Gary Lucas, The Wire, February 2011
THE FIRST TIME I ever encountered the name "Captain Beefheart" was in summer 1968, when I saw it emblazoned in red magic marker, hand-lettered on a battered acoustic guitar case, carried by a guy sporting the longest hair I had ever seen.
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