Ebook {Epub PDF} Captain Beefheart: The Biography by Mike Barnes

 · Mike Barnes’s critical biography gives an assured survey of all of Don Van Vliet’s work and an insight into the extraordinary personality behind it. Press release for US Edition The unclassifiable music created by Don Van Vliet, alias Captain Beefheart, during a sixteen-year surge of creativity continues to amaze and mystify his fans and followers even almost twenty years after the Captain quit Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. As regards any authors passionate affinity with an artists work is concerned, Mike Barnes's biography of Captain Beefheart, published , has to be up there with the best. The Captain's early years contains ambiguity and sparse factual information, as does the subjects reclusory years away from the poptastic from the mid eighties/5. Mike Barnes tackles a notoriously difficult subject: a critical biography of the often recalcitrant, latterly reclusive Don Van Vliet, alias Captain Beefheart. The project, of course, is rendered even more difficult by the mythos surrounding the Beefheart persona and the /5(82).

Captain Beefheart: The Biography by Mike Barnes. Published by Omnibus Press ( pages; paperback) The Wire webshop price: £ Postage and packing: UK - free. Overseas airmail - £2. Subscribers to the print edition of The Wire get a £1 discount off each copy. Following Don Van Vliet's death, The Wire contributor Mike Barnes will look to. Mike Barnes' Captain Beefheart: The Biography puts those rumors to rest as it tells the strange but true tale of a musical genius and his otherworldly odyssey from the California desert to stages and studios across the world. Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band arrived in the public consciousness in with the two-album set Trout Mask. "Barnes gets the story, and with the full participation of those brave musicians who attempted to interpret Beefheart's sometimes otherworldly methodology" The Times Through new interview material, and with reference to reports and eulogies that appeared in the media, Mike Barnes studies the star's legacy putting the last two decades into context with the revelation of Van Vliet's.

Mike Barnes acknowledges early on in his book the refined capacity of Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet’s magical persona, to embellish accounts of his own remarkable life, and Barnes rightly establishes a place for such elaborations within this critical biography. Mike Barnes has 33 books on Goodreads with ratings. Mike Barnes’s most popular book is Captain Beefheart: The Biography. Captain Beefheart. Don Van Vliet (/ væn ˈvliːt /; born Don Glen Vliet; Janu – Decem) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. Conducting a rotating ensemble called Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, known separately as " the Magic Band ", he recorded 13 studio albums between and