars; Mark Boston, bass; John French, drums; and Art Tripp, marimba. Session drummer Rhys Clark substituted for French on one track, "Glider". Recording In the period leading up to the recording the band lived communally, first at a compound near Ben Lomond, California, and then in northern California near Trinidad. The situation saw a return to the physical violence and psychological manipul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lick My Decals Off, Baby
''Lick My Decals Off, Baby'' is the fourth studio album by American band Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, released in December 1970 by Straight and Reprise Records. The follow-up to ''Trout Mask Replica'' (1969), it is regarded by some critics and listeners as superior, and was Van Vliet's favorite. Van Vliet said that the title was an encouragement to "get rid of the labels", and to evaluate things according to their merits rather than according to superficial labels (or "decals"). Composition Musicians on the album were Don Van Vliet, vocals, harmonica, and woodwinds; Bill Harkleroad, guitar; Mark Boston, bass; Art Tripp, marimba, drums, and percussion; and John French, drums. French had been arranger and musical director on ''Trout Mask Replica''. Van Vliet ejected French from the group—both figuratively and literally, by allegedly throwing him down a flight of stairs—shortly after ''Trout Mask Replica'' was completed, and these roles passed to guitarist Bill Harkleroa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transcription (music)
In music, transcription is the practice of notating a piece or a sound which was previously unnotated and/or unpopular as a written music, for example, a jazz improvisation or a video game soundtrack. When a musician is tasked with creating sheet music from a recording and they write down the notes that make up the piece in music notation, it is said that they created a ''musical transcription'' of that recording. Transcription may also mean rewriting a piece of music, either solo or ensemble, for another instrument or other instruments than which it was originally intended. The Beethoven Symphonies transcribed for solo piano by Franz Liszt are an example. Transcription in this sense is sometimes called ''arrangement'', although strictly speaking transcriptions are faithful adaptations, whereas arrangements change significant aspects of the original piece. Further examples of music transcription include ethnomusicological notation of oral traditions of folk music, such as Béla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirror Man (Captain Beefheart Album)
''Mirror Man'' is the fifth studio album by American band Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, released in April 1971 by Buddah Records. It contains material that was recorded for the label in 1967 and originally intended for release as part of an abandoned project entitled ''It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper''. Much of the material from this project was subsequently re-recorded and released through a different label as '' Strictly Personal'' (1968). The tapes from the original sessions, however, remained under the care of Buddah, who took four of the unissued tunes and released them as ''Mirror Man''. The album sleeve features an erroneous claim that it had been "recorded one night in Los Angeles in 1965". The album is dominated by three long, blues-rooted jams featuring uncharacteristically sparse lyrical accompaniment from Beefheart. A fourth tune, the eight-minute "Kandy Korn", is an earlier version of a track that appears on ''Strictly Personal''. In 1999, Buddha Reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strictly Personal
''Strictly Personal'' is the second album by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. It was originally released in October 1968 as the first album on the Blue Thumb Records label. It was released nearly a year after the band had taken to the studio to record the follow-up to 1967's '' Safe as Milk''. Producer Bob Krasnow added phasing and reverberation effects to the recordings, which were later disavowed by Beefheart. These effects have since been the topic of much discussion among music fans and critics. Alternate recordings from the period were released on 1971's '' Mirror Man''. History The original intention was to record an album for Buddah Records entitled ''It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper'' (''Strictly Personals sleeve design is a relic of this initial concept).Barnes, p. 55 A considerable amount of material was recorded for the project during the period of October–November 1967 with Krasnow producing. Buddah, however, declined to release the album, which app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
