![TIL that Captain Beefheart once worked as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman and sold one to writer Aldous Huxley. Beefheart's sales pitch was, "Well I assure you sir, this thing sucks." : TIL that Captain Beefheart once worked as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman and sold one to writer Aldous Huxley. Beefheart's sales pitch was, "Well I assure you sir, this thing sucks." :](https://external-preview.redd.it/vikzOZ6HN1xSLLMDLbbnKOVZXXChJIA1pKPkygIzO8g.jpg?auto=webp&s=0301fe1fbcd4eb77b9837ff9eba0ee36268ea476)
TIL that Captain Beefheart once worked as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman and sold one to writer Aldous Huxley. Beefheart's sales pitch was, "Well I assure you sir, this thing sucks." :
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - "When I was a young man, I was the best vacuum cleaner salesman in southern California. I used to work door to door. One day
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Captain Beefheart - Crazy Little Things ( Triangle ) ( Cowtown , Kansas City , April 22nd , 1974 ) - Thecdvault
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head medicine: Discovering Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Part Two - "It Comes To You In a Plain Brown Wrapper"
![Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Vintage Concert Handbill from Fillmore Auditorium, Oct 28, 1966 at Wolfgang's Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Vintage Concert Handbill from Fillmore Auditorium, Oct 28, 1966 at Wolfgang's](https://images.wolfgangsvault.com/m/xlarge/BG034-HB/captain-beefheart-and-the-magic-band-handbill-oct-28-1966-oct-30-1966.webp)