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After reading My second research book I've come to terms with the views that Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) had. This book explained to me what this man was thinking, and why he thought it. Growing up Vliet was always an artistically gifted individual who thought on his own terms, he often referred to himself as "a fish jumping out of the school". When he was young Vliet was an impressive sculptor, so impressive that he was offered to be taught be the masters down in California at a young age. His parents politely declined because they where afraid that they would turn him gay. Vliet's views where entirely his own and his art showed it. Almost all of his art that he had free reign over was expressionist, he described his reasoning by using television as an example, he always preferred television to be in black and white. He preferred this because the viewer could imagine anything on the screen to be in any color, he said that if you are mad you can imagine the walls in the background to be flame red, of if you are feeling happy you can imagine everyone wearing bright colors. This is basically what he did in his music, black and white expressionism translated to song turned out to be very difficult to digest, there was no hand holding, and it was not gentle. But if you let it unravel itself to you you would find the music to be unparalleled. Vliet's new and unique musical sound turned out to be very influential in helping create genres such as Alternative Rock, Progressive Rock, Math Rock, and Post Punk. And most traditional music critics respect this album in its entirety.