Captain Beefheart - Interview
Chris Salewicz, NME, 19 July 1975
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (AKA Don Van Vliet) moves in sufficiently mysterious ways for me to believe that Zoot Horn Rollo (aka Bill Harkleroad) may just possibly be very, very close to encountering some bizarre psychic punishment for daring to tamper with the subject of Mallard (aka The Magic Band).
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