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Don Van Vliet: Influence
Bands such as the Clash have claimed a Beefheart influence, although few have truly been able to assimilate Beefheart's idiosyncratic approach.
Tom Waits's shift in artistic direction, starting with Swordfishtrombones, is said to be due to his wife introducing him to Beefheart's music.
Many musicians who have worked with Captain Beefheart consider it to be the formative experience of their lives as musicians (despite the rigours of Beefheart's unorthodox methods). Some of these alumni have subsequently found collaborators who also seem to have been touched with Beefheart's creative spirit. After Beefheart left the music business, Eric Drew Feldman played with Pere Ubu, P. J. Harvey and
Frank Black. Gary Lucas played guitar and collaborated with
Jeff Buckley.
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