but before that fact took place, don and
ton did a photo shooting in beefheart's daily garden while the evening
was approaching. all in colour, but as anton was (and is) a 'black-and-white'
freak, not many of those shots have been published in full glory. and not
all of them were used right away too. so when captain beefheart and the
magic band toured holland some weeks later and 'oor' held an interview
entitled de
vooruitziende blik van captain beefheart, more shots from that
historic meeting were published.
the picture below is one of those. but it's not a photo taken of captain
beefheart right after he was dropped on earth.... although he looks like
he is curiously wondering in which strange world he has ended up (but
that's an on-going dispute), he's probably spying around to be sure nobody
saw his soul or hair-do a few moments ago, when he took his hat off....
later, in a caption along the heavy metal
interview an old fart
at play from 1 august 1983,
don would recall:
he and i were
in los angeles, at the la brea tar pits. we were sitting in the car, and
i said: 'i'll take you to the right place - the líght place'. we
drove out into the desert, and we had fifteen minutes of just the right
light. i said: 'i'm a piece of meat, anton. you just put me where you want
me'. he just kept saying: 'i don't need to do that, this is fine'. and
he told me to take my hat off for a moment, so i took my hat off, and he
said: 'that's fine'. it was all done in fifteen minutes. i knew then that
these would be the best pictures i had ever seen.
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