Don Van Vliet on ‘communication’! |visit the world of Beefheart

picture by (alec byrne from) london photo agency

Does communication ever worry you?

Don Van Vliet: 

'No. if it did I'd probably be just another 'Parker pen' casualty; pen and ink people - can you see them? Pen and ink gram-cracker animals. They dance up out of the pages.... what do you think of the mural on the ceiling? It's almost like a rust smoke drawing.... like a cave-animal painting using lead pipes as their vehicles.'

 - from a interview with Don Van Vliet by Dick Lawson from Friends magazine, conducted in London in late October 1969. 

Photo of Don Van Vliet by Alec Byrne, taken in London, late October 1969.

The whole interview here : . . . . . . at the always illuminating beefheart.xyz

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