Captain Beefheart, often also known by his real name of Don Van Vliet is/was one of the greatest idiosyncratic figures in modern Californian music.
Captain Beefheart got loosey-goosey with 1972’s The Spotlight Kid, an album that took him into the US Billboard Top 200 for the first time.
Strictly Personal often gets overlooked, but it provides signposts to the Captain Beefheart classic, Trout Mask Replica.