Captain Beefheart

Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet, born Don Glen Vliet, 1941-2010) was an American singer, composer and painter from Glendale, California. Leading a changing line-up called the Magic Band, Beefheart recorded experimental rock between 1967 and 1982 and is best known for Trout Mask Replica (1969). He left music in 1982 to paint and died in Arcata, California. Captain Beefheart met Frank Zappa as a teenager, sang on Zappa's "Willie the Pimp" and later toured with the Mothers of Invention, appearing on Bongo Fury (1975).