Jim Capaldi
Jim Capaldi
Nicola James "Jim" Capaldi was an English drummer, singer and songwriter. His musical career spanned more than four decades. He co-founded the psychedelic rock band Traffic in 1967 with Steve Winwood with whom he co-wrote the majority of the band's output. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a part of Traffic's original line-up...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth2 August 1944
home ideas magazines
Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.
writing thinking sweat
After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.
hype catalyst ability
You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.
impact important elbows
We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.
bridges giving shapes
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.
appreciation desire range
We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.
strong names groups
So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.
philosophy writing way
It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things.
strong taken america
I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.
creativity pushing-boundaries pushing
I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.
writing two feelings
If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really describe in words, and so what you do is to put music to them and in this way you make contact with the words, through the musical thing. It happens when two feelings come together and they do something together and they compliment each other.
passion thinking causes
I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.
writing band titles
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
strong titles
You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.