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I got this from a friend of mine and it was with the special hologram cover. Wowie Zowie, now that's rock and roll. You could buy this album here at Amazon, but I'd suggest you don't support that corporate media whore, and instead support a different corporate media whore by buying from ebay - get it on vinyl here!! This can be quite unuseful, but I cant find the ed2k link.

Don't know what they got going on with it I didn't direct link, but I linked to someone else's page Awesome i have 2 copies of this on vinyl. I should buy the other cover variation. I've been hopiing for a download for my ipod thanks. As for Captain Beyond, ever since I stole, er, borrowed a copy from my cousins ca. I mean, the savagery of the two songs that close side one, "Mesmerization Eclipse" and "Raging River Of Fear" still kick my butt just as hard as when I was Hell, even the "suites" work.

Cool site! Hey for Capitan to Capitain. And then Rod came in after that. In an interview in late , Rhino suggested that Caldwell joined after Evans had been brought in:. Rod Evans was a founding member of Deep Purple, and sang on one of their biggest early hits, Hush. In , Purple decided they needed a heavier sound, and so Evans was ousted from the band in favour of the leather-lunged Ian Gillan.

Looking for bright new horizons, Evans moved to Los Angeles. He soon found himself jamming with Captain Beyond. The results, according to Reinhardt, were both magical and miserable. He quit the band four times before we ever even hit the road. All I can say is he was a great singer.

Their first, self-titled album was a masterpiece of sophisticated aggression, part dope-rock thuggery, part limber, prog-baiting space-metal. It sold well, and the band gigged relentlessly, including a full-scale tour with the Alice Cooper band. According to Reinhardt, by the time the band starting working on their follow-up album, labelmates the Allman Brothers had broken big, and Capricorn wanted Captain Beyond to explore their southern side.

That pissed them off, and that was the beginning of the end. They did stuff like put us on tours that were absolutely absurd, like Sha Na Na — they were headlining, we were the opening act.

Does that sound good to you? We were playing in New York, in Central Park. It was like the Republicans and the Democrats, like going to Congress. When we were on, the Sha Na Na side of the crowd started throwing vegetables. They were throwing tomatoes, bananas and grapes at us, and we were trying to dodge all this shit.

And then we got into the swing of it and we started to throw the vegetables back at them. And then the crowd started throwing stuff at each other. It just became a huge food fight. We called that one the Fruit And Vegetable Festival. It was just crazy. By the end of it we just started booking our own gigs, and the guy who owned the label was threatening to fly out and beat our asses.

I offered to meet him halfway, so we could get it over with quicker. It was a mistake. Phil [Walden, Capricorn head] threatened to kill Rhino, he threatened to kill Lee.

There was this level of aggression going on, and things slowly started to deteriorate. In the beleaguered band released their second album, Sufficiently Breathless. A flop at the time it was released, the album eventually found its fans.

Bobby Caldwell, who left the band before it was recorded, is not one of them. And it was really probably about nothing important, just some childhood ego things or something. But we were really butting heads about something.

I knew we were going to break huge. But there was some kind of opposition mounting that was against that. And, of course, the album rocks. Why this band did not reach a greater audience I don't know, but anyone interested in the heavy prog sub-genre should own this album. It is spectacular.

Well before you get your knickers too much in a bind, let me just state clearly that this is NOT an album that consists of entirely new material. Well, there is one new track that never was released but otherwise this is merely a collection of demos and alternate takes. Most of these tracks appeared in final form of course on the eponymous debut album whereas one comes from the oft loathed third album 'Dawn Explosion. And that's exactly what we get here.

The only totally new track here is the hilariously titled 'Uranus Expressway' yeah, i can't help but thinking it could be nicknamed 'Hershey Highway!!!! Despite the silly title, this is a serious bluesy rock track that is nothing out of the ordinary from the day and wisely left off of the debut album for it doesn't have that progressive flair like many of those earliest of tracks.

It actually echoes back to a more primeval era of Deep Purple minus John Lord's keyboard contributions, of course, but actually a decent energetic rocker that finds the band in fine form with a tinge of Southern twang that correlates the Johnny Winter connection. All in all these are interesting relics from the past and will undoubtedly be ravishingly devoured by rabid fans foaming at the mouth for any scraps of residue from the hitherto inaccessible vaults, but other than the single new track there isn't much that is out of the ordinary from what's actually on their albums.

It's not like these tracks are so different compared to some of those on the Beatles' different versions for example. This is definitely a good and worthy extra supplement for any collector's shelves but not one i feel warrants the essential label.

Review by friso Prog Reviewer. I was wondering what I myself had written about this stand-out record and I found that I never actually wrote a review about the Captain Beyond debut. A shame, because in the beginning it was one of my great inspirations for my own band along with May Blitz, Budgie and others. For legal reasons the songwriting of the album was contributed to singer Rod Evens ex-Deep Purple and the excellent drummer Bobby Caldwell ex-Johny Winter.

Guitar player Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt ex-Iron Butterfly who obviously wrote a lot of riffs here wasn't mentioned as co-writer because of legal issues. Lee Dorman also ex-Iron Butterfly plays bass. This is actually one of the few progressive rock records that actually rocks! It has power, ingenuity, the wild vibe and yet has that obscure collectible feel to it. Furthermore, the hard rock elements are firmly rooted in American rock - not British at all.

It is actually quite strange why this record didn't receive more appraisal at its time. Perhaps because of the overly progressive songtitels and not so catchy lyrics.

I would have to press myself to remember the lyrics of one single refrain now I think of it. It matters not. The endless stream of original riffs and rhythms, sometimes in odd signatures, without loosing the wild Hendrix feel is a real winner here.

Furthermore one can find musical elements that clearly resemble stoner rock that would appear in the nineties. Together with some eclectic prog metal King Crimson comes to mind and some space-rock moments this is a complete eclectic work of art that fails to fit in any category.

My only complaint being the production - which lacks a clear low end bass - this is an almost perfect record. Exciting and innovative. Five stars. Must have if you like hard rock, heavy prog, heavy psych and seventies progressive gems in general. Review by Modrigue Prog Reviewer. Consider the musical universe of the 70's. Where do those space corsairs comes from?

So is this another hard-blues formation? A pale copy of the aforementioned bands? Not at all. Is it progressive? Yes, in a sense that this album is more a patchwork than a collection of songs. The music is unpredictable, evolving, moving, as if the CAPTAIN was constantly re-adapting the trajectory of his ship through the unexpected turbulences of the cosmic void.

Furthermore, the record is catchy, accessible and avoids being repetitive or messy. The tracks are full of unusual changes and breaks, years before RUSH's proto-prog-metal.