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	captain beefheart - interview - in search of captain beefheart (the elusive don van vliet tracked to his lair) (1982)
		van vliet hears his music in his head, and uses a multitude of methods, most of them unorthodox, to communicate exactly what he wants each musician to play.
		van vliet has referred to himself as a sculptor of music, using the magic band to chisel notes from their instruments at his direction.
		van vliet taught those two their instruments, yet they broke away with drummer artie tripp (ed marimba) to form mallard amid accusations that their leader was lazy and didn't want to rehearse.
	www.freewebs.com /teejo/argue/lair.html (2536 words)

	The Captain Beefheart Radar Station - Don Van Vliet As Painter And Musician
		Don Van Vliet is said to be no lover of straight-line thinking, but a creative conversationalist, who makes unexpected conceptual leaps, and who possesses a wide mental horizon, a wild sense of humor, and a good memory.
		Don Van Vliet argues for a life and an art in which exclamation marks are replaced by question marks.
		The perceptual scope of Don Van Vliet's art extends to the fringes, to the borderline cases and gray areas; the trajectory of his interest is defined by the visionary, the transitory, the peripheral, the marginal, and the tangential.
	beefheart.org /caucasian/stand.htm (1784 words)

	The Visual Art of Don Van Vliet - Rhino Handmade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Born in Glendale, California, in 1941, Van Vliet was steeped in painting and visual arts from an early age.
		Van Vliet has no "blue period" or set of identifiable phases he's passed through, rather the full scope of his painting plays out like one ongoing dialogue with himself -- where various threads are picked up and put aside arbitrarily as the mood strikes him.
		Van Vliet's paintings are truly people's art in the sense that they don't require the schooled eye of the art critic to validate them or offer interpretation and context.
	www.rhinohandmade.com /articles/vanvliet_article.lasso (1031 words)

	The Lowe Gallery: Don Van Vliet - Critical Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This was not, however, to be the case with Van Vliet because, unbeknownst to his fans, he was considered a visual arts prodigy long before his fame as a musician.
		Van Vliet first applies a thick impasto of white paint to the entire surface of the canvas to establish a primordial pool for his phenomena to float upon.
		Van Vliet does not conceal his discards but rather he simply moves onto another area of the canvas to resume the linear exploration.
	www.lowegallery.com /donvanvliet/essay.html (636 words)

	Captain Beefheart :: C : Gourt
		Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet on January 15 1941 in Glendale, California) is a painter and retired musician, best known by the pseudonym Captain Beefheart.
		Van Vliet was chiefly a singer, but was also a capable harmonica player, and occasionally played noisy, untrained free jazz-influenced saxophone.
		Van Vliet's legacy is one of poor record sales, despite a devoted following, but his influence on later punk and New Wave music and other genres and musicians has been described as "incalculable".
	arts.gourt.com /People/C/Captain-Beefheart.html (669 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Captain Beefheart: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Van Vliet has forged a musical language that draws upon various recklessly diverse sources, such as the folklore of fairy tales, the abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, the free association of surrealism, the symphonies of Charles Ives, children nursery rhymes, Van Gogh, free-jazz, and commercial music.
		Van Vliet also differed from the rest of the musical scene in the mundane aspect: Van Vliet who was one of the most colorful characters of 60s rock, later on became one of its most reclusive characters.
		Van Vliet is like the provincial ingenue who has been forcibly suited in tails and catapulted on stage at the opera, but stunned by the limelight all he can manage are few bars of the national anthem.
	www.scaruffi.com /vol1/beefhear.html (9281 words)

	Chapter & Verse Article
		Submission to a regular beat was for Van Vliet a surrender of the individual to the soporific sameness of the common denominator; and for this reason, perhaps, he was always jumping in and out of things, filling and then emptying the spaces and institutions of popular music with himself and his project.
		That it should be the mother’s heartbeat specifically that Van Vliet assails in his compositional practice restores to our discussion the neurotic scene and libidinal investiture of the bodily function, without which cultural somatics would be mere observation, a tributary of medical science.
		In the late 1950s Vliet’s father had a heart attack and, in the early days of Captain Beefheart, Van Vliet junior began to suffer panic attacks, as the fear of sharing his father’s fate combined with the pressures of collective creativity and early stardom.
	www.popmatters.com /chapter/Issue3/beefheart.html (4889 words)

	vanVliet Art Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		van Vliet's main emphasis is painting figure and portrait work, placing these subjects into various settings to create a sense of action, drama and suspense.
		Today's Painting, "Willow Brothers Four" by Gordon van Vliet was painted at the GVPAP annual meeting and paintout at Pultneyville Marina.
		Today's painting, "Reverie" by Gordon van Vliet was oil paint on canvas 16"W x 20"H. She was a fun model to paint, a very sweet girl.
	vanvlietart.blogspot.com (3929 words)

	Don Van Vliet
		Van Vliet produced only 1,500 copies of the piece, one for each individually numbered copy of this Artist Ink Edition from Rhino Handmade.
		Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart was a visual artist before he was a musician.
		His parents declined; and while continuing to create in the visual medium, Van Vliet turned his attention to music, within ten years forming the firstincarnation of the legendary experimental outfit Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.
	www.blindrecords.com /don_van_vliet.htm (346 words)

	Captain Beefheart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Van Vliet's father, who was of Dutch ancestry, was a bakery deliveryman.
		Van Vliet used the ensuing publicity, particularly with a 1970 Rolling Stone interview with Langdon Winner, to promulgate a number of myths which have subsequently been quoted as fact.
		Van Vliet also claimed to have taught both Harkleroad and bassist Mark Boston from scratch; in fact the pair were already accomplished musicians before joining the band.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Captain_Beefheart (3318 words)

	The Art of Don van Vliet, Captain Beefheart
		Born in Glendale in 1941, Van Vliet grew up in the Cucamonga area, where he connected with many artistic friends and musicians, one of whom was the guitarist and band-leader Frank Zappa.
		In this offering, Van Vliet provides dadaist speech-acts and rumbling harmonica solos as a young Ry Cooder supplies some very edgy steel guitar on the high ones.
		Produced by Zappa, this recording shows Van Vliet developing the low-down and eclectic mix of the L.A. scene to a new cosmic level in which history begins to emerge, as Joyce said in Ulysses, as "a nightmare" from which one is trying to awaken.
	www.cstone.net /~rsl/VanVliet.html (936 words)

	Don Van Vliet: Run Paint Run Run in The AnswerBank: Arts & Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Perhaps better known as Captain Beefheart to most, Don Van Vliet is the given name of the man who, at the helm of the Magic Band, created some of the most singular and intelligent music of the 1960s and 70s.
		At the age of thirteen Van Vliet won a scholarship to study art in Europe, but his parents, believing that art was not a manly enough pursuit, thwarted his efforts.
		However, DVV himself doesn't attach himself to any style or movement, saying: 'Talking about different art-forms is like counting raindrops: there are rivers and streams and oceans, but it's all the same substance.' Perhaps, then, its best to let the images speak for themselves.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article2903.html (726 words)

	Captain Beefheart - Dust Sucker
		Don had asked Roger to hold these tapes for him in England as they were versions of demos for Bat Chain Puller that differed from the recordings that made the final "ill-fated", shelved album recorded at The Manor.
		The tapes (from Don's very own collection) present us with rough mixes of the album along with contemporary live material and the differences (or lack thereof) are at once startling and strangely comforting.
		Van Vliet retreated to the Mohave with his paints in the early 1980s; Dust Sucker is a lifeline to the legend.
	www.geocities.com /uheep2/cb2.htm (800 words)

	+++ neumu [ the drama you've been craving ]
		Before Don Van Vliet (AKA Captain Beefheart) and his musicians went into the studio in the late '60s to record Trout Mask Replica, one of the most innovative musical statements of all time, they rehearsed for six months.
		The 28 pieces that were included on the two-record set (currently available as a single CD) were for the most part composed by Van Vliet on piano, an instrument he did not know how to play.
		The music that Van Vliet composed and his band played is intensely emotional.
	www.neumu.net /drama/2002/2002-00024/2002-00024_drama.shtml (714 words)

	Don Van Vliet
		This whole electronic magazine uses song titles from the work of Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart whose live performances combined with some recorded masterpieces were an inspiration.
		Don Van Vliet and the rest of the Magic Band have arrived on stage to mass applause.
		Then typical of Don Van Vliet's unpredictability he decides t call it a day before beginning a five song encore.
	www.iowrock.demon.co.uk /clearspot/blabber_captain.html (1211 words)

	captain beefheart - books by don van vliet - riding some kind of unusual skull sleigh (art set 2004) - part 1: intro
		as i don't know the rank don has reached, i have no idea what the worth of this etching is if it would be available separately....
		because van vliet always pictured every person and animal that happened to enter his eye radar, but he rarely looked into the mirror (perhaps he didn't like himself?).
		because there already existed a publication with exactly the same title: bill bamberger's vision on the artistic views of both captain beefheart and don van vliet.
	www.freewebs.com /teejo/books/donskull.html (596 words)

	The Captain Beefheart Radar Station - The Don Van Vliet Paintings Gallery
		This painting is featured at The Lowe Gallery's Don Van Vliet section of their web site.
		If you are interested in purchasing any of Don's work please visit the information page.
		If you have any Don Van Vliet paintings which are not featured here, please also let me know.
	www.beefheart.com /runpaint/index.html (354 words)

	Amazon.com: Skeleton Breath, Scorpion Blush: Books: Don Van Vliet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Van Vliet has stated many times that his goal is to "turn himself inside out on canvas", and the paintings themselves suggest what this process must be like.
		To get an intimate glimpse of Van Vliet's art and poetry the investment is definitely worth it, especially considering that there is no readily available book dedicated to Van Vliet's art on the market at the time of this writing.
		Also included is a charcoal sketch by Don, what looks like a lino cut of Don by A. Penck, and a fl and white snap of Don on the phone in 1985.
	www.amazon.com /Skeleton-Breath-Scorpion-Blush-Vliet/dp/390612715X (1072 words)

	CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the early Sixties Don Van Vliet moved to Cucamonga to be with Frank Zappa who was composing music and producing motion pictures.
		It was at about this time that Van Vliet and Zappa hatched up the name Captain Beefheart, "But don't ask me why or how," Beefheart comments today.
		Don Van Vliet does not use drugs and does not allow members of the Magic Band to do so either.
	members.aol.com /tedalvy/cbq.htm (2220 words)

	The Musical Paint of Captain Beefheart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At that moment, Van Vliet's still life was his studio, a place he described as cheek-by-jowel with expansive canvases, completed and in progress, paint-splotches on the floor, spatters on the walls, and his large "tortoise"-colored cat, Garland.
		Yes, it is, and it is hard for Van Vliet to discuss or "explain" his works.
		It can safely be reported here that the Van Vliet paintings are as abstract, weighty and intuitively affecting as his music, as densely descriptive as his poetry, which included such memorable passages as "The fl paper behind a mirror/ breaks my heart that I can't go/ steal softly through sunshine/ steal softly through snow.
	www.riprense.com /Captain.htm (880 words)

	Fast 'N' Bulbous
		Description of Music: The idea is to use the compositions of Don Van Vliet as a vehicle for improvisation and arranging.
		I led a rock band, called the Public Servants in the early '80s, with Shelley Hirsch; and the tune "Pipeline" on my CD "The Needless Kiss" is my idea of a Captain Beefheart-influenced tune (and I say so in the liner notes).
		Van Vliet's art-brut soprano-saxophone playing into notable material and assigned some slide-guitar parts to the trombone.
	www.phillipjohnston.com /fnbfrontpage.htm (1202 words)

	My Smile Is Stuck: Captain Beefheart Concert Photos
		An embarrassing pest persistantly asked, "What about Frank Zappa?" Retreating from the bar, the group went over to the Howard Johnson hotel where Don and the band were lodging.
		We hung out on the floor of a hallway on the 4th floor and talked with Don about music and show biz until dawn.
		He wanted to hang out with us longer, and as we were saying good bye, he followed us to the elevator.
	www.mediaspin.com /moredvv1.html (366 words)

	Artist Ink - Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh: Don Van Vliet - Rhino Handmade
		However, numbered copies from the original edition may be available at select retailers.
		As a young child he drew serious accolades for his animal sculptures and was offered a scholarship to study in Europe.
		His parents declined; and while continuing to create in the visual medium, Van Vliet turned his attention to music, within ten years forming the first incarnation of the legendary experimental outfit Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.
	www.rhinohandmade.com /artistink/index.lasso (505 words)

	Adrian's Album Reviews : Captain Beefheart
		Having said all of this, 'Safe As Milk' is still immensely listenable - and the vocals of Don Van Vliet, along with his fairly surreal (as opposed to psychedelic) lyrics combined with his bands distinctive musical approach gives 'Safe As Milk' a certain something.
		There was a documentary on television a few years ago, Don, long since retired from music was invited to play a little music representing what was going on in his head.
		It lazily shambles into view, Don growls and the lyrics appear to be improvised here, made up on the spot, as they do elsewhere on this album.
	www.adriandenning.co.uk /beefheart.html (8893 words)

	Don Van Vliet on artnet
		Find works of art, auction results & sale prices of artist Don Van Vliet at galleries and auctions worldwide.
		Don Van Vliet, [mit einem Gedicht von Don Van Vliet], (Katalog zur Ausstellung "Don Van Viet.
		Don Van Vliet Skeleton Breath, Scorpion Blush, Gedichte von Don Van Vliet mit Abbildungen (Vorwort: A.R. Penck, Übersetzung aus dem Englischen: Catherine Schelbert), Verlag Gachnang & Springer (Hg.), Bern 1987
	www.artnet.com /artist/17294/don-van-vliet.html (386 words)

	Riding Some Kind Of Unusual Skull Sleigh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The main reason for buying the set is the original, signed color etching that is part of it.
		Each of the 1500 copies was personally signed by Don Van Vliet.
		the signature ('Van Vliet') is more off, than on the page.
	www.flevaleco.demon.nl /rskouss.htm (229 words)

	Captain Beefheart Interview 1971
		It was easier to get to talk with Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) than I first imagined.
		I arrived at The Coliseum around eight-thirty, talked my way past the ever-vigilant PNE guards and there he was, standing outside his dressing room, wearing a natty little suit, holding a clarinet case, showing off his finely manicured goatee, all under his stylish fedora.
		I talked to a guy who knew Don Ellis and he said the same thing.
	www.rickmcgrath.com /beef1.html (2343 words)

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