The Dali's Car Mythos

by Bill Boethius

'Dali's Car' was always a mystery to me. I heard about the Beefheart piece of this name long before I heard the track itself. I was told it was the most avant garde of rock guitar pieces, played by the mythic Zoot Horn Rollo and Winged Earl Fingerling - Zoot Horn in particular being a very fine player.
The title itself delighted me, and so when I finally heard it, I had to agree. It became a benchmark for me.
When I started to put some sounds down on Soundcloud, I was amazed when Vesa Lahde of Droning Earth soundcloud.com/groups/droning-earth called me the 'Dali of guitar noise'. He actually invoked the Beefheart piece at this very point, which led me to embrace the moniker.
While here I then heard the incredible work of Robert Furtkamp soundcloud.com/rfurtkamp who told me about Beefheart's ten commandments of guitar - I knew then I was in the right place.
Incidentally, I don't hear the word 'Car' here as 'automobile', although it could be. I hear it as car-ridge in the widest sense, like in Shelley's use of the word, as some kind of space ship.
This is a small collection of my pieces which dwell therefore, upon my own mythological dream world - a world of kings, gods, demons and wolves , - a world which cannot be explicated except through sound, as is the wont of Dali's Car

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'Dali's Car' was always a mystery to me. I heard about the Beefheart piece of this name long before I heard the track itself. I was told it was the most avant garde of rock guitar pieces, played by the mythic Zoot Horn Rollo and Winged Earl Fingerling - Zoot Horn in particular being a very fine player.
The title itself delighted me, and so when I finally heard it, I had to agree. It became a benchmark for me.
When I started to put some sounds down on Soundcloud, I was amazed when Vesa Lahde of Droning Earth soundcloud.com/groups/droning-earth called me the 'Dali of guitar noise'. He actually invoked the Beefheart piece at this very point, which led me to embrace the moniker.
While here I then heard the incredible work of Robert Furtkamp soundcloud.com/rfurtkamp who told me about Beefheart's ten commandments of guitar - I knew then I was in the right place.
Incidentally, I don't hear the word 'Car' here as 'automobile', although it could be. I hear it as car-ridge in the widest sense, like in Shelley's use of the word, as some kind of space ship.
This is a small collection of my pieces which dwell therefore, upon my own mythological dream world - a world of kings, gods, demons and wolves , - a world which cannot be explicated except through sound, as is the wont of Dali's Car