We need a CAPTAIN BEYOND THREAD because southern rock needed its own King Crimson!

sweet album covers too!

http://www.charliesouza.com/Captain%20Beyond.jpg

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/795/cover_1347102612008.JPG

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."

I like the monologue bit on As the Moon Speaks.... You can tell that dude likes to score.

Myopic Void to thread!

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

Southern rock?

1st LP fucking rules! I've never heard the second.

Myopic Void to thread!

I was gonna say this. I'm gonna email him now and tell him say hi to this thread.

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.

Southern rock?

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.

fucking, great, fucking, great,

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.

I saw that for sale once - $40. Whereas Their Satanic Majesties Request usually goes for half that.

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??

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)

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.

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?

Heg1son thankig u so hard for this thread

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.

That Youtube double-bill is awesome! :D

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.

decent copy in an ebay store for 20 bucks total:

http://music.search.ebay.com/captain-beyond-dawn-explosion_Records_W0QQcatrefZC6QQdfspZ32QQfposZ02568QQfromZR2QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ32QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQsabfmtsZ1QQsacatZ306QQsadisZ200QQsaobfmtsZinsifQQsargnZQ2d1QQsaslcZ2QQsbrftogZ1QQsofocusZbs

Well thanks for making me look, Skot. I've bid on one of those now!

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.

I just bought the first two albums on one CD in a Berlin music store, currently diggin' :D

DANCING MADLY BACKWARDS!
DANCING ON A SEA OF AIR!

Fun album BUT the cover...blugh. I did not need Captain Beyond package.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TB5P7598L.jpg

yucko!

u mad (at wizards)

At wizard package

a wizards package of great bulge will come to u shortly

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

yeah i was blindsided by the track times...they mean nothing. this is a fucken trip, needs to be heard as one piece

totally agreed. weird that these guys fell off the map after such a great debut.

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

Fucking LP rules.

Live in 1971:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD90IWShqqU

Southern rock?

― Reatards Unite, Friday, 8 August 2008 05:56 (5 years ago)

oh I guess Larry Reinhardt was from the south

Did anyone get Live in Texas? Worth buying?

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.

The second one is actually Latin-influenced

You know what? I'm going to listen to Armworth for an hour straight. Deal with it, Earth.

What was my arm worth
When they took it away
In the spirited rush that set up
Armistice Day

Where did they put it, Bella
Where and which way
Did it stop the mad charge that
The enemy made

Or is it with my brother
Is it with my brother
In a mean, endless grave

Tell me...
Where...
Tell me...
Where will I go to find it

What has my arm gained
In the balance of things
Are there still birds a-flying
In a brushing of wings

Or do they still see the skies
Still see the skies as a terrible thing
And spoiling all them singing, babe
And a-smashing up their wings

Wish I could go with them, Brother
But of all things
It's only a stub of the original thing
And it was there when I signed up
And I saluted my king!

Where, Tell me
Where do I go to find it?

so good

"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

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.

i suppose dixie dregs ended up taking a sorta similar redneck-prog aesthetic to the bank but they were more boring fusionistas tho

"uranus expressway" on the recent lost and found 1972-73 is killer

I just got my copy and q ain't joking, killer tune.

The early version of "Icarus" with Rod singing is pretty cool, too.

Did anyone get Live in Texas? Worth buying?