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The supergroup that destroyed itself
Since nobody bothered to make a documentary about Captain Beyond, it was left to our robotic overlords to create one. It is done on the cheap, with no music licensed to use, still — the facts are there, so here it is.
Thanks to Arch and Uwe for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
I used to have their Sufficiently Breathless album, and I never cared for it. Now West, Bruce and Laing what a group that could have been if not for the band members addictions.
May 22nd, 2026 at 01:47Even I learned some new-to-me stuff about CB in that perfunctory and AI wordy piece. Personally, I prefer Sufficiently Breathless (the album) to the debut, I liked that Santana influence. CB were this weird mix of English (almost Canterbury Scene) Prog, psychedelia and American West Coast rock, but it was certainly an original sound.
It is debatable whether Rod Evans ever qualified for the “rock singer” bracket, but I found that he sounded on both CB albums more at home than on the Mk I albums.
I actually saw both Lee Dorman and Rhino a few years later on a German Iron Butterfly Tour – with Doug Ingle on keyboards and vocals. Rhino’s terse guitar style appealed to me.
May 22nd, 2026 at 06:39