Jim Moir on Captain Beefheart
Great Lives
BBC
4.2 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Comedian, actor and artist Jim Moir aka Vic Reeves chooses the life of Don van Vliet.
He was the Dadesque musician and painter Captain Beefheart who has continued to influence many musicians since the 1960s.
Jim joins Matthew Parris to discuss the bizarre and complex persona developed by the Californian eccentric who died from MS in 2010.
With Beefheart's biographer, Mike Barnes.
Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. Producer: Maggie Ayre
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2018.
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| 0:35.0 | I run on Laser Bean. |
| 0:38.0 | I run on Laser Bean. This man's music was a daard-esque mix of blues, jazz, poetry and rock. |
| 0:58.0 | To many he was a genius, a true original whose enigma and charisma lent his absurd, often nonsensical lyrics a mystery that |
| 1:07.1 | his fans interpreted as wisdom. |
| 1:09.6 | The singer, composer and artist Don Van Vlet, better known as Captain Beefhart, is the choice of great life |
| 1:16.5 | by my guest today Jim Moyer, better known as the comedian Vic Reeves. |
| 1:21.8 | It was Reeves's double act with Bob Mortimer that and between cult icons and national treasures. |
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| 1:45.2 | sausage from under his desk bellowing, what an enormous sausage! |
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