Captain Beefheart is known by few but loved dearly by those few, and he deserves more credit for changing rock music in the 60s and 70s.

Your results will offer up clips of varying length from an appearance by the Beefheart band on the German TV show Beat Club in 1972, in which Don Van Vliet, in fine voice and apparently benign ...

Waits hailed Captain Beefheart, real name Don Van Vliet, by comparing him to Miles Davis and Sun Ra, reports the LA Times. "He was like the scout on a wagon train," Waits w... About 10 years ago ...