iii. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART: Moonlight on Vermont

iii. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (Don Van Vliet) (1941-2010)

Moonlight on Vermont (1969)
Captain Beefheart, vocals
Drumbo (John French), drums
Antennae Jimmy Semens (Jeff Cotton), guitar
Zoot Horn Rollo (Bill Harkleroad), guitar
Rockette Morton (Mark Boston), bass
The Mascara Snake (Victor Hayden), bass clarinet
(3:59)

Van Vliet met Frank Zappa during his teenage years in Lancaster, CA., forming a "mutually useful but volatile" relationship that ws productive for both artists over the years.

After being dropped from two separate record companies, Beefheart signed on with Zappa's label in 1969 and recorded the Zappa-produced masterpiece, Trout Mask Replica, from which this track is taken.