I saw Beefheart in Detroit on his Doc at the Radar Station Tour. A few months later I saw Snakefinger at a little dive bar in Detroit. There couldn’t have been more than six of us in the audience. Snakefinger and his band still gave it everything they had. Eric Drew Feldman was in both bands.

I can’t help thinking that the guys in Beefheart’s later bands (like the one in this video) grew up on stuff like Trout Mask, Strictly Personal, and Mirror Man, and probably idolized the guy.