captain beefheart - don van vliet fine arts - 'winged eel fingerling / elliot ingber' (drawing and poem)

captain beefheart electricity

don van vliet SINGING INK
poetry and fine arts - portrait

WINGED EEL FINGERLING
elliot ingber, guitarist

drawing - poem

drawing & poem
from back cover THE SPOTLIGHT KID album 1972
drawing on brown background reproduced in 'beefheart brochure [brown star]' usa 17 april 1972 warner/reprise CIRCULAR vol.4 #15
poem reprinted england book THE LIVES AND TIMES OF CAPTAIN BEEFHEART first three editions 1977/80

captain beefheart / don van vliet - drawing - 'mean e.' (winged eel fingerling / elliot ingber) 1971 - back cover 'the spotlight kid' lp 1972

no b.o. for this boy
it's like a winged eel fingerling
crawling thru lime jello
it's like a chrome black eyebrow
rolled out real long
a paper brow magnifying glass
fried brown, edge scorched, yoked
like a squeak from a speaker
behind forehead of the time,
licorice schtick open tube of
valuable jujubees

don van vliet 1971

portraits of other MAGIC BAND MEMBERS:
MARK BOSTON rockette morton
ROY ESTRADA oréjon / audi hon
BRUCE FOWLER fossil
BILL HARKLEROAD zoot horn rollo
ART TRIPP ed marimba

click clack back to the singing ink or return to the power station

captain beefheart electricity
as felt by teejo