Captain Beyond
Captain Beyond

Absolutely awesome album ! Rod Evans on vocals Larry Reinhardt on guitar, Lee Dorman on bass and Bobby Caldwel on drums playing the great heavy rock music. Worth to listen for all Deep Purple fans.

I was very interested to listen to the debut album of a supergroup made up of participants Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, Johnny Winter Group. Since I listened to this album for the first time, there was no special relation to it. I heard a solid hard rock, with a touch of progress. The performance is at a very high level, which is not surprising, judging by the musical experience of the band members. However, the music is rather poor and one-dimensional. No comparison with the albums of Deep Purple.

Captain Beyond should have been Rock Gods. Had they been more commercially successful, they could probably have gone down in the books as rivaling Bla...