Showing posts with label gary lucas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gary lucas. Show all posts

Thursday, February 23, 2017

"Octopus" by Syd Barrett


Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro', you have no word
Trip, trip to a dream dragon, hide your wings in a ghost tower
Sails cackling at every plate we break

Cracked by scattered needles the little minute gong coughs and clears his throat
Madam you see before you stand, hey ho, never be still
The old original favorite grand, grasshoppers green Herbarian band
And the tune they play is "In Us Confide"
So trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro', you have no word
Please leave us here, close our eyes to the octopus ride!

Isn't it good to be lost in the wood
Isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood
Meant even less to me than I thought
With a honey plough of yellow prickly seeds
Clover honey pots and mystic shining feed

Well, the madcap laughed at the man on the border, hey ho, huff the Talbot
"Cheat" he cried shouting kangaroo, it's true in their tree they cried
Please leave us here, close our eyes to the octopus ride!

Please leave us here, close our eyes to the octopus ride!

The madcap laughed at the man on the border, hey ho, huff the Talbot
The winds they blew and the leaves did wag
They'll never put me in their bag, the seas will reach and always seep
So high you go, so low you creep, the wind it blows in tropical heat
The drones they throng on mossy seats, the squeaking door will always squeak
Two up, two down we'll never meet, so merrily trip forgo my side
Please leave us here, close our eyes to the octopus ride!



(via Gary Lucas)

Monday, August 23, 2010

Captain Beefheart documentary (in 6 parts) & more...

We've had this posted before, but here it is again! Plus some more documentarian-type Beefheart vids...

Great BBC documentary from 1997, narrated by John Peel, featuring Beefheart himself, Frank Zappa, Ry Cooder and More!

 

 

 


 

 

 

Gary Lucas on Captain Beefheart

Gary Lucas on Captain Beefheart - Magic Band guitar virtuoso Gary Lucas discusses working with music visionary Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet), filmed at the Swiss Cottage Hotel, London, Sept. 2005


 

 

Beefheart on Letterman


 

 

captain beefheart interview

captain beefheart interview LA eyewitness

 

 

 

Captain Beefheart - Lick my decals off, baby (advertisement)

The advertisement for Beefhearts' album "Lick my decals off, baby". Great fun. The album itself is a work of genius.

For info on the refusal/`'ban' of this clip: visit the ultimate Beefheart website:

http://www.beefheart.com/datharp/lickban.htm



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