The Namesake

You are probably wondering why I named this blog “The Mesmerization Eclipse”.

You may or may not know of the classic band Captain Beyond! They are an early 70s band comprised of former members of Deep Purple, Johnny Winter, and Iron Butterfly. They have three albums. The first one is a masterpiece, the second one is an underachiever when compared to the first one. The third one has a different singer, but is pretty good.
I am going to focus on this first lp simply titled Captain Beyond.
What is peculiar about this album is that they list 13 tracks, when in actuality there are only 5 with certain songs having different sections named for them.

Here is the technical running order:
1. Dancing Madly Backwards (On a Sea of Air)
2. Armworth
3. Myopic Void
4. Mesmerization Eclipse (OOOOH!!! See what I did there!!?!?!?!?!?!?)
5. Raging River of Fear
6. Thousand Days of Yesterdays (Intro)
7. Frozen Over
8. Thousand Days of Yesterdays (Time Since Come and Gone)
9. I Can’t Feel Nothin’ Part I
10. As The Moon Speaks (To the Waves of the Sea)
11. Astral Lady
12. As the Moon Speaks (Return)
13. I Can’t Feel Nothin’ Part 2

You see, most of these tracks are simply parts of one song. Here is the REAL track list.
1. Dancing Madly Backwards/(On A Sea of Air)- (jam…no debate….none)
2. Mesmerization Eclipse -(Still a fucking Jam!!!!)
3. Raging River of Fear- (TBJ to the highest degree)
4. Thousand Days of Yesterdays (Time Since Come and Gone)-(Three parts of love!)
5. I Can’t Feel Nothin’ (A perfect closer…keep all breakables away!)

Nevertheless…still complete jams! The lead singer for the first two albums was a guy named Rod Evans. He was the first singer for Deep Purple. You might remember that he is singing the classic hit “Hush”
Listen to the namesake for the blog in the playlist. It’s in 6/8 time..and still jams hard…and will make you hard!!!!!!