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Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970)
Copertina
(fronte)
Noon
bouncin’ ball of warm beside child
Deflating
ah vegelife puzzle
Ah braking
ball of wings, legs, leaves, lives, behives
Movies from
each comb
Each pocket
‘n drones bouncin’ cones
Prisms that
melt flesh ‘n bones
Dust ‘n
dark dusklite
None numb
numerals
Noon ball
warm beside the child
Earholes,
eye holes, airholes
Dance,
deflate, inflate meat rainbows
Flesh
bonnets her hair woven
Toes kick
dust away
Drops
Blue,
yellow, red, green clocks
Her heart
pumps, stops, starts, plays, drops
Eyes roll
Rocks back
‘n forth
She played
through the sun stuck out her tongue
Stood on
each of three decals
She licked each one
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970)
Don Van Vliet - Copertina (Particolare - Retro)
Il primo quadro di Van Vliet su una cover compare nel 1970.
Sul retro sono stampate anche alcune poesie surreali dell’artista e
considerando che l’album fu preceduto da un “corto” in bianco e nero, Lick My
Decals Off testimonia a perfezione “l’artista totale” Beefheart.
Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Promotional Video
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
The Spotlight kid (1972)
Don Van Vliet - Copertina (fronte +
retro)
Sul retro
della copertina è riportata una serie di
4 dipinti e 4 poesie dedicati ai componenti della Magic Band.
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - The Spotlight kid (1972)
Don Van
Vliet - Copertina (retro, particolare)
Rockette Morton (basso)
The head catatonic from the
roller rink
rank 'n' rambunctious are employed
in this pleasant pussy
his crabby whiskers above his feet
in glass house sleepers
drinks yellow milk from cocker
spaniel still life number paintings
just another nose in this fine
leather coat cat howling on
green gravel tar paper
the whole world is his walk.
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - The Spotlight kid (1972)
Don Van
Vliet - Copertina (retro, particolare)
Ed Marimba (batteria)
Marlin's trot yacht's wave
billiard's cue white polas
night ribs day
sacroiliacs jab heaven's
chuckling back
relax armadillo xylophone in
zodiac 'n'
back
marimba's
back
Ed Marimba's
back.
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - The Spotlight kid (1972)
Don Van
Vliet - Copertina (retro, particolare)
Winged Eel Fingerling (chitarra)
No B.O. for this boy
it's like a winged eel fingerling
crawling thru lime jello
it's like a chrome black eyebrow
rolled out real long
a paper brow magnifying glass
fried brown, edge scorched, yoked
like a squeak from a speaker
behing forhead of the time,
licorice
schtick open tube of
valuable
JuJuBees.
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - The Spotlight kid (1972)
Don Van
Vliet - Copertina (retro, particolare)
Zoot Horn Rollo (chitarra)
A triangle fed on a wool table
and the velvet home of seven
closets chewed zees
mended 'n' moved junk 'n' caught
fur combs over hair caravans
carnivals klans 'n' cracked a clay
crimped horn on calico cloister.
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Shiny Beast (1978)
Copertina
(fronte)
Sulla cover
del travagliato Shiny Beast, già inciso anni prima come But Chain Puller (poi
rifiutato dai produttori) compare un dipinto di Van Vliet dal titolo Green Tom.
This train with grey tubes that
houses people’s thoughts,
Their very remains and belongings.
A grey cloth patch
Caught with four threads
In the hollow wind of its stacks
Ripples felt fades and grey sparks
clacks,
Lunging the cushioned thickets.
Pumpkins span the hills
With orange crayola patches.
Green inflated trees
Balloon up into marshmallow soot
That walks away in forty circles,
Caught in grey blisters
With twinkling lights and green
sashes
Uuh
Pulled by rubber dolphins with gold
yawning mouths
That blister and break in agony
In souls of rust
They kill gold sawdust into dust.
(Van Vliet – Bat Chain Puller, Shiny Beast, 1978)
Don Van Vliet
Green Tom
(1976)
Olio su
masonite
61 x 46cm
Don Van Vliet
Senza titolo
Questo
schizzo su un sacchetto del pane compare sul retro di Shiny Beast
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station (1980)
Don Van
Vliet - Copertina (fronte)
Su questo
album, che segnò il breve ritorno di Beefheart dopo anni di silenzio, compare
il brano “Run Paint Run Run”. In un’intervista con Lester Bangs pubblicata su
Village Voice nel 1980, a proposito della canzone, Van Vliet sosteneva che “il
colore è davvero dotato volontà propria”. Come del resto tutti gli oggetti che
ci circondano. Questa visione profondamente “animista” permea tutta la sua
produzione artistica e getta nuova luce sui testi surreali delle sue canzoni.
Run paint run run
Run paint run run
Run paint run run
Paint hears this and he begin to run
Electric black shadow runs 'cross
the sun
Run paint run run
Run paint run run
Hold holes in the world
The sun goes down, we'll be done
You hoped
And you hopped
And you hopped
And you swung
There's my baby standing at the gate
Waving, “Come, come.”
Paint hears this and he begin to run
(Van Vliet – Run Paint, Run Run)
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station (1980)
Don Van
Vliet - Copertina (retro)
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