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
270984 usa GOOD MORNING, CAPTAIN two 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
second half 1985 - spring 1993:
full time painter / philosopher
090886 england GO VAN GO!
081186 australia THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN
SPEAKING juke 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 shortened
reprint!
080189 usa IN TUNE
WITH ART 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