The capital city rockets

01/08/2017

...........The Capital City Rockets: Bob Hill, Eric Moore, the late Jim Lyons, Jerry Hertig, Michael Warner. . .
Thanks Bob Hill!

25/03/2016

Saturday night, on the Mark after dark show, interview with Eric Moore talking about his days in the capital city rockets- check it out.

27/12/2015

The Capital City Rockets - Capital City Rockets (1973) The Capital City Rockets' self-titled album, released in July of '73, generated one regional hit singl...

30/01/2014

CAPITAL CITY ROCKETS (ELEKTRA RECORDS 1973)
WHAT A RIGHT BUNCH OF BRUISERS,THESE DUDES LOOK
LIKE THE SUBWAY SKATER GANG FROM WARRIORS.
THIS IS DEFINETELY PRE-PUNK STUFF : BOVVER BOOGIE
HARD KNOCK ROCK´N´ROLL FROM THE STATES.

17/11/2013

01/04/2013

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Capital City Rockets album by Capital City Rockets was released Jan 11, 2011 on the Wounded Bird label. Recording information: Elektra Sound Recorders, Los Angeles. Capital City Rockets music CDs Photographer: Ed Caraeff. Capital City Rockets songs Personnel: Michael Warner, Robert Hill (vocals, guitar); Jamie Lyons (vocals); Gregory Preston (piano); Jerry Hertig (drums); Bobbye Hall (congas). Audio Remixer: Fritz Richmond. Capital City Rockets CD music contains a single disc with 10 songs.

27/03/2013

Founded on reckless energy and raging hormones, rock and roll was intended to be simple, sexy and often silly. And that’s exactly what Capital City Rockets provides. So if three chords, handfuls of grease and lots of grunting and grinding tickle your ears, then here’s the album for you!

27/03/2013

Music critic Joe Viglione has this to say in regards to the photograph that appears on the back cover of the Capital City Rockets’ self-titled debut: “The band is literally so ugly looking that the label opted to put a colorful yellow, pink, green, and orange on black album cover together with a rocket and stars bursting out of the lettering.” Martin Popoff, in his The Collector’s Guide to Heavy Metal, Volume I: The Seventies, avoids commenting on the band’s less than savory facial features, but describes the record itself as an “abomination.” Ouch. This sounds like a job for The “I-Own-Every-Record-You’d-Never-Buy” CD Consumer’s Guide. First released in 1973 on Elektra Records, Capital City Rockets is a generic slab of guitar-driven hard rock. The album is poorly recorded, the playing mediocre and the lyrics downright sleazy—“Ten hole dollars for an hour of your time” is only slightly less offensive than “If you spend all my money on a new fur coat/You might find an orange tie wrapped around your throat”—but it’s a record not without merit. “Little Bit O’Fun” is, er, a little bit of fun, and both “Grab Your Honey” and “Breakfast in Bed” are irritatingly catchy. Despite the bad press and negative reviews, Capital City Rockets did serve as a springboard for at least one of the group’s members. Bassist Eric Moore ended up in a band called The Godz, who recorded two albums for the Millennium/Casablanca label in the late ‘70s

25/03/2013

CAPITAL CITY ROCKETS (ELEKTRA RECORDS 1973)
WHAT A RIGHT BUNCH OF BRUISERS,THESE DUDES LOOK
LIKE THE SUBWAY SKATER GANG FROM WARRIORS.
THIS IS DEFINETELY PRE-PUNK STUFF : BOVVER BOOGIE
HARD KNOCK ROCK´N´ROLL FROM THE STATES.

ROCKET

25/03/2013

Mixed Water / the Capital City Rockets

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Columbus, 1972-4

The Capital City Rockets played a straight ahead style of rock-n-roll. The band was started by Bob Hill, who recalls - "Michael "Bopper" Warner and Jerry Hertig both played in "Hard Sauce" with Jamie Lyons, (Jeff Robinson and Donald "Kacey" Kacir - I think). I stole both Bopper and Hertig from Hard Sauce, added an excellent bass player, Bud Fowler, and that was Mixed Water. A Mixed Water demo was sent to Elektra and Lyons was added after the demo had been sent while we were waiting for the response. Eric Moore replaced Bud when Bud couldn't get along with Bopper and stated, "Me or him." The label, in the age of glam and costuming, decided that a 'look' was needed. Taking a name from a "Roller Derby" type monicker (and dressing likewise for promo shots), they recorded one LP for Elektra (a strange choice, perhaps, considering Elektra's roster of singer/songwriters). A 45 of "Breakfast in Bed" got some airplay in the Columbus area but not enough to keep the band going. Eventually they split with Moore rejoining Hill in the band Sky King before splitting to form the Godz. Moore also spent some time as a roadie for LAW.

Besides Jamie Lyons' previous bands, a lot of Columbus music history was represented by the CCR members. Bob Hill had played in many Columbus bands including Debonairs, Bishops, Four Winds, Goldfinger, Strongbow, and Climax while Moore had been in Tree, breifly. Michael Warner had been in the Four O'Clock Balloon.