The Captain is dead. Farewell, Captain. In his honor, here is a list of horrible things I have done to or with his music over the years, in roughly chronological order:
(1) Lobstora's song "Run Captain Run," which performed long-distance psychoanalysis of the Captain and T's relationship based on the awkwardly staged bulldog photo on the cover of Love Will Keep Us Together. Was there feedback? There was feedback. Also, a super-lo-res sample from "Broddy Bounce" (admittedly a jam) looped on my brother's Performa along with Macintalk exhortations to the Captain to run, run far away. If you read T's autobiography (I glanced through it at the library's used-book store), it sounds like the exhortations should have been sent in her direction, not his, but either way. I feel like there were other references to Love Will Keep Us Together on that tape, too.
(2) Super-scabrous feedback and delay-abuse version of "The Way I Want to Touch You" done with A. in the garage in Costa Mesa at a weird point in my life. The one existing recording of my old MXR rackmount digital delay from the swap meet, me poking buttons like I'm running an Osterizer and making it emit shrill goose honks. Noteworthy.
(3) At one point I think I holed up with a sampler and a copy of the Spanish-language version of LWKUT (entitled Por Amor Viviremos) and sampled a very short loop of T. singing "oo-may" from the phrase "tú me perteneces," roughly "you belong to me now," one of the lines referenced in (1), that plus a lot of Language Master something.
Are there other things? Probably. Were the 90s a weird time if you had some means of sampling sound and a predilection for so-so 70s soft-rock records? Yes!!!!!
