Where Is The Love For Bobby Caldwell?? No, Not THAT Bobby Caldwell! Bobby Caldwell of Captain Beyond & Keith Relf's Armageddon & Johnny Winter And & Rick Derringer Fame!!

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He is my hero.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

And how come i didn't know that he appears on live at the fillmore east by the allman brothers until now?

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

and why didn't i buy that live captain beyond concert video on vhs that was always advertised in the back of goldmine? (the one where they do the whole first album all the way through!)

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

that armageddon album makes my top 200 list of records easy.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

if i were a drummer, i would want to be bobby. but i have two left feet. i could never be a drummer.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

has anyone ever heard the group that he had/has with old southern rockers? i think it's actually called *Southern Rock Rebellion*. But I could be wrong.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

great armageddon piece in the last ugly things magazine. great interviews.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

i want to live inside his drum-kit.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

There's a great cover of "Dancing Madly Backwards" on George Lynch's new "Furious George" CD. Aynsley Dunbar's the drummer and he can do Bobby Caldwell as far as I can tell.

― George Smith, Saturday, 13 August 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

armageddon... you ever heard steamhammer's speech? first or second song on the armageddon album's the same music as one on that lp (mostly the same band, i think).

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 13 August 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

Armageddon smokes. The Buzzard is one of the best rock songs of the 70's.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Sunday, 14 August 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

Don't miss out on the Shrapnel labe's K-Tel revivification of bands doing the '69-'74 hard rock thang. You're gonna kick yourself 5-10 years from now for missing "Furious George" and "Retraced" by Jake Lee and "In for the Kill."

― George Smith, Sunday, 14 August 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm completely obsessed with Jim McCarty's guitar tone on the first two Cactus records. I think it may be the best big rawk guitar tone of the early 70s and that is saying something.

Has anyone heard The Detroit Wheels or Buddy Miles records he played upon? Sonic Youth had to nick Buddy's title "Expressway to Your Skull" back in the day, so I wonder if it is a big soul fuzz wah delight. Sadly I don't think that record has never been issued on CD.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 14 August 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

the Detroit Wheels stuff he played on is fucking awesome. "Shaking With Linda"!! Got some Buddy Miles anthology on cassette with no info but there's hot gtr a-plenty (and lousy horn arrangements). Been listening to Cactus myself lately and REALLY enjoy his playing though that Rusty Day guy is never gonna be my favorite hard rock singer.

last year when I was in Michigan I noticed an ad for Jim McCarty's Mystery Train playing at some bar in Detroit.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 14 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

So the drummer and the "What You Won't Do For Love" guy were two completely DIFFERENT Caldwells? Shit, that's disillusioning - all this time I thought they were one and the same! So I guess this means that the 1979 R&B charts had only room enough for ONE disco-smash-by-former-Johnny Winter/Rick Derringer sideman.

Anyhow, Caldwell = great drummer, on the evidence of that first Captain Beyond rec.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 14 August 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

Just fyi....my 1st husband taught Bobby Caldwell how to play drums, in Coco Beach, Fla., in the 60s. They sound exactly alike on the drums. Glad to see some people enjoy his music!

― Mary Stark, Saturday, 27 August 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

NO way, Mary! Thanks for that. I love little bits of info like that. Did your husband play in any bands??

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 28 August 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

and if by chance you do come back here, did you ever go see him play in any of his bands? Bobby that is.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 28 August 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Jim McCarty was also good when Mitch & Johnny Bee and some other Wheels came back as Detroit. LP self-titled, "A Bow Howdy! Production," as in Creem, uniquely, I think; reissued on CD with at least one bonus track, long ago; cover of VU's "Rock And Roll" and mucho mas. Also good in Rockets, with Johnny Bee. Don't remember solo Buddy too well, though he smashed Rolling Stone's water cooler when they reviewed him. (Prob w) provocation enough, considering their usual non-insight into heavy music back then). Was great with Band Of Gypsies, on McLaughlin's Devotion, that jam album with Carlos, Electric Flag, California Raisins, and Laswell got him into a bunch of stuff after Buddy got out of prison for armed robbery.(Also, I think Laswell put together an anthology of vintage Buddy; might be fairly findable.)

― don, Sunday, 28 August 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, I think Laswell said he was planning a power trio, of himself, Buddy, and Sonny Sharrock, right before Sonny died.

― don, Sunday, 28 August 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

Fuckin' A! Captain Fucking Beyond Live on Youtube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq5hWFjO_W4&search=captain%20beyond

Bobby is the fucking man!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 16 March 2006 03:26 (twenty years ago)

there is a devil! man, what a treat.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 16 March 2006 03:32 (twenty years ago)

McCarty isn't on that album. The lead guitarist on Mitch Ryder's Detroit is Steve Hunter (before he teamed w/Dick Wagner and went on to Lou Reed and Alice Cooper.) Produced by a young Bob Ezrin and funded/band-managed by Creem publisher Barry Kramer hence the Boy Howdy designation. Bonus cut = "Gimme Shelter" barked by Mitch.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 16 March 2006 11:07 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

BOBBY CALDWELL WAS MY BOYFRIEND WHEN HE WAS IN NOAH'S ARK,I MADE HIS CLOTHES,AND HE WAS THE MOST AWESOME DRUMMER.GREAT TIMES THE 60'S.

― CAROLE MAGARY, Tuesday, 16 May 2006 01:42 (twenty years ago)

wow, you must have lots of great stories, carole. rock on!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

loved that man,his drumming was hypnotic, I have to say, the drummer closest to his charisma is Lar's in Metallica. Bobby had a physical and mental strength that I see in Lars.I hear he is back in Winter Park.Is he still playing?

― carole magary, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

i like captain beyond!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 00:53 (twenty years ago)

this is all i can find on the web about *Southern Rock Rebellion*:

http://www.wolfmanjack.com/ssr.htm

(and it's really really old)

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 01:22 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

MY DAD IS BOBBY CALDWELL. WHEN I WAS LITTLE I GREW UP IN THE RECORDING STUDIO IT WAS GREAT. I THINK MY DAD IS AN AMAZING DRUMMER. IM GLAD TO SEE PEOPLE STILL REMEMBER HIM.

― ASHLEY CALDWELL (MONKIE76), Sunday, 1 October 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOL

― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 1 October 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, we remember him Ashley! Bobby is the greatest! Wow, you must have heard some great stuff back then. Give Bobby our best, okay? Rock on!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 1 October 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

How truly amazing messages I've just found in here... I was impressed about the husband who taught Bobby to play, astonished by the one who was his girlfriend and totally blown away by his daughter, this is so cool! Not to mention how great is to see that I'm not the only one worshiping Bobby's drumming, from Johnny Winter, Derringer, Armageddon and of course the unbeatable Captain Beyond... I'm an obscure 60's-70's hard rock hedonist from Mexico who plays drums and constantly pushing people to listen and play CB... Their first album beats constantly in my head from head to toe and Bobby's drumming is for me simply the best... I think he has the exact attitude and feel towards hard rock music that every drummer should have; he is always up on the beat, pushing the songs until their best and being no shy about his playing; also some incredible snare chops and total control of what he's playing, and of course his signature impossible-to-keep rythyms... No need to say Captain Beyond is only 2nd on my Top 10 bands, just after Black Sabbath, and needless to say Bobby is my Number One drummer of all time...
Pleasure talking to you guys...

― al centurion (centurion), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

This is surely the greatest thread ever.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

Rock on, Al. Bobby rules!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I played with Bobby Caldwell in the 60's in a band called the "Dynamic Deltas". I'm sure it was the first band Bobby played in. We auditioned him at his parents home in Winter Park, Florida. We asked him to play the drum intro on Little Latin Lupe Lu. He blew us away so much that we could hardly play. He played with us until the rest of the band went off to school in Gainsville in 1966, Bobby was still in High School. I have some pictures of the band that include Bobby from about 1965 or 66. The band members were Larry Maddox, Bass; Dave Hankins, guitar; Bobby Caldwell, drums; and yours truly Don Krzeminski, guitar. So glad I found this site.

― Don Krzeminski, Thursday, 22 February 2007 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

I AM BOBBY CALDWELL.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 6 May 2007 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

i was just playing bobby caldwell the other day. great name too, like a winger for barnsley in 1974

― 600, Sunday, 6 May 2007 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

"I played with Bobby Caldwell in the 60's in a band called the "Dynamic Deltas"."

That is awesome, Don! Did you guys ever record anything? If you ever scan those band pictures and put them on-line, let us know!

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

I pulled out Armageddon and spun it the first time in awhile and damn if it doesn't sound as good now as it did in the 70's. One of the most underrated albums of all time.

― Jim, Saturday, 12 July 2008 18:29 (seventeen years ago)

Rock on Bobby Caldwell! Since this thread came up I have found the very groovy Johnny Winter And Live CD. That is definitely another good record.

'Sonic Youth had to nick Buddy's title "Expressway to Your Skull" back in the day, so I wonder if it is a big soul fuzz wah delight. Sadly I don't think that record has never been issued on CD.'

Yes it has been reissued and yes it is big soul fuzz delight.

― earlnash, Saturday, 12 July 2008 22:44 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

i, too, am bobby caldwell

― amateurist, Monday, 26 October 2009 10:34 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

An understated performance here, but fits the tune quite fine. Couple of nicely placed fills, especially in mid-chorus and out of the break.

Great single all around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcjelba-lLI

― Johnny Hotcox, Friday, 18 January 2013 19:29 (thirteen years ago)

four years pass...

soooooooo, captain beyond is touring and its really just bobby from the original band. would totally pay 30 bucks just to see him play live. but they are playing in like...ithaca...and buffalo and places like that. no massachusetts dates i don't think. friend of mine saw them in philly and said it was great.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 19:02 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

'Teenage Love Affair' by Chesterfield, Indiana's own Rick Derringer is a fine slice of Bobby drumming. It's very power pop and the drums got a bit of Elvis TCB! funk in them. Cool tune.

― earlnash, Saturday, 1 September 2018 05:33 (seven years ago)

I picked up a nice vinyl copy of Armageddon at the last record show and HOT GODDAMN!

― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 September 2018 06:17 (seven years ago)

Thanks for the tip, earlnash, checkin it out

― brimstead, Saturday, 1 September 2018 16:36 (seven years ago)

seven years pass...

This thread rules. I scored an original pressing of the first Captain Beyond album with the 3D cover today and am getting blown away by every second of it

― J. Sam, Wednesday, 3 December 2025 03:07 (six months ago)

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