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It's an all-1972 week on Rockin' in the Days of Confusion, with some really long tracks, including the full uninterrupted version of the Allman Brothers Band's Mountain Jam from Eat A Peach. And as a bonus we get to hear a genuine early '70s garage band.
Artist: Captain Beyond
Title: Dancing Madly Backward (On A Sea Of Air)/Armworth/Myopic Void
Source: LP: Captain Beyond
Writer(s): Evans/Caldwell
Label: Capricorn
Year: 1972
Never in my life have I been as impressed with a band I had never heard of before seeing them perform live as I was with Captain Beyond when I saw them in El Paso in 1972. They were so good I barely remember how the second band, Jo Jo Gunne sounded, and I'd totally forgotten who the actual headliner was (it turns out it was Alice Cooper). The next day I went out and bought Captain Beyond's debut LP and immediately saw on the back cover the words "Dedicated to the memory of Duane Allman". That was, for me, simply icing on an already tasty cake. Captain Beyond opened their set the same way they opened the album itself, with Bobby Caldwell's solo drum rift setting things up for Larry (Rhino) Reinhardt's opening power chords, played in unison with Lee Dorman's bass. Rod Evans's vocals were every bit as good, if not better, than they had been when he was an original member of Deep Purple, and the group was so tight it sounded like you were listening to the album itself. The first three songs, Dancing Madly Backward (On A Sea Of Air), Armworth and Myopic Void play as a single piece. Although all the songs are officially credited only to Evans and Caldwell, it turns out that there were contractual issues concerning Reinhardt and Dorman's status as members of Iron Butterfly at the time that prevented them from sharing songwriting credits on the Captain Beyond LP.
Artist: Allman Brother Band
Title: Mountain Jam
Source: CD: Eat A Peach Deluxe Edition
Writer(s): Lietch/Allman/Allman/Betts/Oakley/Johanson/Trucks
Label: Mercury (original label: Capricorn)
Year: 1972
Due to the limitations of vinyl records, the first released version of Mountain Jam was split over two of the four sides of the Allman Brothers Band's 1972 album Eat A Peach. CD technology, however, has made it possible to present the entire 33 minute long jam uninterrupted. The piece was recorded live at the Fillmore East in March of 1971.
Artist: Wishbone Ash
Title: Time Was
Source: CD: Argus
Writer(s): Turner/Turner/Upton/Powell
Label: MCA/Decca
Year: 1972
The most popular of Wishbone Ash's albums, Argus was the band's third effort, released in 1972. The album is full of medieval references on songs such as Time Was, the nine-minute opus that opens the LP. The album has proved so popular with the band's fans that Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash released a new studio re-recording of it in 2008, accompanied by a live Argus tour. Another former band member, Andy Powell, has since followed suit, with both groups performing Argus in its entirety as part of their stage repertoire.
Artist: Grand Theft
Title: Scream (It's Eating Me Alive)
Source: LP: Brown Acid: The Third Trip (originally released on LP: Grand Theft)
Writer(s): Crowbar Schwartz
Label: RidingEasy (originally self-released)
Year: 1972
Originally conceived as a parody of Grand Funk Railroad by members of the Kirkwood, Washington country-rock band the Bluebirds, Grand Theft proved popular enough to get live bookings. Songwriter "Crowbar Schwartz" is probably a distant relative of Nanker Phelge.
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