Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band is a popular Rock group from United States, formed on January 15, 1965.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band was an American band who created music that has occasionally been dubbed "avant garde-blues". Their music was characterized by bluesy melodies, shambolic instrumentation, idiosyncratic, unbound timings, the growls and shrieks of Beefheart's vocals and his surreal, poetic lyrics. Throughout their career, the band's musical direction was tightly controlled by Don Van Vliet (1941 - 2010), aka Captain Beefheart, who . Popular albums include "Safe As Milk".