Not sure you're serious but I'll bite anyway. His name is Don Van Vliet. I generally believe that RollingStone.com is maintained by a pack of lying, commie pond scum, but this article has a few worthwhile tidbits:
1970 Rolling Stone cover story features Captain Beefheart
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Those of us around during the 60's heyday know how weird our hippy culture could get on a bad day. I suspect Don had more than his share of bad hippie days. I'm more capable of listening to weird shit than most people, but even for me, quite a bit of the Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band catalog is just too much work. I have most of it and have put on the brave face to dig in and find the hidden gems, but Jesus, it's tedious shit at times. On the other hand, when it comes together, there are bursts of brilliance.
I have a hate/acknowledge relationship with Wikipedia that's drifted deeper into hate over the years, but the wiki on the Captain has some decent history. I had a parallel universe experience to this section:
"Cartoonist and writer
Matt Groening tells of listening to
Trout Mask Replica at the age of 15 and thinking "that it was the worst thing I'd ever heard. I said to myself, they're not even trying! It was just a sloppy cacophony. Then I listened to it a couple more times, because I couldn't believe Frank Zappa could do this to me—and because a double album cost a lot of money. About the third time, I realised they were doing it on purpose; they meant it to sound exactly this way. About the sixth or seventh time, it clicked in, and I thought it was the greatest album I'd ever heard."
[164] Groening first saw Beefheart and the Magic Band perform in the front row at the
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in the early 1970s.
[165] He later declared
Trout Mask Replica to be the greatest album ever made. He considered the appeal of the Magic Band as outcasts who were even "too weird for the
hippies".
[32] Groening served as the curator of the
All Tomorrow's Parties festival that reunited the post–Beefheart Magic Band.
[165]"
I was 14 at the time and was already a Zappa convert. Zappa being Frank gave the Captain some career help, but also victimized him to some degree, which Frank was wont to do often. I saw the tour where Frank brought the Captain along and they clicked on a few tunes so I gave it two thumbs up. Youtube is probably as close as you need to get to owning Magic Band music.
and soy is an artificial estrogen as well... and we wonder why so many young under the age of 35 are Gender confused...?
