Some rather sad news for Cpt. Beefheart fans: Alex St Clair passed away last January 5th. St Clair – real name Alex Snouffer – was one of the original guitarists with the group and helped shape their sound from their inception in 1964 via their deranged cover of Bo Diddley’s “Diddy Wah Diddy” single released in 1966 and on to the groundbreaking Safe As Milk.
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He did touch the Zappa universe too…
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Both the ‘Safe As Milk’ and ‘Mirror Man’ CD re-issues on which Alex features are definitely worth acquiring. Given the confused state that the Captain got into with his recording contracts I wonder if Alex ever got paid for his contribution?
Alex was also in the Beefheart band in 1973 –
he sounded good !
Hey, guess what?
George Bush is a cunt!!!!!
A fucking cunt!!!!!
A sorry little cunt of a human being.
Read Al Gore’s speech from earlier today.
Fuck, America!!!! WAKE THE FUCK UP.
the fifth was my birthday and i was in leipzig and didn’t even feel him die, what a shame.