Captain Al Hubbard by Cat Frequency

Captain Al Hubbard by Cat Frequency

Communication with band

This is a message sent to the band 'Cat Frequency' asking for permission to use the song 'Captain Al Hubbard'.

Psychedelia and the Psychedelic movement

The psychedelic movement began in the mid 1960's and had an effect, not just on music, but on several aspects of popular culture,. This included style of dress, language and the way people spoke, art, literature and peoples overall outlook on life.

It mainly held influence over genres such as blues, rock 'n' roll and folk which began using different recording methodes and non-western istrument such as sitars as well as drawing on effects such as the drones of indian music.

After the 1960's the movement subsided, only to be revived again in the late 1970's through to the 1980's. This was known as 'neo-pschedelia'. As well as these new psychedelic bands many musicians took influence from the psychedelic genre and incorperated aspects into electronic music, creating genres such as acid house and trance. This new wave of electronic psychedelic music is still relatively popular amongst certain groups.

Those who were part of the movement of psychedelia were usually referred to as hippies and generally those who follow the new wave of psychedelic music would also be refered to as 'rave generation hippies'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_music

Kasabian - Cutt Off

The song 'Cutt Off' by 'Kasabian' is thematically very similar to our chosen song as well as Kasabian being highly influenced by the psychedelic side of music. There is a very specific part of the lyrics at the beginning of the track, "John was a scientist, he was hooked on LSD, interested in mind control...", that i believe to be a reference to the experiments conducted on drugs such as LSD. It could also be a specific reference to the *MK-ULTRA experiments, which are highly relevant to Al Hubbard and his involvement with various government organisations and the rumors that he participated in such experiments.
* See 'Captain Al Hubbard Research'





Unfortunately due to copy right restrictions i was unable to post the official music video but it can be viewed on youtube via this link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_V1VX_C9VQ

Captain Al Hubbard Research

Once we had decided upon using the song 'Captain Al Hubbard' by 'Cat Frequency' we thought that perhaps some background research on 'Captain Al...' would be a great way to gain ideas for our video. We were not aware if he was in fact a real person or not but it turned out that he lead an extremely interesting life which provided us with more than enough material to construct a video that references and includes various aspects of his life. Very little has been written about him and the only way we learned about him were through accounts made by his associates. A Beverly Hills psychiatrist named Oscar Janiger once said "nothing of substance has been written about Al Hubbard, and probably nothing ever should." However, we did find out much about him.

Alfred Matthew Hubbard, which was his formal name, is predominantly known for what he did in and around the 1960's in the time of the Psychedelic Movement. It is believed that Al Hubbard introduced LSD to over 6000 people, including scientists, politicians, intelligence officials and church figures.

However, he was not just known for his work with LSD. He was also a prolific inventor, and, at the age of nineteen he invented the 'Hubbard Energy Transformer' which was a radioactive battery that could not be explained by the technology of that period. It allegedly powered a a ferry sized vessel around a bay in Seattle for three days straight. This is especially interesting as he dropped out of school in the third grade and had no such training in this area of science and engineering what so ever.

Just after this the young A.M. Hubbard speant 18 months in prison for assisting rum smugglers using a radio hidden in his taxi, However after his release he recieved a presidential pardon and was cleared of any wrong doing.

There are also rumoures that he was involved in the CIA project known as 'MK ULTRA' which was a project involved in using psychedelics as mind control, namely to use against the Soviets. However it has been claimed that it would be unlike Al Hubbard to be associated with such things.

More can be learned about Captain Al Hubbard on... http://www.rense.com/general28/dshwo.htm

Much of the information above was gained from this web site.