Borin Van Loon: Pachuco Cadavre

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Going right back to my roots... When Grant Pringle (fine caricaturist and former member of Dawn of the Replicants... they've recently reformed without him - rock and, if you will, roll) at 'Sun Zoom Spark' commissioned me to illustrate the Beefheart article it not only summoned up the psychedelic posters of the late sixties which turned me on to doing my own art, but also reminded me that the first ever proper painting in oils I did was a head and shoulders of the good Captain (wearing green topper, of course) at the head of a queue consisting of Batman, Antennae Jimmy Semens (in bath cap) and several score others. It was nice to incorporate the brown trout (because it was actually a carp's head on the cover of the Trout Mask Replica album as any fuel kno) with Don Van Vliet's other career as abstract painter. I wonder how the old codger is getting on in the Mojave Desert: a genius and no exaggeration (but probably difficult to live with). Here's a quick look at that very early painting (from a very old and rather poor photograph - now that the original has been unearthed, a better image will follow soon):

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