After playing guitar, lap steel and vocals with the legendary Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, appearing on the ground breaking album "Trout Mask Replica" (under the pseudonym Antennae Jimmy ...

London, UK: Don Van Vliet, (1941-2010) better known to his legions of fans as Captain Beefheart was one of the most enigmatic figures in rock music. Unashamedly an artist, rather than a pop star, he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Big – 28 tunes in one hour and 20 minutes – Trout Mask was originally released as a double album. The album features the Magic ...

Avant-garde rock legend and visual artist Don Van Vliet, who performed under the name Captain Beefheart, began experimenting with eccentric rock’n'roll sounds in the mid-1960s. His first two releases ...

Musician and painter Captain Beefheart, the cavern-voiced singer, songwriter, harp player and saxophonist whose Magic Band became a key influence on rock avant gardists of all stripes, died Friday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's 1969 psych-rock freakout Trout Mask Replica is considered one of the greatest albums ever ...

Meet Andy Sachs. A million girls would kill to have her job. She's not one of them. For two sisters from a family of witches, falling in love is the trickiest spell of all.

Guitarist Gary Lucas has worked with everyone from Jeff Buckley to Nick Cave to Leonard Bernstein throughout his music career. But there's one artist who stands out above all others: Don Van Vliet, ...

One of Ahmet Zappa’s favorite memories of Captain Beefheart is the time he called the Zappa household to relate a particularly memorable dream. “The fucking greatest [call] that ever happened to me ...

When the man born Don Van Vliet died on December 17, he left behind a body of highly original rock and roll that mixed free-jazz with the blues and influenced everyone from PJ Harvey to the Black Keys ...

Don Van Vliet, whose avant-garde rock-and-roll recordings and performances under the name Captain Beefheart in the 1960s and 1970s made him a cult favorite and a powerful influence on later ...