BURIED TREASURE
Firmament Record
This month’s totem of power for the worthy – Chicago future-funk faster than a speeding bullet.
Captain Sky The Adventures Of Captain Sky AVI, 1978
Holding out for a superhero: Daryl ‘Captain Sky’ Cameron – intergalactic funk traveller – in 1979.
Courtesy of Captain Sky Cre8tive Conceptz LLC/Daryl Cameron
AT SPIRITED US indie AVI Records, Liberace wasn’t the only cape-wearing artiste promoting a larger-than-life fantasy in 1978. Dar yl Cameron, a singer, writer, producer and arranger from southside Chicago, had also joined the LA-based label’s roster. He had, he said, “entered the phone booth of his mind,” and emerged in comic book costume to become his crime-fighting alter-ego Captain Sky back then,” the 64-year-old tells MOJO today.
“So Captain Sky came to the rescue!”
Batman and James Brown. He first saw the latter perform live at Chicago’s Soldier Field football stadium when he was 13. “I was sat right at the front and I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears,” he says rhapsodically. “Here was the roots of funk, ever ything grew from it, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, the Ohio Players, I mean everything.”