So long then Captain Beefheart. The iconoclast's iconoclast, the artist's artist, the greatest modern Bluesman of them all. If a testimony can be made to his legacy perhaps it's that even now in 2010 he still sounds like he's ahead of everyone, his records still setting the standard for the Avant Garde in Rock music, still blazing the trail on how to take music far, far 'out there' beyond the norm. He hadn't recorded any music for years, long since seeking refuge in the desert where he painted alone. Yet somehow he'll still be missed, so enormous was his presence on the cultural landscape. There will only ever be one Captain.
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