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.

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 opposed the annexation but in doing so lost the support of many Democrats, including former President Andrew Jackson, who still had much influence.

The album, originally titled To Nancy, with Love, featured rock performers such as Calexico, Sonic Youth, U2, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Steven Van Zandt, Jon Spencer, and Pete Yorn, who all cited Sinatra as an influence.

Ginsberg cites Artaud's " Van Gogh -- The Man Suicided by Society " as a direct influence on " Howl ", along with Apollinaire's " Zone ", García Lorca's " Ode to Walt Whitman ", and Schwitters ' " Priimiititiii ".

Peter Hammill of Van der Graaf Generator was also a major influence on his songwriting and vocal delivery, which is especially notable on the first two Marillion albums.

In Peter Whiffle by Carl Van Vechten, the main character Peter Whiffle cites Gautier as a great influence and writer, among others.

Many artists have cited Van Vliet as an influence, beginning with the Edgar Broughton Band, who covered Dropout Boogie as Apache Drop Out ( mixed with The Shadows ' " Apache ") as early as 1970 and The Kills coverage of it 32 years later.

" Guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers cited Van Vliet as a prominent influence on the band's 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik as well as his debut solo album Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt ( 1994 ) and stated that during his drug-induced absence, after leaving the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he " would paint and listen to Trout Mask Replica.

" 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.

The colour and texture of Dobson's work was influenced by Venetian art, but Van Dyck's style has little apparent influence on Dobson.

Stoker's vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing was a strong influence on subsequent vampire literature.

His term was largely unremarkable, and he enjoyed little influence with President Van Buren.

Van Morrison's influence can be heard in this song, as " 4th of July, Asbury Park ( Sandy )" closely parallels his romanticization of Belfast in such songs as " Cyprus Avenue " and " Madame George " from the 1968 album, Astral Weeks.

The Turkmen, nomads who settled in the area of Lake Van, were responsible for a number of mosques, such as the Blue Mosque in Tabriz, and they had a decisive influence after the fall of the Anatolian Seljuqs.

Chase drafted the Free-Soil platform, and it was chiefly through his influence that Van Buren was their nominee for President in 1848.

For some time, he attempted to gain the support of American President Martin Van Buren using all the diplomatic influence that he and American supporters could provide.

Van der Weyden had also a large influence on the German painter and engraver Martin Schongauer whose prints were distributed all over Europe from the last decades of the 15th century.

The Vienna Circle's influence on 20th century philosophy was immense, and much later work, such as that of Willard Van Orman Quine, was in response to the Circle's thought.

Van Zandt cites the Dave Clark Five as an early influence.

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.

According to historian John Van der Kiste, this was done to limit the influence Ernest's eldest brother George, Prince of Wales, who was leading an extravagant lifestyle, would have over his younger brothers.

A review of the exhibition by curator Everl Adair noted the influence of Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O ' Keeffe on her paintings and concluded that her surviving corpus of art " represents the work of a talented, visionary woman who rose above tremendous odds to create a fascinating body of work — one that inspires us to celebrate the life that might have been.

Fronted by Bap Kennedy ( brother of Irish singer-songwriter Brian Kennedy ), their style drew heavily on the influence of Van Morrison and other R & B, but incorporated traditional elements of Irish folk music.

For the role, Leigh dropped to and sang all her songs live, including a rambling 8½-minute version of Van Morrison's " Take Me Back " performed as her character is under the influence of alcohol and drugs.