look at it like this - do you think any of those guys would have played their instruments anything even remotely like that? no way man! It's Don, it's Beefheart... End of story!
and I think they were also genius, those guys, clearly... just that he did change the music radically - so that is teaching how 'to play', right? ... it's so tongue in cheek - his humour - and yet, there it is, the musical result - it's serious Art. There aren't many Beefhearts out there. Only one.
