Hawkwind - BBC4 30th March

I've got the mushrooms in.

Now that's more like it from BBC4 - I'll be sure to tune in for some Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music. Hope there's some input from David Anthony Brock.

I shall watch that - thanks for the heads up.

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Originally posted by SteveGa:
one of Britain's wildest acid rock bands, who emerged from the Ladbroke Grove underground

I emerged from the Ladbroke Grove underground myself once. Having taken the Metropolitan line from Whitechapel.

Sorry

Stacia yesterday

Rasher - she looks the same as ever

Perhaps it was a case of Sonic Attack.

Tits oot for the lads?!?

Saw them many, many moons ago when Lemmy was the bass player and Stacia was the naked dancer (well sometimes anyway). They had the vertigo label backdrop I was so pissed out of my head that my friends had to hold me by the legs as I was hanging over a balcony.

also

used to work with Nik Turners sister and let me tell you she was a real babe. Think I am getting sexist in my old age.

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Originally posted by Rasher:


Stacia yesterday

Mummy!!!!!

I had almost completely repressed my hawkwind habit till 'You Shouldn't Do That' surfaced on bbc 'life on mars' series.

as the music grew her indoors and i had allsorts of flashbacks from loons to platform shoes(she had no taste)

great website tells you all the music featured in each episode

the 70s rule

just look at clothes in the 80s

mike

stacia then link

it is even biggerr than i remember

http://www.angel.dk/hawkwind/default.html

warning not one for the kids or her indoors to catch you looking at

but wow

mike

Truly BBC 4 is the world's greatest TV Channel ....

...I bought In Search Of Space on release (initially because of it's classic fold out cover) ...later I saw them at The Mecca Ballroom Sunderland during (I think)The Space Ritual Tour.
Andy Dunkley the DJ prepared the audience for "take off" for the preceding hour by playing mainly UA artists tracks interspersed with "50 mins to lift off" "20 mins to lift off" etc. I remember Man records were played a lot (fine by me as I loved Man and still do)

..Alas no Stacia as I think she wasn't allowed to dance naked at any Mecca ballrooms (?)

I also have the rare Greasy Truckers double live album which incs The Hawks along with a silent track entitled "Power Cut" (because the album was recorded during the 70's Miners strike!)

Hawkind were very loud and didn't play "Silver Machine" ...How many other bands wouldn't play the one song all the audience would recognise?

After Quark Strangeness and Charm I have to admit to losing interest ...so I'm open to advice of what later albums I should cock an ear to ....

Wow Jet (what a name), I was just about to post about Space Ritual because in a headblast mood tonight I pulled it out of my collection and grooved to what I remember and what I missed. I remember being introduced to this heavy dangerous thing called Hawkwind by a heavy dangerous Spanish girlfriend of my older sister when I was about 15. It was Space Ritual with the total fold out cover. I was amazed and awed and the music was such a total envelopping thing that felt like another world to me then. The opening chords of 7by7 still send a tingle down my spine. That's what I remember and what I still feel. But the "what I missed" thing was because I was 15 and that was already 1977 and I never experienced being with Hawkwind live until they had changed into Hawklords, so I never experienced the Space Ritual thing. One of my biggest "I wish I had been there"s But you did experience it.

What on earth was it like?

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I also have the rare Greasy Truckers double live album which incs The Hawks along with a silent track entitled "Power Cut" (because the album was recorded during the 70's Miners strike!)

Hawkind were very loud and didn't play "Silver Machine" ...How many other bands wouldn't play the one song all the audience would recognise?

Graest Truckers is superb, also for the Man Track "Spunk Rock".
Siver Machine may not be on the album but it was recorded at the gig as it is the single(label info gives same date and venue), heavily edited and re-recorded vocals by Lemmy though.
Wonder where the master tape is and if they will release full concert?
Mention of Stacia!!
Here is a link to photographer Jorgan Angels, took loads of photos of bands in seventies. Some very intersting photos of Alice Cooper as well!!!!!
http://www.angel.dk/hawkwind/default.html


Steve

Bloody hell! I'd forgotten just how big she was...

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Originally posted by Jet Johnson:
After Quark Strangeness and Charm I have to admit to losing interest ...so I'm open to advice of what later albums I should cock an ear to ....

Levitation

Live Chronicles (basically The Black Sword live), Xenon Codex and Electric Teepee are all very good, though they're not as heavy as early Hawkwind and Electric Teepee has a nice blend of Electronic stuff on it.

Levitation is good (and novel having Ginger Baker on drums) but I prefer the previously mentioned. Just.

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Originally posted by steveb:

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I also have the rare Greasy Truckers double live album which incs The Hawks along with a silent track entitled "Power Cut" (because the album was recorded during the 70's Miners strike!)

Hawkind were very loud and didn't play "Silver Machine" ...How many other bands wouldn't play the one song all the audience would recognise?

Graest Truckers is superb, also for the Man Track "Spunk Rock".
Siver Machine may not be on the album but it was recorded at the gig as it is the single(label info gives same date and venue), heavily edited and re-recorded vocals by Lemmy though.
Wonder where the master tape is and if they will release full concert?
Mention of Stacia!!
Here is a link to photographer Jorgan Angels, took loads of photos of bands in seventies. Some very intersting photos of Alice Cooper as well!!!!!
http://www.angel.dk/hawkwind/default.html


Steve

..Sorry mate but what I meant was Silver Machine wasn't played at the Sunderland Mecca gig I attended ...and you are right Man's "Spunk Rock" was excellent

....I wonder which Man albums have ever been re-released on CD? ..I'm pretty sure my favourite album of theirs "Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day" (with it's mega Welsh band's family tree fold out cover) has never been..but mebbe's "Rhinos Winos and Lunatics" has been?

I also have the rare 10" Live at The Padget Rooms Penarth which also incs Man ..Thinking about it UA Records didn't half put out some collectable stuff out in the 70's!

and er' sorry ....I was forgetting this was a Hawkind thread!

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Originally posted by Opportunity for growth:
Wow Jet (what a name), I was just about to post about Space Ritual because in a headblast mood tonight I pulled it out of my collection and grooved to what I remember and what I missed. I remember being introduced to this heavy dangerous thing called Hawkwind by a heavy dangerous Spanish girlfriend of my older sister when I was about 15. It was Space Ritual with the total fold out cover. I was amazed and awed and the music was such a total envelopping thing that felt like another world to me then. The opening chords of 7by7 still send a tingle down my spine. That's what I remember and what I still feel. But the "what I missed" thing was because I was 15 and that was already 1977 and I never experienced being with Hawkwind live until they had changed into Hawklords, so I never experienced the Space Ritual thing. One of my biggest "I wish I had been there"s But you did experience it.

What on earth was it like?

.....As I mentioned the whole gig was set up rather like a journey through space (which sounds very naff but made sense at the time!) The aforementioned countdown sequence kicked it all off ....various "sound generators" swirled + bleeped (much like the Space Ritual live album) and the light show was way beyond what other bands used at the time.

...Robert Calvert added his stentorian voice overs at various parts of the set ..and like I said it was bleedin' loud!

....If I haven't remembered that much it's because it was 34 years ago!...

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....I wonder which Man albums have ever been re-released on CD? ..I'm pretty sure my favourite album of theirs "Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day" (with it's mega Welsh band's family tree fold out cover) has never been..but mebbe's "Rhinos Winos and Lunatics" has been?

I also have the rare 10" Live at The Padget Rooms Penarth which also incs Man ..Thinking about it UA Records didn't half put out some collectable stuff out in the 70's!

Jet
As far as i know all Man albums are available, however, in Autumn look out for a remastered set of releases of all the classic albums, hopefully with good bonus material.
Christmas at the Patti was the 10" release, with Ducks Deluxe,Help Yourself etc, Live at the Padget was a limited edition 12" release- both worth having

Steve

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Originally posted by steveb:

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....I wonder which Man albums have ever been re-released on CD? ..I'm pretty sure my favourite album of theirs "Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day" (with it's mega Welsh band's family tree fold out cover) has never been..but mebbe's "Rhinos Winos and Lunatics" has been?

I also have the rare 10" Live at The Padget Rooms Penarth which also incs Man ..Thinking about it UA Records didn't half put out some collectable stuff out in the 70's!

Jet
As far as i know all Man albums are available, however, in Autumn look out for a remastered set of releases of all the classic albums, hopefully with good bonus material.
Christmas at the Patti was the 10" release, with Ducks Deluxe,Help Yourself etc, Live at the Padget was a limited edition 12" release- both worth having

Steve

Yeah I've got The "Patti" album as well ...as well as Hawkwind's original "Urban Geurrilla" single which was banned soon after release - due to controversy at the time re the IRA bombing campaign in England

I have 2 spliffs rolled ready to go (and a bottle of Blue Nun for the missus).

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Originally posted by Rasher:
I have 2 spliffs rolled ready to go (and a bottle of Blue Nun for the missus).

.....A quality night ahead ..if I remember correctly the last time I saw Hawkwind live I was drinking Watney's Red Barrel from plastic pint glasses ...uuggghhhhhhhh!

Ready to roll...

Mad as a box of frogs. Or should that be stoned as a stone.
No one really talked about the music just what was happening all around, strange.