DON'T ARGUE WITH THE CAPTAIN
history - interviews and stories
chapter SEVEN
DON VAN VLIET before and after beefheart
1941-1964 and 1983-2010
donnie 1941-1964
1944:
growing up
story 300690 holland WHEN
DON WAS DONNIE... with picture
1950:
prodigy
story 111250 usa LADS, BEASTS THEIRS IN CLAY
story 111250 usa YOUNGSTERS
AWARDED ZOO MODELING PRICES
story 050251
usa BOY ARTISTS, 10, WIN CONTEST
story 050251
usa THREE BOYS WIN PRIZES IN CLAY MODELING CONTEST
1960:
high school senior
story usa DROPOUT BOOGIE
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retired captain / don van vliet 1983-2010
1983:
switching from captain beefheart music to van vliet fine
arts
010483 usa PLAYING
IT BY EAR WITH CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
170883 usa teevee LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN [2]
010883 usa AN OLD FART AT PLAY (old) pic
210984 usa GOOD MORNING, CAPTAIN four pics
010185 usa CAPTAIN BEEFHEART / VAN
VLIET reprint!
010385 usa DON VAN VLIET A.K.A. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART reprint!
2001 usa book DON VAN VLIET - 1984: TRINIDAD, CALIFORNIA
half reprint!
5 may 1985:
opening of art exhibition in cologne, germany
010685 germany MAN LEBT NUR ZWEIMAL
150685 holland CAPTAIN BEEFHEART / DON VAN VLIET:
CULT-HERO two pics
010785 holland KIND MET PLAN
spring 1986:
full time painter / philosopher
090886 england GO VAN GO! pic
050986 usa OBJETS DE BEEFHEART reprint!
081186 australia THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING reprint!
010188 usa WHERE'S THE
CAPTAIN? two (old) pics
010488 spain ACUARELAS DEL MOJAVE half
reprint!
2001 usa book DON VAN VLIET - 1988:
TRINIDAD, CALIFORNIA reprint!
±201188 usa THE MUSICAL PAINT OF
CAPT. BEEFHEART
251188 usa CAPT. BEEFHEART'S BRUSH WITH ART shortened reprint!
301288 usa DIFFERENT LIFE, DIFFERENT
MEDIUM FOR CAPTAIN BEEFHEART reprint!
080189 usa IN TUNE
WITH ART shortened
reprint!
160689 usa CAPTAIN BEFHEART
STILL MAKES MUSIC - ON CANVAS reprint!
040390
usa FORMERLY CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
shortened
reprint!
080390
usa CAPTAIN BEEFHEART MAKING HIS
MUSIC ON CANVAS NOW shortened
reprint!
310390
canada BEEFHEART MAKES A NEW NAME FOR HIMSELF PAINTING
'MUSIC ON CANVAS' shortened
reprint!
011288 usa HE'S
STILL CAPTAIN ENIGMA
010489
usa GRAVITY HOLDING ME
DOWN
141089
england CAPTAIN
BEEFHEART
(sidelines)
010190 usa PHONE
CALLS TO DON
290790
usa A
CROSSOVER OF A
DIFFERENT COLOR
011293 england
RUN PAINT RUN RUN
short reprint!
011190 usa
[TITLE UNKNOWN] [interview]
010291
usa WHERE'S
THE BEEF? pic
010391
italy CAPTAIN
BEEFHEART HA 50 ANNI reprint!
010391
denmark DON
VAN VLIET two
pics
090991
usa MUSIC'S MAD GENIUS FINDS SOLACE AND SUCCESS IN
PAINTING
290991 usa
EX-CAPTAIN
BEEFHEART TAKES
UP BRUSHES
shortened reprint!
011091
usa DON
VAN VLIET pic
summer 1993 - early summer 1994: stand up to be
discontinued
art project
230793 holland radio
'I HAVE A CAT'
011293 england STRICTLY PERSONAL two pics
011296 japan I'M HAPPY
AS A CLAM reprint!
210894 england RE-ACHIEVING NAIVETY
pic
2001 england book CAPTAIN BEEFHEART reprint!
late summer 1993:
filming of some
yo yo stuff
story 1993 england 'SOME
YOYO STUFF' three
pics
collection of fragments
010195 england THE Q 100 INTERVIEW
220595 usa CAPTAIN BEEFHEART GAINING INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM - FOR PAINTING
2505-090795 usa [SEVERAL TITLES] many (shortened) reprints!
fall 2001: total retirement
151201 holland BONO &
BEEFHEART
010402
england 'THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING'
reprint!
story
2003 usa HAPPY EARTHDAY
280707 usa BOOM TIMES,
BAD TIMES
through the years:
some short left-overs
collection of
fragments 1985-95
BUSINESS IS
YOGURT WITH WRENCHES pic
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notes:
BLUE TITLE = recybered or
linked
pic indicates
the amount of contemporary pictures illustrating the
text
BLACK TITLE = waiting to be added including
translations
RED TITLE = text not found yet
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as felt by teejo
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