i'm surprised there's never been a thread on these guys. it seems like a skot type thing.
but anyway i've been rocking their self titled album a lot, they did some capricorn reissues a few years ago on CD...
anyway these guys smoke! they throw a lot weird convoluted prog turnarounds into the southern rock boogie without losing the strengths of either genre...somehow...that must've been a hard trick to do...
plus any band that rolls with song titles like "myopic void" and "mesmerization eclipse" and then still dedicates a song to duane allman can't be bad! that's the law.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 7 August 2008 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link
sweet album covers too!
http://www.charliesouza.com/Captain%20Beyond.jpg
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/795/cover_1347102612008.JPG
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 7 August 2008 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Sadly, the band bellyflopped royally after the debut. Sufficiently Breathless is a decent listen but it's not the whack upside the head furnished by the debut. It's just not in the same vein and often sounds like a radically different band save for the singer. It frequently reminds me of the Moody Blues except for the tune "Evil Men."
― Gorge, Thursday, 7 August 2008 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I like the monologue bit on As the Moon Speaks.... You can tell that dude likes to score.
Myopic Void to thread!
― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 7 August 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, it is weird there is no thread. one of the best debuts of the 70's, that's for sure. i did start this thread though:
Where Is The Love For Bobby Caldwell?? No, Not THAT Bobby Caldwell! Bobby Caldwell of Captain Beyond & Keith Relf's Armageddon & Johnny Winter And & Rick Derringer Fame!!
and the two-part live thing of them doing the first album stuff is still one of the greatest reasons for youtube to exist:
part one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2L8wheRPpM
part two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFfzUdNjwQc
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 August 2008 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Southern rock?
― Reatards Unite, Friday, 8 August 2008 05:56 (fifteen years ago) link
1st LP fucking rules! I've never heard the second.
I was gonna say this. I'm gonna email him now and tell him say hi to this thread.
― Raw Patrick, Friday, 8 August 2008 07:36 (fifteen years ago) link
It frequently reminds me of the Moody Blues
Gorge, you just inadvertently concurred with Dave Marsh! (Called 'em "Moody Blues for wimps" or something similar in that old RS blue book.) It must be the Mellotron.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
shit yeah.
first album is so fucking great. one of the few that has the right combination of brevity and great songs where i'll just restart the fucking thing immediately after it ends.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
fucking, great, fucking, great,
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Gorge, you just inadvertently concurred with Dave Marsh
Hmmm, except I liked Sufficiently Breathless. Just not half as much as the first one which naturally came inside one of the greatest original LP covers of all time. Not pictured on this thread, though. You have to go back to the little prismatic thingie with the Captain Beyond man in it glued to the front.
― Gorge, Friday, 8 August 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw that for sale once - $40. Whereas Their Satanic Majesties Request usually goes for half that.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Saturday, 9 August 2008 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm sure you could find it for less than 40 if you looked.
there is a thread for that too:
How much IS the 3D-album cover version of the first Captain Beyond album worth, anyway??
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 August 2008 03:32 (fifteen years ago) link
They should have it so you could view the 3-D cover on giant Playstation 2 while listening(Ted Turner probably does that,in his CNN Tower Howard Hughes crib)
― dow, Saturday, 9 August 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw that for sale once - $40
I have a copy. And one of the repressings that was just the image. And two of Sufficiently Breathless. Sad to say, many Friday nights of Seagram Seven and Chuckles with someone named Big Al decades ago. We were so easily amused.
― Gorge, Saturday, 9 August 2008 07:10 (fifteen years ago) link
that's the law
Actually a title of a Point Blank tune from their debut. It was about wife-beating, tax evading, and doing pills -- thematically as southern rock as one could have been and still barely have a record contract in 1975 because Clive wasn't listening close when the demo got played. Somehow appropriate for this thread.
How much was my arm worth before I threw it away?
― Gorge, Saturday, 9 August 2008 07:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Heg1son thankig u so hard for this thread
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 9 August 2008 07:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Heh heh, thanks for the summons. The self-titled is definitely my favourite early 70s US rock LP along with Love it to Death. Just pure brilliance from start to finish, prog, psych, blues and hard rock awesomeness. Tributes paid by Dave Wyndorf and many others ('Twin Earth' is 'Mesmerization Eclipse'). Never heard the 2nd all the way through, but it's clearly not the same band without Caldwell, who co-wrote all of the 1st LP with Evans. But what I've managed to 'find' of the 3rd album, Dawn Explosion, with Caldwell back on drums has sounded pretty hot, but it's ultra tough to track down.
― myopic_void, Saturday, 9 August 2008 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link
That Youtube double-bill is awesome! :D
― Just got offed, Saturday, 9 August 2008 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i like dawn explosion a lot. that's a good record for sure. i've got the vinyl, but i'm pretty sure you can get it on cd.
for years, other than vinyl, the only way you could get the debut was on a japanese import cd. they know what's up.
2nd album is pretty common in used record stores.
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 August 2008 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
decent copy in an ebay store for 20 bucks total:
http://music.search.ebay.com/captain-beyond-dawn-explosion_Records_W0QQcatrefZC6QQdfspZ32QQfposZ02568QQfromZR2QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ32QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQsabfmtsZ1QQsacatZ306QQsadisZ200QQsaobfmtsZinsifQQsargnZQ2d1QQsaslcZ2QQsbrftogZ1QQsofocusZbs
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 August 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Well thanks for making me look, Skot. I've bid on one of those now!
― myopic_void, Saturday, 9 August 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Dawn Explosion, with Caldwell back on drums has sounded pretty hot
I had it. Sold it. The magic was mostly gone and all of the brutality from the first LP, probably due to the circumstances and time at which it was recorded.
― Gorge, Saturday, 9 August 2008 23:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I just bought the first two albums on one CD in a Berlin music store, currently diggin' :D
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 3 November 2008 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
DANCING MADLY BACKWARDS!DANCING ON A SEA OF AIR!
Fun album BUT the cover...blugh. I did not need Captain Beyond package.
― rubisco (Abbott), Monday, 3 November 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TB5P7598L.jpg
yucko!
― rubisco (Abbott), Monday, 3 November 2008 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
u mad (at wizards)
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 3 November 2008 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
At wizard package
― rubisco (Abbott), Monday, 3 November 2008 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
a wizards package of great bulge will come to u shortly
― ROBIN TROUSERS (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 08:44 (fifteen years ago) link
revive just to say I pulled this (the debut) out over the weekend, and it is goddamn awesome. i'd be surprised if some of the soundgarden guys didn't have this somewhere in there collections
― Bill Magill, Monday, 8 June 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i was blindsided by the track times...they mean nothing. this is a fucken trip, needs to be heard as one piece
― the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Monday, 8 June 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
totally agreed. weird that these guys fell off the map after such a great debut.
― Bill Magill, Monday, 8 June 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
it's like, after half an hour of great music, they suddenly hit you with the I Can't Feel Nothin' riff, and then finish off with a totally breathless whistlestop tour of their own awesomeness
― the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Monday, 8 June 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Fucking LP rules.
― CosMc (Raw Patrick), Monday, 8 June 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Live in 1971:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD90IWShqqU
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 8 August 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
Southern rock?― Reatards Unite, Friday, 8 August 2008 05:56 (5 years ago)
― Reatards Unite, Friday, 8 August 2008 05:56 (5 years ago)
― wk, Thursday, 8 August 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
oh I guess Larry Reinhardt was from the south
― wk, Thursday, 8 August 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
Did anyone get Live in Texas? Worth buying?
― ( (brimstead), Thursday, 8 August 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
I truly love this band (the first two LPs, never heard the third). Not sure i see the "southern" component in the music, though they were on Capricorn and i think recorded their albums here.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Thursday, 8 August 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
The second one is actually Latin-influenced
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Thursday, 8 August 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
You know what? I'm going to listen to Armworth for an hour straight. Deal with it, Earth.
― You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 19 May 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
What was my arm worthWhen they took it awayIn the spirited rush that set upArmistice Day
Where did they put it, BellaWhere and which wayDid it stop the mad charge thatThe enemy made
Or is it with my brotherIs it with my brotherIn a mean, endless grave
Tell me...Where...Tell me...Where will I go to find it
What has my arm gainedIn the balance of thingsAre there still birds a-flyingIn a brushing of wings
Or do they still see the skiesStill see the skies as a terrible thingAnd spoiling all them singing, babeAnd a-smashing up their wings
Wish I could go with them, BrotherBut of all thingsIt's only a stub of the original thingAnd it was there when I signed upAnd I saluted my king!
Where, Tell meWhere do I go to find it?
― You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 19 May 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
so good
― niels, Friday, 20 May 2016 08:13 (seven years ago) link
"as the moon speaks (return)" and "armworth 1972" rule as much as anything on forever changes. never understood why these guys don't get more love
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 13 June 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
I think Captain Beyonds second album kinda bombed sales wise and Rod Evans got married and quit the band.
It was pretty hard for bands then to really make much money without hit records.
― earlnash, Monday, 13 June 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link
i suppose dixie dregs ended up taking a sorta similar redneck-prog aesthetic to the bank but they were more boring fusionistas tho
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 June 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link
"uranus expressway" on the recent lost and found 1972-73 is killer
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 25 June 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
I just got my copy and q ain't joking, killer tune.
― Puke and Other Poems (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 22 July 2017 07:56 (six years ago) link
The early version of "Icarus" with Rod singing is pretty cool, too.
― Puke and Other Poems (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 22 July 2017 08:08 (six years ago) link
― brimstead, Saturday, 22 July 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link