Hey its a pretty simple kind of song. Guitar tuned to C#m - a tuning I read about John Fahey using - and a beat from Clare Moore's 1998 Ensoniq MR61 keyboard. Recorded parts on a Tascam 4 track cassette machine and back into Protools and also used a Zoom hand held recorder for some parts. Then I hacked into it pretty brutally to edit it into shape. Sound elements caused by rough cuts used as punctuative intrusions here and there.
The lyric is pretty literal. There are captains/leaders and I've never been one or wanted to be one. Thats me. (Tracy Braidwood was a playing Captain Coach and then just a team member as full back for East Gambier Football Club in the '60s-70's)
Reed Richards from the Fantastic Four - Captain
Bob Shearman from Sturt - Captain
In my life, I have known captains
not the strongest or the fastest or the best
just captains
I was never captain stuff
follow me! don’t know where you’re goin’- twice!
I was no captain
Reed from the Fantastic Four
Tracy Braidwood – long dropkicks from full back
short back and sides and no teeth
Bob Shearman from Sturt
they were captains
I was no captain
I just liked to drift wide on the wing
float sideways over the pack for a mark and run
I was no captain
Duke Ellington
Count Basie
you’d follow those guys
listen to them - believe them
Chet Baker, Charlie Parker, Keith Richard
Those guys needed a structure
a house already burning
Brian Jones
he was a captain
he left maps and strategies for Mick
I was no captain
Duke Ellington - Captain
Everything Was Funny- Dave Graney and Clare Moore album out now
itunes link
https://music.apple.com/au/album/everything-was-funny/1583892134
Bandcamp Compact Disc or digital album link
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