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Jimmy Carl Black, RIP

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:44:39 -0800

Drummer and vocalist Jimmy Carl Black, "the Indian of the group", who appeared on more Mothers of Invention records than you could shake a stick at, has passed away. Here's Jimmy drumming with The Mothers of Invention live on French TV 1968, live on BBC TV 1968, singing with The Muffin Men, 2002, and on one of his last gigs, singing Capt. Beefheart's Dropout Boogie in June 2008, in his duo with mad banjo wizard Eugene Chadbourne which they called The Jack and Jim Show. There had been a benefit concert planned for November 9, in London, to help raise funds for the cancer operation in Germany that Jimmy Carl had recently had. I'd imagine this will go ahead as planned, but as a memorial concert. You London-based MeFiers might wanna check it out. Here's another Jimmy Carl Black discography, from a Captain Beefheart site. Fun quote from Jimmy Carl on that page: "... in 1975, I did a tour with Captain Beefheart.The difference between his music and Frank's was like night and day. Frank was avant garde, but Beefheart was the real thing, totally left-field. We rehearsed seven days a week, and maybe we'd play our instruments one hour in twelve. The rest of the time, we'd listen to him bullshit."

solistrato — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:16:04 -0800

Carl, why do you remind us of these things? Don't you know they hurt? (Mistah Kottka reminded me to post this.)

luke — Thu, 04 May 2000 16:07:48 -0800

Hey, where'd Carl go? He's not at Freedonia. Nothing is.

mathowie — Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:13:15 -0800

Carl wrote a great Industry Standard article lampooning online marketing, and I couldn't help but laugh at seeing a "B to B Convention" banner ad running at the end of it (screenshot).

mathowie — Thu, 02 Dec 1999 13:41:58 -0800

When I opened up my new copy of the Industry Standard today, I was happy to see a new last page column by Carl^TM. It's been a couple months since Carl^TM wrote a column, and it just wasn't the same without him. Micheal Parsons is a competent writer and all, but he's no Carl^TM.