Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart was a musician, artist and free-thinker. He ended his years, secluded in a trailer home in the Mojave Desert, and devoted his time to painting sand and sidewinders.
Dave would love 'The Captain' came to dinner. He, so he says, would ask him if it were true that during the rehearsals for ‘Trout Mask Replica’ he really let a monkey meander across the piano and then made his poor keyboard player learn it note for note.
On his album ‘Doc at a Radar Station’ an instrumental track entitled ‘A Carrot is as Close to as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond’ provides the inspiration for this sweet treat, an adaptation of a recipe from The Australian Women’s Weekly. (it is easy to follow, even if you are used to using metric or imperial).
No comments:
Post a Comment