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class="vector-toc-text"> 1.4 Later recordings, 1970–82 </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Later_recordings,_1970–82-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Lick_My_Decals_Off,_Baby" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lick_My_Decals_Off,_Baby"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.4.1 Lick My Decals Off, Baby </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Lick_My_Decals_Off,_Baby-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_Spotlight_Kid_and_Clear_Spot" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_Spotlight_Kid_and_Clear_Spot"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.4.2 The Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_Spotlight_Kid_and_Clear_Spot-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Unconditionally_Guaranteed_and_Bluejeans_&_Moonbeams" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Unconditionally_Guaranteed_and_Bluejeans_&_Moonbeams"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.4.3 Unconditionally Guaranteed and Bluejeans & Moonbeams </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Unconditionally_Guaranteed_and_Bluejeans_&_Moonbeams-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bongo_Fury_and_Bat_Chain_Puller" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bongo_Fury_and_Bat_Chain_Puller"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.4.4 Bongo Fury and Bat Chain Puller </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bongo_Fury_and_Bat_Chain_Puller-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Shiny_Beast_(Bat_Chain_Puller)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Shiny_Beast_(Bat_Chain_Puller)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.4.5 Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Shiny_Beast_(Bat_Chain_Puller)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Doc_at_the_Radar_Station" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Doc_at_the_Radar_Station"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.4.6 Doc at the Radar Station </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Doc_at_the_Radar_Station-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ice_Cream_for_Crow" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ice_Cream_for_Crow"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.4.7 Ice Cream for Crow </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ice_Cream_for_Crow-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Riding_Some_Kind_of_Unusual_Skull_Sleigh" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Riding_Some_Kind_of_Unusual_Skull_Sleigh"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.4.8 Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Riding_Some_Kind_of_Unusual_Skull_Sleigh-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Paintings" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Paintings"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.5 Paintings </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Paintings-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Life_in_retirement" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Life_in_retirement"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.6 Life in retirement </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Life_in_retirement-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Death" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Death"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.7 Death </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Death-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Relationship_with_Frank_Zappa" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Relationship_with_Frank_Zappa"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2 Relationship with Frank Zappa </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Relationship_with_Frank_Zappa-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_Magic_Band" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_Magic_Band"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3 The Magic Band </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_Magic_Band-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Musical_style" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Musical_style"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Musical style </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Musical_style-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Legacy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legacy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Legacy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Legacy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Discography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Discography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Discography </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Discography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Bibliography </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled 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بیف‌هارت – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="کاپیتان بیف‌هارت" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%82%D1%8A%D0%BD_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%84%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82" title="Кептън Бийфхарт – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Кептън Бийфхарт" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD_%CE%92%CE%B1%CE%BD_%CE%92%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%84" title="Ντον Βαν Βλιτ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ντον Βαν Βλιτ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%81%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA" title="کاپیتان بیف‌هارت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کاپیتان بیف‌هارت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BA%A1%ED%8B%B4_%EB%B9%84%ED%94%84%ED%95%98%ED%8A%B8" title="캡틴 비프하트 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="캡틴 비프하트" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%9F_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%98" title="קפטן ביפהארט – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קפטן ביפהארט" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA" title="كاپتاين بيفهيارت – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="كاپتاين بيفهيارت" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%97%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88" title="キャプテン・ビーフハート – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="キャプテン・ビーフハート" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" title="Captain Beefheart – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Captain Beefheart" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Captain_Beefheart_in_Toronto.jpg 2x" data-file-width="332" data-file-height="515" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Beefheart performing at <a href="/wiki/Convocation_Hall_(University_of_Toronto)" title="Convocation Hall (University of Toronto)">Convocation Hall</a> in 1974</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Background information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Birth name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Don Glen Vliet</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Also known as</th><td class="infobox-data nickname"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Bloodshot Rollin' Red</li> <li>Don Van Vliet</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">(1941-01-15)January 15, 1941 <a href="/wiki/Glendale,_California" title="Glendale, California">Glendale, California</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">December 17, 2010(2010-12-17) (aged 69) <a href="/wiki/Arcata,_California" title="Arcata, California">Arcata, California</a>, U.S.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillboard2011135-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output 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title="Shehnai">shehnai</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1964–1982</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A%26M_Records" title="A&M Records">A&M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddah_Records" title="Buddah Records">Buddah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Thumb_Records" title="Blue Thumb Records">Blue Thumb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ABC_Records" title="ABC Records">ABC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reprise_Records" title="Reprise Records">Reprise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Straight_Records" title="Straight Records">Straight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virgin_Records" title="Virgin Records">Virgin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercury_Records" title="Mercury Records">Mercury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DiscReet_Records" title="DiscReet 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href="http://beefheart.com">beefheart.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> Don Van Vliet (<a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/væn ˈvliːt/</a>; born Don Glen Vliet;<a href="#cite_note-beefheart1-2">[2]</a> January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> Conducting a rotating ensemble known as <a href="/wiki/The_Magic_Band" title="The Magic Band">the Magic Band</a>, he recorded 13 studio albums between 1967 and 1982. His music blended elements of <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a>, <a href="/wiki/Free_jazz" title="Free jazz">free jazz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Avant-garde_music" title="Avant-garde music">avant-garde</a> composition with idiosyncratic rhythms, <a href="/wiki/Absurdism" title="Absurdism">absurdist</a> wordplay, and Vliet’s gravelly singing voice with a wide <a href="/wiki/Vocal_range" title="Vocal range">vocal range</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:0-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes2011256-5">[5]</a> Renowned as an enigmatic persona, Beefheart frequently constructed myths about his life and was known to exercise extreme, dictatorial control over his supporting musicians.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> Although he achieved little commercial success,<a href="#cite_note-guardian1-7">[7]</a> he sustained a <a href="/wiki/Cult_following" title="Cult following">cult following</a> as an influence on an array of <a href="/wiki/Experimental_rock" title="Experimental rock">experimental rock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Punk_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Punk music">punk</a>-era artists. A sculpting <a href="/wiki/Child_prodigy" title="Child prodigy">prodigy</a> in his childhood,<a href="#cite_note-:0-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-LuhrssenLarson2017-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-Moskowitz2015-9">[9]</a> Van Vliet developed an interest in blues, <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_%26_blues" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhythm & blues">R&B</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> during his teen years in <a href="/wiki/Lancaster,_California" title="Lancaster, California">Lancaster, California</a>, and formed "a mutually useful but volatile" friendship with musician <a href="/wiki/Frank_Zappa" title="Frank Zappa">Frank Zappa</a>, with whom he sporadically competed and collaborated.<a href="#cite_note-loder-10">[10]</a> He began performing in his Captain Beefheart persona in 1964 and joined the original Magic Band line-up, initiated by <a href="/wiki/Alex_St._Clair" title="Alex St. Clair">Alexis Snouffer</a>, the same year. The group released their debut album <a href="/wiki/Safe_as_Milk" title="Safe as Milk">Safe as Milk</a> in 1967 on <a href="/wiki/Buddah_Records" title="Buddah Records">Buddah Records</a>. After being dropped by two consecutive record labels they signed to Zappa's <a href="/wiki/Straight_Records" title="Straight Records">Straight Records</a>, where they released 1969's <a href="/wiki/Trout_Mask_Replica" title="Trout Mask Replica">Trout Mask Replica</a>; the album would later rank 58th in <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a> magazine's 2003 list of <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone%27s_500_Greatest_Albums_of_All_Time" title="Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time">the 500 greatest albums of all time</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Posted_Nov_01,_0003_12:00_AM-11">[11]</a> In 1974, frustrated by a lack of commercial success, he pursued a more conventional rock sound, but the ensuing albums were critically panned; this move, combined with not having been paid for a European tour, and years of enduring Beefheart's abusive behavior, led the entire band to quit.<a href="#cite_note-Ratliff2010-12">[12]</a> Beefheart eventually formed a new Magic Band with a group of younger musicians and regained critical approval through three final albums: <a href="/wiki/Shiny_Beast_(Bat_Chain_Puller)" title="Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)">Shiny Beast</a> (1978), <a href="/wiki/Doc_at_the_Radar_Station" title="Doc at the Radar Station">Doc at the Radar Station</a> (1980) and <a href="/wiki/Ice_Cream_for_Crow" title="Ice Cream for Crow">Ice Cream for Crow</a> (1982). Van Vliet made few public appearances after his retirement from music in 1982. He pursued a career in art, an interest that originated in his childhood talent for sculpture, and a venture that proved to be his most financially secure. His <a href="/wiki/Abstract_expressionism" title="Abstract expressionism">abstract expressionist</a> paintings and drawings command high prices, and have been exhibited in art galleries and museums across the world.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes2011446-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-ft-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-McKenna-15">[15]</a> Van Vliet died in 2010, having had <a href="/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis" title="Multiple sclerosis">multiple sclerosis</a> for many years.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life_and_musical_influences,_1941–62">Early life and musical influences, 1941–62</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life and musical influences, 1941–62">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Very_long plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style ambox-very_long" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/40px-Edit-clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/60px-Edit-clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/80px-Edit-clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section may be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_size" title="Wikipedia:Article size">too long</a> to read and navigate comfortably. Consider <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Splitting" title="Wikipedia:Splitting">splitting</a> content into sub-articles, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Summary_style" title="Wikipedia:Summary style">condensing</a> it, or adding <a href="/wiki/Help:Section#Subsections" title="Help:Section">subheadings</a>. Please discuss this issue on the article's <a href="/wiki/Talk:Captain_Beefheart" title="Talk:Captain Beefheart">talk page</a>. (September 2024)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> Van Vliet was born Don Glen Vliet in <a href="/wiki/Glendale,_California" title="Glendale, California">Glendale, California</a>, on January 15, 1941, to Glen Alonzo Vliet, a <a href="/wiki/Filling_station" title="Filling station">service station</a> owner of <a href="/wiki/Dutch_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Dutch American">Dutch ancestry</a> from <a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a>, and Willie Sue Vliet (née Warfield), who was from <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-beefheart1-2">[2]</a> He said that he was descended from Peter van Vliet, a Dutch painter who knew <a href="/wiki/Rembrandt" title="Rembrandt">Rembrandt</a>. Van Vliet also said that he was related to adventurer and author <a href="/wiki/Richard_Halliburton" title="Richard Halliburton">Richard Halliburton</a> and cowboy actor <a href="/wiki/Slim_Pickens" title="Slim Pickens">Slim Pickens</a>, and he said that he remembered being born.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes20115-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-beefheart.com-18">[18]</a> Van Vliet began painting and sculpting at age three.<a href="#cite_note-Rogers-19">[19]</a> His subjects reflected his "obsession" with animals, particularly <a href="/wiki/Dinosaur" title="Dinosaur">dinosaurs</a>, fish, African mammals and <a href="/wiki/Lemur" title="Lemur">lemurs</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes20116–7-20">[20]</a> Considered a child prodigy, at age four he was featured with his animal sculptures on a weekly Los Angeles television program. At the age of nine, he won a children's sculpting competition organized for the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Zoo" title="Los Angeles Zoo">Los Angeles Zoo</a> in <a href="/wiki/Griffith_Park" title="Griffith Park">Griffith Park</a> by a local tutor, Agostinho Rodrigues.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes20119-21">[21]</a> Local newspaper cuttings of his junior sculpting achievements can be found reproduced in the Splinters book, included in the Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh boxed CD work, released in 2004.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESheridan2005-22">[22]</a> The sprawling park, with its zoo and <a href="/wiki/Griffith_Observatory" title="Griffith Observatory">observatory</a>, had a strong influence on young Vliet, as it was a short distance from his home on Waverly Drive. The track "Observatory Crest" on Bluejeans & Moonbeams reflects this continued interest. A portrait photo of school-age Vliet can be seen on the front of the lyric sheet within the first issue of the US release of Trout Mask Replica. For some time during the 1950s, Van Vliet worked as an apprentice with Rodrigues, who considered him a <a href="/wiki/Child_prodigy" title="Child prodigy">child prodigy</a>. Van Vliet said that he was a lecturer at the <a href="/wiki/Barnsdall_Art_Park" title="Barnsdall Art Park">Barnsdall</a> Art Institute in Los Angeles at the age of eleven,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes20117-23">[23]</a> although it is likely he simply gave a form of artistic dissertation. Accounts of Van Vliet's precocious achievement in art often include his statement that he sculpted on a weekly television show.<a href="#cite_note-Winner-24">[24]</a> He said that his parents discouraged his interest in sculpture, based upon their perception of artists as "queer". According to one of Van Vliet's versions of this story, they declined several scholarship offers, including one from the local Knudsen Creamery to travel to Europe with six years' paid tuition to study <a href="/wiki/Marble_sculpture" title="Marble sculpture">marble sculpture</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes201111-25">[25]</a> Van Vliet was deeply disappointed by their denial of this opportunity for him to realize his potential as an artist. He later claimed that the experience made him so bitter that he never listened to music and abandoned his art until he was twenty-three.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes201111–12-26">[26]</a> Van Vliet's artistic enthusiasm became so fervent, he said that his parents were forced to feed him through the door in the room where he sculpted. When he was thirteen the family moved from the Los Angeles area to the more remote farming town of <a href="/wiki/Lancaster,_California" title="Lancaster, California">Lancaster</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Mojave_Desert" title="Mojave Desert">Mojave Desert</a>, where there was a growing <a href="/wiki/Aerospace" title="Aerospace">aerospace</a> industry supported by nearby <a href="/wiki/Edwards_Air_Force_Base" title="Edwards Air Force Base">Edwards Air Force Base</a>. It was an environment that would greatly influence him creatively from then on.<a href="#cite_note-Winner-24">[24]</a> Van Vliet remained interested in art; several of his paintings, often reminiscent of <a href="/wiki/Franz_Kline" title="Franz Kline">Franz Kline</a><a href="#cite_note-Ohrt-27">[27]</a> were later used as front covers for his music albums. Meanwhile, he developed his taste and interest in music, listening "intensively" to the <a href="/wiki/Delta_blues" title="Delta blues">Delta blues</a> of <a href="/wiki/Son_House" title="Son House">Son House</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Johnson" title="Robert Johnson">Robert Johnson</a>, jazz artists such as <a href="/wiki/Ornette_Coleman" title="Ornette Coleman">Ornette Coleman</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Coltrane" title="John Coltrane">John Coltrane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thelonious_Monk" title="Thelonious Monk">Thelonious Monk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Taylor" title="Cecil Taylor">Cecil Taylor</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_blues" title="Chicago blues">Chicago blues</a> of <a href="/wiki/Howlin%27_Wolf" title="Howlin' Wolf">Howlin' Wolf</a> and <a href="/wiki/Muddy_Waters" title="Muddy Waters">Muddy Waters</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Winner-24">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes201130-28">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-beefheart2-29">[29]</a> During his early teenage years, Vliet would sometimes socialize with members of local bands such as the Omens and the Blackouts, although his interests were still focused upon an art career. The Omens' guitarists Alexis Snouffer and Jerry Handley would later become founders of "the Magic Band" and the Blackouts' drummer, Frank Zappa, would later capture Vliet's vocal capabilities on record for the first time.<a href="#cite_note-realFZ-30">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-watson13-31">[31]</a> This first known recording, when he was simply "Don Vliet", is "Lost in a Whirlpool" – one of Zappa's early "field recordings" made in his college classroom with brother Bobby on guitar. It is featured on Zappa's posthumously released <a href="/wiki/The_Lost_Episodes" title="The Lost Episodes">The Lost Episodes</a> (1996). <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:325px; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> He had dropped out of school by that time, and spent most of his time staying at home. His girlfriend lived in the house, and his grandmother lived in the house, and his aunt and his uncle lived across the street. And his father had had a heart attack; his father drove a Helms bread truck, part of the time Don was helping out by taking over the bread truck route [and] driving up to Mojave. The rest of the time he would just sit at home and listen to rhythm and blues records, and scream at his mother to get him a Pepsi. </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">—Frank Zappa<a href="#cite_note-artist_formerly_known-32">[32]</a></cite></div> </div> Van Vliet said that he never attended public school, alleging "half a day of kindergarten" to be the extent of his formal education and saying that "if you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school". His associates said that he only dropped out during his senior year of high school to help support the family after his father's heart attack. His graduation picture appears in the school's yearbook.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> His statements that he never attended school – and his general disavowals of education – may have been related to his experience of <a href="/wiki/Dyslexia" title="Dyslexia">dyslexia</a> which, although never officially diagnosed, was obvious to sidemen such as <a href="/wiki/John_French_(musician)" title="John French (musician)">John French</a> and <a href="/wiki/Denny_Walley" title="Denny Walley">Denny Walley</a>, who observed his difficulty reading cue-cards on stage, and his frequent need to be read aloud to.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> While attending <a href="/wiki/Antelope_Valley_High_School" title="Antelope Valley High School">Antelope Valley High School</a> in Lancaster, Van Vliet became close friends with fellow teenager <a href="/wiki/Frank_Zappa" title="Frank Zappa">Frank Zappa</a>, the pair bonding through their interest in <a href="/wiki/Chicago_blues" title="Chicago blues">Chicago blues</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">R&B</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Winner-24">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-Taylor-35">[35]</a> Van Vliet is portrayed in both <a href="/wiki/The_Real_Frank_Zappa_Book" title="The Real Frank Zappa Book">The Real Frank Zappa Book</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barry_Miles" title="Barry Miles">Barry Miles</a>' biography Zappa as fairly spoiled at this stage of his life, the center of attention as an only child. He spent most of his time locked in his room listening to records, often with Zappa, into the early hours in the morning, eating leftover food from his father's <a href="/wiki/Helms_Bakery" title="Helms Bakery">Helms bread</a> truck and demanding that his mother bring him a <a href="/wiki/Pepsi" title="Pepsi">Pepsi</a>.<a href="#cite_note-artist_formerly_known-32">[32]</a> His parents tolerated such behavior under the belief that their child was truly gifted. Vliet's "Pepsi-moods" were ever a source of amusement to band members, leading Zappa to later write the wry tune "Why Doesn't Someone Give Him a Pepsi?", that featured on the <a href="/wiki/Bongo_Fury" title="Bongo Fury">Bongo Fury</a> tour. After Zappa began regular occupation at Paul Buff's <a href="/wiki/Pal_Recording_Studio" title="Pal Recording Studio">PAL Studio</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rancho_Cucamonga,_California" title="Rancho Cucamonga, California">Cucamonga</a> he and Van Vliet began collaborating, tentatively as the Soots (pronounced "suits"). By the time Zappa had turned the venue into <a href="/wiki/Frank_Zappa#Early_1960s:_Studio_Z" title="Frank Zappa">Studio Z</a> the duo had completed some songs. These were "Cheryl's Canon", "Metal Man Has Won His Wings" and a <a href="/wiki/Howlin%27_Wolf" title="Howlin' Wolf">Howlin' Wolf</a>-styled rendition of <a href="/wiki/Little_Richard" title="Little Richard">Little Richard</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Slippin%27_and_Slidin%27" title="Slippin' and Slidin'">Slippin' and Slidin'</a>".<a href="#cite_note-realFZ-30">[30]</a> Further songs on Zappa's <a href="/wiki/Mystery_Disc" title="Mystery Disc">Mystery Disc</a> (1996), "I Was a Teen-Age Malt Shop" and "The Birth of Captain Beefheart", also provide an insight to Zappa's "teenage movie" script titled Captain Beefheart vs. the Grunt People,<a href="#cite_note-Gruntpeople-36">[36]</a> the first appearances of the Beefheart name. It has been suggested this name came from a term used by Vliet's uncle Alan, who had a habit of exposing himself to Don's girlfriend, Laurie Stone. He would urinate with the bathroom door open and, if she was walking by, would mumble about his penis, saying "Ahh, what a beauty! It looks just like a big, fine <a href="/wiki/Heart#Food" title="Heart">beef heart</a>".<a href="#cite_note-Zappa-37">[37]</a> In a 1970 interview with <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a>, Van Vliet requests "don't ask me why or how" he and Zappa came up with the name.<a href="#cite_note-Winner-24">[24]</a> Johnny Carson also asked him the same question to which Van Vliet replied that one day he was standing on the pier and saw fishermen cutting the bills off <a href="/wiki/Pelican" title="Pelican">pelicans</a>. He said it made him sad and put "a beef in his heart". Carson appeared nervous and uncomfortable interviewing Van Vliet and after the next commercial break Van Vliet was gone. He would later say in an appearance on <a href="/wiki/Late_Night_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Night with David Letterman">Late Night with David Letterman</a> that the name referred to "a beef in my heart against this society".<a href="#cite_note-Moon2008-38">[38]</a> In the "Grunt People" draft script Beefheart and his mother play themselves, with his father played by Howlin' Wolf. Moreover, the young Van Vliet used to go out with wet hair to catch a cold so that he could get a lower tone of voice as Howlin' Wolf.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> <a href="/wiki/Grace_Slick" title="Grace Slick">Grace Slick</a> is penned in as a "celestial seductress" and there are also roles for future Magic Band members Bill Harkleroad and Mark Boston.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> Van Vliet enrolled at <a href="/wiki/Antelope_Valley_College" title="Antelope Valley College">Antelope Valley College</a> as an art major, but decided to leave the following year. He once worked as a door-to-door <a href="/wiki/Vacuum_cleaner" title="Vacuum cleaner">vacuum cleaner</a> salesman, and sold a vacuum cleaner to the writer <a href="/wiki/Aldous_Huxley" title="Aldous Huxley">Aldous Huxley</a> at his home in <a href="/wiki/Llano,_California" title="Llano, California">Llano</a>, pointing to it and declaring, "Well, I assure you sir, this thing sucks."<a href="#cite_note-coley-41">[41]</a> After managing a <a href="/wiki/Kinney_Shoes" title="Kinney Shoes">Kinney's</a> shoe store, Van Vliet relocated to <a href="/wiki/Rancho_Cucamonga,_California" title="Rancho Cucamonga, California">Rancho Cucamonga, California</a>, to reconnect with Zappa, who inspired his entry into musical performance. Van Vliet was quite shy but was eventually able to imitate the deep voice of <a href="/wiki/Howlin%27_Wolf" title="Howlin' Wolf">Howlin' Wolf</a> with his wide vocal range.<a href="#cite_note-beefheart2-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-ZappaIT-42">[42]</a> He eventually grew comfortable with public performance and, after learning to play the harmonica, began playing at dances and small clubs in Southern California. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Initial_recordings,_1962–69">Initial recordings, 1962–69</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Initial recordings, 1962–69">edit</a>]</div> In early 1965 <a href="/wiki/Alex_St._Clair" title="Alex St. Clair">Alex Snouffer</a>, a Lancaster <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">rhythm and blues</a> guitarist, invited Vliet to sing with a group that he was assembling. Vliet joined the first <a href="/wiki/The_Magic_Band" title="The Magic Band">Magic Band</a> and changed his name to Don <a href="/wiki/Van_(Dutch)" title="Van (Dutch)">Van</a> Vliet, while Snouffer became Alex St. Clair (sometimes spelled Claire). Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band signed to <a href="/wiki/A%26M_Records" title="A&M Records">A&M</a> and released two singles in 1966. The first was a version of <a href="/wiki/Bo_Diddley" title="Bo Diddley">Bo Diddley</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Diddy_Wah_Diddy" title="Diddy Wah Diddy">Diddy Wah Diddy</a>" that became a regional hit in Los Angeles. The followup, "Moonchild" (written by <a href="/wiki/David_Gates" title="David Gates">David Gates</a>, later of the band <a href="/wiki/Bread_(band)" title="Bread (band)">Bread</a>) was less well received. That year the band began to play some larger west coast venues, such as the <a href="/wiki/Avalon_Ballroom" title="Avalon Ballroom">Avalon Ballroom</a> in San Francisco.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes201140-43">[43]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Safe_as_Milk">Safe as Milk</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Safe as Milk">edit</a>]</div> After fulfilling their deal for two singles the band presented demos to A&M during 1966 for what would become the <a href="/wiki/Safe_as_Milk" title="Safe as Milk">Safe as Milk</a> album. A&M's <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Moss" title="Jerry Moss">Jerry Moss</a> reportedly described this new direction as "too negative" and dropped the band from the label, although still under contract. Much of the demo recording was accomplished at <a href="/wiki/Art_Laboe" title="Art Laboe">Art Laboe</a>'s Original Sound Studio, then with <a href="/wiki/Gary_Marker" title="Gary Marker">Gary Marker</a> on the controls at <a href="/wiki/Sunset_Sound_Recorders" title="Sunset Sound Recorders">Sunset Sound</a> on 8-track. By the end of 1966 they were signed to <a href="/wiki/Buddah_Records" title="Buddah Records">Buddah Records</a> and much of the demo work was transferred to 4-track, at the behest of <a href="/wiki/Bob_Krasnow" title="Bob Krasnow">Krasnow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Perry" title="Richard Perry">Perry</a>, in the RCA Studio in Hollywood, where the recording was finalized. Tracks that were originally laid down in the demo by Doug Moon are therefore taken up by <a href="/wiki/Ry_Cooder" title="Ry Cooder">Ry Cooder</a>'s work in the release, as Moon had departed over "musical differences" at this juncture. Drummer <a href="/wiki/John_French_(musician)" title="John French (musician)">John French</a> had now joined the group and it would later (notably on Trout Mask Replica) be his patience that was required to transcribe Van Vliet's creative ideas (often expressed by whistling or banging on the piano) into musical form for the other group members. On French's departure this role was taken over by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Harkleroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill Harkleroad">Bill Harkleroad</a> for Lick My Decals Off, Baby.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1096940132">.mw-parser-output .listen .side-box-text{line-height:1.1em}.mw-parser-output .listen-plain{border:none;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded{width:100%;margin:0;border-width:1px 0 0 0;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-header{padding:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded .listen-header{padding:2px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen-file-header{padding:4px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen .description{padding-top:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen .mw-tmh-player{max-width:100%}@media(max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output .listen{clear:both}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .listen:not(.listen-noimage){width:320px}.mw-parser-output .listen-left{overflow:visible;float:left}.mw-parser-output .listen-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right listen noprint"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg/75px-Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg/100px-Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" /><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Electricity.ogg" title="File:Electricity.ogg">"Electricity"</a></div> <div><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="27" data-mwtitle="Electricity.ogg" data-mwprovider="local"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Electricity.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/transcoded/1/12/Electricity.ogg/Electricity.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></div> <div class="description">26-second sample</div></div></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><hr />Problems playing this file? See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</div> </div> Many of the lyrics on the Safe as Milk album were written by Van Vliet in collaboration with the writer <a href="/wiki/Herb_Bermann" title="Herb Bermann">Herb Bermann</a>, who befriended Van Vliet after seeing him perform at a bar-gig in Lancaster in 1966. The song "<a href="/wiki/Electricity_(Captain_Beefheart_song)" title="Electricity (Captain Beefheart song)">Electricity</a>" was a poem written by Bermann, who gave Van Vliet permission to adapt it to music.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-45">[45]</a> Unlike the album's mostly blues rock sound, songs such as "Electricity" illustrated the band's unconventional instrumentation and Van Vliet's unusual vocals. When guitarist Doug Moon complained that the band was "losing its soul", he was fired. In a 1995 interview Moon said that the songs on the album "had evolved to become a little bit more avant-garde and a little bit more hinting at things to come in Don's later albums".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECourrier200761-46">[46]</a> Much of the Safe as Milk material was honed and arranged by the arrival of 20-year–old guitar prodigy Ry Cooder, who had been brought into the group after much pressure from Vliet. The band began recording in spring 1967, with <a href="/wiki/Richard_Perry" title="Richard Perry">Richard Perry</a> cutting his teeth in his first job as producer. The album was released in September 1967. Richie Unterberger of Allmusic called the album "blues–rock gone slightly askew, with jagged, fractured rhythms, soulful, twisting vocals from Van Vliet, and more doo wop, soul, straight blues, and folk–rock influences than he would employ on his more <a href="/wiki/Avant_garde" class="mw-redirect" title="Avant garde">avant garde</a> outings". <a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a> displayed two of the album's promotional "baby bumper stickers" in the sunroom at his home.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a> planned to sign Beefheart to their experimental <a href="/wiki/Zapple" class="mw-redirect" title="Zapple">Zapple</a> label (plans that were scrapped after <a href="/wiki/Allen_Klein" title="Allen Klein">Allen Klein</a> took over the group's management). Vliet claimed to have met <a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney" title="Paul McCartney">Paul McCartney</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Cannes" title="Cannes">Cannes</a> hotel nightclub during their tour of Europe on January 27, 1968, urinated together on a statue outside the hotel at the prodding of journalists and photographers, and participated in a jam session together with McCartney and <a href="/wiki/Penny_Nichols" title="Penny Nichols">Penny Nichols</a>. Producer attempts to convince McCartney to switch labels to <a href="/wiki/Kama_Sutra_Records" title="Kama Sutra Records">Kama Sutra</a> obstructed the possibility of a pleasant evening.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> McCartney later said he had no recollection of this meeting.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes2011194-49">[49]</a> Van Vliet was often critical of the Beatles, however. He considered the lyric "I'd love to turn you on" from their song "<a href="/wiki/A_Day_in_the_Life" title="A Day in the Life">A Day in the Life</a>" to be ridiculous and conceited. Tiring of their "lullabies", he lampooned them with the Strictly Personal song "Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones",<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes2011194-49">[49]</a> that featured the sardonic refrain of "strawberry fields, all the winged eels slither on the heels of today's children, <a href="/wiki/Strawberry_Fields_Forever" title="Strawberry Fields Forever">strawberry fields forever</a>". Vliet spoke badly of Lennon after getting no response when he sent a telegram of support to him and wife <a href="/wiki/Yoko_Ono" title="Yoko Ono">Yoko Ono</a> during their 1969 "<a href="/wiki/Bed-in" title="Bed-in">Bed-in</a> for peace".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes2011194-49">[49]</a> Doug Moon left the band because of his dislike of the band's increasing experimentation outside his preferred blues genre. Ry Cooder told of Moon's becoming so angered by Van Vliet's unrelenting criticism that he walked into the room pointing a loaded <a href="/wiki/Crossbow" title="Crossbow">crossbow</a> at him, only to have Van Vliet tell him, "Get that fucking thing out of here, get out of here and get back in your room", which he did.<a href="#cite_note-artist_formerly_known-32">[32]</a> (Other band members dispute this account, though Moon is likely to have "passed through" the studio with a weapon.)<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> Moon was present during the early demo sessions at <a href="/wiki/Original_Sound" title="Original Sound">Original Sound studio</a>, above the <a href="/wiki/Kama_Sutra_Records" title="Kama Sutra Records">Kama Sutra</a>/Buddah offices. The works Moon laid down did not see the light of day, as he was replaced by Cooder when they continued on material at <a href="/wiki/Sunset_Sound_Recorders" title="Sunset Sound Recorders">Sunset Sound</a> with Marker.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> Marker then fell by the wayside when recording was moved by Krasnow and Perry to RCA Studio. This would have a profound effect on the quality of the Safe as Milk work, as the former studio was 8-track and the subsequent studio a 4-track. To support the album's release the group had been scheduled to play at the 1967 <a href="/wiki/Monterey_Pop_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Monterey Pop Festival">Monterey Pop Festival</a>. During this period, Vliet had severe <a href="/wiki/Panic_attack" title="Panic attack">anxiety attacks</a> that made him convinced that he was having a heart attack, possibly exacerbated by his heavy <a href="/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide" class="mw-redirect" title="Lysergic acid diethylamide">LSD</a> use and the fact that his father had died of heart failure a few years earlier. At a vital "warm-up" performance at the <a href="/wiki/Fantasy_Fair_and_Magic_Mountain_Music_Festival" title="Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival">Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival</a> (June 10–11) shortly before the scheduled Monterey Festival (June 16–18), the band began to play "Electricity" and Van Vliet froze, straightened his tie, then walked off the 10 ft (3.0 m) stage and landed on manager <a href="/wiki/Bob_Krasnow" title="Bob Krasnow">Bob Krasnow</a>. He later claimed he had seen a girl in the audience turn into a fish, with bubbles coming from her mouth.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> This aborted any opportunity of breakthrough success at Monterey, as Cooder immediately decided he could no longer work with Van Vliet,<a href="#cite_note-artist_formerly_known-32">[32]</a> effectively quitting both the event and the band on the spot. With such complex guitar parts there was no means for the band to find a competent replacement in time for Monterey. Cooder's spot was eventually filled for a short spell by Gerry McGee, who had played with <a href="/wiki/The_Monkees_(album)" title="The Monkees (album)">the Monkees</a>. According to French the band did two gigs with McGee, one of which was at The Peppermint Twist near Long Beach. The other was at <a href="/wiki/Santa_Monica_Civic_Auditorium" title="Santa Monica Civic Auditorium">Santa Monica Civic Auditorium</a>, August 7, 1967, as opening act for <a href="/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds">the Yardbirds</a>.<a href="#cite_note-John_French_p264-53">[53]</a> McGee was in the group long enough to have an outfit made by a Santa Monica boutique<a href="#cite_note-John_French_p264-53">[53]</a> that also created the gear worn by the band on the Strictly Personal cover stamps. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1096940132"><div class="side-box side-box-left listen noprint listen-left"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/75px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/100px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" /><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Safe_as_Milk.ogg" title="File:Safe as Milk.ogg">"Safe as Milk"</a></div> <div><audio id="mwe_player_1" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="26" data-mwtitle="Safe_as_Milk.ogg" data-mwprovider="local"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/Safe_as_Milk.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/transcoded/5/58/Safe_as_Milk.ogg/Safe_as_Milk.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></div> <div class="description">"Safe as Milk" from Strictly Personal, an album "having little in the way of lyrics or chords beyond the most primeval stomp" according to Stewart Mason in his AllMusic review.<a href="#cite_note-Mason,_AllMusic-54">[54]</a></div></div></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><hr />Problems playing this file? See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Strictly_Personal">Strictly Personal</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Strictly Personal">edit</a>]</div> In August 1967, guitarist <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Cotton" title="Jeff Cotton">Jeff Cotton</a> filled the guitar spot vacated, in turn, by Cooder and McGee. In October and November 1967 the Snouffer/Cotton/Handley/French line–up recorded material for what was planned to be the second album. Originally intended to be a double album called It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper for the Buddah label, it was released later in pieces in 1971 and 1995. After rejection from Buddah, Bob Krasnow encouraged the band to re-record four of the shorter numbers, add two more, and make shorter versions of "Mirror Man" and "Kandy Korn". Krasnow created a strange mix full of "phasing" that, by most accounts (including Beefheart's), diminished the music's strength. This was released in October 1968 as <a href="/wiki/Strictly_Personal" title="Strictly Personal">Strictly Personal</a> on Krasnow's <a href="/wiki/Blue_Thumb_Records" title="Blue Thumb Records">Blue Thumb</a> label.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes201193-55">[55]</a> Stewart Mason in his Allmusic review of the album described it as a "terrific album" and a "fascinating, underrated release ... every bit the equal of Safe as Milk and Trout Mask Replica".<a href="#cite_note-Mason,_AllMusic-54">[54]</a> <a href="/wiki/Langdon_Winner" title="Langdon Winner">Langdon Winner</a> of <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a> called Strictly Personal "an excellent album. The guitars of the Magic Band mercilessly bend and stretch notes in a way that suggests that the world of music has wobbled clear off its axis", with the lyrics demonstrating "Beefheart's ability to juxtapose delightful humor with frightening insights".<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-56">[56]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mirror_Man">Mirror Man</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Mirror Man">edit</a>]</div> In 1971 some of the recordings done for Buddah were released as <a href="/wiki/Mirror_Man_(Captain_Beefheart_album)" title="Mirror Man (Captain Beefheart album)">Mirror Man</a>, bearing a <a href="/wiki/Liner_note" class="mw-redirect" title="Liner note">liner note</a> stating that the material had been recorded in "one night in Los Angeles in 1965". This was a ruse to circumvent possible <a href="/wiki/Copyright" title="Copyright">copyright</a> issues. The material was recorded in November and December 1967. Essentially a "<a href="/wiki/Jam_session" title="Jam session">jam</a>" album, described as pushing "the boundaries of conventional blues–rock, with a Beefheart vocal tossed in here and there. Some may miss Beefheart's surreal poetry, gruff vocals, and/or free jazz influence, while others may find it fascinating to hear the Magic Band simply letting go and cutting loose."<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> The album's "miss-credit errors" also state band members as "Alex St. Clare Snouffer" (Alex St. Clare/Alexis Snouffer), "Antennae Jimmy Simmons" (Semens/Jeff Cotton) and "Jerry Handsley" (Handley). The original vinyl was issued in both a die-cut gatefold (revealing a "cracked" mirror) and a single sleeve with the same image. The UK Buddah issue was part of the Polydor-manufactured "Select" series. During his first trip to England in January 1968, Captain Beefheart was briefly represented in the UK by <a href="/wiki/Mod_(subculture)" title="Mod (subculture)">mod</a> icon <a href="/wiki/Peter_Meaden" title="Peter Meaden">Peter Meaden</a>, an early manager of <a href="/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who">the Who</a>. The Captain and his band members were initially denied entry to the United Kingdom, because Meaden had illegally booked them for gigs without applying for appropriate <a href="/wiki/Work_permit" title="Work permit">work permits</a>.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> After returning to Germany for a few days, press coverage and public outcry resulted in the band being permitted to re-enter the UK, where they recorded material for <a href="/wiki/John_Peel" title="John Peel">John Peel</a>'s radio show and on Friday January 19 appeared at the Middle Earth venue, introduced by Peel, where they played tracks from Safe as Milk and some of the experimental blues tracks from Mirror Man. The band was met by an enthusiastic audience; French recalled the event as a rare high moment for the band: "After the show, we were taken to the dressing room where we sat for hours as a line of what seemed like hundreds of people walked in one by one to shake our hand or get an autograph. Many brought imports of Safe as Milk with them for us to autograph ... It seemed like we had finally gained some reward ... Suddenly all the criticizing and intimidation and eccentricities seemed very unimportant. It was a glorious moment, one of the very few I ever experienced".<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> By this time, they had terminated their association with Meaden. On January 27, 1968, Beefheart performed in the <a href="/wiki/MIDEM" class="mw-redirect" title="MIDEM">MIDEM Music Festival</a> on the beach at <a href="/wiki/Cannes" title="Cannes">Cannes</a>, France. Alex St. Claire left the band in June 1968 after their return from a second European tour and was replaced by teenager Bill Harkleroad; bassist Jerry Handley left a few weeks later. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_'Brown_Wrapper'_Sessions">The 'Brown Wrapper' Sessions</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The 'Brown Wrapper' Sessions">edit</a>]</div> After their Euro tour and the Cannes beach performance the band returned to the US. Moves were already in the air for them to leave Buddah and sign to MGM and, prior to their May tour – mainly in the UK – they re-recorded some Buddah material of the partial Mirror Man sessions at Sunset Sound with <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Botnick" title="Bruce Botnick">Bruce Botnick</a>. Beefheart had also been conceptualizing new band names, including 25th Century Quaker and Blue Thumb,<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> while making suggestions to other musicians that they might get involved. The thought-process of 25th Century Quaker was that it would be a "blues band" alias for the more avant-garde work of the Magic Band. Photographer Guy Webster photographed the band in Quaker-style outfits, and the picture appears in The Mirror Man Sessions CD insert. It would later transpire that much of this situation was transient and that Buddah's Bob Krasnow was to set up his own label. The label that was unsurprisingly named <a href="/wiki/Blue_Thumb_Records" title="Blue Thumb Records">Blue Thumb</a> launched with its first release Strictly Personal, a truncated version of the original Beefheart vision of a double album. Thus "25th Century Quaker" became a track and a potential band-name <a href="/wiki/Blue_Thumb_Records" title="Blue Thumb Records">became a label</a>. In overview, the works for the double album in this period were intended to be packaged in a plain brown wrapper, with a "strictly personal" over-stamp and addressed in a manner that could have connotations of drug content, pornographic or illicit material; as per the small ads of the time: "It comes to you in a plain brown wrapper." Given that Krasnow had effectively poached the band from Buddah there were limitations on what material could be released. Strictly Personal was the result, contained in its enigmatically addressed parcel sleeve. The raft of material left behind eventually emerged, firstly on CD as I May Be Hungry, But I Sure Ain't Weird and later on vinyl, implemented by John French, as It Comes To You in a Plain Brown Wrapper (which has two tracks that are missing from the former release). Both Blue Thumb and the stamps on the cover of Strictly Personal have LSD connotations, as does the track "Ah Feel Like Ahcid", although Beefheart himself refuted this (claiming that this is a rendering of "I feel like I said"). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trout_Mask_Replica,_1969">Trout Mask Replica, 1969</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Trout Mask Replica, 1969">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VH_02_copy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/VH_02_copy.jpg/220px-VH_02_copy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/VH_02_copy.jpg/330px-VH_02_copy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/VH_02_copy.jpg/440px-VH_02_copy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="481" data-file-height="621" /></a><figcaption>Victor Hayden (aka <a href="/wiki/The_Mascara_Snake" title="The Mascara Snake">the Mascara Snake</a>) at the house where <a href="/wiki/Trout_Mask_Replica" title="Trout Mask Replica">Trout Mask Replica</a> was rehearsed and recorded in 1968</figcaption></figure> Critically acclaimed as Van Vliet's <a href="/wiki/Masterpiece" title="Masterpiece">magnum opus</a>,<a href="#cite_note-rollingstone.com-61">[61]</a> <a href="/wiki/Trout_Mask_Replica" title="Trout Mask Replica">Trout Mask Replica</a> was released as a 28-track <a href="/wiki/Double_album" title="Double album">double album</a> in June 1969 on <a href="/wiki/Frank_Zappa" title="Frank Zappa">Frank Zappa</a>'s newly formed <a href="/wiki/Straight_Records" title="Straight Records">Straight Records</a> label. First issues, in the US, were <a href="/wiki/Record_changer#Automatic_sequencing" title="Record changer">auto-coupled</a> and housed in the black "Straight" liners along with a 6-page lyric sheet illustrated by <a href="/wiki/The_Mascara_Snake" title="The Mascara Snake">the Mascara Snake</a>. A school-age portrait of Van Vliet appears on the front of this sheet, while the cover of the gatefold shows Beefheart in a modified <a href="/wiki/Capotain" title="Capotain">Pilgrim hat</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Coloy1999-62">[62]</a> obscuring his face with the head of a fish. The fish is a <a href="/wiki/Carp" title="Carp">carp</a> – arguably a "replica" for a trout, photographed by <a href="/wiki/Cal_Schenkel" title="Cal Schenkel">Cal Schenkel</a>. The inner spread "<a href="/wiki/Infra-red" class="mw-redirect" title="Infra-red">infra-red</a>" photography is by <a href="/wiki/Ed_Caraeff" title="Ed Caraeff">Ed Caraeff</a>, whose Beefheart vacuum cleaner images from this session also appear on Zappa's <a href="/wiki/Hot_Rats" title="Hot Rats">Hot Rats</a> release (a month earlier) to accompany "Willie The Pimp" lyrics sung by Vliet. Alex St. Clair had now left the band and, after Junior Madeo from the Blackouts was considered,<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> the role was filled by <a href="/wiki/Bill_harkleroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill harkleroad">Bill Harkleroad</a>. Bassist Jerry Handley had also departed, with <a href="/wiki/Gary_Marker" title="Gary Marker">Gary Marker</a> stepping in. Thus the long rehearsals for the album began in the house on Ensenada Drive in Woodland Hills, L.A.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> that would become the Magic Band House. The Magic Band began recordings for Trout Mask Replica with bassist <a href="/wiki/Gary_Marker" title="Gary Marker">Gary "Magic" Marker</a> at <a href="/wiki/TTG_Studios" title="TTG Studios">T.T.G.</a> (on "Moonlight on Vermont" and "Veteran's Day Poppy"),<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> but later enlisted bassist <a href="/wiki/Mark_Boston" class="mw-redirect" title="Mark Boston">Mark Boston</a> after his departure. The remainder of the album was recorded at Whitney Studios, with some <a href="/wiki/Field_recording" title="Field recording">field recordings</a> made at the house. Boston was acquainted with French and Harkleroad via past bands. Van Vliet had also begun assigning nicknames to his band members, so Harkleroad became <a href="/wiki/Zoot_Horn_Rollo" title="Zoot Horn Rollo">Zoot Horn Rollo</a>, and Boston became <a href="/wiki/Rockette_Morton" title="Rockette Morton">Rockette Morton</a>, while John French assumed the name <a href="/wiki/John_French_(musician)" title="John French (musician)">Drumbo</a>, and Jeff Cotton became <a href="/wiki/Antennae_Jimmy_Semens" class="mw-redirect" title="Antennae Jimmy Semens">Antennae Jimmy Semens</a>. Van Vliet's cousin Victor Hayden, <a href="/wiki/The_Mascara_Snake" title="The Mascara Snake">the Mascara Snake</a>, performed as a bass clarinetist later in the proceedings.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes201197-66">[66]</a> Vliet's girlfriend Laurie Stone, who can be heard laughing at the beginning of "Fallin' Ditch", became an <a href="/wiki/Audio_typist" title="Audio typist">audio typist</a> at the Magic Band house. Van Vliet wanted the whole band to "live" the Trout Mask Replica album. The group rehearsed Van Vliet's difficult compositions for eight months, living <a href="/wiki/Commune_(intentional_community)" class="mw-redirect" title="Commune (intentional community)">communally</a> in their small rented house in the <a href="/wiki/Woodland_Hills,_Los_Angeles,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California">Woodland Hills</a> suburb of Los Angeles. With only two bedrooms in the house, band members would find sleep in various corners of one, while Vliet occupied the other, and rehearsals were accomplished in the main living area. Van Vliet implemented his vision by completely dominating his musicians, artistically and emotionally. At various times, one or another of the group members was "put in the barrel", with Van Vliet berating him continually, sometimes for days, until the musician collapsed in tears or in total submission.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> Guitarist Bill Harkleroad complained that his fingers were a "bloody mess" as a result of Beefheart's orders that he use heavy strings.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> Drummer <a href="/wiki/John_French_(musician)" title="John French (musician)">John French</a> described the situation as "cultlike"<a href="#cite_note-Lewis-69">[69]</a> and a visiting friend said "the environment in that house was positively <a href="/wiki/Charles_Manson" title="Charles Manson">Mansonesque</a>".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes2011110-70">[70]</a> Their material circumstances were dire. With no income other than <a href="/wiki/Welfare_(financial_aid)" class="mw-redirect" title="Welfare (financial aid)">welfare</a> and contributions from relatives, the group barely survived and were even arrested for shoplifting food (Zappa bailed them out).<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> French has recalled living on no more than a small cup of beans a day for a month.<a href="#cite_note-artist_formerly_known-32">[32]</a> A visitor described their appearance as "cadaverous" and said that "they all looked in poor health". Band members were restricted from leaving the house and practiced for 14 or more hours a day. John French's 2010 book Through the Eyes of Magic describes some of the "talks", which were initiated by his doing such things as playing a Frank Zappa drum part ("The Blimp (mousetrapreplica)") in his drumming shed and not having finished drum parts as quickly as Beefheart wanted. French writes of being punched by band members, thrown into walls, kicked, punched in the face by Beefheart hard enough to draw blood, being attacked with a sharp <a href="/wiki/Broomstick" class="mw-redirect" title="Broomstick">broomstick</a>.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> Eventually Beefheart, French says, threatened to throw him out an upper floor window. He admits complicity in similarly attacking his bandmates during "talks" aimed at them. In the end, after the album's recording, Beefheart ejected French from the band by throwing him down a set of stairs, telling him to "Take a walk, man" after not responding in a desired manner to a request to "play a strawberry" on the drums. Beefheart replaced French with drummer Jeff Bruschel, an acquaintance of Hayden. Referred to as "Fake Drumbo" (playing on French's drumset) this final act resulted in French's name not appearing on the album credits, either as a player or arranger. Bruschel toured with the band to Europe but was replaced by the next recording. According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were written in a single <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style>8+1⁄2-hour session at the piano, an instrument he had no skill in playing, an approach Mike Barnes compared to <a href="/wiki/John_Cage" title="John Cage">John Cage</a>'s "maverick irreverence toward classical tradition",<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes201198-73">[73]</a> though band members have stated that the songs were written over the course of about a year, beginning around December 1967. (The band did watch <a href="/wiki/Federico_Fellini" title="Federico Fellini">Federico Fellini</a>'s 1963 film <a href="/wiki/8%C2%BD" title="8½">8½</a> during the creation of the album). It took the band about eight months to mold the songs into shape, with French bearing primary responsibility for transposing and shaping Vliet's piano fragments into guitar and bass lines, which were mostly notated on paper.<a href="#cite_note-Miles_2005_pp._182-74">[74]</a> Harkleroad in 1998 said in retrospect: "We're dealing with a strange person, coming from a place of being a sculptor/painter, using music as his <a href="/wiki/Idiom" title="Idiom">idiom</a>. He was getting more into that part of who he was instead of this blues singer.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes201198-73">[73]</a> The band had rehearsed the songs so thoroughly that the instrumental tracks for 21 of the songs were recorded in a single four-and-a-half-hour recording session.<a href="#cite_note-Miles_2005_pp._182-74">[74]</a> Van Vliet spent the next few days overdubbing the vocals. The album's cover artwork was photographed and designed by <a href="/wiki/Cal_Schenkel" title="Cal Schenkel">Cal Schenkel</a> and shows Van Vliet wearing the raw head of a carp, bought from a local fish market and fashioned into a mask by Schenkel.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1096940132"><div class="side-box side-box-right listen noprint"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/75px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/100px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" /><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Moonlight_On_Vermont.ogg" title="File:Moonlight On Vermont.ogg">"Moonlight on Vermont"</a></div> <div><audio id="mwe_player_2" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="50" data-mwtitle="Moonlight_On_Vermont.ogg" data-mwprovider="local"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Moonlight_On_Vermont.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/transcoded/6/67/Moonlight_On_Vermont.ogg/Moonlight_On_Vermont.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></div> <div class="description">"Moonlight on Vermont" from Trout Mask Replica, that well illustrates the album's sound and composition.</div></div><hr /><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:PenaCaptainBeefheart.ogg" title="File:PenaCaptainBeefheart.ogg">"Pena"</a></div> <div><audio id="mwe_player_3" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="38" data-mwtitle="PenaCaptainBeefheart.ogg" data-mwprovider="local"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/PenaCaptainBeefheart.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/transcoded/2/25/PenaCaptainBeefheart.ogg/PenaCaptainBeefheart.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></div> <div class="description">"Pena"; An example of the album's avant-garde instrumentation and bizarre lyrical content.</div></div></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><hr />Problems playing these files? See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</div> </div> Trout Mask Replica incorporated a wide variety of musical styles, including blues, avant garde/experimental, and rock. The relentless practice prior to recording blended the music into an iconoclastic whole of <a href="/wiki/Contrapuntal" class="mw-redirect" title="Contrapuntal">contrapuntal</a> <a href="/wiki/Tempo" title="Tempo">tempos</a>, featuring <a href="/wiki/Slide_guitar" title="Slide guitar">slide guitar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polyrhythmic" class="mw-redirect" title="Polyrhythmic">polyrhythmic</a> drumming (with French's drums and cymbals covered in cardboard), honking saxophone and <a href="/wiki/Bass_clarinet" title="Bass clarinet">bass clarinet</a>. Van Vliet's vocals range from his signature <a href="/wiki/Howlin%27_Wolf" title="Howlin' Wolf">Howlin' Wolf</a>-inspired growl to frenzied <a href="/wiki/Falsetto" title="Falsetto">falsetto</a> to laconic, casual ramblings. The instrumental backing was effectively recorded live in the studio, while Van Vliet overdubbed most of the vocals in only partial sync with the music by hearing the slight sound leakage through the studio window.<a href="#cite_note-Chusid-76">[76]</a> Zappa said of Van Vliet's approach, "[it was] impossible to tell him why things should be such and such a way. It seemed to me that if he was going to create a unique object, that the best thing for me to do was to keep my mouth shut as much as possible and just let him do whatever he wanted to do whether I thought it was wrong or not."<a href="#cite_note-artist_formerly_known-32">[32]</a> Van Vliet used the ensuing publicity, particularly with a 1970 Rolling Stone interview with <a href="/wiki/Langdon_Winner" title="Langdon Winner">Langdon Winner</a>, to promulgate a number of myths that were subsequently quoted as fact. Winner's article stated, for instance, that neither Van Vliet nor the members of the Magic Band ever took drugs, but Harkleroad later contradicted this. Van Vliet claimed to have taught both Harkleroad and Boston to play their instruments from scratch; in fact, the pair were already accomplished young musicians before joining the band.<a href="#cite_note-Chusid-76">[76]</a> Lastly, Van Vliet claimed to have gone a year and half without sleeping. When asked how this was possible, he claimed to have only eaten fruit.<a href="#cite_note-beefheart.com-18">[18]</a> Critic Steve Huey of <a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a> writes that the album's influence "was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point. However, its inspiring reimagining of what was possible in a rock context laid the groundwork for countless experiments in rock surrealism to follow, especially during the <a href="/wiki/Punk_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Punk (music)">punk</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_wave_music" title="New wave music">new wave</a> era."<a href="#cite_note-Huey-77">[77]</a> In 2003, the album was ranked sixtieth by Rolling Stone in their list of <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone%27s_500_Greatest_Albums_of_All_Time" title="Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time">the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time</a>: "On first listen, Trout Mask Replica sounds like raw <a href="/wiki/Delta_blues" title="Delta blues">Delta blues</a>", with Beefheart "singing and ranting and reciting poetry over fractured guitar licks. But the seeming sonic chaos is an illusion—to construct the songs, the Magic Band rehearsed twelve hours a day for months on end in a house with the windows blacked out. (Producer Frank Zappa was then able to record most of the album in less than five hours.) Tracks such as 'Ella Guru' and 'My Human Gets Me Blues' are the direct predecessors of modern musical primitives such as <a href="/wiki/Tom_Waits" title="Tom Waits">Tom Waits</a> and <a href="/wiki/PJ_Harvey" title="PJ Harvey">PJ Harvey</a>."<a href="#cite_note-Posted_Nov_01,_0003_12:00_AM-11">[11]</a> Guitarist <a href="/wiki/Fred_Frith" title="Fred Frith">Fred Frith</a> noted that during this process "forces that usually emerge in <a href="/wiki/Musical_improvisation" title="Musical improvisation">improvisation</a> are harnessed and made constant, repeatable".<a href="#cite_note-Fred_Frith-78">[78]</a> Critic <a href="/wiki/Robert_Christgau" title="Robert Christgau">Robert Christgau</a> gave the album a B+, saying, "I find it impossible to give this record an A because it is just too weird. But I'd like to. Very great played at high volume when you're feeling shitty, because you'll never feel as shitty as this record."<a href="#cite_note-robertchristgau.com-79">[79]</a> <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> disc jockey <a href="/wiki/John_Peel" title="John Peel">John Peel</a> said of the album: "If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art in a way that people who are involved in other areas of art would understand, then Trout Mask Replica is probably that work."<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> It was inducted into the United States <a href="/wiki/National_Recording_Registry" title="National Recording Registry">National Recording Registry</a> in 2011. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_recordings,_1970–82">Later recordings, 1970–82</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Later recordings, 1970–82">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Lick_My_Decals_Off,_Baby">Lick My Decals Off, Baby</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Lick My Decals Off, Baby">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Lick_My_Decals_Off,_Baby" title="Lick My Decals Off, Baby">Lick My Decals Off, Baby</a> (1970) continued in a similarly experimental vein. An album with "a very coherent structure"[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Attribution_needed" title="Wikipedia:Attribution needed">attribution needed</a>] in the Magic Band's "most experimental and visionary stage",[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Attribution_needed" title="Wikipedia:Attribution needed">attribution needed</a>]<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> it was Van Vliet's most commercially successful in the United Kingdom, spending twenty weeks on the <a href="/wiki/UK_Albums_Chart" title="UK Albums Chart">UK Albums Chart</a> and peaking at number 20. An early promotional music video was made of its title song, and a bizarre television commercial was also filmed that included excerpts from "Woe-Is-uh-Me-Bop", silent footage of masked Magic Band members using kitchen utensils as musical instruments, and Beefheart kicking over a bowl of what appears to be porridge onto a dividing stripe in the middle of a road. The video was rarely played but was accepted into the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="Museum of Modern Art">Museum of Modern Art</a>, where it has been used in several programs related to music.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-82">[82]</a><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-83">[83]</a> On this LP <a href="/wiki/Art_Tripp" title="Art Tripp">Art Tripp III</a>, formerly of <a href="/wiki/The_Mothers_of_Invention" title="The Mothers of Invention">the Mothers of Invention</a>, played drums and marimba, along with a returning John French. Lick My Decals Off, Baby was the first record on which the band was credited as "The" Magic Band, rather than "His" Magic Band. Journalist <a href="/wiki/Irwin_Chusid" title="Irwin Chusid">Irwin Chusid</a> interprets this change as "a grudging concession of its members' at least semiautonomous humanity".<a href="#cite_note-Chusid-76">[76]</a> Robert Christgau gave the album an A−, commenting, "Beefheart's famous five-octave range and covert totalitarian structures have taken on a playful undertone, repulsive and engrossing and <a href="/wiki/Slapstick" title="Slapstick">slapstick</a> funny."<a href="#cite_note-robertchristgau.com-79">[79]</a> Due to licensing disputes, Lick My Decals Off, Baby was unavailable on CD for many years, though it remained in print on <a href="/wiki/Vinyl_record" class="mw-redirect" title="Vinyl record">vinyl</a>. It was ranked second in <a href="/wiki/Uncut_(magazine)" title="Uncut (magazine)">Uncut</a> magazine's May 2010 list of The 50 Greatest Lost Albums.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> In 2011, the album became available for download on the <a href="/wiki/ITunes_Store" title="ITunes Store">iTunes Store</a>.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> He toured in 1970 with Ry Cooder on the bill to promote the album.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Spotlight_Kid_and_Clear_Spot">The Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: The Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Captain_Beefheart.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Captain_Beefheart.jpg/220px-Captain_Beefheart.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Captain_Beefheart.jpg/330px-Captain_Beefheart.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Captain_Beefheart.jpg/440px-Captain_Beefheart.jpg 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="332" /></a><figcaption>Beefheart performing at <a href="/wiki/Convocation_Hall_(University_of_Toronto)" title="Convocation Hall (University of Toronto)">Convocation Hall</a>, Toronto, in 1974.</figcaption></figure> The next two records, <a href="/wiki/The_Spotlight_Kid" title="The Spotlight Kid">The Spotlight Kid</a> (simply credited to "Captain Beefheart") and <a href="/wiki/Clear_Spot" title="Clear Spot">Clear Spot</a> (credited to "Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band"), were both released in 1972. The atmosphere of The Spotlight Kid is, according to one critic, "definitely relaxed and fun, maybe one step up from a jam". And though "things do sound maybe just a little too blasé", "Beefheart at his worst still has something more than most groups at their best."<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> The music is simpler and slower than on the group's two previous releases, the uncompromisingly original Trout Mask Replica and the frenetic Lick My Decals Off, Baby. This was in part an attempt by Van Vliet to become a more appealing commercial proposition as the band had made virtually no money during the previous two years—at the time of recording, the band members were subsisting on welfare food handouts and remittances from their parents.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> Van Vliet offered that he "got tired of scaring people with what I was doing ... I realized that I had to give them something to hang their hat on, so I started working more of a beat into the music. It's more human that way".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes2011199-88">[88]</a> Magic Band members have also said that the slower performances were due in part to Van Vliet's inability to fit his lyrics with the instrumental backing of the faster material on the earlier albums, a problem that was exacerbated in that he almost never rehearsed with the group.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes2011200-89">[89]</a> In the period leading up to the recording the band lived communally, first at a compound near <a href="/wiki/Ben_Lomond,_California" title="Ben Lomond, California">Ben Lomond, California</a> and then in northern California near <a href="/wiki/Trinidad,_California" title="Trinidad, California">Trinidad</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrench2010558–565-90">[90]</a> The situation saw a return to the physical violence and <a href="/wiki/Psychological_manipulation" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychological manipulation">psychological manipulation</a> that had taken place during the band's previous communal residence while composing and rehearsing Trout Mask Replica. According to John French, the worst of this was directed toward Harkleroad.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrench2010563-91">[91]</a> In his autobiography Harkleroad recalls being thrown into a dumpster, an act he interpreted as having metaphorical intent.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> Clear Spot's production credit of <a href="/wiki/Ted_Templeman" title="Ted Templeman">Ted Templeman</a> made <a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a>'s Ned Raggett consider "why in the world [it] wasn't more of a commercial success than it was", and that while fans "of the fully all-out side of Beefheart might find the end result not fully up to snuff as a result, but those less concerned with pushing back all borders all the time will enjoy his unexpected blend of everything tempered with a new accessibility". The review called the song "Big Eyed Beans from Venus" "a fantastically strange piece of aggression".<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> A Clear Spot song, "Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles", appeared on <a href="/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski#Soundtrack" title="The Big Lebowski">the soundtrack</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Coen_brothers" title="Coen brothers">Coen brothers</a>' cult comedy film <a href="/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski" title="The Big Lebowski">The Big Lebowski</a> (1998). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Unconditionally_Guaranteed_and_Bluejeans_&_Moonbeams">Unconditionally Guaranteed and Bluejeans & Moonbeams</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Unconditionally Guaranteed and Bluejeans & Moonbeams">edit</a>]</div> In 1974, immediately after the recording of <a href="/wiki/Unconditionally_Guaranteed" title="Unconditionally Guaranteed">Unconditionally Guaranteed</a>, which markedly continued the trend towards a more commercial sound heard on some of the Clear Spot tracks, the Magic Band's original members departed. The disgruntled former members worked together for a period, gigging at <a href="/wiki/Blue_Lake,_California" title="Blue Lake, California">Blue Lake</a> and putting together their own ideas and demos, with John French earmarked as the vocalist. These concepts eventually coalesced around the core of <a href="/wiki/Art_Tripp" title="Art Tripp">Art Tripp III</a>, Harkleroad and Boston, with the formation of <a href="/wiki/Mallard_(band)" title="Mallard (band)">Mallard</a>, helped by finance and UK recording facilities from <a href="/wiki/Jethro_Tull_(band)" title="Jethro Tull (band)">Jethro Tull's</a> <a href="/wiki/Ian_Anderson_(musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ian Anderson (musician)">Ian Anderson</a>.<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a><a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> Some of French's compositions were used in the band's work, but the group's singer was Sam Galpin and the role of keyboardist was eventually taken by John Thomas, who had shared a house with French in <a href="/wiki/Eureka,_California" title="Eureka, California">Eureka</a> at the time. At this time Vliet attempted to recruit both French and Harkleroad as producers for his next album, but his pleas fell on deaf ears. Andy Di Martino produced both of these <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Records" title="Virgin Records">Virgin label</a> albums. Vliet was forced to quickly form a new Magic Band to complete support-tour dates, with studio musicians who had no experience with his music and in fact had never heard it. Having no knowledge of the previous Magic Band style, they simply improvised what they thought would go with each song, playing much slicker versions that have been described as "bar band" versions of Beefheart songs. A review described this incarnation of the Magic Band as the "Tragic Band", a term that has stuck over the years.<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> <ul><li>Robert 'Fuzzy' Fuscaldo – guitar</li> <li>Dean Smith – guitar</li> <li>Del Simmons – saxophone; flute</li> <li>Michael 'Bucky' Smotherman – keyboards; vocals</li> <li>Paul Uhrig – bass</li> <li>Ty Grimes – drums<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a></li></ul> Mike Barnes said that the description of the new band "grooving along pleasantly", was "... an appropriately banal description of the music of a man who only a few years ago had composed with the express intent of shaking listeners out of their torpor."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes2011285-98">[98]</a> The one album they recorded, <a href="/wiki/Bluejeans_%26_Moonbeams" title="Bluejeans & Moonbeams">Bluejeans & Moonbeams</a> (1974) has, like its predecessor, a completely different, almost <a href="/wiki/Soft_rock" title="Soft rock">soft rock</a> sound from any other Beefheart record. Neither was well received; drummer Art Tripp recalled that when he and the original Magic Band listened to Unconditionally Guaranteed, they "... were horrified. As we listened, it was as though each song was worse than the one which preceded it".<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> Beefheart later disowned both albums, calling them "horrible and vulgar", asking that they not be considered part of his musical output and urging fans who bought them to "take copies back for a refund".<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Bongo_Fury_and_Bat_Chain_Puller">Bongo Fury and Bat Chain Puller</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Bongo Fury and Bat Chain Puller">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1096940132"><div class="side-box side-box-right listen noprint"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/75px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/100px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" /><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Bat_Chain_Puller.ogg" title="File:Bat Chain Puller.ogg">"Bat Chain Puller"</a></div> <div><audio id="mwe_player_4" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="26" data-mwtitle="Bat_Chain_Puller.ogg" data-mwprovider="local"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Bat_Chain_Puller.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/transcoded/8/8b/Bat_Chain_Puller.ogg/Bat_Chain_Puller.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></div> <div class="description">"Bat Chain Puller" from the original Bat Chain Puller, the album that was supposed to mark Van Vliet's return to prominence and form.</div></div><hr /><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Ice_Cream_For_Crow.ogg" title="File:Ice Cream For Crow.ogg">"Ice Cream for Crow"</a></div> <div><audio id="mwe_player_5" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="29" data-mwtitle="Ice_Cream_For_Crow.ogg" data-mwprovider="local"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/Ice_Cream_For_Crow.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/transcoded/f/f1/Ice_Cream_For_Crow.ogg/Ice_Cream_For_Crow.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></div> <div class="description">Ice Cream for Crow, the title track of the final Beefheart album</div></div></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><hr />Problems playing these files? See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</div> </div> By the fall of 1975 the band had completed their European tour, with further US dates in the New Year of 1976, supporting Zappa along with <a href="/wiki/Dr._John" title="Dr. John">Dr. John</a>. Van Vliet now found himself stuck in a web of contractual hang-ups. At this point Zappa had begun to extend a helping hand, with Vliet already having performed incognito as "Rollin' Red" on Zappa's <a href="/wiki/One_Size_Fits_All_(Frank_Zappa_album)" title="One Size Fits All (Frank Zappa album)">One Size Fits All</a> (1975) and then joining with him on the <a href="/wiki/Bongo_Fury" title="Bongo Fury">Bongo Fury</a> album and its later support tour. Two Vliet-penned numbers on the Bongo Fury album are "Sam with the Showing Scalp Flat Top" and "Man with the Woman Head". The form, texture and imagery of this album's first track, "Debra Kadabra", sung by Vliet, has 'angular similarities' to the work he would later produce in his next three albums. On the Bongo Fury album Vliet also sings "Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead", harmonizes on "200 Years Old" and "Muffin Man", and plays harmonica and soprano saxophone. In early 1976 Zappa put on his producer hat and, once again, opened up his studio facilities and finance to Vliet. This was for the production of an album provisionally titled <a href="/wiki/Bat_Chain_Puller" title="Bat Chain Puller">Bat Chain Puller</a>. The band were John French (drums), John Thomas (keyboards) and Jeff Moris Tepper and Denny Walley (guitars). Much of the work on this album had been finalized and some demos had been circulated when fate once again struck the Beefheart camp. In May 1976 the long association between Zappa and his manager/business partner <a href="/wiki/Herb_Cohen" title="Herb Cohen">Herb Cohen</a> ceased. This resulted in Zappa's finances and ongoing works becoming part of protracted legal negotiations. The Bat Chain Puller project went "on ice" and did not see an official release until 2012.<a href="#cite_note-GZonBCP20110624-101">[101]</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> After this recording John Thomas joined ex-Magic Band members in <a href="/wiki/Mallard_(band)" title="Mallard (band)">Mallard</a>. Prior to his next album Beefheart appeared in 1977 on <a href="/wiki/The_Tubes" title="The Tubes">the Tubes</a>' album <a href="/wiki/Now_(The_Tubes_album)" title="Now (The Tubes album)">Now</a>, playing saxophone on the song "Cathy's Clone",<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes2011551-103">[103]</a> and the album also featured a cover of the Clear Spot song "My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains". In 1978 he appeared on <a href="/wiki/Jack_Nitzsche" title="Jack Nitzsche">Jack Nitzsche</a>'s soundtrack to the film <a href="/wiki/Blue_Collar_(film)" title="Blue Collar (film)">Blue Collar</a>.<a href="#cite_note-coley-41">[41]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Shiny_Beast_(Bat_Chain_Puller)">Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)">edit</a>]</div> Having extricated himself from a mire of contractual difficulties Beefheart emerged with this new album, in 1978, on the <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Warner Bros. Records">Warner Bros</a> label. <a href="/wiki/Shiny_Beast_(Bat_Chain_Puller)" title="Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)">Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)</a> contained re-workings of the shelved Bat Chain Puller album and still retained its original guitarist, <a href="/wiki/Moris_Tepper" title="Moris Tepper">Jeff Moris Tepper</a>. However, he and Vliet were now joined by a whole new line-up of Richard Redus (guitar, bass and accordion), <a href="/wiki/Eric_Drew_Feldman" title="Eric Drew Feldman">Eric Drew Feldman</a> (bass, piano and synthesizer), <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Fowler" title="Bruce Fowler">Bruce Lambourne Fowler</a> (trombone and air bass), <a href="/wiki/Art_Tripp" title="Art Tripp">Art Tripp</a> (percussion and marimba) and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Williams_(drummer)" title="Robert Williams (drummer)">Robert Arthur Williams</a> (drums). The album was co-produced by Vliet with Pete Johnson. Members of this Magic Band and the "Bat Chain" elements would later feature on Beefheart's last two albums. Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) was described by Ned Raggett of Allmusic to be "... manna from heaven for those feeling Beefheart had lost his way on his two Mercury albums".<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> Following Vliet's death, John French claimed the 40-second spoken word track "Apes-Ma" to be an analogy of Van Vliet's deteriorating physical condition.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> The album's sleeve features Van Vliet's 1976 painting Green Tom, one of the many works that would mark out his longed-for career as a painter of note. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Doc_at_the_Radar_Station">Doc at the Radar Station</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Doc at the Radar Station">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Don_Van_Vliet_and_Gary_Lucas,_%22Doc_at_the_Radar_Station%22_sessions,_Soundcastle_Studios_Glendale_Ca._May_1980.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Don_Van_Vliet_and_Gary_Lucas%2C_%22Doc_at_the_Radar_Station%22_sessions%2C_Soundcastle_Studios_Glendale_Ca._May_1980.jpeg/220px-Don_Van_Vliet_and_Gary_Lucas%2C_%22Doc_at_the_Radar_Station%22_sessions%2C_Soundcastle_Studios_Glendale_Ca._May_1980.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Don_Van_Vliet_and_Gary_Lucas%2C_%22Doc_at_the_Radar_Station%22_sessions%2C_Soundcastle_Studios_Glendale_Ca._May_1980.jpeg/330px-Don_Van_Vliet_and_Gary_Lucas%2C_%22Doc_at_the_Radar_Station%22_sessions%2C_Soundcastle_Studios_Glendale_Ca._May_1980.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Don_Van_Vliet_and_Gary_Lucas%2C_%22Doc_at_the_Radar_Station%22_sessions%2C_Soundcastle_Studios_Glendale_Ca._May_1980.jpeg/440px-Don_Van_Vliet_and_Gary_Lucas%2C_%22Doc_at_the_Radar_Station%22_sessions%2C_Soundcastle_Studios_Glendale_Ca._May_1980.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="576" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption>Don Van Vliet and <a href="/wiki/Gary_Lucas" title="Gary Lucas">Gary Lucas</a> during the Doc at the Radar Station sessions (May 1980)</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Doc_at_the_Radar_Station" title="Doc at the Radar Station">Doc at the Radar Station</a> (1980) helped establish Beefheart's late resurgence. Released by <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Records" title="Virgin Records">Virgin Records</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Post-punk" title="Post-punk">post-punk</a> scene, the music was now accessible to a younger, more receptive audience. He was interviewed in a feature report on <a href="/wiki/KABC-TV" title="KABC-TV">KABC-TV</a>'s Channel 7 Eyewitness News in which he was hailed as "the father of the <a href="/wiki/New_wave_music" title="New wave music">new wave</a>. One of the most important American composers of the last fifty years, [and] a primitive genius"; Van Vliet said at this period, "I'm doing a non-hypnotic music to break up the <a href="/wiki/Catatonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Catatonic">catatonic</a> state ... and I think there is one right now."<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> Steve Huey of Allmusic cited the Doc at the Radar Station as being "... generally acclaimed as the strongest album of his comeback, and by some as his best since Trout Mask Replica", "even if the Captain's voice isn't quite what it once was, Doc at the Radar Station is an excellent, focused consolidation of Beefheart's past and then-present".<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> Van Vliet's biographer Mike Barnes writes of "revamping work built on skeletal ideas and fragments that would have mouldered away in the vaults had they not been exhumed and transformed into full-blown, totally convincing new material".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes2011362-108">[108]</a> During this period, Van Vliet made two appearances on <a href="/wiki/David_Letterman" title="David Letterman">David Letterman</a>'s late night television program on <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a>, and also performed on <a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">Saturday Night Live</a>. Richard Redus and Art Tripp departed on this album, with slide guitar and marimba duties taken up by the reappearance of John French. The guitar skills of <a href="/wiki/Gary_Lucas" title="Gary Lucas">Gary Lucas</a> also feature on the track "Flavor Bud Living". <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ice_Cream_for_Crow">Ice Cream for Crow</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Ice Cream for Crow">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NewMagicBandPromo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/NewMagicBandPromo.jpg/220px-NewMagicBandPromo.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/NewMagicBandPromo.jpg/330px-NewMagicBandPromo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/NewMagicBandPromo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="357" data-file-height="279" /></a><figcaption>Van Vliet and the new Magic Band.</figcaption></figure> The final Beefheart record, <a href="/wiki/Ice_Cream_for_Crow" title="Ice Cream for Crow">Ice Cream for Crow</a> (1982), was recorded with <a href="/wiki/Gary_Lucas" title="Gary Lucas">Gary Lucas</a> (who was also Van Vliet's manager), <a href="/wiki/Moris_Tepper" title="Moris Tepper">Jeff Moris Tepper</a>, Richard Snyder and <a href="/wiki/Cliff_Martinez" title="Cliff Martinez">Cliff Martinez</a>. This line-up made a video to promote the title track, directed by Van Vliet and Ken Schreiber, with cinematography by <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Pearl_(cinematographer)" title="Daniel Pearl (cinematographer)">Daniel Pearl</a>, which was rejected by MTV for being "too weird". However, the video was included in the Letterman broadcast on NBC-TV, and was also accepted into the Museum of Modern Art.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> Van Vliet announced "I don't want my MTV if they don't want my video" during his interview with Letterman, in reference to MTV's "I want my MTV" marketing campaign of the time.<a href="#cite_note-OCaptainLucas-110">[110]</a> Ice Cream for Crow, along with songs such as its title track, features instrumental performances by the Magic Band with <a href="/wiki/Performance_poetry" title="Performance poetry">performance poetry</a> readings by Van Vliet. Raggett of AllMusic called the album a "last entertaining blast of wigginess from one of the few truly independent artists in late 20th century pop music, with humor, skill, and style all still intact", with the Magic Band "turning out more choppy rhythms, unexpected guitar lines, and outré arrangements, Captain Beefheart lets everything run wild as always, with successful results".<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> Barnes writes that, "The most original and vital tracks (on the album) are the newer ones", and that it "feels like an hors-d'oeuvre for a main course that never came".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes2011411-112">[112]</a> Michael Galucci of Goldmine praised the album, describing it as "the single, most bizarre entry in Van Vliet's long, odd career."<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> Promotional work proposed to Beefheart by Virgin Records was as unorthodox as him making an appearance in the film <a href="/wiki/Grizzly_II:_Revenge" title="Grizzly II: Revenge">Grizzly II: Revenge</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Peel-114">[114]</a> Soon after, Van Vliet retired from music and began a new career as a painter. Gary Lucas tried to convince him to record one more album, but to no avail. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Riding_Some_Kind_of_Unusual_Skull_Sleigh">Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh">edit</a>]</div> Released in 2004 by <a href="/wiki/Rhino_Entertainment" title="Rhino Entertainment">Rhino Handmade</a> in a limited edition of 1,500 copies, this signed and numbered box set contains a "Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh" CD of Vliet-recited poetry, the <a href="/wiki/Anton_Corbijn" title="Anton Corbijn">Anton Corbijn</a> film of Vliet Some YoYo Stuff on DVD and two art books. One book, entitled Splinters, gives a visual "scrapbook" insight into Vliet's life, from an early age to his painting in retirement. The second, eponymously titled, book is packed with art pages of Vliet's work. The first is bound in green linen, the second in yellow. These colors are counterpointed throughout the package, which comes in a green slipcase measuring 235 mm × 325 mm × 70 mm. An onion-skin wallet, nestling at the package's inner sanctum, contains a matching-numbered Vliet lithograph on hand-rolled paper, signed by the artist. The two books are by publishers Artist Ink Editions. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Paintings">Paintings</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Paintings">edit</a>]</div> Throughout his musical career, Van Vliet remained interested in visual art. He placed his paintings, often reminiscent of <a href="/wiki/Franz_Kline" title="Franz Kline">Franz Kline</a>, on several of his albums.<a href="#cite_note-Ohrt-27">[27]</a> In 1987, Van Vliet published Skeleton Breath, Scorpion Blush, a collection of his poetry, paintings and drawings.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> In the mid-1980s, Van Vliet became reclusive and abandoned music, stating he had gotten "too good at the horn"<a href="#cite_note-ft-14">[14]</a> and could make far more money painting.<a href="#cite_note-trakmarx-116">[116]</a> Beefheart's first exhibition had been at Liverpool's Bluecoat Gallery during the Magic Band's 1972 tour of the UK. He was interviewed on Granada regional television standing in front of his bold black and white canvases.<a href="#cite_note-artist_formerly_known-32">[32]</a> He was inspired to begin an art career when a fan, <a href="/wiki/Julian_Schnabel" title="Julian Schnabel">Julian Schnabel</a>, who admired the artwork seen on his album covers, asked to buy a drawing from him.<a href="#cite_note-McKenna-15">[15]</a> His debut exhibition as a serious painter was at the <a href="/wiki/Mary_Boone_Gallery" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary Boone Gallery">Mary Boone Gallery</a> in New York in 1985 and was initially regarded as that of "another rock musician dabbling in art for ego's sake",<a href="#cite_note-Rogers-19">[19]</a> though his primitive, non-conformist work has received more sympathetic and serious attention since then, with some sales approaching $25,000.<a href="#cite_note-McKenna-15">[15]</a> Two books have been published specifically devoted to critique and analysis of his artwork: Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh: On The Arts Of Don Van Vliet (1999) by W. C. Bamberger<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> and Stand Up To Be Discontinued,<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> first published in 1993, a now rare collection of essays on Van Vliet's work. The limited edition version of the book contains a CD of Van Vliet reading six of his poems: Fallin' Ditch, The Tired Plain, Skeleton Makes Good, Safe Sex Drill, Tulip and Gill. A deluxe edition was published in 1994; only 60 were printed, with etchings of Van Vliet's signature, costing <a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">£</a>180.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CrossPokedShadowofaCrowNo1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/43/CrossPokedShadowofaCrowNo1.jpg/220px-CrossPokedShadowofaCrowNo1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="264" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/CrossPokedShadowofaCrowNo1.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="288" data-file-height="346" /></a><figcaption>Cross Poked Shadow of a Crow No. 2 (1990)</figcaption></figure> In the early 1980s Van Vliet established an association with the <a href="/wiki/Galerie_Michael_Werner" title="Galerie Michael Werner">Galerie Michael Werner</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cologne" title="Cologne">Cologne</a>.<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> <a href="/wiki/Eric_Drew_Feldman" title="Eric Drew Feldman">Eric Drew Feldman</a> stated later in an interview that at that time Michael Werner told Van Vliet he needed to stop playing music if he wanted to be respected as a painter, warning him that otherwise he would only be considered a "musician who paints".<a href="#cite_note-artist_formerly_known-32">[32]</a> In doing so, it was said that he had effectively "succeeded in leaving his past behind".<a href="#cite_note-McKenna-15">[15]</a> Van Vliet has been described as a <a href="/wiki/Modernism" title="Modernism">modernist</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Primitivism" title="Primitivism">primitivist</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Abstract_expressionism" title="Abstract expressionism">abstract expressionist</a>, and, "in a sense" an <a href="/wiki/Outsider_art" title="Outsider art">outsider artist</a>.<a href="#cite_note-McKenna-15">[15]</a> Morgan Falconer of <a href="/wiki/Artforum" title="Artforum">Artforum</a> concurs, mentioning both a "neo-primitivist aesthetic" and further stating that his work is influenced by the <a href="/wiki/COBRA_(avant-garde_movement)" class="mw-redirect" title="COBRA (avant-garde movement)">CoBrA</a> painters.<a href="#cite_note-artforum-121">[121]</a> The resemblance to the CoBrA painters is also recognized by art critic Roberto Ohrt,<a href="#cite_note-Ohrt-27">[27]</a> while others have compared his paintings to the work of <a href="/wiki/Jackson_Pollock" title="Jackson Pollock">Jackson Pollock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Franz_Kline" title="Franz Kline">Franz Kline</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antonin_Artaud" title="Antonin Artaud">Antonin Artaud</a>,<a href="#cite_note-McKenna-15">[15]</a> <a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist)" title="Francis Bacon (artist)">Francis Bacon</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Ohrt-27">[27]</a> <a href="/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh" title="Vincent van Gogh">Vincent van Gogh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mark_Rothko" title="Mark Rothko">Mark Rothko</a>.<a href="#cite_note-beefheart3-122">[122]</a> According to Dr. John Lane, director of the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="San Francisco Museum of Modern Art">San Francisco Museum of Modern Art</a>, in 1997, although Van Vliet's work has associations with mainstream abstract expressionist painting, more importantly he was a self-taught artist and his painting "has that same kind of edge the music has". Curator David Breuer asserts that in contrast to the busied, bohemian urban lives of the New York abstract expressionists, the rural desert environment Van Vliet was influenced by is a distinctly <a href="/wiki/Naturalism_(arts)" class="mw-redirect" title="Naturalism (arts)">naturalistic</a> one, making him a distinguished figure in contemporary art, whose work will survive in canon.<a href="#cite_note-artist_formerly_known-32">[32]</a> Van Vliet stated of his own work, "I'm trying to turn myself inside out on the canvas. I'm trying to completely bare what I think at that moment"<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes2011450-123">[123]</a> and "I paint for the simple reason that I have to. I feel a sense of relief after I do."<a href="#cite_note-beefheart3-122">[122]</a> When asked about his artistic influences he stated that there were none. "I just paint like I paint and that's enough influence."<a href="#cite_note-Rogers-19">[19]</a> He did however state his admiration of <a href="/wiki/Georg_Baselitz" title="Georg Baselitz">Georg Baselitz</a>,<a href="#cite_note-McKenna-15">[15]</a> the <a href="/wiki/De_Stijl" title="De Stijl">De Stijl</a> artist <a href="/wiki/Piet_Mondrian" title="Piet Mondrian">Piet Mondrian</a>, and Vincent van Gogh; after seeing van Gogh's paintings in person, Van Vliet quoted himself as saying, "The sun disappoints me so."<a href="#cite_note-Ubu.clc.wvu.edu-124">[124]</a> Exhibits of his paintings from the late 1990s were held in New York in 2009 and 2010.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> Falconer stated that the most recent exhibitions showed "evidence of a serious, committed artist". It was claimed that he stopped painting in the late 1990s.<a href="#cite_note-artforum-121">[121]</a> A 2007 interview with Van Vliet through email by <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Haden-Guest" title="Anthony Haden-Guest">Anthony Haden-Guest</a>, however, showed him to still be active artistically. He exhibited only few of his paintings because he immediately destroyed any that did not satisfy him.<a href="#cite_note-ft-14">[14]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Life_in_retirement">Life in retirement</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Life in retirement">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SomeYoYoStuff.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/23/SomeYoYoStuff.jpg/220px-SomeYoYoStuff.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/23/SomeYoYoStuff.jpg/330px-SomeYoYoStuff.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/SomeYoYoStuff.jpg 2x" data-file-width="340" data-file-height="247" /></a><figcaption>Van Vliet in Anton Corbijn's 1993 Some Yo Yo Stuff</figcaption></figure> After his retirement from music, Van Vliet rarely appeared in public. He resided near <a href="/wiki/Trinidad,_California" title="Trinidad, California">Trinidad, California</a>, with his wife Janet "Jan" Van Vliet.<a href="#cite_note-ft-14">[14]</a> By the early 1990s, he was using a wheelchair as a result of <a href="/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis" title="Multiple sclerosis">multiple sclerosis</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes2011479-126">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a><a href="#cite_note-Graham_Johnston-128">[128]</a> The severity of his illness was sometimes disputed. Many of his art contractors and friends considered him to be in good health.<a href="#cite_note-Graham_Johnston-128">[128]</a> Other associates such as his longtime drummer and musical director <a href="/wiki/John_French_(musician)" title="John French (musician)">John French</a> and bassist Richard Snyder have stated that they had noticed symptoms consistent with the onset of multiple sclerosis, such as <a href="/wiki/Uhthoff%27s_phenomenon" title="Uhthoff's phenomenon">sensitivity to heat</a>, loss of balance, and stiffness of gait, by the late 1970s. One of Van Vliet's last public appearances was in the 1993 short documentary Some Yo Yo Stuff by filmmaker <a href="/wiki/Anton_Corbijn" title="Anton Corbijn">Anton Corbijn</a>, described as an "observation of his observations". Around 13 minutes and shot entirely in black and white, with appearances by his mother and <a href="/wiki/David_Lynch" title="David Lynch">David Lynch</a>, the film showed a noticeably weakened and <a href="/wiki/Dysarthria" title="Dysarthria">dysarthric</a> Van Vliet at his residence in California, reading poetry, and philosophically discussing his life, environment, music and art.<a href="#cite_note-Ubu.clc.wvu.edu-124">[124]</a> In 2000, he appeared on Gary Lucas's album Improve the Shining Hour and Moris Tepper's Moth to Mouth, and spoke on Tepper's 2004 song "Ricochet Man" from the album Head Off. He is credited for naming Tepper's 2010 album A Singer Named Shotgun Throat.<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> Van Vliet often voiced concern over and support for environmentalist issues and causes, particularly the welfare of animals. He often referred to Earth as "God's Golfball" and this expression can be found on a number of his later albums. In 2003 he was heard on the compilation album Where We Live: Stand for What You Stand On: A Benefit CD for <a href="/wiki/Earthjustice" title="Earthjustice">EarthJustice</a> singing a version of "<a href="/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You" title="Happy Birthday to You">Happy Birthday to You</a>" retitled "Happy Earthday". The track lasts 34 seconds and was recorded over the telephone.<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Death">edit</a>]</div> Van Vliet died at a hospital in <a href="/wiki/Arcata,_California" title="Arcata, California">Arcata, California</a>, on Friday, December 17, 2010.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillboard2011135-1">[1]</a> The cause was named as complications from multiple sclerosis.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a> <a href="/wiki/Tom_Waits" title="Tom Waits">Tom Waits</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Brennan" title="Kathleen Brennan">Kathleen Brennan</a> commented on his death, praising him: "Wondrous, secret ... and profound, he was a diviner of the highest order."<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a> <a href="/wiki/Dweezil_Zappa" title="Dweezil Zappa">Dweezil Zappa</a> dedicated the song "Willie the Pimp" to Beefheart at the "Zappa Plays Zappa" show at the Beacon Theatre in New York City on the day of his death, while <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Bridges" title="Jeff Bridges">Jeff Bridges</a> exclaimed "Rest in peace, Captain Beefheart!" at the conclusion of the December 18, 2010, episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live.<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Relationship_with_Frank_Zappa">Relationship with Frank Zappa</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Relationship with Frank Zappa">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1096940132"><div class="side-box side-box-right listen noprint"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/75px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/100px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" /><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Willie_the_Pimp.ogg" title="File:Willie the Pimp.ogg">"Willie the Pimp"</a></div> <div><audio id="mwe_player_6" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="31" data-mwtitle="Willie_the_Pimp.ogg" data-mwprovider="local"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/14/Willie_the_Pimp.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/transcoded/1/14/Willie_the_Pimp.ogg/Willie_the_Pimp.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></div> <div class="description">Van Vliet's idiosyncratic vocal on Zappa's "Willie the Pimp" was among their collaborations.</div></div></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><hr />Problems playing this file? See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</div> </div> Van Vliet met <a href="/wiki/Frank_Zappa" title="Frank Zappa">Frank Zappa</a> when they were both teenagers and shared an interest in <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">rhythm and blues</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chicago_blues" title="Chicago blues">Chicago blues</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Taylor-35">[35]</a> They collaborated from this early stage with Zappa's scripts for "teenage operettas", such as "Captain Beefheart & the Grunt People",<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnes201123-134">[134]</a> helping to elevate Van Vliet's Captain Beefheart persona. The earliest known recording of either Beefheart or Zappa is a collaboration between them, "Lost in a Whirlpool", recorded around 1958/1959 and included on the posthumous Zappa album <a href="/wiki/The_Lost_Episodes" title="The Lost Episodes">The Lost Episodes</a> in 1996. In 1963, the pair recorded a demo at the <a href="/wiki/Pal_Recording_Studio" title="Pal Recording Studio">Pal Recording Studio</a> in Cucamonga as the Soots, seeking support from a major label. Their efforts were unsuccessful, as "Beefheart's Howlin' Wolf vocal style and Zappa's distorted guitar" were "not on the agenda" at the time.<a href="#cite_note-Taylor-35">[35]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Frank_Zappa_-_Capt._Beefheart_-_crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Frank_Zappa_-_Capt._Beefheart_-_crop.jpg/220px-Frank_Zappa_-_Capt._Beefheart_-_crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="288" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Frank_Zappa_-_Capt._Beefheart_-_crop.jpg/330px-Frank_Zappa_-_Capt._Beefheart_-_crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Frank_Zappa_-_Capt._Beefheart_-_crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="418" data-file-height="548" /></a><figcaption>Van Vliet seated left on stage with Zappa in 1975 in their <a href="/wiki/Bongo_Fury" title="Bongo Fury">Bongo Fury</a> tour</figcaption></figure> The friendship between Zappa and Van Vliet over the years was sometimes expressed in the form of rivalry as musicians drifted back and forth between their groups.<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> Van Vliet embarked on the 1975 <a href="/wiki/Bongo_Fury" title="Bongo Fury">Bongo Fury</a> tour with Zappa and <a href="/wiki/The_Mothers_of_Invention" title="The Mothers of Invention">the Mothers</a>,<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> mainly because conflicting contractual obligations made him unable to tour or record independently. Their relationship grew acrimonious on the tour to the point that they refused to talk to one another. Zappa became irritated by Van Vliet, who drew constantly, including while on stage, filling one of his large sketch books with rapidly executed portraits and warped caricatures of Zappa. Musically, Van Vliet's primitive style contrasted sharply with Zappa's compositional discipline and abundant technique. Mothers of Invention drummer <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carl_Black" title="Jimmy Carl Black">Jimmy Carl Black</a> described the situation as "two geniuses" on "ego trips".<a href="#cite_note-artist_formerly_known-32">[32]</a> Estranged for years afterwards, they reconnected at the end of Zappa's life, after his diagnosis with terminal <a href="/wiki/Prostate_cancer" title="Prostate cancer">prostate cancer</a>.<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a> Their collaborative work appears on the Zappa rarity collections <a href="/wiki/The_Lost_Episodes" title="The Lost Episodes">The Lost Episodes</a> (1996) and <a href="/wiki/Mystery_Disc" title="Mystery Disc">Mystery Disc</a> (1996). Particularly notable is their song "<a href="/wiki/Muffin_Man_(song)" title="Muffin Man (song)">Muffin Man</a>", included on Bongo Fury, as well as Zappa's compilation album <a href="/wiki/Strictly_Commercial" title="Strictly Commercial">Strictly Commercial</a> (1995). Zappa finished concerts with the song for many years afterwards. Beefheart also provided vocals for "<a href="/wiki/Willie_the_Pimp" title="Willie the Pimp">Willie the Pimp</a>" on Zappa's otherwise instrumental album <a href="/wiki/Hot_Rats" title="Hot Rats">Hot Rats</a> (1969). One track on Trout Mask Replica, "The Blimp (mousetrapreplica)", features Magic Band guitarist Jeff Cotton talking on the telephone to Zappa superimposed onto an unrelated live recording of the Mothers of Invention (the backing track was later released in 1992 as "Charles Ives" on <a href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Stage_Anymore,_Vol._5" title="You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5">You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5</a> ).<a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a> Van Vliet also played the harmonica on two songs on Zappa albums: "San Ber'dino" (credited as "Bloodshot Rollin' Red") on <a href="/wiki/One_Size_Fits_All_(Frank_Zappa_album)" title="One Size Fits All (Frank Zappa album)">One Size Fits All</a> (1975) and "<a href="/wiki/Find_Her_Finer" title="Find Her Finer">Find Her Finer</a>" on <a href="/wiki/Zoot_Allures" title="Zoot Allures">Zoot Allures</a> (1976).<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a> He is also the vocalist on "The Torture Never Stops (Original Version)" on Zappa's <a href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Stage_Anymore,_Vol._4" title="You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4">You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4</a>. <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Magic_Band">The Magic Band</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: The Magic Band">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Magic_Band" title="The Magic Band">The Magic Band</a></div> The Magic Band was the <a href="/wiki/Backing_band" class="mw-redirect" title="Backing band">backing band</a> of Captain Beefheart between 1967 and 1982. The rotating lineup featured dozens of performers, many of whom became known by nicknames given to them by Beefheart. Ex-members of the Magic Band formed the short-lived group <a href="/wiki/Mallard_(band)" title="Mallard (band)">Mallard</a> in 1974.<a href="#cite_note-LarkinGE-140">[140]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Musical_style">Musical style</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Musical style">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a> wrote that "The crucial problem in [Captain] Beefheart’s career has been that few people have ever been able to accept him for what he is"; a <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock</a> musician,<a href="#cite_note-Winner-24">[24]</a> his management referred to him as "potentially the greatest white blues singer of all time",<a href="#cite_note-Winner-24">[24]</a> while a combination of managers, other musicians, fans and critics felt that he should have either sung more clearly and softly, made more commercial music or played "blues songs that people could understand and dance to".<a href="#cite_note-Winner-24">[24]</a> As a teenager, he listened heavily to two genres of music, Mississippi <a href="/wiki/Delta_blues" title="Delta blues">Delta blues</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Avant-garde_jazz" title="Avant-garde jazz">avant-garde jazz</a>, the latter of which included <a href="/wiki/John_Coltrane" title="John Coltrane">John Coltrane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ornette_Coleman" title="Ornette Coleman">Ornette Coleman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Taylor" title="Cecil Taylor">Cecil Taylor</a>, which shaped his music style.<a href="#cite_note-Winner-24">[24]</a> He adapted to and pushed the boundaries of genre throughout his career.<a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a> According to <a href="/wiki/Entertainment_Weekly" title="Entertainment Weekly">Entertainment Weekly</a>, his music "drew on <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Psychedelic_music" title="Psychedelic music">psychedelia</a>, and a thousand other subgenres".<a href="#cite_note-EW-142">[142]</a> The Independent described his music as a fusion of <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">rhythm and blues</a> and avant-garde jazz.<a href="#cite_note-143">[143]</a> Far Out magazine said that his "combination of jazz, blues and <a href="/wiki/Psychedelic_rock" title="Psychedelic rock">psychedelic rock</a>" defied categorization, and as a result of his difficult to place style, many simply referred to it as <a href="/wiki/Avant-garde_music" title="Avant-garde music">avant-garde</a>.<a href="#cite_note-144">[144]</a><a href="#cite_note-145">[145]</a> According to Rolling Stone, "Beefheart’s brand of abrasive <a href="/wiki/Blues_rock" title="Blues rock">blues-rock</a> was truly a novelty to young listeners in 1964".<a href="#cite_note-Winner-24">[24]</a> Popular Song in the 20th Century: Styles and Singers and What They Said About America included him among the prominent <a href="/wiki/Progressive_rock" title="Progressive rock">progressive rock</a> musicians of the 1960s and '70s.<a href="#cite_note-tawa-146">[146]</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Parish" title="John Parish">John Parish</a> described Captain Beefheart's music as a "combination of raw blues and abstract jazz. There was humour in there, but you could tell that it wasn't [intended as] a joke. I felt that there was a depth to what he did that very few other rock artists have managed [to achieve]."<a href="#cite_note-MOGTv-147">[147]</a> A Rolling Stone biography described his work as "a sort of modern <a href="/wiki/Chamber_music" title="Chamber music">chamber music</a> for rock band, since he plans every note and teaches the band their parts by ear."<a href="#cite_note-rollingstone.com-61">[61]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a> describes Beefheart's songs as conveying "deep distrust of modern civilization, a yearning for ecological balance, and the belief that all animals in the wild are far superior to human beings".<a href="#cite_note-Encyclopædia_Britannica-148">[148]</a> <a href="/wiki/Dr._Demento" title="Dr. Demento">Barret Hansen</a>, in a review of Captain Beefheart's Strictly Personal album, described the singer as "the only white voice that has come close to capturing what <a href="/wiki/Charley_Patton" title="Charley Patton">Charley Patton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Son_House" title="Son House">Son House</a> are all about".<a href="#cite_note-RS-149">[149]</a> Captain Beefheart was a pioneer of <a href="/wiki/Art_rock" title="Art rock">art rock</a><a href="#cite_note-Winner-24">[24]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Experimental_rock" title="Experimental rock">experimental rock</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Winner-24">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-WalesOnline-150">[150]</a> His music has been cited as an influence on <a href="/wiki/Punk_rock" title="Punk rock">punk rock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Post-punk" title="Post-punk">post-punk</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_wave_music" title="New wave music">new wave music</a>,<a href="#cite_note-WalesOnline-150">[150]</a> and Captain Beefheart himself has sometimes been classified as a <a href="/wiki/Proto-punk" title="Proto-punk">proto-punk</a> musician.<a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Legacy">edit</a>]</div> Van Vliet has been the subject of at least two <a href="/wiki/Television_documentary" title="Television documentary">documentaries</a>, the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>'s 1997 The Artist Formerly Known as Captain Beefheart narrated by <a href="/wiki/John_Peel" title="John Peel">John Peel</a>, and the 2006 independent production Captain Beefheart: Under Review.<a href="#cite_note-152">[152]</a> According to Peel, "If there has ever been such a thing as a genius in the history of popular music, it's Beefheart ... I heard echoes of his music in some of the records I listened to last week and I'll hear more echoes in records that I listen to this week."<a href="#cite_note-Peel-114">[114]</a> His narration added: "A psychedelic shaman who frequently bullied his musicians and sometimes alarmed his fans, Don somehow remained one of rock's great innocents."<a href="#cite_note-artist_formerly_known-32">[32]</a> Mike Barnes referred to him as an "iconic counterculture hero" who, with the Magic Band, "went on to stake out startling new possibilities for rock music". <a href="/wiki/Lester_Bangs" title="Lester Bangs">Lester Bangs</a> cited Beefheart as "one of the four or five unqualified geniuses to rise from the hothouses of American music in the Sixties",<a href="#cite_note-bangs-153">[153]</a> while John Harris of <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a> praised the music's "pulses with energy and ideas, the strange way the spluttering instruments meld together".<a href="#cite_note-guardian1-7">[7]</a> A Rolling Stone biography said that because his work "breaks so many of rock's conventions at once, Beefheart's music has always been more influential than popular."<a href="#cite_note-rollingstone.com-61">[61]</a> In this context, it is performed by the classical group, the <a href="/wiki/Meridian_Arts_Ensemble" title="Meridian Arts Ensemble">Meridian Arts Ensemble</a>.<a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a> <a href="/wiki/Far_Out_(magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Far Out (magazine)">Far Out (magazine)</a> cites the music of Captain Beefheart as laying "the groundwork for <a href="/wiki/Post-punk" title="Post-punk">post-punk</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_wave_music" title="New wave music">new wave</a>, and <a href="/wiki/No_wave" title="No wave">no wave</a>, allowing the likes of <a href="/wiki/Brian_Eno" title="Brian Eno">Brian Eno</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Bowie" title="David Bowie">David Bowie</a> to pick up from where Beefheart had left off".<a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a> Many artists have cited Van Vliet as an influence, beginning with the <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Broughton_Band" title="Edgar Broughton Band">Edgar Broughton Band</a>, who covered "Dropout Boogie" as Apache Drop Out<a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a> (mixed with <a href="/wiki/The_Shadows" title="The Shadows">the Shadows</a>' "<a href="/wiki/Apache_(instrumental)" title="Apache (instrumental)">Apache</a>") as early as 1970, as did <a href="/wiki/The_Kills" title="The Kills">the Kills</a> 32 years later. <a href="/wiki/Minutemen_(band)" title="Minutemen (band)">Minutemen</a> were fans of Beefheart, and were arguably among the few to effectively synthesize his music with their own, especially in their early output, which featured disjointed guitar and irregular, galloping rhythms. <a href="/wiki/Michael_Azerrad" title="Michael Azerrad">Michael Azerrad</a> describes the Minutemen's early output as "highly caffeinated Captain Beefheart running down <a href="/wiki/James_Brown" title="James Brown">James Brown</a> tunes",<a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a> and notes that Beefheart was the group's "idol".<a href="#cite_note-158">[158]</a> Others who arguably conveyed the same influence around the same time or before include <a href="/wiki/John_Cale" title="John Cale">John Cale</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground" title="The Velvet Underground">the Velvet Underground</a>,<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a> <a href="/wiki/Little_Feat" title="Little Feat">Little Feat</a>,<a href="#cite_note-160">[160]</a> <a href="/wiki/Laurie_Anderson" title="Laurie Anderson">Laurie Anderson</a>,<a href="#cite_note-http-161">[161]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Residents" title="The Residents">the Residents</a> and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Cow" title="Henry Cow">Henry Cow</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Fred_Frith-78">[78]</a> <a href="/wiki/Genesis_P-Orridge" title="Genesis P-Orridge">Genesis P-Orridge</a> of <a href="/wiki/Throbbing_Gristle" title="Throbbing Gristle">Throbbing Gristle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Psychic_TV" title="Psychic TV">Psychic TV</a>,<a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a> and poet mystic <a href="/wiki/Z%27EV" title="Z'EV">Z'EV</a>,<a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a> both pioneers of <a href="/wiki/Industrial_music" title="Industrial music">industrial music</a>, cited Van Vliet along with Zappa among their influences. More notable were those emerging during the early days of <a href="/wiki/Punk_rock" title="Punk rock">punk rock</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/The_Clash" title="The Clash">the Clash</a><a href="#cite_note-trakmarx-116">[116]</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Lydon" title="John Lydon">John Lydon</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Sex_Pistols" title="Sex Pistols">Sex Pistols</a> (reportedly to manager <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_McLaren" title="Malcolm McLaren">Malcolm McLaren</a>'s disapproval), later of the post-punk band <a href="/wiki/Public_Image_Ltd" title="Public Image Ltd">Public Image Ltd</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Reynolds-164">[164]</a> <a href="/wiki/Frank_Discussion" class="mw-redirect" title="Frank Discussion">Frank Discussion</a> of punk rock band <a href="/wiki/The_Feederz" title="The Feederz">the Feederz</a> learned to play guitar from listening to <a href="/wiki/Trout_Mask_Replica" title="Trout Mask Replica">Trout Mask Replica</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lick_My_Decals_Off,_Baby" title="Lick My Decals Off, Baby">Lick My Decals Off, Baby</a>. Cartoonist and writer <a href="/wiki/Matt_Groening" title="Matt Groening">Matt Groening</a> tells of listening to Trout Mask Replica at the age of 15 and thinking "that it was the worst thing I'd ever heard. I said to myself, they're not even trying! It was just a sloppy cacophony. Then I listened to it a couple more times, because I couldn't believe Frank Zappa could do this to me—and because a double album cost a lot of money. About the third time, I realised they were doing it on purpose; they meant it to sound exactly this way. About the sixth or seventh time, it clicked in, and I thought it was the greatest album I'd ever heard."<a href="#cite_note-165">[165]</a> Groening first saw Beefheart and the Magic Band perform in the front row at the <a href="/wiki/Arlene_Schnitzer_Concert_Hall" title="Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall">Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall</a> in the early 1970s.<a href="#cite_note-laweekly-166">[166]</a> He later declared Trout Mask Replica to be the greatest album ever made. He considered the appeal of the Magic Band as outcasts who were even "too weird for the <a href="/wiki/Hippie" title="Hippie">hippies</a>".<a href="#cite_note-artist_formerly_known-32">[32]</a> Groening served as the curator of the <a href="/wiki/All_Tomorrow%27s_Parties_(music_festival)" class="mw-redirect" title="All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)">All Tomorrow's Parties</a> festival that reunited the post–Beefheart Magic Band.<a href="#cite_note-laweekly-166">[166]</a> Van Vliet's influence on post–punk bands was demonstrated by <a href="/wiki/Magazine_(band)" title="Magazine (band)">Magazine</a>'s recording of "I Love You You Big Dummy" in 1978 and the tribute album <a href="/wiki/Fast_%27n%27_Bulbous_%E2%80%93_A_Tribute_to_Captain_Beefheart" title="Fast 'n' Bulbous – A Tribute to Captain Beefheart">Fast 'n' Bulbous – A Tribute to Captain Beefheart</a> in 1988, featuring the likes of artists such as the <a href="/wiki/Dog_Faced_Hermans" title="Dog Faced Hermans">Dog Faced Hermans</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Scientists" title="The Scientists">the Scientists</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Membranes" title="The Membranes">the Membranes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Simon_Fisher_Turner" title="Simon Fisher Turner">Simon Fisher Turner</a>, <a href="/wiki/That_Petrol_Emotion" title="That Petrol Emotion">That Petrol Emotion</a>, the <a href="/wiki/The_Primevals_(band)" title="The Primevals (band)">Primevals</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Mock_Turtles" title="The Mock Turtles">the Mock Turtles</a>, <a href="/wiki/XTC" title="XTC">XTC</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sonic_Youth" title="Sonic Youth">Sonic Youth</a>, who included a cover of Beefheart's "Electricity" which would later be re-released as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of their 1988 album <a href="/wiki/Daydream_Nation" title="Daydream Nation">Daydream Nation</a>. Other post-punk bands influenced by Beefheart include <a href="/wiki/Gang_of_Four_(band)" title="Gang of Four (band)">Gang of Four</a>,<a href="#cite_note-guardian1-7">[7]</a> <a href="/wiki/Siouxsie_and_the_Banshees" title="Siouxsie and the Banshees">Siouxsie and the Banshees</a>,<a href="#cite_note-167">[167]</a> <a href="/wiki/Pere_Ubu" title="Pere Ubu">Pere Ubu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Babe_the_Blue_Ox_(band)" title="Babe the Blue Ox (band)">Babe the Blue Ox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mark_E._Smith" title="Mark E. Smith">Mark E. Smith</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_Fall_(band)" title="The Fall (band)">the Fall</a>,<a href="#cite_note-168">[168]</a> who covered "Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones" in their 1993 <a href="/wiki/The_Complete_Peel_Sessions_1978%E2%80%932004" title="The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004">session for John Peel</a>. Beefheart is considered to have "greatly influenced" new wave artists, such as <a href="/wiki/David_Byrne" title="David Byrne">David Byrne</a> of <a href="/wiki/Talking_Heads" title="Talking Heads">Talking Heads</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blondie_(band)" title="Blondie (band)">Blondie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Devo" title="Devo">Devo</a>,<a href="#cite_note-169">[169]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Bongos" title="The Bongos">the Bongos</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_B-52s" title="The B-52s">the B-52s</a>.<a href="#cite_note-http-161">[161]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tom_Waits_(1979%E2%80%9380_publicity_photo_in_kitchen_by_Greg_Gorman).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Tom_Waits_%281979%E2%80%9380_publicity_photo_in_kitchen_by_Greg_Gorman%29.jpg/220px-Tom_Waits_%281979%E2%80%9380_publicity_photo_in_kitchen_by_Greg_Gorman%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Tom_Waits_%281979%E2%80%9380_publicity_photo_in_kitchen_by_Greg_Gorman%29.jpg/330px-Tom_Waits_%281979%E2%80%9380_publicity_photo_in_kitchen_by_Greg_Gorman%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Tom_Waits_%281979%E2%80%9380_publicity_photo_in_kitchen_by_Greg_Gorman%29.jpg/440px-Tom_Waits_%281979%E2%80%9380_publicity_photo_in_kitchen_by_Greg_Gorman%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1313" data-file-height="948" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Tom_Waits" title="Tom Waits">Tom Waits</a> has cited Beefheart's music as an influence, beginning with his 1983 album <a href="/wiki/Swordfishtrombones" title="Swordfishtrombones">Swordfishtrombones</a></figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Tom_Waits" title="Tom Waits">Tom Waits</a>' shift in artistic direction, starting with 1983's <a href="/wiki/Swordfishtrombones" title="Swordfishtrombones">Swordfishtrombones</a>, was, Waits claims, a result of his wife <a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Brennan" title="Kathleen Brennan">Kathleen Brennan</a> introducing him to Van Vliet's music.<a href="#cite_note-Waits-170">[170]</a> "Once you've heard Beefheart", said Waits, "it's hard to wash him out of your clothes. It stains, like coffee or blood."[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] More recently, Waits has described Beefheart's work as a "glimpse into the future; like curatives, recipes for ancient oils".<a href="#cite_note-171">[171]</a> Guitarist <a href="/wiki/John_Frusciante" title="John Frusciante">John Frusciante</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Red_Hot_Chili_Peppers" title="Red Hot Chili Peppers">Red Hot Chili Peppers</a> cited Van Vliet as a prominent influence on the band's 1991 album <a href="/wiki/Blood_Sugar_Sex_Magik" title="Blood Sugar Sex Magik">Blood Sugar Sex Magik</a> as well as his debut solo album <a href="/wiki/Niandra_Lades_and_Usually_Just_a_T-Shirt" class="mw-redirect" title="Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt">Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt</a> (1994) and stated that during his drug-induced absence, after leaving the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he "would paint and listen to Trout Mask Replica".<a href="#cite_note-172">[172]</a> <a href="/wiki/Black_Francis" title="Black Francis">Black Francis</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Pixies_(band)" title="Pixies (band)">Pixies</a> cited Beefheart's The Spotlight Kid as one of the albums he listened to regularly when first writing songs for the band,<a href="#cite_note-173">[173]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Cobain" title="Kurt Cobain">Kurt Cobain</a> of <a href="/wiki/Nirvana_(band)" title="Nirvana (band)">Nirvana</a> acknowledged Van Vliet's influence, mentioning him among his notoriously eclectic range.<a href="#cite_note-ru.org-174">[174]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_White_Stripes" title="The White Stripes">The White Stripes</a> in 2000 released a 7" tribute single, "<a href="/wiki/Party_of_Special_Things_to_Do" title="Party of Special Things to Do">Party of Special Things to Do</a>", containing covers of that Beefheart song plus "China Pig" and "Ashtray Heart". <a href="/wiki/The_Kills" title="The Kills">The Kills</a> included a cover of "Dropout Boogie" on their debut <a href="/wiki/Black_Rooster_EP" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Rooster EP">Black Rooster EP</a> (2002). <a href="/wiki/The_Black_Keys" title="The Black Keys">The Black Keys</a> in 2008 released a free cover of Beefheart's "I'm Glad" from Safe as Milk.<a href="#cite_note-175">[175]</a> The <a href="/wiki/LCD_Soundsystem" title="LCD Soundsystem">LCD Soundsystem</a> song "<a href="/wiki/Losing_My_Edge" title="Losing My Edge">Losing My Edge</a>" has a verse which <a href="/wiki/James_Murphy_(electronic_musician)" title="James Murphy (electronic musician)">James Murphy</a> says, "I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band". In 2005, Genus Records produced Mama Kangaroos – Philly Women Sing Captain Beefheart, a 20-track tribute to Captain Beefheart.<a href="#cite_note-176">[176]</a> <a href="/wiki/Beck" title="Beck">Beck</a> included "Safe as Milk" and "Ella Guru" in a playlist of songs as part of his website's Planned Obsolescence series of <a href="/wiki/Mashup_(music)" title="Mashup (music)">mashups</a> of songs by the musicians that influenced him.<a href="#cite_note-177">[177]</a> <a href="/wiki/Franz_Ferdinand_(band)" title="Franz Ferdinand (band)">Franz Ferdinand</a> cited Beefheart's Doc at the Radar Station as a strong influence on their second LP, <a href="/wiki/You_Could_Have_It_So_Much_Better" title="You Could Have It So Much Better">You Could Have It So Much Better</a>.<a href="#cite_note-guardian1-7">[7]</a> <a href="/wiki/Placebo_(band)" title="Placebo (band)">Placebo</a> briefly named themselves Ashtray Heart, after the track on Doc at the Radar Station; the band's album <a href="/wiki/Battle_for_the_Sun" title="Battle for the Sun">Battle for the Sun</a> contains the track, "Ashtray Heart". <a href="/wiki/Joan_Osborne" title="Joan Osborne">Joan Osborne</a> covered Beefheart's "(His) Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles", which appears on Early Recordings. She cited Van Vliet as one of her influences.<a href="#cite_note-178">[178]</a> <a href="/wiki/PJ_Harvey" title="PJ Harvey">PJ Harvey</a> and John Parish discussed Beefheart's influence in an interview together. Harvey's first experience of Beefheart's music was as a child. Her parents had all of his albums; listening to them made her "feel ill". Harvey was reintroduced to Beefheart's music by Parish, who lent her a cassette copy of Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) at the age of 16. She cited him as one of her greatest influences since.<a href="#cite_note-MOGTv-147">[147]</a> <a href="/wiki/Ty_Segall" title="Ty Segall">Ty Segall</a> covered "Drop Out Boogie" on his 2009 album Lemons. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Discography">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Captain_Beefheart_discography" title="Captain Beefheart discography">Captain Beefheart discography</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Safe_as_Milk" title="Safe as Milk">Safe as Milk</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strictly_Personal" title="Strictly Personal">Strictly Personal</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trout_Mask_Replica" title="Trout Mask Replica">Trout Mask Replica</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lick_My_Decals_Off,_Baby" title="Lick My Decals Off, Baby">Lick My Decals Off, Baby</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirror_Man_(Captain_Beefheart_album)" title="Mirror Man (Captain Beefheart album)">Mirror Man</a> (1971, recorded 1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Spotlight_Kid" title="The Spotlight Kid">The Spotlight Kid</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clear_Spot" title="Clear Spot">Clear Spot</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unconditionally_Guaranteed" title="Unconditionally Guaranteed">Unconditionally Guaranteed</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bluejeans_%26_Moonbeams" title="Bluejeans & Moonbeams">Bluejeans & Moonbeams</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shiny_Beast_(Bat_Chain_Puller)" title="Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)">Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doc_at_the_Radar_Station" title="Doc at the Radar Station">Doc at the Radar Station</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ice_Cream_for_Crow" title="Ice Cream for Crow">Ice Cream for Crow</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bat_Chain_Puller" title="Bat Chain Puller">Bat Chain Puller</a> (2012, recorded 1976)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Zappa" title="Frank Zappa">Frank Zappa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">Blues</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://streetteam.vanguardrecords.com/artist/joanosborne.html">the original</a> on August 6, 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Vanguard+Records%3A+Joan+Osborne&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fstreetteam.vanguardrecords.com%2Fartist%2Fjoanosborne.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACaptain+Beefheart" class="Z3988"> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Bibliography">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBarnes2011" class="citation book cs1">Barnes, Mike (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Bz0pAwAAQBAJ">Captain Beefheart: The Biography</a>. Omnibus Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-85712-728-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-85712-728-0"><bdi>978-0-85712-728-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Captain+Beefheart%3A+The+Biography&rft.pub=Omnibus+Press&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-85712-728-0&rft.aulast=Barnes&rft.aufirst=Mike&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DBz0pAwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACaptain+Beefheart" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCourrier2007" class="citation book cs1">Courrier, Kevin (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KSyUmDS4GicC&pg=PT61">Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica</a>. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 61. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4411-9269-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4411-9269-1"><bdi>978-1-4411-9269-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Captain+Beefheart%27s+Trout+Mask+Replica&rft.pages=61&rft.pub=Bloomsbury+Publishing+USA&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-1-4411-9269-1&rft.aulast=Courrier&rft.aufirst=Kevin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DKSyUmDS4GicC%26pg%3DPT61&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACaptain+Beefheart" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChristgau1970" class="citation book cs1">Christgau, Robert (1970). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-aow/bfart.php">Capt. B. Fart</a>. robertchristgau.com. Retrieved June 25, 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Capt.+B.+Fart&rft.pub=robertchristgau.com&rft.date=1970&rft.aulast=Christgau&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.robertchristgau.com%2Fxg%2Fbk-aow%2Fbfart.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACaptain+Beefheart" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBillboard2011" class="citation book cs1">Billboard (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jim-YANOn5AC&pg=RA12-PA135">Billboard</a>. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 135.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Billboard&rft.pages=135&rft.pub=Nielsen+Business+Media%2C+Inc.&rft.date=2011&rft.au=Billboard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Djim-YANOn5AC%26pg%3DRA12-PA135&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACaptain+Beefheart" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSheridan2005" class="citation magazine cs1">Sheridan, Tim (April 12, 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/don-van-vliet/on-the-arts-of-don-van-vliet/">"On The Arts of Don Van Vliet"</a>. Paste Magazine. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220626214032/https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/don-van-vliet/on-the-arts-of-don-van-vliet/">Archived</a> from the original on June 26, 2022. Retrieved June 26, 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Paste+Magazine&rft.atitle=On+The+Arts+of+Don+Van+Vliet&rft.date=2005-04-12&rft.aulast=Sheridan&rft.aufirst=Tim&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pastemagazine.com%2Fbooks%2Fdon-van-vliet%2Fon-the-arts-of-don-van-vliet%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACaptain+Beefheart" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAzerrad2001" class="citation book cs1">Azerrad, Michael (2001). <a href="/wiki/Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life" title="Our Band Could Be Your Life">Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991</a>. Little Brown. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-316-78753-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-316-78753-1"><bdi>0-316-78753-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Our+Band+Could+Be+Your+Life%3A+Scenes+from+the+American+Indie+Underground%2C+1981%E2%80%931991&rft.pub=Little+Brown&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=0-316-78753-1&rft.aulast=Azerrad&rft.aufirst=Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACaptain+Beefheart" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Bamberger, W.C. (1999). Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh: On The Arts Of Don Van Vliet. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-917453-35-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-917453-35-9">978-0-917453-35-9</a></li> <li>Beaugrand, Andreas and various (1994). Stand Up to Be Discontinued. (Paperback) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-9801320-2-1" title="Special:BookSources/3-9801320-2-1">3-9801320-2-1</a>.</li> <li>Courrier, Kevin (2007). Trout Mask Replica. New York: Continuum. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8264-2781-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-8264-2781-2">0-8264-2781-2</a></li> <li>Delville, Michel & Norris, Andrew (2005). Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Secret History of Maximalism. Cambridge: Salt Publishing. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-84471-059-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-84471-059-9">1-84471-059-9</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFrench2010" class="citation book cs1">French, John (2010). Beefheart: Through the Eyes of Magic. Proper Music Publ. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9561212-1-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-9561212-1-9"><bdi>978-0-9561212-1-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Beefheart%3A+Through+the+Eyes+of+Magic&rft.pub=Proper+Music+Publ.&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0-9561212-1-9&rft.aulast=French&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACaptain+Beefheart" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Harkleroad, Bill (1998). Lunar Notes: Zoot Horn Rollo's Captain Beefheart Experience. Interlink Publishing. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946719-21-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-946719-21-7">0-946719-21-7</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMiles2004" class="citation book cs1">Miles, Barry (2004). Frank Zappa. Atlantic Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-84354-091-6" title="Special:BookSources/1-84354-091-6"><bdi>1-84354-091-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Frank+Zappa&rft.pub=Atlantic+Books&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=1-84354-091-6&rft.aulast=Miles&rft.aufirst=Barry&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACaptain+Beefheart" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Van Vliet, Don (Captain Beefheart) (1987). Skeleton Breath, Scorpion Blush. (All poems in English, preface in German and English.) Bern-Berlin: Gachnang & Springer. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-906127-15-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-906127-15-6">978-3-906127-15-6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Zappa" title="Frank Zappa">Zappa, Frank</a> & Occhiogrosso, Peter; The Real Frank Zappa Book, Poseidon Press (1989), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-63870-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-63870-X">0-671-63870-X</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Beefheart&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div> <link 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