Singer, Visual artist, musician, composer and American iconoclast Don Van Vliet, known worldwide as Captain Beefheart, died at the age of 69, complications related to sclerosis, a representative of the artist said Friday.
For many lovers of music, Van Vliet perfectly illustrated underground psychedelic music of the 1960s and 1970s California. Its distinctive mix of shroud delta blues, jazzisms avant-garde and rock polyrythmie looked like no other contemporary artists that influence such as Tom Waits and The White Stripes as well as many other punk, new wave and experimental musicians of the 20th century. Coarse singing voice was deep and growly - much like Wolf Howlin' remarkable for its multi-octave range. He also played harmonica and saxophone.Born Don Glen Vliet on January 15, 1941, in Glendale, California, he showed a rare talent as a sculptor at a very young age to turn to music as a teenager. Marking a regional hit with a grungy Bo Diddley version of ""Diddy Wah Diddy"in 1966, Captain Beefheart and the Magic band Vliet bounced between several different drives and presided over a rotating series of intense young musicians, including the famous guitarists such as Ry Cooder and Gary Lucas backup." Changing personality alternately loved and hated by the musicians who lived, tours and saved him, Van Vliet made a dozen studio albums from 1967 to 1982, including its celebrated confusion and the very influential double LP 1969 Trout mask Replica - which has been produced and published by Frank Zappa, first supporters that he knew from their junior high school in Lancaster, California. Infamous for his volatile nature, Van Vliet has undergone a relationship of love/hate with Zappa was separated from the guitarist for significant periods of time. The two reconcile before Zappa died in 1993. Vliet has been also depicted as a rough, autocratic, singer who with his support of musicians as a leader of tyrannical worship, requiring a presentation complete with its complex mission and punish his faithful servants verbally and physically when they do not measure its stringent standards. A knowledgeable mythmaker who continually exaggerated and strange facts of his life and his work in the course of interviews, Van Vliet was a consummate linguist renamed its outset with powerfully iconic nicknames as Drumbo, drummer John French), Rockette Morton (bassist Mark Boston) and Mascara Snake (cousin Victor Hayden). His musical career was far from being a commercial success, Captain Beefheart records are an incredible body of work with many highlights and some clunkers to start. Albums like the kid's corner 1972 show him make concessions nuanced and helpful towards marketability without sacrificing their unique vision while lesser records such as jeans and Moonbeams was later disavowed by the artist himself. Again, Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet was a popular and the United States United Kingdom decades, artist receiving tones accented as Rolling Stone Magazine, BBC's John Peel radio personality, creator Matt Groening, artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel Simpsons and many others.After records retired from the industry of music in 1982, Van Vliet focused exclusively on Visual arts, attain a level just acclaim for its primitive-Impressionist summaries (using mainly oil) and had exhibitions of his paintings to Anton Kern and Michael Werner galleries in New York. He become extremely lonely during this time, the decline of most interview requests and stay away from the pubic eye. The debilitating effects of muscular sclerosis left him wheelchair-bound in the 1990s after, but he continued to paint and draw until his death. From many respected art critics have acclaimed works lately with his some of his paintings extraction between $20,000 and $50,000. An American original, Don Van Vliet has developed its distinctive stamp on especially his own character odd he created. He is survived by his wife of many years, Janet Van Vliet.
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