CAPTAIN BEYOND AT ACE’S LIVE MUSIC

The music of CAPTAIN BEYOND is amazing, but reproducing it in a LIVE environment is not easy. The first album, in particular, is so layered that if you try to perform it with one or even two guitarists, the audience, the FANS will notice. Bobby Caldwell, knows is HIS music after all. When deciding to “put the band together“ that he would take out on the road, and perhaps into the studio, he wanted quality musicians, and three guitars..... He knew a couple as they were part of an earlier incarnation of the band, but he wanted, and he found several more... and so in June of 2017, Bobby Caldwell brought CAPTAIN BEYOND to the small stage of ACE’S LIVE MUSIC, in Bradenton, Florida as the first date in their 2017 Tour.... The venue was packed, the crowd alive with anticipation, I had asked for and was given permission to film the show. This was a dream project of mine and even though I was a little light on equipment I vowed to do the best capture I could. I shot with five cameras, four were locked off shots with me the only hand held camera. Audio could’ve become a problem as I couldn’t get a ’board feed’, but the audio guy was very helpful and he was up on the raised balcony at the back of the room and showed me a neat place to mount my digital recorder and the two condenser mics on the recorder got a good overall mix from the live room, and the drums were helped by mixing in some of the mics from the drum has a camera devoted to him and almost every drum fill is a cut to Bobby. This was the first performance of this new group of musicians. The music is tough, the pressure was LOVED wasn’t was LIVE! I was RIGHT IN had the BEST seat in the was almost on the venue ACE’S has since closed, this is a tough time passes I ask myself will there be any more? Nobody ’ll ALWAYS have THIS! Please enjoy CAPTAIN BEYOND at ACE’S LIVE Music