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| | Captain Beyond | | | Music Artist : | | Captain Beyond | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Fontana Island | | Release Date : | | 1997-08-19 | | Store Price : | | $9.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $8.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Dancing Madly Backwards (On a Sea of Air)
2. Armworth
3. Myopic Void
4. Mesmerization Eclipse
5. Raging River of Fear
6. Thousand Days of Yesterdays (Intro)
7. Frozen Over
8. Thousand Days of Yesterdays (Time Since Come and Gone)
9. I Can't Feel Nothin', Pt. 1
10. As the Moon Speaks (To the Waves of the Sea)
11. Astral Lady
12. As the Moon Speaks (Return)
13. I Can't Feel Nothin', Pt. 2
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 One Of The Great Hard Rock Albums Of All Time
Submitted on: 2009-10-24 |
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Captain Beyond were singer Rod Evans of Deep Purple, guitarist Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt, bassist Lee Dorman, both of Iron Butterfly and Bobby Caldwell , Johnny Winter's drummer .
This album is sooo cool . It's hard rock with a nice dose of prog. All the songs are really good AND they're really interesting . Myopic Void , Raging River Of Fear , A Thousand Days of Yesterdays , Dancing Madly Backwards.. etc ...one song kinda leads into the next ..The only band I can think of to compare them to is Jethro Tull . They don't sound like Tull , but they're music is intelligent , well structured and they were not afraid to do something different .
One of the great hard rock albums of any era . |
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Micro Music Review: Classic Reissue
Submitted on: 2009-09-24 |
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Captain Beyond was a rock group formed in Los Angeles in 1972 by ex-members of Deep Purple and Iron Butterfly. Singer Rod Evans had been with Deep Purple; Lee Dorman had been in Iron Butterfly; drummer Bobby Caldwell had worked with Johnny Winter and Larry Rheinhart.
This is a classic progressive album with rock, heavy metal, and jazz influences with "space rock" lyrical bend. The bands influence to musicians worldwide is cult-like inspired.
Lyrically, the album explores the psychedelic theme of existence, often with references to the moon, sea, and sun. The listener may get the feeling of taking a trip in a rocket ship headed for a destination unknown. Musically, the album is superior in all aspects.
Semblable: Armageddon, Wishbone Ash, Bloodrock |
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classic
Submitted on: 2009-08-07 |
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Like genre labals? Play with this inversion: this is either the most progressive hard rock album of all time or the hardest progressive album of all time.
The answer?--Who cares! Important is that the first self-titled Captain Beyond album has major innovations; most of which, unfortunately, even Captain Beyond never picked up the gauntlet on.
It is not the songwritting, which is excellent. It is not the playing, which is superlative. It is not even that Rod Evens, who sang Deep Purple's most pop oritented hit, "Hush" transforms his voice from a melodic alto to a hard rock chainsaw that would make today's metel monsters hide backstage.
The invention here is how the rhythm section works. In most rock, the bass and drums provide the backbone, the bass working in the pulse the drummer provides.
Captian Beyond had Bobby Caldwell, a metal drummer more syncopated and percise than most jazz hitters. His launguge is fills, playing off the beat, shifting the emphasis each messure. For most drummers, and most rock, this would be wanking disaster. But Caldwell is so ecconmical, each stick stroke so spereate and clean, his fills are little beats, keeping perfect bottom to the music. The only drummer whose approach nears Caldwell's is the brilliant Michael Giles. But Giles used syncopation to melodically stroll through King Crimson's schizoid roar. Caldwell syncopated AROUND the chunky cornerstone created by Captain's bass and giutar.
Instead of following Cawell, bassist Lee Dorman locks with the guitar, phrasing so close you don't know he is there. But listen, and you'll hear not only his mastery of spikey riffs, but the subtle ornamentation he inserts. Most of the best bass playing is that which you have to search for.
Dorman may mave provided a solidly melodic backbone for Iron Butterfly, but that was nursery school compaired to the hidden craft he spins here.
Forgive me: this sounds like music school. But the inventions are important because they give this music an entirely different reflex than most rock, never mind hard rock. You know when you put this on you are listening to a unique speciman--the whole essence of hard rock is changed.
But make no mistake: this has all the growl and adreniline of Machine Head, Kick Out The Jams, or Led Zeppilin II. It is experimental. NOT accidemic.
It will make you think, just long enough before it blows the roof off.
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Exhilarating and Refreshing
Submitted on: 2009-06-17 |
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I recently wondered what had happened to singer Rod Evans after he left Deep Purple and discovered on Wikipedia that he co-founded Captain Beyond a few years later. I ordered the group's first CD and was very impressed.
This is a very distinctive album that is exhilarating and refreshing. I love the way they propel the music forward with rapidly changing rhythms. The singing and playing from all 4 members is very good, and the psychedelic lyrics are interesting even if they are quite obscure apart from their anti-war tinge. The album is kind of short, clocking in at just over 35 minutes; but it's an intense ride while it lasts.
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One of the BEST bands you've probably never heard of!
Submitted on: 2009-05-31 |
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Hi Folks...
If you're reading this, you've stopped because you're intrigued by the cover, or perhaps you've heard of some of the luminaries involved in this album. At any rate, these guys rock!!
There was Deep Purple's Lead singer, Lee Dorman from Iron Butterfly, Rhino from Thee image & elsewhere & Bobby Caldwell from the (SMOKING!) Johnny Winter LIVE band.
This was one of the first Supergroups.
From the very first chords, they had me & I think they'll have you too!
They rock, but there is also a great deal of thought in the way the songs are written & performed.
I once met Lee Dorman (in a bar in Hermosa Beach, CA) & when I recognized him & said hello. I could tell what he was thinking: "Geez! ANOTHER Iron Butterfly Fan". When I raved about Captain Beyond, and asked about the writing & performance, his face lit up. Obviously he was quite proud of his efforts in CB (As he should be!!).
I don't think I'd call this "heavy", or "prog", or "art" rock... But it DOES ROCK. These guys are a a very small class of extraordinary thinking persons hard rock (Also see "Armageddon"- also, for just PURE rocking ENERGY see Johnny Winter LIVE circa 1975 or so).
Don't miss this album. Play it loud! Play it for friends & above all, play it on a ROAD TRIP! |
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