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3 unusual facts about Safe as Milk


Abba-Zaba

A favorite snack of a young Don Van "Captain Beefheart" Vliet, it lent its name to a song that appears on his 1967 Safe as Milk album.

Safe as Milk

There was little record of his existence, though his name incidentally also appeared in a reference to an unproduced screenplay for After the Gold Rush on the 1971 Neil Young album of the same name.

The band instead turned to Bob Krasnow, who was then working for Kama Sutra Records; he recruited them to record for the company's new subsidiary label, Buddah.


Alex St. Clair

St. Clair played on the band's first two albums, Safe as Milk (1967) and Strictly Personal (1968).


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