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LUCA FERRARI

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
pearls before swine ice cream for crows

(perle ai porci gelato ai corvi)
a tribute to the art of captain beefheart

italy 1996 book+ceedee sonic sb1 isbn 88 7226 319 0
118 pages - 8 pictures - 10 colour repros - 4 drawings - 12 poems
14 x 12,5 cm + 3" ceedee
in english and italian

captain
                      beefheart / don van vliet - books about - luca
                      ferrari 'pearls before swine ice cream for crows'
                      - italy 1996 - front cover

after english, german and french books about captain beefheart and the magic band this summer the italians also got their much-needed background story. it has a glossy lay-out and the surprising format of a cd-box. in fact it's a kind of mini repeat of the 1993 'stand up to be discontinued' art book with some reproductions taken from it; but also with paintings and poems from 'skeleton breath, scorpion blush' from 1987 and a poem and three drawings from the 1 november 1982 periodical conjunctions #3.

another nice thought was to present an (not perfect) english translation along the italian text, so a bigger part of the world can read it. unfortunately it then turns out that there are a lot of plain quotes from articles, numerous spelling faults in titles and incomplete or wrong facts that easily could have been prevented. wanna have examples? on page 31 'it is early 1970 and mascara snake and doug moon leave the band'. well, doug had only been a guest - and worst of all: jeff cotton also left, but isn't mentioned. fie; a simple look at colin webb's band line-ups would have avoided this blunder. and the rather good, quite extensive discography is u.s. and u.k. only and... missing the 'diddy wah diddy' single.

but altogether it's a nice try and folks that couldn't afford or obtain one of the 'stand up to be discontinued' books with the legendary POETRY READING SEQUENCE ceedee, can make good: the item includes a 3-inch RE-RELEASE!

CONCLUSION: not so well-done
MY ADVICE: buy it if you missed 'stand up to be discontinued'

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don van vliet / captain
                          beefheart - waddington gallery, london,
                          england, early april1986 - book 'pearls before
                          swine ice cream for crows' italy 1996
don at the waddington gallery in london, england, early april 1986

the VAN VLIET pieces
and their sources:
painting 1985 bromboline frenzy book skeleton breath, scorpion blush 1987
painting 1986 crepe and black lamps book skeleton breath, scorpion blush 1987
drawing 1976 'shiny beast' elpee shiny beast (bat chain puller) 1978
handwritten poem 1980 'a little paranoia' book stand up to be discontinued 1993
painting 1987 parapliers the willow dipped book stand up to be discontinued 1993
interview 1983 an old fart at play magazine heavy metal 1 august 1983
painting 1987 castfat shadows book stand up to be discontinued 1993
painting 1988 white crepe boat
painting 1988 the gray twist
painting 1990 cross poked a shadow of a crow #1
painting 1991 globe and brown light
painting 1991 ghost lemon
drawing 1980 untitled [3] book conjunctions #3 1 november 1982
painting 1991 wrought iron cactus book stand up to be discontinued 1993
mistitled poem 1982 the smith that cleans our stars book conjunctions #3 1 november 1982
poem 1987 three months in the mirror book skeleton breath, scorpion blush 1987
poem 1987 a tin peened reindeer book skeleton breath, scorpion blush 1987
poem 1969 sun dawn dance magazine rolling stone 14may 1970
handwritten poem 1971? 'it's not worth...' book stand up to be discontinued 1993
drawing 1980 untitled [2] book conjunctions #3 1 november 1982
drawing 1980 untitled [1] book conjunctions #3 1 november 1982
captain
                        beefheart / don van vliet discography - 'pearls
                        before swine ice creams for crows' book italy
                        1996 - 'poetry reading' mini ceedee

POETRY READING ceedee and their sources:
lyrics 1969 fallin' ditch elpee trout mask replica 1969
poem 1969 the tired plain book skeleton breath, scorpion blush 1987
lyrics 1969 skeleton makes good elpee ice cream for crow 1982
poem 1990? safe sex drill book stand up to be discontinued 1993
poem 1991 tulip book stand up to be discontinued 1993
poem 1968 gil book skeleton breath, scorpion blush 1987

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[september 1996]



LATER WARNING

please don't confuse this book with the unauthorized and quite sloppy edited bootleg ceedee with the same title which came out twenty years later. because 1) the liner notes are a rewritten - but primarily just copied - version of the english text of the main article (including errors), 2) the original pictures are terribly downsized, 3) the reproductions of paintings are even smaller and in black and white.... besides that: 4) the texts of the poems are not reprinted.

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