Captain Beefheart's 1974 Concert History

Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet on January 15, 1941, died December 17 2010) is an American musician and painter, best known by the pseudonym Captain Beefheart. His musical work was mainly conducted with a rotating assembly of musicians called The Magic Band, which was active between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s. Van Vliet was chiefly a singer and harmonica player, occasionally playing saxophone and keyboards. His compositions are characterized by their odd mixtures of shifting time signatures and by their surreal lyrics...

Singer-Songwriter
Experimental
Folk Rock
Psychedelic Rock
Blues Rock
Blues
Post-Punk
Experimental Rock
Art Rock
Avant-Garde
Protopunk
Zolo
Outsider
Proto-Punk
Beat Poetry
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1980 4 concerts
1978 2 concerts
1975 10 concerts
1974 2 concerts
1973 1 concert
1972 3 concerts
1971 1 concert
1970 1 concert
1968 2 concerts
1967 3 concerts
1966 13 concerts
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)


How many concerts has Captain Beefheart had?

Captain Beefheart has had 42 concerts.

What genre is Captain Beefheart?

Captain Beefheart is most often considered to be Singer-Songwriter, Experimental, Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock, Blues, Post-Punk, Experimental Rock, Art Rock, Avant-Garde, Protopunk, Zolo, Outsider, Proto-Punk, and Beat Poetry.

When was the last Captain Beefheart concert?

The last Captain Beefheart concert was on November 16, 1980 at Unity Hall in Wakefield, England, United Kingdom.

What setlist does Captain Beefheart play live?

The songs that Captain Beefheart performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the November 09, 1980 concert at Élysée Montmartre in Paris, Île-de-France, France:

  1. Apes-Ma
  2. Hair Pie Bake III
  3. Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man
  4. Abba Zaba
  5. Hot Head
  6. Ashtray Heart
  7. Dirty Blue Gene
  8. Best Batch Yet
  9. Safe as Milk
  10. Flavor Bud Living
  11. Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles
  12. One Red Rose That I Mean
  13. One Man Sentence
  14. Doctor Dark
  15. Bat Chain Puller
  16. Old Fart at Play
  17. My Human Gets Me Blues
  18. Sugar 'n' Spikes
  19. Veteran's Day Poppy
  20. Suction Prints
  21. Sheriff of Hong Kong

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