Accounts of Van Vliet's precocious achievement in art often include his statement that he sculpted on a weekly television show.

Van Vliet's artistic enthusiasm became so fervent, he claimed that his parents were forced to feed him through the door in the room where he sculpted.

Drummer John French had now joined the group and it would later ( notably on Trout Mask Replica ) be his patience that was required to transcribe Van Vliet's creative ideas ( often expressed by whistling or banging on the piano ) into musical form for the other group members.

Ry Cooder told of Moon becoming so angered by Van Vliet's unrelenting criticism that he walked into the room pointing a loaded crossbow at him, only to be told " Get that fucking thing out of here, get out of here and get back in your room ", which he obeyed.

Critically acclaimed as Van Vliet's magnum opus, Trout Mask Replica was released as a 28 track double album in June 1969 on Frank Zappa's newly formed Straight Records label.

Van Vliet's cousin Victor Hayden, " The Mascara Snake ", performed as a bass clarinetist later in the proceedings.

The group rehearsed Van Vliet's difficult compositions for eight months, living communally in their small rented house in the Woodland Hills suburb of Los Angeles.

Van Vliet's vocals range from his signature Howlin ' Wolf inspired growl to frenzied falsetto to laconic, casual ramblings.

Zappa said of Van Vliet's approach, " was impossible to tell him why things should be such and such a way.

An album with " a very coherent structure " in the Magic Band's " most experimental and visionary stage ", it was Van Vliet's most commercially successful in the United Kingdom, spending twenty weeks on the UK Albums Chart and peaking at number 20.

" Magic Band members have also said that the slower performances were due in part to Van Vliet's inability to fit his lyrics with the instrumental backing of the faster material on the earlier albums, a problem that was exacerbated in that he almost never rehearsed with the group.

Following Vliet's death, John French claimed the 40-second spoken word track " Apes-Ma " to be an analogy of Van Vliet's deteriorating physical condition.

The album's sleeve features Van Vliet's 1976 painting Green Tom, one of the many works that would mark out his longed-for career as a painter of note.

The final Beefheart record, Ice Cream for Crow ( 1982 ), was recorded with Gary Lucas ( who was also Van Vliet's manager ), Jeff Moris Tepper, Richard Snyder and Cliff Martinez.

Two books have been published specifically devoted to critique and analysis of his artwork: Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh: On The Arts Of Don Van Vliet ( 1999 ) by W. C. Bamberger and Stand Up To Be Discontinued, first published in 1993, a now rare collection of essays on Van Vliet's work.

A deluxe edition was published in 1994 ; only 60 were printed, with etchings of Van Vliet's signature, costing £ 180.

According to Dr. John Lane, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in 1997, although Van Vliet's work has associations with mainstream abstract expressionist painting, more importantly he was a self-taught artist and his painting " has that same kind of edge the music has.

One of Van Vliet's last public appearances was in the 1993 short documentary Some Yo Yo Stuff by filmmaker Anton Corbijn, described as an " observation of his observations ".

Musically, Van Vliet's primitive style contrasted sharply with Zappa's compositional discipline and abundant technique.

The strands of this logic emanating from Vliet's Beefheart persona having been ' written in ' as a character in a ' teenage operetta ' that Zappa had formulated, along with Van Vliet's renowned ' Pepsi-moods ' with his mother Willie Sue and his generally spoilt teenage demeanor.

French recalled that the musicians ' contract with Van Vliet's company stipulated that Van Vliet and the managers were paid from gross proceeds before expenses, then expenses were paid, then the band members evenly split any remaining funds — in effect making band members liable for all expenses.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

* 1885 – Carl Clinton Van Doren, American biographer and critic ( d. 1950 )

Historians such as Reginald Horsman, Helen Hornbeck Tanner, and Blue Jacket biographer John Sugden have argued that the known historical facts about Blue Jacket and Van Swearingen make it unlikely that they were the same person.

Laird ( left ) with one of his successors, Donald Rumsfeld, and biographer Dale Van Atta, 2001

Of the same years is the Crucifixion in the Royal Museum of Antwerp: his early works shows a marked Flemish influence, which it is now understood he derived from his master Colantonio and from works by Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck that belonged to Colantonio's patron, Alfonso V of Aragon ; his biographer Vasari remarked that Antonello saw at Naples an oil painting by Jan Van Eyck ( the " Lomellini Tryptych ") belonging to King Alfonso V of Aragon ; Vasari's further narrative, that being struck by the new method, set out for the Netherlands to acquire a knowledge of the process from Van Eyck's disciples is discredited today.

The son of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and literary critic / teacher Mark Van Doren and novelist and writer Dorothy Van Doren, and nephew of critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Carl Van Doren, Charles Van Doren was a committed academic with an unusually broad range of interests.

Other Van Dorens, who were unrelated to Mamie, were a prominent and noted family of American intellectuals ; these Van Dorens included two Pulitzer Prize winning brothers, Carl ( biographer ) and Mark ( poet ), and Mark's wife Dorothy, an academic and historian.

Carl Clinton Van Doren ( September 10, 1885 – July 18, 1950 ) was a U. S. critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer.

Hopper's biographer, Gail Levin, speculates that Hopper may have been inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's " sinister Night Café ", which was showing at a gallery in New York in January 1942.

Van Morrison, speaking to biographer Ritchie Yorke about the writing and meaning of the song, said in part:

Van Wyck Brooks ( b. Plainfield, New Jersey, February 16, 1886 ; d. Bridgewater, Connecticut, May 2, 1963 ) was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian.

Mike Judge has stated Van Driessen was his favorite character, after Beavis, to voice.

Mark Bortz holds the record for most Bear playoff appearances, with 13 between 1983 and 1994, and is followed by Kevin Butler, Dennis Gentry, Dan Hampton, Jay Hilgenberg, Steve McMichael, Ron Rivera, Mike Singletary, and Keith Van Horne, who have each played in 12 playoff games.

* The 1966 remake of Stagecoach starred ( in alphabetical order ) Ann-Margret, Red Buttons, Mike Connors, Alex Cord, Bing Crosby, Robert Cummings, Van Heflin, Slim Pickens, and Stefanie Powers.

According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were written in a single 8½ hour session at the piano, an instrument which he had no skill in playing, an approach Mike Barnes compared to John Cage's " maverick irreverence toward classical tradition ", though band members have stated that the songs were written over the course of about a year, beginning around December 1967.

In 2005, along with Steve Van Zandt, he organized a benefit for Mike Smith ( formerly of The Dave Clark Five ), who had suffered a paralyzing fall at his home in Spain.

First United Methodist Church in Van ; pastor Mike Deaton ( 2012 )

After the 2002 season, Van Horn left to accept a position at his alma mater, Arkansas ; assistant coach Mike Anderson became head coach.

His career as a musician began when he teamed up with Mike Curb, a friend he met in the choir at Grant High School in Van Nuys, California, to form an instrumental surf combo.

Snake, a three-piece group featuring Anthony on lead vocals and bass guitar, was the last band Mike played in before joining Van Halen.

* 2005: King Kong – Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn

** Transformers – Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn

After months of struggle with agents and managers over the content of the script, Van Sant finally secured River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves in the roles of Mike Waters and Scott Favor.

For touring purposes, Mascis first added Van Conner, and then Mike Johnson to handle the bass parts and embarked on several tours to support Green Mind, with support acts that included Nirvana.

*" Buddy " Cianci: The Musical, an off-Broadway musical created by Jonathan Van Gieson and Mike Tarantino.

Van Dyke record label featuring Baby Mine, one of the many compositions written specially for the Grey Gull labels by trumpeter Mike Mosiello.

Other than a few interesting sides by jazz bands led by Clarence Williams and Cliff Jackson, most Van Dyke records were dance band numbers of the time, usually played by Grey Gull's studio band and featuring musicians such as Mike Mosiello, Andy Sannella and Charles Magnante, recorded with below average audio fidelity for the era, pressed in rather noisy and gritty shellac.

Van Dam was scheduled to perform in a " champion vs. champion " pay-per-view main event against ECW World Heavyweight Champion Mike Awesome.

* Van Gough: Mike Dirnt is identified by most fans as Van Gough.

Van Gough claims to be a vegan on the band's official biography on the website, even though Mike Dirnt is not vegan.

Back in Los Angeles, Mike attends various Hollywood and Los Feliz hot spots, including The Derby, The Dresden Room and the Hollywood Hills Coffee Shop, while his friends, Rob ( Ron Livingston ), Charles ( Alex Desert ) and Sue ( Patrick Van Horn ) coach him on the rules of seduction.

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