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| Cucamonga |
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| Second in a series of impressionist portraits of Southern California by Rudy VanderLans, Cucamonga is a tribute to musician Don Van Vliet, also known as Captain Beefheart. It's a kind of road trip through Southern California that takes in places such as Lancaster, Woodland Hills, Hollywood and Laurel Canyon, where Van Vliet and his Magic Band developed their strikingly unique sound. What jumps out at you about these places is how nondescript they are, particularly in contrast to the music that sprouted there. Cucamonga is a document of localities that have spawned great talent and a reminder that such places, laced as they are with the mystique of rock and roll history, deserve to be preserved. Like Van Vliet's music, the photography of Rudy VanderLans is passionate, bold and highly unconventional. |
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Music by:
Gary Lucas, John French
and Zoot Horn Rollo |
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96 pages, Hardcover
5 3/4'' x 8 3/4'' (225 x 145 mm)
39 color illustrations, English
Music-CD included
ISBN: 0-9669409-1-1 |
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''...a beautifully presented book which I'd recommend to any collector of Beefheart-related material.''
The Captain Beefheart Radar Station Website |
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''...the book principally features VanderLans's breathtaking photography of So Cal. Across a rich array of natural terrain, the images are abstract, stunningly barren. In the oasis-like towns the photos are bereft of people, although there are many shots of human endeavor (cars, signs, drive-ins, housing estates) caught uninhabited, as if recently post-apocalypse. Pure contemporary Americana, they're simultaneously other-wordly and down-to-earth.''
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