Rachael B
Senior HTF Member
Captain Beyond was very big with southern rock fans. I saw 'em play. Their two albums have been issued on CD even if they're OOP now....I'm not sure on that. A prerequisite for albums from the LP age being atleast somewhat obscure ought to be , never been on CD, IMO.
Since CD's came along, it's hard to argue that groups on big 5/4 labels are truly obscure. Many indie CD labels have released in such small quantity that their artists could be considered obscure, IMO. Here's a possible example....has anybody heard of Elvis Hitler? I have a CD by them called Disgraceland which features their college radio "hit", Green Heaven.....which is Purple Haze's music with the lyrics for the Green Acres TV show theme sung to it. It's definitely relatively obscure. How much so, I'm not really sure...???
I have a lot of jazz albums from the 50's and 60's that somebody gave me. One album that didn't play well but was intresting prompted me to search data bases for the artist and I never found a thing. That's truly obscure, just wiped out of music's recorded history.
Captain Beyond is not so obscure by comparrison at all.
Since CD's came along, it's hard to argue that groups on big 5/4 labels are truly obscure. Many indie CD labels have released in such small quantity that their artists could be considered obscure, IMO. Here's a possible example....has anybody heard of Elvis Hitler? I have a CD by them called Disgraceland which features their college radio "hit", Green Heaven.....which is Purple Haze's music with the lyrics for the Green Acres TV show theme sung to it. It's definitely relatively obscure. How much so, I'm not really sure...???
I have a lot of jazz albums from the 50's and 60's that somebody gave me. One album that didn't play well but was intresting prompted me to search data bases for the artist and I never found a thing. That's truly obscure, just wiped out of music's recorded history.
Captain Beyond is not so obscure by comparrison at all.