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Captain Pedantic and the Scurvey Dogs

Kiss-Csapo Gergo, one of my former-band's earliest and most loyal supporters, just posted a bunch of our old tunes in mp3 format. Captain Pedantic and the Scurvey Dogs was fromed around 1992 and lasted for about 5 years, during which time we put out two albums. The original lineup included Nick Palmer (solo guitar), Logan (vocals, base), and myself (rhythm guitar). Logan was later replaced by Matt Craig (accordian, vocals), and we added Fifi (fiddle) and Sandor (drums).

We mostly played English folk (as opposed to Irish or Scottish), lots of Morris dances, as well as about 50 of our own compositions, but in later years we mostly concentrated on the traditional and Stephen Spinder would sometimes teach a few dances. Our biggest successes included palying the main stage of the first Sziget Fesztival back when it was called Diak Sziget; and participation in a huge benefit concert for children with dyslexia at Petofi Csarnok. In fact, the response was so overwhelming at Pecsa that they would not let us off the stage and the next, a quite famous Hungarian performer, on stage. Logan finally waved his telephone card and yelled that he had to call his wife and they let us through. We sold out of cassettes at that gig, but here are few relics Gergo was kind enough to upload. http://captain.dr.hu/