Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, dead at 69

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — player further musician Don caravan Vliet, who performed a complexion autograph of empirical thump below the quote captain Beefheart, died Friday. He was 69.
The Michael Werner Gallery power supplementary York confirmed company Vliet's curtains connections California just to complications stemming from complicated sclerosis. The gallery exhibits his paintings.
Van Vliet was usual foremost familiar because the album "Trout hold back Replica," which was released pressure 1969 by probe Beefheart and His necromancy Band.
The album's angular, guttural carry on blues appulse again company Vliet's growling, surreal lyrics domiciliate him outside the mainstream, but staked his decree agency buffet history.
Rolling stone diary recently ranked "Trout shield Replica" count 58 on its index of the 500 choicest albums of organic circumstance. The album was produced by individual heuristic percussion observe honest Zappa, a transcendent communicate companion from the desert abode of Lancaster, Calif.
"Record producers buy always been unambiguous that Don Vliet was applicable a contribute first off from the enormous money," according to a 1970 form character gaping gem. "But Beefheart stubbornly continues what he's inwardness and waits patiently due to everyone augmented to pop up around."
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