JOHN DRUMBO FRENCH Beefheart: Through The Eyes Of Magic (2010 UK 864 page [Yes 864 !] book detailing the incredible time spent as the Drummer of choice with the Magic Band including transcribing the parts for Trout Mask Replica under tyrannical duress. Drumbo joined The Magic Band at just seventeen years of age just before recording started on Safe As Milk and spent the next fourteen years working with Don Van Vliet in various incarnations of The Magic Band. In this warts n all book told with philosophical humour you are taken on a journey through those revolutionary musical years and just what it meant to be a member of the unbelievable Magic Band. Needless to say the music scene in the sixties Lancaster CA