One of Beefheart’s greatest riffs! This track rocks!
Captain Beefheart – Big Eyed Beans From Venus – Oh my oh my! What a stormer!
Dig the words! Dig the guitar! Dig the power!
I love this track! Well distant cousins – there’s a limited supply – don’t let anyone get in between us.
In these times we need something magical to bring us together!
Big Eyed Beans From Venus
Distant cousins, there’s a limited supply.
And we’re down to the dozens, and this is why:
Big Eyed Beans from Venus! Oh my, oh my.
Boys and girls,
Earth people around the circle,
Mixtures of man alive.
Big eyed beans from Venus,
Don’t let anything get in between us.
Beam in on me baby,
and we’ll beam together
I know we always been together,
but there’s more.
Mister Zoot Horn Rollo, hit that long lunar note,
and let it float.
Men let your wallets flop out,
and women open your purses,
Cause a man or a woman without a big eyed bean from Venus
Is suffering with the worstest of curses
Yeah, you’re suffering, with the worstest of curses.
Put ’em out in the sun, and when the night come
You don’t have to go out and get ’em
They’ll glow with you
They’ll go with you
They’ll show with you
Ain’t no losers
Cause they’re on the right track
Cause they’re on the right track
You can be on the right track, woman,
Of course, of course
Ain’t no SNAFU, no fol-de-rol
Check these out, Big eyed beans from Venus
Oh, let a few out, let ’em pass in between us
Distant cousins, there’s a limited supply.
And we’re down to the dozens, and this is why…
Don’t let anything get in between us!
Big eyed beans from Venus
Big eyed beans from Venus.
(1972)
Big Eyed Beans from Venus – the Magic Band
Big Eyed Beans from Venus – the Magic Band
This is a live track from the Magic Band back in 2014 in London.
It was wonderful to see the Magic Band performing. Captain Beefheart was my favourite Band and after Don Vliet (Captain Beefheart) retired and then went and died on me I was thinking I would never hear that brilliant music again (apart from on the wonderful albums of course) but I was wrong. The Magic Band, under the direction of John French (Drumbo) were superb.
Here’s the original Magic Band from around 1980 with the inimitable Captain on vocals.
See what you think.
Here’s a few photos I took of the Magic Band.



