#don van vliet

[jt1674]

[musickickztoo]

Captain Beefheart  *January 15, 1941

[undergroundrockpress]

Captain Beefheart / Don Van Vliet (1971).

[nedison]

The good Captain performing Ashtray Heart on SNL in late 1980.

[skf-fineart]

Don Van Vliet (1941-2010)

“Cholla”, 1989-90

Oil on canvas, 32 ½” x 37”

[deretla]

[wewantnothing2]

Don Van Vliet - "A Bride for Wallah"

1988

oil on canvas

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

QUITE POSSIBLY THE HEAVIEST BLUES TRACK OF 1967 -- PURE, STRAIGHT-OUT-THE-SWAMP HEAVY BLUES.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the ultra rare Buddah "Plastic Factory" (b/w "Where There's Woman") single by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND, taken from the recently unearthed mono masters to the Captain's 1967 debut LP "Safe as Milk," released on Sundazed Music as part of Record Store Day Black Friday in 2012.

But, yeah, this track boasts just the murkiest, dirtiest, most menacing blues sound you've ever heard, and with the bass guitar being totally up front in the mix as well, hence the track's power, ferocity, and overall depth.

This ain't the Summer of Love at all, people, and it's just a really super-HEAVY and scary-sounding, no frills, blues cut. The Captain's harp is absolutely masterful as well, and it remains my all-time favorite track on his "Safe As Milk" (1967) debut LP until my inevitable doom. Check that shit out if ya haven't already!

Sources: www.45cat.com/record/s255 & Guy Webster (official site).

[krispyweiss]

PJ Harvey Reads Beefhart

- “It was a privilege to be able to give life to his words,” singer says of Captain’s poems

Captain Beefhart loved cats.

And PJ Harvey loved Beefhart, aka Don Van Vliet. And Van Vliet loved Harvey and her cat, Garden.

And so he, in 2001, wrote the poem “Man Can’t Anticipate Cat” for Harvey. And she read said poem for the late Beefhart at the London art exhibition “Don Van Vliet: Standing on One Hand” in 2024.

Check it out in the video above.

“Thank you to the Michael Werner Gallery for inviting me to read Don’s poems,” Harvey said in a statement. “It was a privilege to be able to give life to his words whilst standing amongst his paintings.”

2/13/24

[musickickztoo]

Captain Beefheart † December 17, 2010

[nedison]

OPEN UP ANOTHER CASE OF THE PUNKS

[db-cooper]

DON VAN VLIET

“White Floating Man”, 1986 Oil on canvas 214 x 153 cm

[harmonycorrupted]

What this world needs is...

a good 2 dollar room and a good two dollar broom

a burlesque club and bar that plays Captain Beefheart!

[mitjalovse]

A couple of surprising finales presented a direction that turned into a conclusion with a hindsight, but you also had a hunch there was more to be promised. Ice Cream For Crow by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band, for instance, is quite weird. That's normal for him, though he did go on the LP I mentioned into a soundscape that could be described as the 80's Tom Waits taking a ton of hard drugs, then visiting his favourite place to gather some strangers to play music – notice I didn't say musicians – and finishing this with a trip to a local wasteland, where his cohorts are told to play whatever instrument the way they like. Unsurprisingly, he makes all that work out and yet he could've gone further in this mode, mind you, though he just … stopped.

[mrbopst]

Captain Beefheart outside Discreet rehearsal hall in Hollywood, CA 1975.

Photo: Mark Sullivan