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.

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.

Van Vliet's biographer Mike Barnes speaks of " revamping work built on skeletal ideas and fragments that would have mouldered away in the vaults had they not been exhumed and transformed into full-blown, totally convincing new material.

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.

Van Buren married Hannah Hoes, his childhood sweetheart and first cousin once removed, on February 21, 1807, in Catskill, New York.

Rumpus McFowl was created by William Van Horn and introduced as a lazy and greedy cousin of Scrooge McDuck.

Van Rensselaer did secure the appointment of his second cousin, Colonel Solomon Van Rensselaer, as his aide-de-camp.

* Reginald " Reggie " Van Dough Jr .-Richie's mean cousin, known for playing constant pranks on everyone, most notably Richie and his family, which causes his father to punish him.

A cousin of the Van der Luydens, he is the guest of honor at a dinner party thrown by them.

Van Rensselaer accepted the post, and with his decidedly more soldierly cousin Solomon as his aide-de-camp, attempted to safeguard the honour of his country in the war ( despite the fact that, as a Federalist, he had been against the war in the first place ).

* In Tales of the Slayer story " House of the Vampire ", part of an unofficial series of short stories based on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Peter Van Helsing ( cousin to Abraham ) is a Watcher ( an advisor and trainer of vampire slayers.

The lineup of Van Vliet, Harkleroad, Cotton, French and Boston recorded the rest of the tracks, with Van Vliet's cousin Victor Hayden occasionally guesting on bass clarinet.

A high school acquaintance, Victor Hayden, introduced Des Barres to his cousin Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart, a musician and friend of Frank Zappa.

* His cousin by marriage was Governor William Paterson of New Jersey-a father in law of Stephen Van Rensselaer-the Lt.

Van moves to live with Cordula de Prey, Percy's cousin, in her Manhattan apartment, whilst he fully recovers.

He was the cousin of Killian K. Van Rensselaer, who was also a Representative ( as was Killian K .' s nephew Solomon Van Vechten Van Rensselaer.

He was the cousin of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer and the uncle of Solomon Van Vechten Van Rensselaer, who were also Representatives.

During tea, Richie meets his spoiled cousin, Reggie Van Dough, who wishes that he was as rich as Richie.

The album cover is a painting by Van Vliet's friend and cousin Victor Hayden, who featured on Trout Mask Replica with the nickname Beefheart bestowed upon him, The Mascara Snake.

He was also the cousin of William Ballard Preston, William Preston and Angelica Singleton Van Buren.

With Camper Van Beethoven bass guitarist Victor Krummenacher replacing Wood, the band released the studio album Greenland on June 6, 2006, and continued to tour extensively.

* Victor Francen as Van Den Luecken

The Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme was born and raised here ; this is also the site of the Cité Moderne a housing project from 1922-1925 designed by the great Belgian architect Victor Bourgeois.

* Van Helsing ( 2004 )-Dr. Victor Frankenstein

A late incarnation of Sitting Duck also included another future Camper Van Beethoven member, bassist Victor Krummenacher, whose joining allowed Lowery to switch to rhythm guitar.

The 2005 Warner Bros. film, Corpse Bride also pays homage to Harryhausen in a scene where character Victor Van Dort is playing the piano in the Everglott's home.

* Van Cliburn with Kiril Kondrashin and the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra ( recorded live in concert in 1972, remastered and released by the prestigious RCA Victor Red Seal Label in 1994 )

Smaller roles ( some only a few seconds ) were played by Michael Ansara, Ina Balin, Carroll Baker, Robert Blake, Pat Boone, Victor Buono, John Considine, Richard Conte, Jamie Farr, David Hedison, Van Heflin, Russell Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Mark Lenard, Robert Loggia, John Lupton, Sal Mineo, Nehemiah Persoff, Sidney Poitier, Gary Raymond, Marian Seldes, David Sheiner, Paul Stewart, John Wayne and Shelley Winters.

A 1949 musical film featured Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming, with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and Victor Young.

:* In New Jersey, the ambulance is pulled over by state troopers ; Dr. Van Helsing drugs Glover, and J. J. and Victor are able to convince the troopers that they're rushing " the Senator's wife " to UCLA for medical treatment ( offering the theory that her condition prevents them from flying, or from even driving through Denver ).

In an attempt to appear legitimate to law enforcement, Victor hires Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing, a frightening, yet friendly, physician of questionable skill played by Jack Elam.

* Victor Gruen: Centers for the urban environment: Survival of the cities, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1973

To make sure his ulcer does not prevent him from winning, the Sheik hires Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing ( Jack Elam ), who teamed with JJ ( Burt Reynolds ) and Victor ( Dom DeLuise ) in the first race as his in-car physician.

* Gruen, Victor and Larry Smith ( 1960 ) Shopping towns USA: the planning of shopping centers, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York.

They had two sons, Mark and Victor ; then, after divorce, he married Elisabeth Van de Putte.

Additionally, a segment from Geneva to Victor, later cut back to Shortsville to Victor, plus a small segment west from Van Etten Jct., remained with the Lehigh Valley Estate under subsidized Conrail operation.

#" Beautiful Love " ( take 2 ) ( Wayne King, Egbert Van Alstyne, Victor Young ) – 5: 07

Reed also becomes the rival of Victor Van Damme, a fellow student.

Ellis wrote the next arc, " Doom ", centering on Victor Van Damme.

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