American singer-songwriter Captain Beefheart and Rockette Morton performing with The Magic Band at the Rainbow Theatre in London, 17th April 1973.
This is some strange, gutbucket picture making. Like an electric guitar, sounding tinny and raw without amplification, or the taste of a stone after days without water, Don Van Vliets uncouth, dry pictures claw their way out at us.
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Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band – “Trout Mask Replica” (1969) More Masterpieces click>> 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Sometimes you just have to eat shredded wheat. The 1969 double LP,”T…
Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart, Doug Moon , Richard Hepner , Jerry Handley , Alex St. Clair aka Alex Snouffer aka Alex St. Claire and P.G. Blakely of the blues band "Captain Beefheart and His...
-Robert Williams Here are some paintings by Don Van Vliet, alias Captain Beefheart. I find them insanely interesting... Charming yet even more raw and savage than the heaviest of Ralph Steadman's oeuvre. I wish they'd make a big coffee-table book collecting all the ones in existence, but then I'd be broke. Stagecoach to Hell (1985) Untitled (1967) Untitled (1986) Untitled (1986) When She Dropped the Flower (1969) Check Bif (1986) Copper Diver (1985) Feather Times a Feather (1987) Provided You Go Outside (1984) Rumfhala Horror Puppet (1986) Untitled self-portrait with his wife, Jan. (1976) Beezoo, Beezoo (1985) Crepe and Black Lamps (1986) Golden Birdies (1988) Boat and Blue Bodagress (1984) Cinnamon Chops (1990)
Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa, 1969
American musician, singer-songwriter, experimental composer, artist and poet Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart poses for portrait circa 1973 in Eureka, California. .
