“Big Eyed Beans From Venus” by Captain Beefheart

"Big Eyed Beans from Venus" beams in from Clear Spot, the 1972 album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, a record that first came wrapped in a clear plastic sleeve. Trout Mask Replica had won over the critics and lost the cash register, so this time Beefheart went chasing a bigger audience and hired the pair behind hits for the Doobie Brothers and Van Morrison, producer Ted Templeman and engineer Donn Landee.

Don van Vliet wrote it, sings it and blows harmonica, with Zoot Horn Rollo and Rockette Morton on guitars and newcomer Roy Estrada, late of the Mothers of Invention and Little Feat, on bass. Art Tripp, another ex-Mother, now handles the drums and percussion on his own with John "Drumbo" French gone, and session man Milt Holland adds extra percussion.

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