Captain Beefheart
By: Mike Barnes
Edition: 2009 ed.
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780711941342
Subjects: Rock musicians; Biography
Notes: Originally published: London : Quartet Books, 2000.

"Afterword to 2009 edition": p. 345-360; "Don Van Vliet solo and group exhibitions": p. 384-388.

Includes bibliographical references, discography (p. 373-383), and index.
Table of contents: title: A hell of a way to wake up; title: Ethel Higgenbaum and her Magic Band; title: May the baby Jesus shut your mouth and open your mind; title: Your psychedelic seltzer, sir; title: I want my own land; title: Out recording a bush; title: Carp head replica; title: Counting the passing cars; title: Aphorisms, epigrams and lugubrious blues; title: Singing for women; title: You don't have to be weird to be weird; title: The Captain's holiday; title: Pulled by rubber dolphins; title: Sequinned whales and shiny beasts; title: Rock at the Dada station; title: A kind whip, a kind quip (or Off on an avantangent); title: Exit pursued by a giant mechanical bear; title: Beyond the final glide pattern.