don van vliet  a.k.a.  captain beefheart
biography

* 1941/01/15, in glendale, california as don vliet. (he added the 'van' later)

links:

http://www.beefheart.com/

homepage replica

realaudio interview by co de kloet from 1993

http://people.a2000.nl/tieman/

http://home.nordwest.net/dj/