Intro to Captain Jack - Live April 1972 At Sigma Sound Studios, WMMR Radio, Philadelphia, PA
More songs by Billy Joel
Description
Guitar: Al Hertzberg
Lyricist, Composer, Associated Performer, Piano: Billy Joel
Bass: Larry "La Rue" Russell
Drums: Rhys Clark
Producer: Dennis Wilen
Engineer: Brian Ruggles
Mixing Engineer: Frank Filipetti
Mastering Engineer: Ted Jensen
Lyrics and translation
Original
Plus it sounds better through the phones.
Okay, you can go to your, your electric now.
Just keep truckin', right?
Just keep going.
Okay.
Uh.
This is a song we had to make sure we could clear, uh, before we do it on the radio. I didn't really think it was dirty, but. . .
Well, well, I don't think it's dirty. You gotta get your electric, right?
It deals with, uh, uh, middle-class white kids who, uh, you know, they walk around, you know, every-everybody knows somebody like this.
They, they really dressed up to the hilt, you know? "Hey, man, I'm so cool, man.
Dig me out, man. I got my English duds on.
" You know, and they, and they really just, they don't know where anything is at.
They read Rolling Stone, you know, from cover to cover. That's their whole life, you know?
"Yeah, man, did you hear about the new group? Wow.
" That's their whole conversation, drugs and new groups, right? And, you know, you must know people like that.
And where I come from, there's a lot of people like that, Long Island.
Uh, nobody. . .
But there's a lot of people like that all over.
Anyway, song's called "Captain Jack"