-- Captain Beyond - Sufficiently Breathless | (Audio CD) MSRP $ 9.98 Amazon Price $ 9.98 Savings $ 0.00 | |  Release Date: 19 May, 1998, Fontana Island
TRACK LISTING - Sufficiently Breathless
- Bright, Blue Tango
- Drifting In Space
- Evil Men
- Starglow Energy
- Distant Sun
- Voyages Of Past Travelers
- Everything`s A Circle
Usually ships in 24 hours | | | BEYONDS BEST | | FANS OF EARLY PINK FLOYD AS WELL AS EARLY DEEP PURPLE FANS WOULD LIKE THIS DISC WITH DPS EX SINGER ROD EVANS. IT IS CLEARLY THIER BEST WORK. | | | | A joy to hear | I purchased the first Captain Beyond Album when I was about 16 I guess.
At the time they did not have digital cd`s and sometimes albums this old could be hard to find. When I was about 25 I found a japanese copy of this album in an import sale bin for @ 10.00. I was surprised because I had never seen another Captain Beyond album.
I still have this sam Japanese copy. I`m 39. I have kept this album all these years in mint condition for one reason. I`s great! I think it`s one of rock`s best unknown moments. There`s not a bad song on it. True it is different from the first one. But all in all I think it outways the first in creativety and even music ability. It is a fine work with fine playing. I would recomend this album to any fan of 70`s acid rock.
It does have what you need and more. | | | | Ultra-luscent Magnetism ! | A lot of fans dislike Sufficiently Breathless for the wrong reasons. Original drummer Bobby Caldwell is one of the most underrated drummers in rock. He had the chops of Ginger Baker and the precision of a metronome. When he quit after the first album, the band replaced him with a subpar drummer. Consequently, the second album sounded like what Disreali Gears would have sounded like if Ginger Baker had quit the Cream and been replaced by Nick Mason or Buddy Miles (not that they are incompetant drummers, merely unsuited to a high energy power trio). In late 1973, the original quartet reformed and toured, performing some of the Sufficiently Breathless material. With Caldwell back in the drummer`s seat, the second album material really cooked (as evidenced on the excellent quality audience recorded bootleg It`s Our Lives).
That said, the music on Sufficiently Breathless is, in some ways, better than that on the legendary first album, which was mostly a catalog of heavy rock riffs strung together into a sort of hard rock suite. The down side of this is that it has a certain sterile, mechanical, repititous quality to it, while the second album actually has songs on it. The band also spiced up it`s sound with Latin rhythms and jazz, while maintaining it`s psychedelic space rock theme. If you`re a tie-dyed in the wool hippie, ya hadda love these guys for refusing to douse the incense and black light in the era of navel-gazing singer-songwriters and camp 50s nostalgia!
To clarify some misconceptions about this album, I read somewhere that the music was composed by Dorman, Rhino, and Evans, but Lee Dorman was given exclusive songwriting credit because Rhino and Evans were still in respective litigation with the managments of Iron Butterfly and Deep Purple. Also, I heard that Rod Evans quit the band in the midst of recording and had to be coaxed back into the studio to complete the album, which is why it`s running time is so short.
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