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Ted Templeman on Captain Beefheart

December 19, 2010 by David Gans

Ted Templeman produced Captain Beefheart‘s 1972 album Clear Spot. Here is an excerpt from my interview with Templeman in the 10/9/81 issue of BAM, the California Music Magazine: Ted Templeman: Beefheart was so crazy! If he didn’t think the drummer was playing with enough soul, he’d make him wear blackface. One day he stopped and … Read more

Ted Templeman interview from my archive

March 3, 2010 by David Gans

Responding to a request from a guy who is researching a book on Van Halen, I scanned my October 1981 interview with producer Ted Templeman. Interesting and sad to read now, with Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker and Jerry Wexler and all those other great record men gone. “I’m an officer of the company…. if … Read more