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.

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.

It took the band about eight months to mold the songs into shape, with French bearing primary responsibility for transposing and shaping Vliet's piano fragments into guitar and bass lines, which were mostly notated on paper.

" 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.

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

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.

The well-rehearsed Magic Band recorded all instrumental tracks for Trout Mask Replica in a single six-hour recording session ; Van Vliet's vocal and horn tracks were laid down over the next few days.

" 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.

" He attributed the album's lackluster performances to the emotional toll of Van Vliet's behavior toward the band: " We were just emotionally beat to death by his particular environment ... we were playing really anemically and it sucks because of that.

" Black Francis of the Pixies cited Beefheart's The Spotlight Kid as one of the albums he listened to regularly when first writing songs for the band, and Kurt Cobain of Nirvana acknowledged Van Vliet's influence, mentioning him among his notoriously eclectic range.

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.

Don Van Vliet proposed that half of the tracks from Bat Chain Puller be included on Ice Cream for Crow, but Zappa refused Vliet's request, leading Vliet to compose new material for the album.

The Omens ' guitarists Alexis Snouffer and Jerry Handley would later become founders of " The Magic Band " and The Blackouts ' drummer, Frank Zappa, would later capture Vliet's vocal capabilities on record for the first time.

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

Around this time Van Vliet's high school friend Frank Zappa started his own pair of record labels, Bizarre and Straight, and offered Van Vliet, by then better known as Captain Beefheart, a name Zappa had given him, the opportunity to record an album with complete artistic freedom.

Zappa would say of Van Vliet's approach that it was " impossible to tell him why things should be such and such a way.

" The Blimp " was recorded by Zappa in his studio while on the phone with Van Vliet prior to the album's sessions ; Jeff Cotton was put on the phone to recite Van Vliet's latest poem, which Zappa recorded and put over a Mothers of Invention backing track ( which had been known to the Mothers, unacknowledged on Trout Masks credits, as " Charles Ives ", the name of the modernist American composer ).

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

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.

These were the last words he ever uttered.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

His pictures were roundly denounced as `` the most disgusting things one has ever seen in Vienna ''.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??

and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.

For instance -- what about all those people Harold Rhodes went toward unhesitatingly, as if this were the one moment they would ever have together, their one chance of knowing each other??

He saw the surprise in her face, and laughed as though it were the funniest expression he had ever seen.

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These local variations were to become ever sharper in the next century and a half.

If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.

A Pennsylvania soldier wrote that `` they were the hardest looking set of men that ever I saw.

If Palfrey ever had any doubts about the wickedness of slavery, they were put aside after he received an inventory of the slave property he had inherited.

The radio broadcasts themselves were often so patiently informative, despite the baseball jargon, that girls and women could begin to store up in their minds the same sort of random and meaningless statistics that small boys had long learned better than they ever did their lessons in school.

The dances were as beautiful as anything I have ever seen -- they rival the New York Rockettes for scenery and precision as well as imagination.

I don't remember ever seeing teeth that were quite so white and at the same time quite so emphatically not dentures.

Two late Sonatas, Op. 110 and 111, were played with similar insight, the disarming simplicities of the Op. 111 Adagio made plain without ever becoming obvious.

Miss Kizzie had been right snippy ever since they were married, though you'd have thought a namesake would have brought her round.

The seventh and twentieth, the days of the new and full moon, were ever afterwards held sacred to him.

No Union soldiers were observed to have ever gotten behind Johnston during the fatal charge, while it is known that many Confederates were firing at the Union lines while Johnston charged well in advance of his soldiers.

Several later books were original in Europe, and at least one novel has only ever appeared in Italian, no English version yet published.

Large hotels were built during the Belle Époque ; cog-railways, built early in the 20th century, brought tourists to ever higher elevations, with the Jungfraubahn terminating at the Jungfraujoch after going through a tunnel in Eiger.