Previously unseen footage of the legendary Captain Beefheart performing in Paris has been posted online. The footage, which was shot at the famed Bataclan nightclub on April 15, 1972, on the European ...
Even with a handful of numbers pulled from the original Bat Chain Puller-- the 1976 album funded by manager Herb Cohen from Zappa's royalty checks without Zappa's knowledge, that remained unreleased ...
The legendary Captain Beefheart brought his Magic band to Kidderminster as the first date of his first UK tour. The recording of the cult musician's gig at Frank Freeman's became a bootleg classic.
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 ...
A collection of televised performances by the prolific musician, including appearances on Saturday Night Live and Late Night With David Letterman. The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without ...
During his career, Don Van Vliet amassed a list of idiosyncrasies—chief among them anointing himself Captain Beefheart. Beginning with a musical imagination that was strange even for the 1960s, ...
With a growling bass voice, that whooped and hollered in the manner of one of his earliest heroes, bluesman Howlin' Wolf, Captain Beefheart became a hugely influential figure in rock music. Artists ...
The film begins with his mother tenderly carrying a cardboard cut-out of a black-and-white photograph of him by his friend Anton. She walked slowly across a patch of the American desert near where Don ...
Complications related to multiple sclerosis claimed the life of the musician and visual artist, who was an influence on Tom Waits, the White Stripes and 'Simpsons' creator Matt Groening. By Mitch ...
This weekend in Berkeley, “Hardly Strictly Personal–A Celebration of Post Beefheart Art,” brings together dozens of artists from the experimental community to play music influenced by the ...
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