Captain Beefheart's 1980 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 27 concerts in 1980

Date Concert Venue Location
Dec 20, 1980
Captain Beefheart / B-people
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Whisky a Go Go West Hollywood, California, United States
Dec 19, 1980
Captain Beefheart / B-people Whisky a Go Go West Hollywood, California, United States
Dec 18, 1980
Captain Beefheart Palladium Ballroom Dallas, Texas, United States
Dec 17, 1980
Captain Beefheart Palladium Ballroom Dallas, Texas, United States
Dec 16, 1980
Captain Beefheart Palladium Ballroom Dallas, Texas, United States
Dec 15, 1980
Captain Beefheart Palladium Ballroom Dallas, Texas, United States
Dec 11, 1980
Captain Beefheart
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Harpos Concert Theatre Detroit, Michigan, United States
Dec 09, 1980
Captain Beefheart

Captain Beefheart @ Irving Plaza

Irving Plaza New York, New York, United States
Dec 07, 1980
Captain Beefheart
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Toad's Place New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Dec 06, 1980
Captain Beefheart
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Paradise Rock Club Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dec 05, 1980
Captain Beefheart
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Paradise Rock Club Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nov 28, 1980
Captain Beefheart
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Beacon Theatre New York, New York, United States
Nov 26, 1980
Captain Beefheart
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Emerald City Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States
Nov 19, 1980
Captain Beefheart The Venue London, England, United Kingdom
Nov 18, 1980
Captain Beefheart
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The Venue London, England, United Kingdom
Nov 16, 1980
Captain Beefheart Unity Hall Wakefield, England, United Kingdom
Nov 15, 1980
Captain Beefheart Loughborough University Loughborough, United Kingdom
Nov 14, 1980
Captain Beefheart
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The Venue London, England, United Kingdom
Nov 13, 1980
Captain Beefheart / Associates
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Civic Hall Guildford, England, United Kingdom
Nov 12, 1980
Captain Beefheart The Venue London, England, United Kingdom

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Captain Beefheart on Nov 9, 1980 [172-small]

Captain Beefheart
Nov 9, 1980
 Paris, Île-de-France, France
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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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