Captain Beyond Hawkwind connection?

mike coleman insect.brain at GMAIL.COM
Thu Dec 6 20:04:52 EST 2007


anything beyond the Montreaux part 2 could be risky, but you'd like the art
if you were sighted,  them's the breaks and I certainly didn't take away
your vision
did you notice at the latter part of part 1, with the jamming reminicent of
the 1st LP, whatever part that is??? (it wasn't on part 2 as I originally
thought)
cool little trinket noisebox ol' recluse Evans had too hmmmm????



On 12/6/07, vzenv14m <maryann.sullivan1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>        Hi Mike,
> I managed to find the track from Captain Beyond, with the chords from
> Dreaming, 3 out of 4 of them are the same, if they were all 4 the same
> progression Dave could have claimed that as a piece to a Hawkwind song.
> Anything under 4 bars is legal.  I'm sure, if it was a result of being
> influenced by Hawkwind it was meant as flattery.
> I found a bunch of CB songs, by going into Utube, and doing a search for
> the
> band, since I was having trouble with the link.  I'm going to explore
> around
> some more in it, to see if I can find anything interesting.  For once I
> figured it out without having to enlist my brother's help.
>
> Love in Space, to all,
>
> Kaduflyer
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> Subject: Fwd: oh how cool-Hawkwind/Captain Beyond
>
>
> *Good morning and good afternoon every one, depending on your
> locale.....thought it might be worth a mention.(since CB was discussed
> here
> years ago when the tribute CD came out) that I found YOUTUBE videos put up
> just over a year ago, with color footage of this band from their classic
> year, 1972, color footage from Switzerland.......I read all 100+ reviews
> and
> every one a rave or positive......the footage is in 2 parts,  titled
> Captain Beyond Pt1, and Captain Beyond Pt2......in Pt 1, at just
> approaching 4 mins if I remember right,  you can hear the guitar go into
> "Dreaming".....then later in part 2,  I'd swear I'm hearing HW 1st LP
> influence.....yes I am insane but I am having a private suspicion that
> this
> band was heavily Hawkwind influenced......the drummer Bobby Caldwell is
> indeed a sight to be seen, and looks to me like the American Simon
> King/Richard Chadwick, right down to the hair.....*
>
> OMG
> never noticed before
> "as the moon speaks to the sea" clearly has "you know you're only
> dreaming"
> in it
> has to be a direct influence
> right??
> also,  proud to think the drummer was from Johnny Winter and he sure does
> sound awfully great to my un-drum-trained ear
>



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