Kapt. Kopter & The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds

Artist: Randy California
Label: Edsel Records UK
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5014757171642
ASIN: B0000011SO

Release Date: 1995-02-01

Kapt. Kopter & The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds

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Tracks:

Downer
Devil
I Don't Want Nobody
Day Tripper
Mother and Child Reunion
Things Yet to Come
Rain
Rainbow

Customer Reviews:

Great Early Randy California material.......2003-06-06

This album was released during Randy Caliornia's Spirit years. It also features one of the greatest overlooked drummers of all time, Ed Cassidy. This is an experimental jam project that turned out beautifully. Not only does it have the uniqueness that charactrizes Spirit, but it throws in a new energy an artful creativeness that wasn't missing in Spirit but is rearranged to create a new beautifull masterpiece. You can hear Randy's early Jimi James influences in some songs along with his and Cassidy's incredible stylistic creativity. There are also some great cover songs on this album. You must own or hear this album if you like Spirit, Jimi Hendrix, or simply enjoy great classic rock.

Waiting For The CD Again.......2000-07-11

I really enjoyed this album when I owned it years ago. I was always a Spirit fan and this album was one of Randy's finest. Randy's guitar playing definitely showed off his Jimi Hendrix influence on this albim. I really miss hearing the song "Mother and Child Reunion" and I hope the CD becomes available again.

early 70s Magick.......2000-01-05

I turned onto this album back in 74 in a very rainy west end Vancouver. The guy selling me a bag of 3rd Mexican Pot had this playing on his stereo in the ramshackled boarding house. It took almost a year to find a copy of the album (used ... a real rarity) after returning to Winnipeg. Its so nice to hear a clean, unscratched recording and know this soundbrush of a grey day on the coast will be around for another generation to experience.

Definitely not top 40 or even commercially viable.

A fine acid rock souvenir from the early '70s.......1999-12-04

If you're here, then you know. Just pull out your credit card while you read this. First, the Jimi thing. Randy California may have influenced him, rather than vice versa. In "Jimi Hendrix Electric Gypsy", we read about how a young California runaway played in a band with Hendrix for a little while. His name was Randy Wolfe. Since there were two Randy's in the band, Jimi called them Randy Texas and Randy California. The latter went on to form Spirit with Ed Cassidy. Shortly after Jimi's death, Randy C. turned solo, letting his guitar playing burn more than it had in the jazzier Spirit. His first solo album, "Kaptain Kopter and the Fabulous Twirly Birds", is as devout a testament to Hendrix's music as has ever been waxed. Mind you, it isn't a _great_ album. Randy never did get very good at being a front-man. And the crew obviously toked up and decided to fiddle with every dial on the mixing board, not always to enjoyable effect. In fact, much of the album sounds like it's being played through blown tweeters--the joke being that they'll save us the trouble, I suppose. But check out his cover of "Day Tripper." It is very much in the same vein as the Jimi version on the Radio One cd. "Devil" is an affecting acid ballad, I guess you'd call it. "Downer" is a cacophany of guitar noise--heavy, man! "Things Yet To Come" is a long, simple tone poem for bass line and wah-wah, very early 70's, very groovy, very hard to get out of your head. And he hits an opposite field upper deck home run with another Beatles cover, "Rain". It starts off with a silly country-rock riff which gets progressively more manic. This collapses into a hideous laugh, and the song gets in gear, in earnest. California overdubs himself VERY druggy lead, and letting fly with some jimi-ish glissandi, screeching and swooping over the song. This is the song that the Rolling Stone reviewer was probably thinking of when he called the album a "mega-watt garage bomb." To make the Hendrix tribute more obvious, Randy brought in Noel Redding to play bass, under the name "Clit McTorius." One listen to this and you'll immediately catch velvet pants, fringed leathers, American flag headband, the whole trippy works. The cd has kind of a half-baked feel to it, but the well-done parts are well done indeed. Any chance to buy this out of print cd is to be seized immediately.

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