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   <summary>Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band is one of the most influential rock and blues bands that never had a chart-topping single.  Listed by music critic David Toop as one of the top 100 rock bands of all time, the band has been on the radar of musicians worldwide, spawning dozens of clones (including a Czech Captain Beefheart cover band).  Their most known album, the 2 LP &quot;Trout Mask Replica&quot; from 1969, contains 28 short tracks with a surreal, psychadellic abstract blues/rock intensity.</summary>
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   <name>Captain Beefheart</name>
   <from>United States</from>
   <style number="1">Experimental</style>
   <style number="2">Blues</style>
   <founded>1965</founded>
   <disbanded>1982</disbanded>
   <member name="Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)" role="vocals, harmonica, soprano sax, bass clarinet, musette, chinese gongs" />
   <member name="Eric Drew Feldman" role="mellotron, synthesizer, bass, piano, rhodes" />
   <member name="Jeff Morris Tepper" role="slide guitar, guitar, nerve guitar" />
   <member name="Gary Lucas" role="guitar, national steel duolian" />
   <member name="Richard Midnight Hatsize Snyder" role="bass, marimba, viola" />
   <member name="Cliff R. Martinez" role="drums, glass washboard, metal drums" />
   <pastmember name="Art Tripp" role="marimba, broom" />
   <pastmember name="John French (Drumbo)" role="drums, marimba, slide guitar, guitar, bass" />
   <pastmember name="Zoot Horn Rollo" role="glass finger guitar, flute" />
   <pastmember name="Antennae Jimmy Simmons" role="steel-appendage guitar, flesh horn" />
   <pastmember name="Rockette Morton" role="bass, narration" />
   <pastmember name="Doug Moon" role="slide guitar" />
   <pastmember name="Alex St. Claire Snoufer" role="guitar" />
   <pastmember name="Jerry Handsley" role="bass" />
   <pastmember name="Bruce Lambourne Fowler" role="trombone" />
   <pastmember name="Richard Redus" role="slide guitar, bottleneck guitar, accordion, fretless bass" />
   <pastmember name="Robert Arthur Williams" role="drums, percussion" />
   <pastmember name="The Mascara Snake" role="bass clarinet, vocal" />

   <release type="album" name="The Mirror Man Sessions" date="1999" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Mirror_Man_Sessions,_The" />
   <release type="album" name="Legendary A&amp;M Sessions" date="1984" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Legendary_A%26M_Sessions" />
   <release type="album" name="The Spotlight Kid" date="1972" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Spotlight_Kid,_The" />
   <release type="album" name="Unconditionally Guaranteed" date="1974" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Unconditionally_Guaranteed" />
   <release type="album" name="Strictly Personal" date="1968" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Strictly_Personal" />
   <release type="album" name="Doc at the Radar Station" date="1980" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Doc_at_the_Radar_Station" />
   <release type="album" name="Safe as Milk" date="1967" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Safe_as_Milk" />
   <release type="album" name="Electricity" date="1998" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Electricity" />
   <release type="album" name="Bluejeans and Moonbeams" date="1974" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Bluejeans_and_Moonbeams" />
   <release type="album" name="Grow Fins: Rarities 1965-1982" date="1999" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Grow_Fins_Rarities_1965-1982" />
   <release type="album" name="Dust Blows Forward Anthology" date="1999" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Dust_Blows_Forward_Anthology" />
   <release type="album" name="Mirror Man" date="1971" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Mirror_Man" />
   <release type="album" name="Ice Cream for Crow" date="1982" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Ice_Cream_for_Crow" />
   <release type="album" name="Shiny Beast Bat Chain Puller" date="1978" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Shiny_Beast_Bat_Chain_Puller" />
   <release type="album" name="Lick My Decals Off Baby" date="1970" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Lick_My_Decals_Off_Baby" />
   <release type="album" name="Clear Spot" date="1972" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Clear_Spot" />
   <release type="album" name="Trout Mask Replica" date="1969" ref="Bands_and_Artists/C/Captain_Beefheart/Discography/Trout_Mask_Replica" />

   <release type="single" name="Too Much Time" date="1972" />
   <release type="single" name="Diddy Wah Diddy EP" date="1971" />
   <release type="single" name="Upon The My-O-My/ I Got Love On My Mind" date="1974" />
   <release type="single" name="Click Clack/ Glider" date="1972" />
   <release type="single" name="Sure 'Nuff Yes I Do/ Electricity" date="1978" />
   <release type="single" name="Sixpack - Six Track EP" date="1978" />
   <release type="single" name="Diddy Wah Diddy" date="1965" />
   <release type="single" name="Hard Workin' Man" date="1978" />
   <release type="single" name="Light Reflected off the Oceands of the Moon" date="1982" />
   <release type="single" name="Upon The My-O-My/ Magic Be" date="1974" />
   <release type="single" name="Moonchild/ Who Do You Think You're Fooling" date="1968" />
   <release type="single" name="Too Much Time/ My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains" date="1972" />
   <release type="single" name="Ice Cream for Crow/ Oceands" date="1982" />
   <release type="single" name="Moonchild/ Frying Pan" date="1965" />
   <release type="single" name="Yellow Brick Road/ Abba Zaba" date="1967" />
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