Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond (1972)

GONG - Live Bremen 1974

Great space rock, prog rock!
Live with very good sound.

Non-flowery prog. is okay in my book.

New person said this thread wasn't active, so I'll put an old favorite here.
Uploaded an edited version of this 33 minute piece because there wasn't one.

THAT Grobschnitt track is about as good as it gets.

I have some 12 different versions.

Live they always - what's the word?...errr...improvised Solar Music.


"Do you like SO...LAR...Mus..ZICK?"

That "Ballerman" record has history with me:

I take it this is a Brit forum?
If so, most won't know of Toronto's "Sam The Record Man" store.

Well, I got my "Ballerman" there and was heart-broken to discover it played badly - and a double IMPORTED record was pricey for a teenage-snotkid.

As much as I wanted the lp set, I didnt want it in that shape.
I was a very shy kid ,so the prospect of returning it was daunting - back then things were a bit different (for one thing, there were very few , what you call "chazza"-type stores then. And returning unsatisfactory merchandise was not too common.

So the guy that ran the rock/jazz dept at Sam's was a negro (and there werent many blacks in this neck of the woods baclk then either. So I still remember his face.
He said no problem. I expected my $20 back, but he rooted about and much to my amazement and delight, presented me with ANOTHER copy.

Sometimes those 70s import pressings were crap - especially ones from JEM imports who supplied many a store in those days.
Sometimes you'd get a noisy Brain or Ohr release, but, yes, if you knew a nice negro, you could get a fresh copy.
You probably know that there's an enormous - and beautifully done - Grobschnitt box set.
Seventeen discs with each disc exactly 79:10 long and remastered by Eroc (whom I think is much better at it than Steven Wilson).
I have more versions of Solar Music than I can count. This version is taken from another remastered version done by Eroc
that was released about three months ago.

The forum has people from all over the world including from Toronto.

I have the first three Eroc lps.

Were there any other offshoot lps of Grob?

I have his five solo albums (all signed by him), the two he did with Hans Reichel and the one with Urs Fuchs.
Post-Grobschnitt: the only other member that did anything somewhat memorable was when Mist released
some things under the name of Yomano. It was pretty much new age goo. He died 9 years ago in his 50s.