Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band 'Safe As Milk' (1967)
Avant garde garage punk blues featuring the Capt. and a young Ry Cooder (who would quickly move on to other things). In 1974 Rolling Stone quoted the Captain: "During our 'Safe As Milk' era, we were over in England and I walked right off the stage about ten feet in mid-air. Then fell down about six feet, got up and ran back up on the stage and asked them, 'Why'd you drop me?' Because it was them holding me up with the vast potentiality of their energy. But once I'd begun to do it out there over their heads, they looked up and began to think en masse, 'How the hell is he doing that?' - the contact was broken."
