Captain Beefheart - Electricity (Live BBC Top Gear 1968) (Audio)

  • 10 years ago
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Electricty recorded live on January 24th, 1968 for John Peel's "Top Gear" and complete with his introduction and outro.

While playing "Electricity" for a warm-up performance at the Mt. Tamalpais Festival in 1967 Beefheart stopped the song, straightened his tie, and walked off the stage, landing face flat into the grass. He later claimed that he saw that a girl in the audience turned into a goldfish. This caused guitarist Ry Cooder to immediately quit the Magic Band, because he couldn't deal with Beefheart's unpredictability

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