captain beefheart - don van vliet fine arts - 'zoot horn rollo / bill harkleroad' (portraits and poem)

captain beefheart electricity

don van vliet SINGING INK
poetry and fine arts - portrait

ZOOT HORN ROLLO
bill harkleroad, guitarist

painting - poem - drawing

painting & poem
from 1972 back cover THE SPOTLIGHT KID album 1972
poem reprinted england book THE LIVES AND TIMES OF CAPTAIN BEEFHEART first three editions 1977/80

captain beefheart / don van vliet - painting - 'zoot horn rollo' (bill harkleroad) 1971 - back cover 'the spotlight kid' lp 1972

a triangle fed on a wool table
and the velvet home of seven
closets chewed zees
mended 'n' moved junk 'n' caught
fur combs over hair caravans,
carnivals klans 'n' cracked a clay
crimped horn on calico cloister

don van vliet 1971

drawing
early 1972 in 'beefheart brochure [brown star]' usa 17 april 1972 warner/reprise CIRCULAR vol.4 #15

portraits of other MAGIC BAND MEMBERS:
MARK BOSTON rockette morton
ROY ESTRADA oréjon / audi hon
BRUCE FOWLER fossil
ELLIOT INGBER winged eel fingerling
ART TRIPP ed marimba

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

captain beefheart electricity
as felt by teejo