Captain Beefheart's 1972 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...

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Captain Beefheart had 3 concerts in 1972

Date Concert Venue Location
May 05, 1972 –
May 07, 1972
Bickershaw 1972
Grateful Dead / Donovan / Dr. John / The Kinks / Hawkwind / Wishbone Ash / Flamin' Groovies / Family / New Riders of the Purple Sage / The Incredible String Band / Country Joe McDonald / Linda Lewis / Captain Beefheart / Stackridge / Jonathan Kelly
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Preston, England, United Kingdom
Mar 25, 1972
Captain Beefheart / Foghat

Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band

Birmingham Town Hall Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Mar 03, 1972
Captain Beefheart / Little Feat
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Irvine Auditorium Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Captain Beefheart / Little Feat on Mar 3, 1972 [760-small]

Captain Beefheart / Little Feat
Mar 3, 1972
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Genres:

Singer-Songwriter
Experimental
Psychedelic Rock
Post-Punk
Blues
Folk Rock
Blues Rock
Art Rock
Experimental Rock
Avant-Garde
Proto-Punk
Protopunk
Zolo
Outsider
Weird America
Beat Poetry
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Latest Setlist (01/31/1981):

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  1. Hair Pie Bake III
  2. Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man
  3. I Wanna Find a Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have to Go
  4. Hot Head
  5. Ashtray Heart
  6. Dirty Blue Gene
  7. The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or the Big Dig)
  8. Best Batch Yet
  9. Safe as Milk
  10. One Red Rose That I Mean
  11. Sue Egypt
  12. Doctor Dark
  13. Bat Chain Puller
  14. My Human Gets Me Blues
  15. Sheriff of Hong Kong
  16. Kandy Korn
  17. Suction Prints
  18. Big Eyed Beans From Venus

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Concerts Per Year:

2005 2 concerts
1981 9 concerts
1980 27 concerts
1978 12 concerts
1977 1 concert
1975 38 concerts
1974 28 concerts
1973 25 concerts
1972 3 concerts
1971 12 concerts
1970 2 concerts
1969 1 concert
1968 9 concerts
1967 13 concerts
1966 17 concerts
1965 1 concert
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