First Step Beyond Numero Group Three years of home recording

Three years of home recording accidents and blown-out 2AM studio experiments are spread across four LPs or three CDs

New York transplant musicians Santo Savino and Ron Feuer dug up Wichita native saxman Rick Davis at the Dunes

is the most exhaustive attempt so far to document the band’s wondrously ugly birth

Clearly the success of James Brown at the tail end of the 1960s—say from “Cold Sweat” onwards—established the funk era

traversing tales of dreamers

First Step Beyond Numero Group Three years of home recordingYou must physically hold this album, kneel at its altar; we will fail to describe it. Medusas First Step Beyond might have forever shifted the perception of Chicago rock history had it managed to make the leap from tape to its never realized vinyl pressing. Instead, the conflagration of Sabbath, Hawkwind, and Amon Duul II remained petrified in the Corycian Cavernsotherwise known as the drummers basement. Self produced on four track in 1975, this lone