The Zappa Family Trust has announced that it will release the original recording of the legendary Captain Beefheart album Bat Chain Puller in its original format. The recordings took place in 1976 but ...

The Zappa Family Trust is for the first time ever making the legendary Captain Beefheart album Bat Chain Puller available in its original format. Recording for the album began in 1976 and was ...

Even with a handful of numbers pulled from the original Bat Chain Puller-- the 1976 album funded by manager Herb Cohen from Zappa's royalty checks without Zappa's knowledge, that remained unreleased ...

In the wake of the recent passing of Don Van Vliet, better known, if at all, as Captain Beefheart, I was met with a cryptic glances and pained expressions of confusion with basically anyone with whom ...

Don Van Vliet, the pioneering and adventurous musician and artist who went by the name of Captain Beefheart and created such influential but unhinged albums as "Trout Mask Replica" and "Shiny Beast ...

Avant-garde rock legend and visual artist Don Van Vliet, who performed under the name Captain Beefheart, began experimenting with eccentric rock’n'roll sounds in the mid-1960s. His first two releases ...

Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart, died today at 69 due to complications from multiple sclerosis, wire services have reported. The rock experimenter and musical pioneer may have been ...