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Don Van Vliet, aka 'Captain Beefheart', dies aged 69

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NazNomad | 00:24 Sun 19th Dec 2010 | Music
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American musician and painter Don Van Vliet, best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart, has died aged 69.

Van Vliet's death in California, from complications from multiple sclerosis, was announced by the Michael Werner Gallery in New York.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/...ld-us-canada-12024652


R.I.P. Capt. :-((
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That's sad.

I always found CB's music too chalenging personally, but the world should always have more eccentrics and artists than it does.

i did see him live at Knebworth in 1975, when Floyd headlined, and he was really strange, but still compulsive viewing.
Weird but good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRHr5pEIFU&feature=related

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