Captain Beyond

[kirk]

hey all-

sufficiently breathless was a mainstay of college progrock fm stations
in my area de the 70's. i bought the japanese import around '90 for
the then princely sum of 24.95.

fyi- capt. beyond was iron butterfly bassist lee dorman and (1st album)drummer mike pinera.
here's a bit o' trivia-
SB was sung by "hush" era deep purple vocalist rod evans.

CB folded after their mentor, fellow capricorn artist berry oakley
of the allman brothers died in a motorcycle accident.

switch off the prog filters. this is good stuff, although some tunes
have weathered better than others.

we didn't know (or care) that we were listening to "prog" at the time,
it was all britrock. i kinda miss that.

k

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by kirk

SB was sung by "hush" era deep purple vocalist rod evans.


we didn't know (or care) that we were listening to "prog" at the time,
it was all britrock. i kinda miss that.

k

very timely Kirk...

take a ride over to the thread on my show and you'll see one such song for this week. "Blind" from the third Purple record. Rod Evans can sing.

I have some less complicated music but mostly the good old 70's rock to play, hope you can join in ....

Hey Michael, no problem here...be interested about the Armageddon...

[kirk]

hey rick-

it wouldn't offend me in the least if
you had led zep, the who, deep purple, procol harem,
the moodys on the playlist!

it'd be very difficult to point to where progressive and these
bands diverged. led zep not progressive? they may not be prog...

we heard all this stuff on college radio in the 70's,
along w/ tunes like "time has come today" by the chambers brothers,
"the revolution will not be televised" by gil scott heron,
firesign theatre comedy, the nat lamp radio hour,
even early synth stuff like "snowflakes are dancing" by tomita.
freeform radio w/o the genre box.

seriously, you don't know what you missed.

k

[rick_wakeman]

melancolic?

[kirk]

nope. i'm just hoping for a day that "prog" becomes a verb again.

"too much style without substance, too much stuff without style...."

[Michael]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Hey Michael, no problem here...be interested about the Armageddon...

OK Rick My brother-in law says yea its true(sorry i took so long getting back to you work and doctors )Anyway he said hes going to dig the album up and hes going to attempt to but it to disc.
Edit in--
He also said you may like a Band called Blood Rock passage.He said they kind of like sound like Kansas or let me put it another way Kansas sounds like them

[Vermillion]

So, can "Sufficiently Breathless" be added?

[kirk]

hey michael~
"bloodrock" is the band name, "passage", the big album.
good rock band in their time.
anyone remember bloodwyn pig, the climax blues band,
copperhead...?

i say- if ambrosia makes the prog list, so does capt. beyond!

p e a c e
kirk

Originally Posted by kirk

anyone remember bloodwyn pig, the climax blues band,
copperhead...?

i say- if ambrosia makes the prog list, so does capt. beyond!

p e a c e
kirk

I certainly remember Blodwyn Pig.

Mick Abrahams formed them on leaving Jethro Tull after "This Was".

Lots of Jazzy overtones from the Sax and Flute playing of Jack Lancaster. Excellent first two albums.

Mick still plays occaisionally on the gig circuit here and is always worth seeing.

After "Pig" Mick got together "The Mick Abrahams Band" and released a couple of albums. I seem to remember Rick playing "Seasons" from one of those during an early show of his.

[Michael]

Originally Posted by kirk

hey michael~
"bloodrock" is the band name, "passage", the big album.


p e a c e
kirk

Aye was pretty much going by what he(My brother in law) told me.He has yet to pull the stuff out.Said he let me check it out when he finds it .The guy i must say has a very large collection of Albums.

[yorksrvc]

I LOVED the first Capt Beyond..uh?.............ALBUM!!! I still put one of their songs on my "Mixed 70's" CD collections. I just can't remember the name of it. Another band from the 70's I loved, that I don't hear much about was: Three Man Army. That was Adrian Gurvitz and, I think his brother. They were an offshoot from the band....GUN (no pun intended) Gun was pretty wild too.