We’ve decided to convert this web site to an archive containing the recordings of Catdaddy Pirates. While the band itself didn’t last long, we believe its potential was evident in the handful of recordings that it made. Hopefully you’ll agree. In the coming weeks we’ll be posting the re-mastered versions of the songs that we’ve previously posted, as well as the completed songs that never saw the light of day.
Catdaddy Pirates could have been a great band. However, like so many other potentially great bands, it was undermined by personality conflicts and different agendas. It was not meant to be. But in that brief few months when Catdaddy Pirates existed, it showed some amazing potential. This web site is now dedicated to preserving that brief moment of promise.
Wicasta has submitted his song, This Old Dawg, to MySpace’s Rock The Space 2 contest, which will net someone a recording contract. Not that any of us expect to actually win something like that (we’re not pretty enough – and we’re too old, besides), but what the hell, right? If you want to check it out, feel free to drop by and cast a vote once the voting begins. It’d be much appreciated.
We’ve begun preliminary tracking for the new original recordings, and hope to have some new songs online within the next couple of weeks. Our first tune is going to be a re-working of Wicasta’s infamous “This Old Dawg”, followed by any number of possibilities. We have a long list of original songs to choose from, and we’re figuring out which ones fit best under the Catdaddy Pirates banner. Our intent is still to have a full CD available by the end of the summer. Wish us luck!
We also plan to begin posting original artwork, including our new mascot, the pirate kitty Hannibal (don’t call him cute – he’ll eat your liver), as well as lots of new pirate designs for our t-shirts and posters collections.
In other news, our sister project, Windhaven, is beginning to bear fruit. If you haven’t heard of Windhaven, suffice it to say that after a hard day of raidin’ and pillagin’ you sometimes just want to kick back, have a margarita and enjoy the sunset. Windhaven is perfect for those times when you just want to kick up your feet and enjoy a well earned rest. You can always kick off the next morning with strong coffee and a dash of rum!
This post also presents a great opportunity for us to share an exceptional pirate spaceship graphic that we’ve pilfered from the Internet. We’ll share proper credit once we find out who the bugger is what created the image. Until then, we’ll look to the stars and dream.
We’ve just returned from a fun-filled rampage through the Caribbean, and are berthing our ship in Tampa Bay for a vacation to recover from our vacation. We’ll be recording originals this week to get started on that CD we’ve been threatening to Tampa Bay area with. Hopefully we’ll have the first samples online within a few weeks.
We’re excited about getting the originals down. After our brief soirée with the obsessive denizens of the Tampa Bay Blues community, we’re returning to our favorite crowd pleasers and barn burners. Fair warning to the weak of heart. Catdaddy Pirates is preparing a full broadside.
We hope to begin initial tracking sessions this week as we set out to record our first album of all original material. While we don’t have a specific time-table on when the album might be completed, we hope to have a CD available by the end of the summer, and we hope to be posting examples of the work in progress within a few weeks.
We’re also going to eventually complete the recording sessions of the cover tunes that we made such a fuss about. With the departure of our guitar player and friend, J. C. Rice, we’ll be recording new guitar tracks and re-mixing those tracks. But honestly, that now has become a secondary project to that of recording the original material.
So… we have been quiet of late because we’ve been regrouping. But we definitely have diabolical plans in the works. Please check back here often for updates.
We’ve been invited to perform for the Covington Park community in Apollo Beach, Florida on April 3rd as part of their Easter celebrations. If you’re in the Apollo Beach area on March 20th, drop by and say hello. And if anyone asks, just tell them you’re with the band. We’ll claim ya, and we’d be pleased to meet you.
We’re looking forward to a continuing relationship with the good folks of Convington Park. We’ve been invited to tentatively play three or four other shows in Apollo Beach during 2010, and hope to continue delivering the goods for our friends there.
We’ve been invited to perform for the Covington Park community in Apollo Beach, Florida on March 20th. Some of us have played for the good folks of Covington Park before, and we look forward to sharing in their excellent company. If you’re in the Apollo Beach area on March 20th, drop by and say hello to the band. We’d be pleased to meet you, and we’d appreciate the moral support as we continue to tool up our show for our assault on the Tampa Bay music scene.
We’ve just posted the Catdaddy Pirates version of Marshall Tucker Band’s “Can’t You See”. We’re proud of the mix and think we did justice to a legendary Southern Rock song. We’re especially proud of our harmonies in the recording. Hopefully this sets a precedent for some of our future projects.
The song features Wicasta Lovelace on lead vocals, with excellent harmonies by J.C. Rice and Wolf Schwartz. It also features more of J.C.’s great guitar work and Wolf’s usual rock-steady drumming.
We hope you enjoy listening to “Can’t You See” as much as we enjoyed recording it. If you enjoy it half as much as we did, then we enjoyed it twice as much as you did. You’ll need to catch up.
As usual, you can find the track featured in our player at the upper right hand corner of the web site. Or if you can’t find it there, click on our “Audio” link above to discover more options.
We took a few pictures at our run-through last Wednesday at Market On 7th in Ybor City. Despite our best efforts, we didn’t break the camera. But the batteries committed hara kiri before we could get to the pics that were supposed to make us look beautiful.
We’re hoping to get the rest of our new recordings up online over the next few weeks. Some of you have asked what’s taking so long. You apparently haven’t been apprised of official Catdaddy Pirates policy. We don’t do anything half-assed. The recordings will be posted when they’re ready (which will be soon). We’re not just looking to throw together some demo tracks that we can use to score gigs. We intend to have these tunes CD and radio ready. That takes time to pull off properly at all, much less to do quickly.
We’ll be nailing down our last couple of sets in the next week or two. The band is itching to raise our proverbial sails and launch our assault on Tampa Bay. Come on out to Market On 7th in Ybor City every Wednesday and spur us on during rehearsals. We promise to save you a slice of the best pizza in Tampa Bay.
We’ve just posted the Catdaddy Pirates version of the classic “Mustang Sally”, featuring bassist Wicasta Lovelace on vocals and boasting yet another searing lead break from Brother J. C. Rice. We’re quite pleased to be getting more of these songs up online for your perusal, and would appreciate any feedback you might be able to give us on them. If the final mixes keep turning out so well, we may make CDs available to friends and family (home-grown only), but that all depends on whether they want ‘em or not.
We’ll be posting more songs over the next week or so, and will probably be bugging about each one of them as they’re posted. Hopefully these tunes will help to get out and about, into the Tampa Bay music scene pretty soon. We’ve got our cannons fully loaded and we’re itching for a skirmish. But for now, let “Mustang Sally” serve as a notice that this ship is in the water.
