Electricity (Captain Beefheart song)

While playing "Electricity" at the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival at Mount Tamalpais in 1967, in a warm-up performance for the Monterey International Pop Festival, Captain Beefheart abruptly stopped the song, straightened his tie, and walked off the stage, landing face-first in the grass. He later claimed that he saw a girl in the audience turn into a goldfish. This incident caused guitarist Ry Cooder, frustrated with Beefheart's erratic behavior, to immediately quit the Magic Band; Cooder's departure brought about the cancellation of their scheduled appearance at Monterey Pop.^[9]

Sonic Youth recorded a cover of "Electricity" for the tribute album Fast 'n' Bulbous – A Tribute to Captain Beefheart.^[10][11] This version would later appear on the 2007 deluxe reissue of their 1988 album Daydream Nation.^[12]

American post-hardcore band Racebannon covered the song on their 2002 album In the Grips of the Light.^{[citation needed]}

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