It has been suggested this name came from a term used by Vliet's Uncle Alan who had a habit of exposing himself to Don's girlfriend, Laurie Stone.

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.

Van Vliet's influence on post – punk bands was demonstrated by Magazine's recording of " I Love You You Big Dummy " in 1978 and the tribute album Fast ' n ' Bulbous-A Tribute to Captain Beefheart in 1988, featuring the likes of artists such as the Dog Faced Hermans, The Scientists, The Membranes, Simon Fisher Turner, That Petrol Emotion, the Primevals, The Mock Turtles, XTC, and Sonic Youth, who included a cover of Beefheart's " Electricity " as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of their 1988 album Daydream Nation.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

" 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 ).

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.

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.

" 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.

Working with young producer David Gates also opened up horizons for Vliet's skills as a poet-cum-lyricist, with his " Who Do You Think You're Fooling " on the flipside of the band's first single, a cover of the Ellas McDaniel / Willie Dixon-penned hit, " Diddy Wah Diddy ".

" 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

One book, entitled Splinters, gives a visual ' scrapbook ' insight into Vliet's life, from an early age to his painting in retirement.

The second, eponymously titled, book is packed with art pages of Vliet's work.

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.

* Laurie Bird as Tony Lacey's girlfriend

* Lisa Darr as Laurie Manning: Ellen's girlfriend.

It is clear from Jackie and Kelso's relationship that Kelso definitely is not the one wearing the pants in his relationships ; he is easily manipulated ( Laurie pointed this out once and called him a " tool ") and never fulfills his promise of breaking up with his girlfriend, although later it may simply be because he is afraid to break a woman's heart.

He works alongside two of his former Roseanne cast members, Sara Gilbert, who during his role as David Healy played the role of his longtime girlfriend and later his wife, Darlene Conner, as well as Laurie Metcalf, formerly cast as the role of Roseanne Barr's fictionalized character's sister Jackie.

Grant flirts with Jane Collins ( Laurie Brett ), Ian Beale ( Adam Woodyatt )' s girlfriend ; he seduces her after getting a job working for Jake at the newly reopened Scarlet nightclub.

The character was involved in numerous storylines including the unveiling of Den Watts ' ( Leslie Grantham ) killer, an affair with Ian Beale's ( Adam Woodyatt ) girlfriend, Jane Collins ( Laurie Brett ) and a series of episodes dubbed " Get Johnny Week ", which saw the Mitchell brothers embroiled in a vendetta against gangster Johnny Allen ( Billy Murray ).

Stone cast Daryl Hannah as Bud Fox's materialistic girlfriend Darien Taylor, but felt that she was never happy with the role and did not know why she accepted it.

Several claims have been made about Adair's sexuality by his former girlfriend Jackie " Legs " Robinson, and Michael Stone.

In 1979, an out-of-state columnist, Mike Royko, at the Chicago Sun-Times, picked up on the nickname from Brown's girlfriend at the time, Linda Ronstadt, who was quoted in a 1978 Rolling Stone magazine interview humorously calling him " Moonbeam ".< ref >

His second daughter is Giannina Marie Pastorelli ( born March 6, 2000 ) with long-time girlfriend Jalee Carder, a former fashion designer and co-owner of Stone Marten.

Before filming started, Stone and his producers had to negotiate with the three surviving band members and the parents of Morrison and his girlfriend Pamela Courson, and the band's label Elektra Records.

The second and subsequent films starred Lewis Stone as Judge Hardy, Fay Holden as Mrs. Hardy, Cecilia Parker as Andy's older sister Marian Hardy, and Ann Rutherford as Andy's girlfriend Polly Benedict.

In December 2008, Moynahan guest starred in two episodes of the ABC television comedy-drama Eli Stone, playing the titular character's ( Jonny Lee Miller ) former girlfriend.

Teammate Kenyon Stone ( Rob Brown ) struggles to come to terms with his girlfriend Kyra ( Ashanti )' s being pregnant and eventually splits up with her, unsure if he could juggle basketball, aspiring for college and being a parent.

" Little Stone Statue " tells the tale of a man who knows that his girlfriend now has feelings for another man and he'll lose her soon but will never reveal any emotions.

The plot follows the Christmas holiday misadventures of the Stone family in a small New England town when the eldest son, played by Mulroney, brings his uptight girlfriend ( played by Parker ) home with the intention of proposing to her with a cherished heirloom ring.

More recently, Shannon starred opposite Tom Selleck as his girlfriend Abby Taylor in two Jesse Stone television films, Stone Cold ( 2005 ) and Jesse Stone: Night Passage ( 2006 ).

Dylan's old girlfriend Suze Rotolo also granted a rare interview, and she later told Rolling Stone Magazine that she was very pleased with the project's results.

The first Relief release was also his first Green Velvet production, 1993's " Velvet Tracks ," which came from a name given to him by a girlfriend's dad, emerged as the flamboyant, neon-haired electro punk, although in interviews he denied being linked to the Punk lifestyle and fashion, as he was more inspired by the likes of David Bowie and Sly and the Family Stone, he created excellent mid-1990s hits such as " Preacher Man ," on which a Moral Majority-type of preacher spoke ( the Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin-father of Aretha Franklin and ally of Martin Luther King, Jr .); " Answering Machine ," a darkly funny house track consisting of taped messages from an answering machine, including a bad news message from a girlfriend and a noise complaint message from his landlord — all made with Jones's voice ; and " Flash ," which was a # 1 US dance hit in 1995 and was included on many DJ-mixed compilation albums.

Finally, after Stone's girlfriend Michelle ( Cattrall ) is kidnapped, the detectives track the killer deep into the flooded and disused London Underground system and discover the truth: The killer is not human, and actually some horrific and unknown homicidal, demonic form of life-Fast, savage, bloodthirsty and fixated upon killing Stone just as it previously killed his partner.

On January 9, 2009, he married his girlfriend Farrah Stone Johnson, whom he met in 2007 while making rehab starts in single-A Greenville.

Dylan's old girlfriend Suze Rotolo also granted a rare interview, and she later told Rolling Stone Magazine that she was very pleased with the project's results.