Clear Spot is the seventh album by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, originally released on LP in 1972 in a clear plastic sleeve. Though Beefheart is known to have been interested in more commercial success - hence his decision to work with producer Ted Templeman who had produced such artists as Carly Simon and Van Morrison - Clear Spot did not chart at all in the UK and only reached #191 on the Billboard Top 200. On CD, the album is now available only as a "two for one" with its predecessor The Spotlight Kid. Separately, the two albums are only available as vinyl LP… read more
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band was 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 subjected the band to intense regimes of rehearsal; this tension combined with poor salary contributing to the bre… read more
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band was an American band who created music that has occasionally been dubbed "avant garde-blues". Their music was characterized by bluesy melodi… read more
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band was an American band who created music that has occasionally been dubbed "avant garde-blues". Their music was characterized by bluesy melodies, shambolic instrumentation, idiosyncratic, … read more