General Caine is a band from Los Angeles, U.S.A. Mitch McDowell took the professional name in tribute to an officer who had supprted his artistic ambitions while at military school. In the same vein as Captain Sky and Bootsy Collins, General Caine released some good examples of the genre, without receiving the recognition the tracks, obviously, deserved. General Caine relocated to Tabu Records in 1982 where they released the album Girls. By this time the line up had changed to just six musicians, with the rest of the line up being made up of session artists, including Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley. An album followed on Tabu the following year, entitled Dangerous, with many of the arrangement chores handled by Leon Ndugu Chancler. Frontman Mitch McDowell was murdered in January 1992 at the age of 38.
	General Caine  Girls 1982 Tabu Mitch McDowell 9 General Caine  Dangerous 1983 Tabu Reggie Andrews 8