Tribute to Captain Beyond [Import]

Track Listings

1. Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of

2. Armworth-Rise And Shine

3. Myopic Void-Standarte

4. Mesmerization Eclipse-Lotus With Brian Robertson

5. Raging River Of Fear-Flower Kings

6. Thousand Days Of Yesterdays (Intro)-The Quill

7. Frozen Over-The Quill

8. Thousand Days Of Yesterdays-Five Fifteen With Nik

9. I Can't Feel Nothing (Part 1)-Locomotive Breath

10. As The Moon Speaks (To The Waves Of The

11. Astral Lady-Zello

12. As The Moon Speaks (Return)-Zello

13. I Can't Feel Nothing (Part II)-Locomotive Breath

14. Starglow Energy-Orchid Leaves

15. Sweet Dreams-ZoomlenZ With Willie Daffern

16. Dansar Galet Bakat-Qoph

17. Fortrollande Formorkelse-Abramis Brama

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
The seminal '70s hard rockers being paid tribute by Brian Robertson (ex-Thin Lizzy, Motorhead) with Lotus, Nik Turner (ex-Hawkwind) with Five Fifteen, The Quill, Qoph, Locomotive Breath and other top acts. Standard jewel case.

A Tribute to Captain Beyond,Various Artists,Record Haven,New Age,Pop,Rock

Tribute to Captain Beyond [Import]

A Tribute to Captain Beyond
Average customer rating:

A great update

Thousand days of yesterdays... and it still sounds great.

A Tribute to Captain Beyond
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Record Haven
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00003TL5Q
Release Date: 2000-06-19

Tracks:

Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of
Armworth-Rise And Shine
Myopic Void-Standarte
Mesmerization Eclipse-Lotus With Brian Robertson
Raging River Of Fear-Flower Kings
Thousand Days Of Yesterdays (Intro)-The Quill
Frozen Over-The Quill
Thousand Days Of Yesterdays-Five Fifteen With Nik
I Can't Feel Nothing (Part 1)-Locomotive Breath
As The Moon Speaks (To The Waves Of The
Astral Lady-Zello
As The Moon Speaks (Return)-Zello
I Can't Feel Nothing (Part II)-Locomotive Breath
Starglow Energy-Orchid Leaves
Sweet Dreams-ZoomlenZ With Willie Daffern
Dansar Galet Bakat-Qoph
Fortrollande Formorkelse-Abramis Brama

Album Description

The seminal '70s hard rockers being paid tribute by Brian Robertson (ex-Thin Lizzy, Motorhead) with Lotus, Nik Turner (ex-Hawkwind) with Five Fifteen, The Quill, Qoph, Locomotive Breath and other top acts. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

Lotus,Pentagram,Five Fifteen,The Quill,Zello Zoomlenz Etc.

Customer Reviews:

A great update.......2004-05-01

I am a long-time fan of the original Captain Beyond record. I can not say enough about the songs, the drumming of Bobby Caldwell, and on and on.
Sadly, neither of the band's follow-ups approached the intensity of the debut.
Neither does this record, but I didn't expect it to. There aren't many drummers in Caldwell's league.
What it does do is provide a fresh listen to some old favourites. Some of the songs are done more or less as straight covers of the originals, others are somewhat different arrangements.
I highly recommend it to any fan of the original record. Or to anyone who likes their rock on the heavy side.

Thousand days of yesterdays... and it still sounds great........2000-06-11

This rather strange concept was to gather Swedish and other European rock bands to do a tribute to the well respected but somewhat obscure debut by Captain Beyond.

Captain Beyond was a minor "super-group" in the early 70s that gathered together ex-members of Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly and Johny Winter. In the words of CBs drummer (the incredable Bobby Caldwell) and guitarist (the innovative Rhino) the purpose of the band was to "simply explore the various schemes of odd time signatures and arrangements." On their debut they were dramatically sucessful.

They fused together hard rock with progressive and jazz time signatures to form an accessible, but challenging brand of rock-n-roll. But if you're interested in this cd, you probably already knew that...On to the disc.

As on all tributes, some of the material is better than others. However, there is more consistancy on this one than most. Perhaps that is due to the unusual nature of this tribute, which uses a differant band for each song, despite the cd being based on two side long suites. Aside from the Flower Kings, I had never heard of any of the bands that perform here. I must admit I was a bit concerned when I saw that the first band was called Pentagram (who do a great version of Dancing Madly Backwords). But I digress..

Most of the music focuses on the rock side of CB and sticks fairly close to the original arrangements. This works pretty well, although the vocal (and lyrical) interpretations at times feel very European and take some adjusting too. (Actually, some of the attempts at the lyrics are comical).

On the other hand, the two exceptions to this are probably my favorite tracks on the cd. These are: The Flower Kings doing a long, slowed version of Raging River of Fear, and Orchid Leaves doing Starglow Energy (its a bonus track, I know it wasn't on the original CB album) as an acoustic guitar piece with a female vocalist.

Also interesting are two other bonus tracks sung in Swedish.The title track, done by Five Fifteen with guest Nik Turner of Hawkwind, is also excellant. Overall this cd is a well intentioned and mostly sucessful tribute to a band that deserved much more recognition.

Average customer rating:

Tribute to Captain Beyond
Various
Manufacturer: Record Haven
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0002B6X2Q
Release Date: 2002-11-11

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