Why Is Hawkwind The Greatest Band Ever?

That being said, they aren't anywhere near the Greatest Band Ever (and I like them).

They were?

I prefer to use the plural for all bands. Most people refer to bands as "they," not "it." Your question is THE most important issue in copy editing today.

Which reminds me of when a mcdkeith's brother bought the vinyl with the cool zigzag opening cover...

Him: "And look man, Lemmy's in the band"
Me: "Lemmy wasn't in the band at that time"
Him: "No, look at the photo. Here, it says 'Bass: Dave Anderson'. Dave Anderson!?!?"

which reminds me, hearing vertical slit cover "i remember nothing" in instrumental hawkwind 14+ minute style = classic.

. The free Hawkwind freakout in the collapsing inflatable dome outside the Isle Of Wright festival might be one of the greatest concerts ever.

I don't remember there being much actual footage of the collapsing IoW gig

And Brocklessness made it less than perfect.

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Great Cthulhu, this is ripping my head off right now

Hawkwind at Chicago Auditorium in 1974

Line-up :
* Dave Brock - guitar, keyboards, vocals
* Nik Turner - saxophone, flute, vocals
* Lemmy - bass guitar, vocals
* Del Dettmar - Synthesizer
* Simon House - violin, keyboards
* Simon King - drums

Track List :
CD1
01. Intro / Standing On The Edge – 4:16
02. Brainbox Pollution – 7:52
03. It's So Easy – 11:02
04. You Know You're Only Dreaming – 4:43
05. Veterans of a Thousand Psychic Wars - 2:21
06. Brainstorm – 9:19
07. Seven By Seven – 9:26

CD2
01. The Watcher – 6:40
02. The Awakening – 2:40
03. Paradox – 5:43
04. You'd Better Believe It – 8:09
05. Psychedelic Warlords – 3:47
06. D-Rider – 7:46
07. Sonic Attack – 4:30
08. Master Of The Universe – 6:57
09. Welcome To The Future – 2:32

whoa, sweet!! thanks!

Godfuckingdamn "Paradox" is amazing

Dammit I was just gonna go to bed.

Ill. Thanks.

Bunnybrains...by Brian Turner..
"But maybe the greatest moment was them opening for Hawkwind (!) at Coney Island High. The tiny place already had half the floor taken up by Hawkwind's tons of laser show/light gear, and was also overstuffed with psychedelic hermits just coming out of their homes for the first time since 1977. Many of them dosed, not a good idea during the Bunnybrains' set, lots of people were abusing the 'brains verbally for their ensuing "bad trips" and I saw at least 4 of 'em drop to the floor. Whoa."

i liked the hawkwind, now i liked them more.

dan, demand!!!!! a split 7"

man, that live set is fucking great. love that people applaud in recognition when they start "sonic attack." so cool to hear the mtn grill stuff live.

thx elvis telecom.

Yeah, this set really is astonishing. The equal of Space Ritual for sure.

I got that on EMI CD, I think it was called "1999 Party", something like that. I read about how they found the tapes in EMI's vault in mojo magazine or rekkird kollector or s.th. back in the day, I worked myself up into a frenzy of anticipation over it coming out, and it did not dissapoint in any way whatsoever. The version of "brainbox pollution" slays, and the version of "the watcher" is super-spooky. I envy those who have never heard it before and who are listening to it for the first time.

wow this is great

Got this now. Loading onto iPod for on the way to work listening tomorrow.

Are any other of the thousand or so Hawkwind live albums (other than Space Ritual worth hearing.)

I've been enjoying the leaner sounds of Quark, Strangeness etc too recently.

Are any other of the thousand or so Hawkwind live albums (other than Space Ritual worth hearing.)

Bring Me The Head Of Yuri Gagarin from 1973 is kinda worthy - the sound quality is horrid, but it's worthy for all the random Calvert poetry/rantings over Dik Mik's VCO'ing.

We got this book at the library called ROCK LEGENDS AT ROCKFIELD. It's about twelve chapters, one chapter per band, that relates stories of recording at the "legendary" Wales studio. Hawkwind recorded everything from Doremi to Space Bandits there. All of their classic studio albums, basically. At the end of the Hawkwind chapter, it's reported that Dave Brock found a bunch of Hawkwind tapes that were recorded at the studio and never released and that the best of the would be released in late 2007 or early 2008 as The Rockfield Tapes. Anyone heard anything about this?

The book is kind of silly but nice. Some good stories. I've got no interest in reading a few of the chapters that are in it, though. There is a Motorhead chapter (first album recorded at Rock Field).

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I am a soldier on the edge of time and I'm tired of making love.

We are the warriors from the edge of time, and we are tired of making lunch.

Man, "Master Of The Universe" from that 1999 Party album is fantastically awesome

Hawkwind at Chicago Auditorium in 1974

can someone re-up this, I lost my copy

Is that the End of the World show?

yes.

Commercially released as The 1999 Party.

Joy Division were influenced by Hawkwind

which reminds me, hearing vertical slit cover "i remember nothing" in instrumental hawkwind 14+ minute style = classic.

Occurred to me that if I burned my Under the Blood Red Lava Lamp to a hardrive I'd know where to find it in future. Only drag is I can't find it now, thought was triggered by seeing the sleeve which disc isn't in.

Have finally accumulated a lot of live stuff by Hawkwind over last couple of years. Seems trade-unfriendly-ness has been lifted so they're turning up on torrent sites. Pretty headwreckingly fine in places. Trepanning or similar.
I tend to think they were about the closest the UK got to krautrock, them & Eno era Roxy, maybe Kingdom Come in places too?

can someone re-up this, I lost my copy

x 2.

There was a great live version of "Master Of The Universe" that was the first thing I heard from Hawkwind as a wee lad. It was on a UK metal compilation Metal Killers Kollection that Castle Communications released. I checked and I still have the second volume but not the first. It was a great version that I cannot find online. My casette was eaten years ago... :(

MIA tape cover:

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/4/2/7/2/9/7/webimg/405236630_o.jpg

you can get it on vinyl
http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=627090&ev=rb
2 sellers have it

Yeah, I might do that. I think it was released on CD too?

Upping this now btw guys, should be ready in half an hour or so.

awesome many thx!!

You could buy a copy too.

if I had any money

http://www.mediafire.com/?648nb84rgbt88w8

thanks!

You could buy a copy too.

if it was on vinyl i'd buy it in a flash.

thanks again for this. i've been listening to it non stop. i can't get over how great the version of "d-rider" is but the whole thing rules right down to some of lemmy's less than in tune backing vox. going to buy the cd for a friend's birthday.

YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT

newish album THE MACHINE STOPS is vintage

YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT

Name after the E.M. Forster sf novella?

wow. hall of the mountain grill is the best mid mountain food hall at Copper and also the most fun accessible Hawkwind album i heard yet.

The Guardian just published a piece on the 30 greatest live albums ever and put Space Ritual at #29, which is 28 places too low.