Captain Beefheart Dead AT 69

Saturday, December 18, 2010
After struggling for years with multiple sclerosis died of avant-garde artist and musician Don Van Vliet, better known by his famous character Captain Beefheart, yesterday (Dec. 17) in the age of 69 due to complications associated with their condition.

 
Beefheart is best remembered by his oppo-cultural experience of the psychedelic rock genre for years 60 and 70, a mark leaves with his neo-jazz and Delta blues and psychedelic hybrid character Embedded bizarre scene that between the time of abstract pop culture. Your zeleotry their own style and sometimes violent antics, design developed his unforgettable stage presence, despite playing in the conflict between his personal madness strange time cemented.

 
He is known for his work with The Magic Band with which he was a dozen albums over 15 years of fire and cooperation, and conflict with his old friend, Frank Zappa known. Despite his rejection of his self-made style to give up in order to be the reason of Vliet never achieved the commercial success of his contemporaries at the time, albums like Trout Mask Replica and Lick My Decals Off, Baby its mark in music and played in the late 60's and 70's.

 
After his retirement in 1982, turned from Vliet's artistic unity to the visual arts in order to gain popularity with his impressionistic and abstract oil minimalist style. The sale of his work has reached a respectable price, some go from anywhere from $ 20K to 50 thousand dollars, and his work has both Anton Kern and Michael Werner Gallery, New York has been introduced. Although wheelchair bound in the last ten years, from Vliet continued his work as an artist, continues to show his devotion to his art, leaving a legacy of diversity and the echo.

 
"I always thought that the music was too formal, and I thought, well, go to this issue and fix it."

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