Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet on January 15, 1941, died December 17 2010) is an American musician and painter, best known by the pseudonym Captain Beefheart. His musical work was mainly conducted with a rotating assembly of musicians called The Magic Band, which was active between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s. Van Vliet was chiefly a singer and harmonica player, occasionally playing saxophone and keyboards. His compositions are characterized by their odd mixtures of shifting time signatures and by their surreal lyrics...
Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band
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Captain Beefheart has had 42 concerts.
Captain Beefheart is most often considered to be Singer-Songwriter, Experimental, Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Blues, Blues Rock, Post-Punk, Experimental Rock, Art Rock, Avant-Garde, Protopunk, Zolo, Outsider, Proto-Punk, and Beat Poetry.
The last Captain Beefheart concert was on November 16, 1980 at Unity Hall in Wakefield, England, United Kingdom.
The songs that Captain Beefheart performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the November 09, 1980 concert at Élysée Montmartre in Paris, Île-de-France, France:
