1. NAME:             atomfoam

2. DATE OF BIRTH:        october 9th, 1982

3. OCCUPATION:              i answer phones.

4. PLACE OF RESIDENCE:           yarmouth, MA  usa

5. WHAT YEAR DID YOU BECOME A FAN?:           uh. 1998

SAFE AS MILK : ____________________     5
MIRROR MAN : _____________________   8
STRICTLY PERSONAL :  _____________    =3
TROUT MASK REPLICA :  ____________   1
LICK MY DECALS OFF BABY :  _______    2
SPOTLIGHT KID :___________________     7
CLEAR SPOT :  ____________________       6
UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED :   _10
BLUE JEANS & MOONBEAMS :  _____    9
SHINY BEAST :   _ _________________       4
DOC AT THE RADAR STATION :   _____=3
ICE CREAM FOR CROW : ___________   =3

1.me
2.devo
3.zappa
4.residents
5.sun ra
6.ornette coleman
7.old folkish beck
8.wild man fischer
9.edgar varese
10.jerry goldsmith (planet of the apes sndtrk)
guess that's it. i dont really listen to much music.

9. HOW DID YOU FIRST DISCOVER CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC
BAND, AND WAS THERE A PARTICULAR SONG THAT MADE YOU SEE THE LIGHT?:
a friend and i found zappa's waka jawaka album in his closet. we put it on and laughed for hours. trumpets were funny to us. we used to sit around and chuckle/dance to the old goldeneye soundtrack. well i though waka jawaka was just wonderful.. so i went to my local record store to purchase it. nothing doing. but a man suggested i get bongo fury only because it had beefheart on it. i said "hot deal" and bought the record.
i loved it.  .and.continued ...to go back to that record store in search of some beef. i eventually found (and yes this was my first real beefheart experience) live in london 1974! i was into some shitty music, and didnt realize how bad it was. i loved it and played it for all my friends. they thought it was ok. i searched the internet for information on captain beefheart. everyone there told me to get troutmaskreplica. so search i did. and i eventually found it. i enjoyed the first side because i had been used to them slightly, from amazon.com's real audio files. i wish i heard the record first, and i wish i could really remember what i thought. i sort of went along with it because i thought i should like it, thinking im a pretty smart kid, and this is a record for smart people. i grew out of that quickly and appreciated the album for its combination of aggression, beauty, and overall delivering of something so wonderful, and in a non- - cliché way. i went on slightly appreciating the album for a while until songs began to unfold and make more sense. they still unfold for me. the album gets better... and i hear more with every listen. nothing has ever made me feel the way troutmaskreplica and lick my decals have made me feel. the two albums are almost always in my tape deck.

10. NUMBER OF BEEFHEART  GIGS SEEN,  AND WHICH YEARS:
never seen him live. but thanks to bootlegged video and audio i can get a peek. unfortunately i'll never see him live. but he'll never see me live either. what a pity.

11. ART SHOWS VISITED:   NYC 2001

12. ANY CONTACT WITH DON?:  no.

13. MUSICAL ABILITY / TRAINING:
ability eh? i play quite a few instruments without any training. my favorite sound goes to the bass clarinet. my favorite to play would either be guitar or soprano saxophone. depends on the situation. playing the piano is nice when im by myself.

14. ANY OTHER INFO YOU WISH TO ADD?
yes. if ben allows this:
go to my web site..
http://www.angelfire.com/me3/OhOhMints/
or my fireparty musician page...
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~bgwaters/atom.html