http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/arts/music/18beefheart.html

TODDY says that this was him...CAPTAIN BEEFHEART...it might easily be true...I had an album of theirs once...and it appeared to have an illustration of...well ALICE IN WONDERLAND time...going down the RABBITHOLE i.e. the gullet...the jesuit alimentary 'codex' tract (which they appear to run in order to monopolise 'food' programming)...and then a graphic image of the ventricles of the heart if I am not wrong...wait a minute that album was KING CRIMSON in fact and TODDY told me that he was behind them too...

VENTRICLE programming VENT-TRI-KEY?

Yes, it sounds like TODDY:

Mr. Van Vliet’s life story is caked with half-believable tales, some of which he himself spread in Dadaist, elliptical interviews. He claimed he had never read a book and had never been to school, and answered questions with riddles. “We see the moon, don’t we?” he asked in a 1969 interview. “So it’s our eye. Animals see us, don’t they? So we’re their animals.”

But it was “Trout Mask Replica” that earned Mr. Van Vliet his biggest mark. And it was the making of that album that provided some of the most durable myths about Mr. Van Vliet as an imperious, uncompromising artist.



No wonder GILL called me TROUT WOMAN then...

After a long falling-out, Mr. Van Vliet reunited with his old friend Zappa to tour and make the album “Bongo Fury” in 1975, then assembled a new band to record “Bat Chain Puller,” which was never released because of contractual tie-ups. Parts of it were rerecorded in 1978 for an album released by Warner Brothers, “Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller).”


Yes, ALI BONGO was an alias of his...and he loved playing the BONGO drums.