THE TEACHINGS OF CAPTAIN BEEFHEART: A WACKY WAY OF KNOWLEDGE

“If you’ve got ears, you gotta listen,”— Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart “I have a beef in my heart against the world,” he says, in response to queries about how he got his unusual name. “The way they treat humanity and animals. It’s the shingle that’s given me shingles after 15 years as Don Van Vliet. My friends don’t call me Captain.