John Peel - Peel Night (1999) - The Artist Formerly Known As Cap

1 hour documentary on Captain Beefheart, presented by John Peel. BBC 2 * THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS CAPTAIN BEEFHEART england 1994 bbc 2 television documentary 19.08.97 repeated without film 'some yo yo stuff' 29.08.99 * real surprises come unexpectedly. like the documentary about the artist who, when he was part of the rock 'n' roll circus, demolished the musical rules and created a new and daring sound: don vliet alias captain beefheart. during his 1964-1982 musical period but few people realized how unique his music would proof to be - and he even met greater recognition in other countries than his culturally narrow-minded land of origin, the united states of america hamburgers. so it really isn't a surprise that the only report ever made about the lives and times of the captain comes from the european continent, which has delivered a book (not to mention mine about the cover versions), four biographies, a fanzine and all those vinyl and cd bootlegs. on the other hand it is quite a wonder the special has been broadcast anyhow. because originally it was planned to be a part of the bbc's "late show" programs in autumn 1994, but that art series simply stopped (in 1995) before the beefheart item was shown. it looked like no-one would ever see the expected visual report - as well as the including don van vliet/anton corbijn co-production "some yo yo stuff". the fact that this short film was shown by anton corbijn on dutch television last year, made clear that the bbc presumably had given up all plans for the documentary. how it turned out to be wrong! when we all had lost hope, there came the unbelievable message that on 19 august 1997 their second channel would bring a program called "the artist formerly known as captain beefheart", followed by "some yo yo stuff". so all the hastily warned clans of beefheart fans who could receive that program (in the u.k., ireland and the lucky netherlands) of course stayed up late to watch it. after just five minutes they were completely stunned - and out of their minds for at least a week. hell, why? because the 'show' is so fantastic, marvelous, great and amazing it leaves the viewer paralysed and speechless. i'm glad i did survive this enormous moment and meanwhile have restored to life enough to tell all the poor folks who had to miss this milestone in beefheart-land, about it. [nevertheless they really gotta see it!!!] ================================================================================ --- File Information --- File Name: Peel Night (1999) - The Artist Formerly Known as Captain Beefheart.avi File Size: 537,016,320 bytes --- Video Information --- Video Codec Name: XviD ISO MPEG-4 Duration: 51:15.080 Video Bitrate: 1258kb/s Bits / Pixel: 0.164 Resolution: 640x480 Frames Per Second: 25.000 --- Advanced --- B-VOP: B-VOP QPel: GMC: --- Audio Information --- No of Audio Streams: 1 Audio Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Bitrate: 130kb/s VBR 48000 Hz Audio Channel Count: 2 Interleave: 40ms Preload: 504ms Audio alignment: Aligned o Scope Nerof =============================================================================== all hail to backbacon the original capper.

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 room101bellboy (2008-08-19)

Thanks for this, really. I loved it.
Great documentary --no wonder, it's BBC.
Nicely ripped. Quality: 9.9 out of 10.
:-)

emeanie (2008-11-16)

could someone please reseed. I have been a beefheart fan since the 70's and have seen very little about him. I am stuck at 213 mb's and would really love to see this documentary. Thank you

emeanie (2008-11-18)

Hi folks. I am at 463Mb now and tried to watch what I had on my VLC player. I saw the 1st five minutes and it was fantastic. Could someone please, please reseed so I can get the last 49Mb. I would really love to be able to wathc the entire thing and share this with my friends. Thank you

 FaeGiN (2009-06-23)

Thanks for this. Can't beat Beefheart :)

Wheel83 (2009-06-24)

I am really excited about watching this, Don Vliet was yet another forgotten jesus of music. He had a beef in his heart, thats all you need.
Thanks forever for uploading this.

TechnoMax (2010-12-19)

thanks a lot for sharing this :)