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Captain Beefheart: The Country Club, Reseda

Mark Leviton, BAM, 27 February 1981

"YOU EITHER LOVE it or hate it," explained the guy standing behind me to his wary girlfriend during Captain Don's blistering set. "It's the weirdest music I've ever heard, but I love it." I don't think the friend was convinced.

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