Very sad news: We’ve confirmed with his management that Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, has died. More details to come.
Don Van Vliet, who became a rock legend as Captain Beefheart, died today from complications from multiple sclerosis in California. His passing was announced by the New York-based Michael Werner Gallery, which represented his work as a painter…
Avant-garde rock legend and visual artist Don Van Vliet, who performed under the name Captain Beefheart, passed away today at age 69. A representative of New York City’s Michael Werner Gallery, which hosted several shows of his paintings, confirms the sad news to EW. Van Vliet died of complications from multiple sclerosis at a hospital in Northern California this morning…
Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing, from WFMU:
1. Listen to the birds.
That’s where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren’t going anywhere.2. Your guitar is not really a guitar Your guitar is a divining rod.
Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you’re good, you’ll land a big one.3. Practice in front of a bush
Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush dosen’t shake, eat another piece of bread.
Don Van Vliet (1941–2010), the genius surreal poet, painter and blues performer best known as “Captain Beefheart” died today. He was a month away from turning 70.
Van Vliet had retired from music in the early 1980s and had lived a reclusive existence for the last few years, with constant rumors of deteriorating health.
An early associate and friend of Frank Zappa’s Van Vliet became a critically lauded performer and recording artist after his Zappa-produced breakthrough album Trout Mask Replica.
He was the crucial link between the “Old Weird America” of the Depression-era blues and the ‘80s surrealism of Beefheart-influenced artists like Tom Waits and David Lynch.
A great loss for art…
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