#progressive_music
Album/Single/EP : Live at the Avalon Ballroom
Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet on January 15, 1941 - December 17 2010) was an American musician and painter, best known by the pseudonym Captain Beefheart. His musical work was mainly conducted with a rotating assembly of musicians called The Magic Band, which was active between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s. Van Vliet was chiefly a singer and harmonica player, occasionally playing saxophone and keyboards. His compositions are characterized by their odd mixtures of shifting time signatures and by their surreal lyrics, while Van Vliet himself is noted for his dictatorial approach to his musicians and for his enigmatic relationship with the public.
Beefheart’s music evolved rapidly from the blues base of debut single Diddy Wah Diddy to mix rock and psychedelia with free jazz and avant-garde, featuring complex instrumentation, atonal melodies, and often humorously surreal lyrics. Van Vliet also worked occasionally wi
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Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart - 1975 - Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ - Early Show.
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Andy Partridge of XTC (Part 1) - Episode 26 - The ProgCast With Gregg Bendian
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Captain Beefheart - Plastic factory
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Captain Beefheart - Old Folks Boogie {1966}
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Captain Beefheart - Upon The My-O-My
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PJ Harvey reading Don Van Vliet’s ’Man Can’t Anticipate Cat’
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Paul Oakenfold - Ready, Steady, Go (Official Music Video) | Warner Records
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Zoot Horn Rollo - We Saw A Bozo Under The Sea - (2001) (Full Album)
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Red Axes - Hey
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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Frownland
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ICE T - O.G. Original Gangster (Official Music Video) | Warner Records
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Geronimo Black - 1972 Full Album
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Haze - Hazecolor-Dia (Alemania, 1971) - Full Album
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Why this awful sounding album is a masterpiece
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Sure ’Nuff ’N Yes I Do - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
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Alice Cooper “Eighteen“ 1971 (Reelin’ In The Years Archives)
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Sure ’Nuff ’N Yes, I Do
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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band • “Woe Is A Me Bop” • 1972
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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica [Full Album]
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Captain Beefheart - Electricity
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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Bellerin’ Plain (Detroit Tubeworks, 01/15/71)