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The Magic Band-Singing Through You-Live in London

"Singing Through You" -- The Magic Band plays the music of Captain Beefheart

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The Magic Band-Singing Through You-Live in London

The Magic Band-Singing Through You-Live in London

The Magic Band-Singing Through You-Live in London

The Magic Band-Singing Through You-Live in London

The Magic Band-Singing Through You-Live in London

"Singing Through You" -- The Magic Band plays the music of Captain Beefheart

"Singing Through You" -- The Magic Band plays the music of Captain Beefheart

"Singing Through You" -- The Magic Band plays the music of Captain Beefheart

"Singing Through You" -- The Magic Band plays the music of Captain Beefheart

John French
John French
John French
John French
2 Campaigns |
Lancaster, United States
$4,429 USD $4,429 USD by 183 backers
$2,900 USD by 114 backers on Oct 13, 2015
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USA

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EUROPE

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Canada

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AUSTRALIA

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Our Campaign was successful.  Our DVDs are manufactured, and we are now offering them for sale!  It's easy to order:  just scroll down to "Select a Perk" and select a perk!  You then choose your region and will be asked for your name and address.  Payment is through PayPal.

If you just want to donate to future projects, you will see a selection "No Perk, I just want to Donate."  Click on that and continue.  There is already another project "in the can" that will eventually be released but needs funding to get started.

Short Summary

“Singing Through You” is a live video of The Magic Band performing The Music of Captain Beefheart, March 16, 2013 at ‘Chelsea Under the Bridge, London’ ( referred to hereafter as “UTB”).  This is seriously a hi-tech venue and as they offered us a multi camera video recording of our show we soon thought of making this into a live DVD and secured the services of Paul Riley from Proper Records to record sound. 

It seemed like the planets were definitely in alignment, because March 2013 also marked the 10-Year Anniversary of the Magic Band reunion.

It only seemed apropos to request that Elaine Shepherd produce the video.  She had been assigned by BBC to produce “The Artist formally Known as Captain Beefheart.”  Later, she produced The Magic Band reunion documentary “Crows Milk” narrated by the late John Peel, and our first concert in London at Shepherd’s Bush Empire.  With the aid of master editor Peter Elphick she just finished up this show in September, 2015.

You’ll notice from the trailer ‘Owed t’Alex’ that we feature some interesting camerawork courtesy of The Audience.   Phone and camera recordings by a number of fans were generously donated to our edit suite.   We have thanked them profusely for helping us to make a good thing even better.   

A bonus for me was being able to spend time mixing the sound myself and creating a listening experience that is the best it can be.

On top of that, photographer Rob Monk had been hired on the night of the show to shoot photos of me for an article in Rhythm Magazine -- which was a bit nostalgic because I was photographed for Rhythm 10 years earlier prior to our first concert – another synchronous event.  It seemed like a day of alignment - a great band, the music of Captain Beefheart, our final concert of the tour and everyone enthusiastic.

When I walked into the venue I sensed that it was going to be a magical evening.  The venue was perfect for a video shoot.  The stage and sound crew were all friendly and helpful, the dressing room comfy (!), and there I was - posing for shots in this great hi-tech setting.  We had some of our favorite supporters show up that night, and afterwards there was a nice reunion of sorts.

 Afterwards, when the lights were dimmed and the dressing room was empty, I stood there, a bit in awe that ten years had passed.  And yet, the music still lived and was as powerful as the day it was conceived.  Not a bad investment of time.   No, not at all.

As a bonus video, which really wasn’t my idea but that of Ms. Shepherd, there is footage from my book-signing Q&A at Rough Trade in London to promote ‘Beefheart: Through the Eyes of Magic’.  We’ve used some interesting photos to illustrate the conversation and it’s an entertaining 25 minutes that will at least enable you to pretend that you have read my 864 page book. 

This campaign is important in that it empowers the band to be in charge of their own merchandise.  Although we have a great fan-base in the UK, Europe, the US and Australia, it’s a rather selective crowd and so, because the music is less accessible than your average “pop band,” we need to cut our overheads and one way to do that is through the manufacture and distribution of our own products. 

Through your contributions, we achieve more and more independence and more ability to call our own shots and support ourselves as we play the music.  Without a certain amount of revenue, we cannot continue.  The more revenue, the more we are able to focus on the music instead of having to do other projects to make money.

For your pleasure:

Since we have met our campaign quota, we have been invited to join "In Demand" which allows us to make available to you the DVDs we manufactured.   We will have basic prices for the UK, Europe, Australia and the US.  The only difference is postage.  We have a basic £14 price for the DVD alone and have estimated the postage for each of the zones listed in the "perks."

  And it will not be released by some cheap knock-off company that illegally reproduces bootlegs for profit.  The profits, after overheads, go directly to the band. 


This is the entire performance minus one piece, Circumstances, which, for technical reasons, has been omitted.  The following are featured:

1.  My Human Gets me Blues

2.  Lo Yo Yo

3.  Diddy Wah Diddy

4.  Bass Solo ( Hair Pie / Rockette Morton)

5.  Clouds intro to “Golden Birdies”

6.  When it Blows it’s Stacks

7.  Hot Head

8.  Doctor Dark

9.  On Tomorrow

10. Alice in Blunderland

11. Hair Pie

12. Suction Prints

13. Steal Softly

14.Ode T’ Alex

15.Click Clack

16.The Floppy Boot Stomp

17.Moonlight on Vermont

18.Big Eyed Beans from Venus

19.Electricity ( Encore )

Other Ways You Can Help

If you can’t help by making a financial donation and receiving a DVD, and you still want to help you can always share this link to your Facebook or Twitter account.  You could even do a bcc emailing to your friends who might be interest. Any way you can spread the news is good.  There are several Beefheart sites on Facebook (The Magic Band, The Drumbo Club, I Honestly Love Trout Mask Replica ) and this has been my chief focus.  Sorry, I don’t Twitter… just one thing too many for me.


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