Captain Trips

"Captain Trips" is a single from The Free Rock Trio's third studio album Gone Wild. It was released alongside a music video on September 15, 2020 via Pink Hat Records.

The title is taken from Stephen King's 1970's opus The Stand; the superflu that wipes out 99% of the population in the classic story is named Captain Trips, and Keplinger was reading the book during the making of Free Rock and Buford, which also happened to be when a pandemic of our own (COVID-19) was settling in. This is the first influence of King's on the band, but not the last- for the band's 2021 LP New Threads is Dead, many of the storytelling influences came from King's The Dark Tower series, which Keplinger was reading at the time.