Kapt. Kopter & The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds [Import]

kapt. kopter & the (fabulous) twirly birds [import]

Track Listings

1. Downer

2. Devil

3. I Don't Want Nobody

4. Day Tripper

5. Mother and Child Reunion

6. Things Yet to Come

7. Rain

8. Rainbow

Kapt. Kopter & The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds,Randy California,Edsel Records UK,Hard Rock,Psychedelic,Rock,Rock/Pop

Kapt. Kopter & The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds [Import]

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Incredible covers-- awesome originals
American Psychedelia
Lost Treasure
VERTIGO YOUR CONSCIOUS twirly
the best cover versions of any beatles songs EVER done!!!!

Randy California
Kapt Kopter & (Fabulous) Twirly Birds
Manufacturer: Sony/Epic
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000024ERJ
Release Date: 2004-12-28

Tracks:

Downer
Devil
I Don't Want Nobody
Day Tripper
Mother and Child Reunion
Things Yet to Come
Rain
Rainbow
Walkin' the Dog [*]
Live for the Day [*]
Rebel [*]

Album Description

Full title - Kapt. Kopter & The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds. 1972 album for the Spirit guitarist/singer/songwriter. Includes three bonus tracks, 'Walkin' The Dog', 'Live For The Day' & 'Rebel'.

Album Details

The Once and Future Spirit Frontman's Solo Album from 1972 Came Out after a Debilitating Riding Accident, as California Managed to Survive Where Other Did Not. The Album is Filled with Great Psychedelic Blues Tracks and is Considered an Absolute Gem for True Rockers. California Played with Jimi Hendrix in his Pre-experience Band the Blue Flames and Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding of Hendrix's Experience Appear on this Disc Uncredited. California Covered Two Beatles Songs Here, Giving them a Radical Reinterpretation as Well as Paul Simon's "Mother and Child Reunion". This Edition Adds Three Bonus Tracks: A Cover Rufus Thomas' "Walkin' the Dog", "Live for the Day" and "Rebel" that Did Not Appear on the Original LP Release.

Customer Reviews:

Incredible covers-- awesome originals.......2007-01-23

Better than any I have ever heard within the genre of psychedelia- including Jimi. A very uplifting experience with a master of the guitar. The riff from Roxy Music's "Mother of Pearl" is to be found buried somewhere in this great music.

American Psychedelia.......2005-08-23

This was/is a great example of what the west coast psychedelic crowd was capable of at one time. Continuous reinvention and no time for boredom. Hearing this again brings back memories of smokey basements with legless maroon sofas, stereo toast nailed to graffiti sheeted walls... white clinical, turkey buns, orange double barrel and California Sunshine.

If that makes no sense mix 500 micrograms of any of the above in your OJ and slip this into the CD player.

This is some of my favorite acidrock and definitely pure Randy California sans additives/preservatives or any other harmful chemicals.

Lost Treasure.......2004-06-13

As a classic rock DJ on a public radio station I am always looking for gems and nuggets, overlooked and undervalued. This is the best New Old music I've heard in a good while. It has real blues roots and the kind of great guitar you'd expect from someone who played in Jimi Hendrix's group, (before he was famous in the US.) It's psychedelic electric blues; it's what I wish the Black Crowes would do. After I was gifted with this CD I could hardly bear to take it out of the CD player in my car, because in a little convertible, with the volume turned up, it can make you feel 17 again. I promise.

VERTIGO YOUR CONSCIOUS twirly.......2003-11-24

RANDY at his MOST SOLO in CHARGE,BLUE CHEER guitar SLUDGE and GRUDGE ON PROFFESIng adherence to VISIONS OF GRANDEUR hendrix,electricity GIVEN dylan radical similar FOLKY wow abandon the acoustical for the slammer PURIST would scream children would run RANDY ABANDONS all pretensions of seventy collective and dives into the HEARTH OF matter. RADICAL GUITAR as CLUB TO STUN, CAVEMEAN neanderthal ODD ball STONERS BACKED, COUGHING out clonckers of DEWEY green brainy melt drip RADIOACTIVITY AS STATIC, insanely wry bemused YUCK IT UP meism tossed up, bottle BADLY DECOMPOSED staint or stint to the buggy closet MEN IN white suits, AROUND THIS surely is PSYCEDELIC corner, BIG TIME.

the best cover versions of any beatles songs EVER done!!!!.......2003-06-16

okay, everybody today is all excited about the new rock and roll revival from sweden, but you know what? it all sucks when you listen to REAL ROCK. You think Jimmy Page is a good guitar player, well...NOT! Listen to the dude who taught Jimi Hendrix a thing or two...AND "RAIN" ON THIS CD IS HELL OF A MIND BLOWING TRIP! Can you handle it? huh?

Kapt. Kopter & The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds

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Great Early Randy California material
Waiting For The CD Again
early 70s Magick
A fine acid rock souvenir from the early '70s
Raw Studio Homage to Hendrix

Kapt. Kopter & The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds
Randy California
Manufacturer: Edsel Records UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000011SO
Release Date: 1995-02-01

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.

Raw Studio Homage to Hendrix.......1999-05-14

Kaptain Kopter and the Twirlybirds is a tribute to Hendrix; on KK&T Randy California not only manages to layer the Hendrix style over covers, "Day Tripper" and "The Mother and Child Reunion" and originals "Downer" and "Devil", he does it effortlessly. Instead of simply imitating Jimi's sound, he plays it as if he knows exactly what he's doing, instead of guessing at producing riffs here and there. The music is at times rough, other times fluid, and sometmes blistering; it can be listened to repeatedly for nuance, power and melody. The cover of "The Rain", a Beatles tune, slips into fusion, not long after, or during the advent of the hybrid of rock and jazz made its advent. Legend has it that Hendrix took California into the studio once and taught Randy things about treble, volume and wah-wah that Jimi showed no other. Makes sense if you listen to it. The album is more than an oddity, it is a required delicacy in the collection of any serious rock music fan, now and forever.

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Kapt. Kopter & The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds
Randy California
Manufacturer: Demon Records UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000DSYN
Release Date: 1994-07-05

Tracks:

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

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Manufacturer: Edsel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B00000DTGW
Release Date: 1997-12-09

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