Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band were an American band who created music that has occasionally been dubbed "avant garde-blues". Their music was characterized by bluesy melodies, shambolic instrumentation, idiosyncratic, unbound timings, the growls and shrieks of Beefheart's vocals and his surreal, poetic lyrics. Throughout their career, the band's musical direction was tightly controlled by Don Van Vliet (1941 - 2010), aka Captain Beefheart, who
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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band has had 33 concerts.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band is most often considered to be Rock, Singer-Songwriter, Experimental, Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Blues, Blues Rock, Progressive Rock, Post-Punk, Experimental Rock, Psychedelic, Art Rock, Avant-Garde, Protopunk, Zolo, and Outsider.
The last Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band concert was on January 22, 1981 at Red Pepper Entertainment Center in Arcata, CA. The bands that performed were: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band / The Science.
The songs that Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the January 18, 1981 concert at Euphoria Nightclub in Portland, Oregon, United States:
