Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Grow Fins Lyrics

For some reason many Beefheart fans hated this album and Clear Spot like they were sellouts after Trout Mask and Decals. Probably because they were melodic.

The Captain is immortal!

We all just love GROE FINS on this album. Best ever...

White boy gonzo freak blues!!! Fucking awesome!!!

That harmonica riff....so tasty!

Once did spotlight for him at the Aragon in Chicago...

The Arrogant Brawlroom.. Lol
I saw Iggy, early Aerosmith and others there. Shitty folding chairs.

This cover pic.Epitome

Sounds like music to me.

Extraordinary in that even the vocals are percussion. Reminds me of Bartok who revolutionized classical music

oh my oh my

White Howlin Wolf

And now it's November 2017, 39,652 views and still only two dislikes.

shame it cuts off too early :(

Goosebumps.

blow yer harmonica son

As John French pointed out this is basically the same song as Blabber and Smoke.

and your point is ...?

the whole album is genius..blues genius...howlin wolf would walk away with a thousand yard stare after listening to this ...modern days blues history not since repeated

Some of The Skipper's best work on this LP. Albeit, also some of the most Commercial. Not that that was a "bad" thing...So much stuff never saw the light of day, too.

Mr. Thumbs Down has his clothes: "Laid Out By The Door." Wanker would be a step up from Tail Draggin' Amoebae.

MabSHELLY , you're spot on.

Many thanks for this upload. Sadly I was 3-4 years too young to see this guy live ..Missed Hendrix to ..BUMMER!!
Cpt Beefheart ..Awesome

Whoever gave this a thumbs down is a WANKER!!
Cpt Beefheart ..Awesome

His artwork is cool too!

It was a thumbs up ''from the other side of the fence''

I got a mermaid in the cosmos, long live captain

Soundtrack to Natural Selection

Was you singing along ?

Yup. Playin too.

I have sacrificed so much data to this track!

Someone has gven it a thumbs down I see ??? My god, what must it be like to be that person, I shudder to think ! This is a BRILLIANT track from a group at the peak of their powers

+Modal Roberts Must be sad to be that miserable person .

I can't pick a favorite song from this album but this song makes me melt, Jesus it's so good

That person should be sterilised

I feel you

Best blues track ever ?

that harp intro. best ever

maybe, if you don't count all his others :-) ... Gimme Dat Harp Boy gets my vote

as best ever blues track I meant ....

Yeah, grow fins and take up with a mermaid, thanks Captain!

Heard this last night on the radio after a inhale and ingestion of a cookie with special healing properties... Magical doesn't do the experience justice!

I'm gonna take up with a mermaid
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/446606/Mr-Peabody-And-The-Mermaid-Movie-Clip-A-Man-At-Fifty.html

Just discovered them, Awesome!!

mississippi fred mcdowell told me to "fuck off!" i am just another Beefheart freak! i'm gonna wave my freak flag high!

Blessed by the ladies, my friend

This is beautiful.

LOL! I actually witnessed Miss Plaster Caster visiting the Capt. and Magic Band at their red home in Woodland Hills.

LOL! with this song and Jimi Hendrix's 1983 the mermaids were well represented.

Oh my tail doth drag at times too.

I was on LSD when I saw BeefHeart. Some guy Yelled Out "Its the Human Condition!!'for some reason And was Throwmn Out into the Street by Security. And I got A ride home in a tiny Volkswagon back to Queens by three cute ladies just by chance. And beefheart concert was brilliant Zoot Horn Rollo Said 'hey dude"to me personally i will forever cherish that moment

My Father's Place, by chance?

Great forever !!!

I was hooked on this stuff in 1972 when I was 16. Decades went by until I heard it again..and my God - it is no less Great today!

@MabSHELLY - He was an artist, absolutely, visually and musically.
They really really don't make them like Don any more. Unique.

This is as soulful as music can get...i agree with elephanta 2, he is without doubt one of the greatest artists

leave ya'll land lubbing women alone!

That was that good, i actually witnessed the waving white handkerchief, disappear with girl and train down the track, and i wasn't even that stoned.

Cure my woman blues by taking up with a Mermaid? Great track from a man who was more interested in art than the music business.