I'm your Captain, I'm your Captain

[Guildedagain]

I have a hard time fighting back tears when I hear this song, today just seems appropriate somehow...





Everybody listen to me
And return me my ship
I'm your captain, I'm your captain
Though I'm feeling mighty sick

I've been lost now for days uncounted
And it's months since I've seen home
Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
Or am I all alone?

If you return me to my home port
I will kiss you Mother Earth
Take me back now, take me back now
To the port of my birth

Am I in my cabin dreaming?
Or are you really scheming
To take my ship away from me?

You'd better think about it
I just can't live without it
So please don't take my ship from me

I can feel the hand of a stranger
And it's tightening around my throat
Heaven help me, Heaven help me
Take this stranger from my boat

I'm your captain, I'm your captain
Though I'm feeling mighty sick
Everybody listen to me
And return me my ship

I'm your captain
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm your captain
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm your captain
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm your captain
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm getting closer to my home
I'm getting closer to my home
I'm getting closer to my home

 

[adorshki]

I have a hard time fighting back tears when I hear this song, today just seems appropriate somehow...

You too?
Last time I heard it was on the radio coming to work a while back...made all the little hairs on my arms stand up too...then I did shed a couple of tears.
And was one of the first little riffs I ever learned on guitar, too.
Another one that does it to me is "Story in Your Eyes" by the Moody Blues

 

[Guildedagain]

OMG... That's been awhile, they were so great, wtf happened to music it makes you wonder... The lead is quintessential Rock n' Roll. And you're right after that it starts to get me... One of the sweetest outro ever in a rock song. Just like Maxwell House, good to the last drop ) Is this from In Search Of The Lost Chord?

Another one that just won't leave me (especially now that I've become quite DADGAD mad (and beyond, that's where I've been the last few months, I may have invented a new genre on the seven string, DEADGAD, I'm working on posting some videos for the world, before it's too late) is Tales of Brave Ulysses, how his naked earth were tortured, by the sirens sweetly singing...

And you know what, it sounds like it was written in DADGAD, and so do many of the other songs of the era, makes you wonder just how influential Graham really was?

This recent downtime has allowed me to "bone up" on Greek Mythology and it seems Aphrodite was born of Uranus' testicles after Cronus sliced them off his dad Uranus as was preparing to mount Gaia, Uranus being her son. did I get that right?

This song takes me back to the first time I heard it, if I let.

Listen to the live version afterwards through good headphones, insane live Cream.

 

[walrus]

"I'm Your Captain" is one of the greatest songs in rock. Period.

walrus

 

[adorshki]

OMG... That's been awhile, they were so great, wtf happened to music it makes you wonder... The lead is quintessential Rock n' Roll. And you're right after that it starts to get me... One of the sweetest outro ever in a rock song. Just like Maxwell House, good to the last drop ) Is this from In Search Of The Lost Chord?

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour.
One of my other favourite MB tunes is on Lost Chord, though: "Ride My Seesaw".
The other is "Question" from A Question of Balance.

Another one that just won't leave me... is Tales of Brave Ulysses, how his naked earth were tortured, by the sirens sweetly singing...

Funny you should mention that one, as every band and tune mentioned so far can be connected in the 6 Degrees of Guild game:
The progression for Ulysses has been credibly sourced as being derived from Lovin Spoonful's "Summer in the City".
The Spoonful's lead guitarist Zal Yanovsky played a Thunderbird and the original bassist Steve Boone played an SF bass.
Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad was at last report still the proud owner of a DV52, even playing it on a radio interview show within the last couple of years "IIRC" (think Dreadnut reported it here); and finally, Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues is pretty well known around here for his JF30-12 love:

Forgive me if you know all that already, it's been a while since you've been active, and welcome back!

And you know what, it sounds like it was written in DADGAD, and so do many of the other songs of the era, makes you wonder just how influential Graham really was?

Graham? As in drummer Graeme Edge? In any case, I see Hayward listed as the composer for "Story".

This recent downtime has allowed me to "bone up" on Greek Mythology and it seems Aphrodite was born of Uranus' testicles after Cronus sliced them off his dad Uranus as was preparing to mount Gaia, Uranus being her son. did I get that right?

You've dug deeper than I remember ever going but speaking of Aphrodite (and Greek mythology):

One of my other faves from them:

(That one actually follows "You" in my YouTube feed)
For hair-raising effect it should be noted that "Let Me Love Let Me Live" released in '69 from Paris, was composed during the height of the Greek colonel's post-coup regime of '68, , the intrigues and repressions of which inspired Cost-Gavras' acclaimed film Z.
And finally by '72 their final album 666 features another take on that good ol' descending progression like "Ulysses" and "Summer in the City":

Trust me on these 3.
They oughta take ya all the way back.

 

[dreadnut]

I love to do "The Story In Your Eyes" on my electric through my Digitech pedal and I set the drum machine on 88 bpm. What a blast!

 

[adorshki]

I love to do "The Story In Your Eyes" on my electric through my Digitech pedal and I set the drum machine on 88 bpm. What a blast!

I even do it on my D25, suitably adapted, of course.

 

[chazmo]

This is a great thread.

One that always gets me is "In the Living Years" by Mike and the Mechanics. I cannot listen to or sing that song without weeping.

 

[Guildedagain]

Ad "Funny you should mention that one, as every band and tune mentioned so far can be connected in the 6 Degrees of Guild game"

I guess everything really connected, events proving out.

I wore the grooves out on In Search of, between Are You Experienced and Boogie With Canned Heat... stacker record player.

Ad "Graham? As in drummer Graeme Edge? In any case, I see Hayward listed as the composer for "Story"

Sorry, DADGAD speak. Davey Graham was an English Folk guitarist credited with coming with DADGAD tuning in North Africa, playing along with Oud players.

Note to self. Oud is still on my bucket list, as well as a... an evening with Keira Knightly or Natalie Portman, but I digress :>{}

Page composed Kashmir in DADGAD, actually, I'm now wondering just how many songs, a lot of Stones riffs in there as well.

DADGAD is quite a beautiful thing, for me. Really resonates. Some of my favorite things to play have aways been medieval, Greensleeves (1580) many many Pentatonic Xmas songs, I've done a thing with Amazing Grace (1779) and others, I'd like to post videos, time and technology permitting but what's happening is so distracting, it's way on the back burner.

I remember Z. I was 9. I was vaguely away of Greece. Not a story you offer encounter.

Remember The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks...

The last of the vids is me, that's always been my style of lead. So wish I could have shared it with the word but I always had a regular job, and a kid.

I still blow people's minds at a parties once in a while, the higher the audience the better ;-{]

Listening to the end now, that's the band always wanted to be in.

 

[adorshki]

Note to self. Oud is still on my bucket list, as well as a... an evening with Keira Knightly or Natalie Portman, but I digress :>{}

Ahahahahah!
Hamza el Din:

I remember Z. I was 9. I was vaguely away of Greece. Not a story you offer encounter.
Remember The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks...
The last of the vids is me, that's always been my style of lead. So wish I could have shared it with the word but I always had a regular job, and a kid.
I still blow people's minds at a parties once in a while, the higher the audience the better ;-{]
Listening to the end now, that's the band always wanted to be in.

And if you didn't catch it in any of the commentaries, that was Vangelis' first band....before his Chariots caught on Fire....

 

[dreadnut]

Mark Farner lives up North here in Michigan, and he still plays a Guild DV52.

 

[Guildedagain]

I love Hamsa El Din. A week after listening to his CD, I can hear every note in my head, over and over.