Daryl Dragon & Toni Tennille, better known as mega platinum 70’s Yacht Rock hit makers Captain & Tennille put on a unique comeback show at SXSW that has them back in the center of the vortex of the creative cutting edge of the 21st Century avant music scene. In a bold career move that has shocked longtime fans, this legendary duo temporarily have left the comfort of the the Laughlin to Reno to Cruise Ship to Airforce Base Officer’s Lounge touring circuit to join up with Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips as their new musical & stage director.
Their gig at SXSW has set the blog-o-sphere adrool with chatter about epic revamped psychedelic reinterpretations of set staples like “Muskrat Love” and audience fave “Love Will Keep Us Together”. So far the early reviews say “Do That To Me One More Time!”.
In a much anticipated secret gig at a local Austin parking garage tomorrow, these two show biz troopers have also decided to collaborate in a groundbreaking project that honor’s the release of a new Captain & Tennile TV show retrospective DVD boxset. Wayne Coyne will personally press play on all 4 of their 76-77 variety show DVDs at once in mini-van DVD players dispersed in random intervals throughout the parking garage. “Some people will be watching the pilot from the 1976 season, and others will be seeing our last show from march 1977″ said an excited & slighty slurring Capt. Daryl Dragon last week from the Naked Turtle Lounge near Lake Havasu Az where he is deep into a bottle of scotch and preparations for this daring DVD playback event. The results of this experiment will then be remixed under Coyne’s direction and reissued as a new larger more expensive box next year in special packaging made of Dragon’s old drink umbrella’s & cocktail napkins from the Naked Turtle Lounge. “Look Wayne’s like the General now, I’ve been the Captain for close to 40 years now and just need a little break from strategizing on the battlefield”.
The musical svengali and his new protege'
An A&R bidding war was rumored to be brewing in the parking lot of Stubb’s for the rumored new material , but it also just could have been a coke deal gone bad…at press time, no one was really sure.
