Captain Beefheart. Van Vliet to his mother, sat on the couch with his lady. He did not look like a man who preferred bean sprouts to LSD, shunned grass, had a head full of zinging popping color cartoons running amok behind his eyes. He looked like a nice Hell’s Angel turned musical genius. He smiled at questions asked, accused Frank Zappa of stealing much of his early material and claiming it Zappa’s and the Freak Out Mothers. (read more)

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