Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart, has died of complications of multiple sclerosis at age 69. Obituary here. Apparently, hanging out in the Mojave desert can do strange things to your head. Here is a taste from the 1969 Trout Mask Replica album. Far out, man. Here is something rather more accessible from the 1967 debut Safe as Milk album. And I think I remember Abba Zabba from that same album. (Which reminds of the saying, 'If you remember the '60s, you weren't there.')
From Mojave to Bakersfield. I once had a girlfriend, half Italian, half Irish. Volatile combo, not recommended. I had me a Tiger by the Tail. My wife's half Italian, but the phlegmaticity of her Polish half mitigates, moderates, and modulates her latent Italianate volcanicity, which remains blessedly latent.
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