a new year's resolution of sorts

even though the stoogeband remains a going concern (on temporary hiatus until after the great tyrant records) and there's another possible musical outlet i wanna explore after taking care of some family biz in new jersey early next year, i've decided that in 2008, i wanna go back to doing what i always seem to do (with varying degrees of commitment/success) when i'm "between bands": learn to play some captain beefheart music -- which is my very favorite music to play after the stooges and funkadelic, both of which i've been fortunate to be able to play in the past coupla yrs. some of the youtube vid i've recently discovered will help. i've even made a list of 13 pieces i want to focus on, some of which (*) i already know at least part of:

witch doctor life *
ice rose
bellerin' plain *
woe-is-uh-me-bop * (i learned this from a tape bruce crystal and ken duvall made in 1977)
a carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond *
flavor bud living * (i used to practice this and the previous toon incessantly when i lived in the "divorced dad apartments" in benbrook 10 yrs ago)
peon * (ron geida tabbed this out for me from an online transcription 10 yrs ago, but after seeing the gary lucas "flavor bud living" vid, i think some of the voicings in it are wrong)
kandy korn * (bruce wade taught me this in 1975)
low yo-yo stuff *
nowadays a woman's got to hit a man *
tropical hot dog night *
dirty blue gene
big eyed beans from venus