Captain Beefheart

Captain Beefheart, stage name of Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American musician and painter.

Trout Mask Replica (1969)

 * A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?
 * Pachuco Cadaver
 * That's right, The Mascara Snake. Fast and bulbous! Also, a tin teardrop!
 * Pena, spoken by Van Vliet and Victor Hayden (Mascara Snake)
 * Pena Her little head clinking Like a barrel of red velvet balls Full past noise Treats filled her eyes Turning them yellow like enamel coated tacks Soft like butter hard not to pour
 * Pena, sung by Jeff Cotton, better known as Antennae Jimmy Semens
 * You look dandy in the sky but you don’t scare me Cause I got you here in my eye In this lifetime you got my human gets me blues
 * My Human Gets Me Blues

Late Night with David Letterman (1982)
Don Van Vliet: "Ice Cream For Crow".

David Letterman: Yeah. What does that mean exactly, that title?

Don Van Vliet: It has a lot to do with Reagan. I mean, he saddle-soaps his hair and tosses jelly beans through rope tricks. He's a bad actor. [laughter]

The Artist Formerly Known as Captain Beefheart (1997)

 * Radio interview extracted for the documentary The Artist Formerly Known as Captain Beefheart, BBC (1997) - YouTube video


 * "I've written every drum bit I ever done, every note. I played the drums. I played the guitar. I played the piano. I wanted it exactly the way I wanted. Exactly. Any composer I would think would want it that way, and I don't deviate at all. Don't you think that somebody like Stravinsky, for instance, don't you think that it would have annoyed him if someone bent a note the wrong way?"
 * On Trout Mask Replica

Quotes about Beefheart (Van Vliet)

 * [Beefheart] used to say, "You think you got a hard job, man? I gotta sing to that shit!"
 * John "Drumbo" French, Why this awful sounding album is a masterpiece, VOX.com (YouTube), October 28, 2017