isn't that amazing? coulthart thinks it's a barney bubbles design with poss calvert text
― jaywbabcock, Saturday, 15 November 2014 03:34 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for Tweeting that, Jay!
― dow, Saturday, 15 November 2014 03:47 (nine years ago) link
Gotta share this stuff with the people.
― jaywbabcock, Saturday, 15 November 2014 04:02 (nine years ago) link
New box set of the '70-74 years - 11 cds, with new remasters of the studio records. Cheap as hell, too:
http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/hawkwind-this-is-your-captain-speaking-albums-70-74/
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 28 March 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
yup.
and its fucking brilliant.
in praise of... ((( HAWKWIND )) (( SPACE RITUAL ))) oO0OoO0OoO0OoO0OoO0OoO0OoO0Oo
:-)
― mark e, Saturday, 28 March 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Ha! Didn't see a thread had been bumped. Lots of Hawkwinfd threads.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 28 March 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
$59.00 in the states.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 28 March 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
I got it for about $45 (including shipping) on eBay.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 28 March 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
That's probably what it'll be on Amazon marketplace after it drops.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 28 March 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Oh man that is like the most called for of any deluxe edition yet
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 29 March 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
for uk viewers / those who can access bbc iplayer, hawkwind was a specialist subject on mastermind yesterday.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 3 October 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
hah I saw your post on fb about it. I bet there was loads of old hippies scrambling to watch it
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 3 October 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
So if I have the original records in their One Way versions (including Stasis: UA Years) is the boxed set worth it for the two live records I don't have and the odds and sods collection and better sound?
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
I say yes. I think the sound improvement is very noticeable. The 1999 Party is almost as good as Space Ritual, and used copies can be almost as much as the box set.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
SOLD. Thanks.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
1999 Party is my fave record of theirs
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 23 January 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
Better than Space Ritual.
― everything, Saturday, 23 January 2016 20:05 (eight years ago) link
nothing is better than space ritual, and that includes any record made by anyone else ever.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 23 January 2016 22:14 (eight years ago) link
If a committe was put together to come up with the worst possible idea for a Hawkwind album, it's hard to imagine they could come up with something as bad as this - https://www.planetrock.com/news/rock-news/hawkwind-announce-orchestral-album-road-to-utopia-featuring-eric-clapton/
― stirmonster, Friday, 17 August 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
committee!
― stirmonster, Friday, 17 August 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
mike FUCKING batt?!?
― ghost beef (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 August 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
eric FUCKING clapton?!?
― stirmonster, Friday, 17 August 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
this is def the funniest bad idea Brock has ever had
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 August 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
Sax FUCKING quintet!?
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Friday, 17 August 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
Womble on the Edge of TimeThe Psychedelic Wombles (Disappear in Smoke)Orinoco Accumulator
... und so weiter
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Friday, 17 August 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
hawkwind ft katie melua
― ghost beef (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 August 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
lets face it, I'm going to listen to this at least once and so are all of you
― frogbs, Friday, 17 August 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
say no to drugs, kids
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 17 August 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
should've called it Road to Uttoxeter
― sbahnhof, Monday, 20 August 2018 07:43 (five years ago) link
first two tracks of this are on spotify btwit’s no space ritual tbh
― ghost beef (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 20 August 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link
Better days (nights): some lost "Atomhenge" footage has been posted recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xniSGsBwlG8
― jaywbabcock, Monday, 20 August 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
need to get up and make something to eat but can't stop listening to Hawkwind At The BBC, send food or at least bleeps and bloops
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 14 January 2019 08:02 (five years ago) link
This could be interesting:https://www.daysoftheunderground.com/
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/dfe380_b03f3ab0c998475da160983e075f06a4~mv2.jpg
Avatars of the underground, figureheads of the free festival scene and heralds of punk, Hawkwind were one of the bands that defined the 1970s. At the height of their artistic and commercial powers, Hawkwind channelled and amplified the era’s psychic tenor via a science fiction sensibility, mind-blowing visuals, and their unique brand of deep space psychedelia.As well as being an in-depth primer to the music of their classic years, Days Of The Underground explores the ideas and concepts that fuelled Hawkwind during this period, and speaks to the crew that manned the ship.The book’s cover is illustrated by Hawkwind artist John Coulthart.The Special Edition of the book will be in hardback, limited to 500 copies, signed by the author, and include the following additional items:Sideways Through Time: An Oral History Of Hawkwind In The 1970s – a 200 page companion volume of interviews, including DikMik, Nik Turner, Michael Moorcock, Stacia Blake, Alan Powell, Paul Rudolph, Adrian Shaw, Harvey Bainbridge, Andrew Lauder, Doug Smith, Jeff Dexter, Jonathan Smeeton and many moreA print of Michael Moorcock & Jim Cawthorn’s ‘Sonic Assassins’ comic strip from FrendzPostcards featuring unseen pictures from the ‘Space Ritual’ photo shoot by Laurie Lewis
As well as being an in-depth primer to the music of their classic years, Days Of The Underground explores the ideas and concepts that fuelled Hawkwind during this period, and speaks to the crew that manned the ship.
The book’s cover is illustrated by Hawkwind artist John Coulthart.
The Special Edition of the book will be in hardback, limited to 500 copies, signed by the author, and include the following additional items:
Sideways Through Time: An Oral History Of Hawkwind In The 1970s – a 200 page companion volume of interviews, including DikMik, Nik Turner, Michael Moorcock, Stacia Blake, Alan Powell, Paul Rudolph, Adrian Shaw, Harvey Bainbridge, Andrew Lauder, Doug Smith, Jeff Dexter, Jonathan Smeeton and many more
A print of Michael Moorcock & Jim Cawthorn’s ‘Sonic Assassins’ comic strip from Frendz
Postcards featuring unseen pictures from the ‘Space Ritual’ photo shoot by Laurie Lewis
― funnel spider ESA (Matt #2), Saturday, 21 September 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
indeed! thanks for the heads up.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 21 September 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
Whoa! That looks great.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 21 September 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
since my hawkwind background is mostly me going "man i don't have time to be interested in _that stuff_" and then getting really absorbed in it, i'm just gonna start with "i'm interested in this stuff."
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 21 September 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
I guess this is the same Joe Banks who was behind the Disinformation project, given that the book's published by Strange Attractor who are into that kind of thing.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/34627-Disinformation
― funnel spider ESA (Matt #2), Saturday, 21 September 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
I'm not a huge fan of Hawkwind but I've read and greatly enjoyed two big books about them, they're an interesting cultural force.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 21 September 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
I feel like this could be a really interesting book - I remember Lemmy talking about Hawkwind locking people inside the venue while they played, and I can imagine that being quite terrifying if you were on the wrong drugs. But the tiny excerpt on the website isn't that enticing. I'll wait for some reviews to find out if it's more focused on band history/social history (which I'd love), or on fevered description of the records (which I already own, thanks).
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 21 September 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
This was recently posted on Aging rock act on new album: This time we wanted to go back to the basicshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBweqmLk6dU
― Our Borad Could Be Your Trife (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 September 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
Nope, I still hate Silver Machine.
― stirmonster, Monday, 23 September 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
Still?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF2ODWluPlY
― funnel spider ESA (Matt #2), Monday, 23 September 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
i think that is maybe the most tolerable version. i always think it's a little sad that their best known song is one of their worst.
― stirmonster, Monday, 23 September 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
the best version of silver machine is always the one played by a busker you happen to be walking past
― imago, Monday, 23 September 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
the most amazing thing to me is that last week i first learned who james last was, i listened to voodoo party thingy (meh+), and then fell into a vortex and heard a few horrible seconds of his silver machine/children of the revolution/schools out medley. and now it's back in my space. these are dark, incredibly weird times.
― Hunt3r, Monday, 23 September 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
that is incredible that you had managed to go so long without having heard of james last.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X2xr2Xbdaw
― stirmonster, Monday, 23 September 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
Cool little article, looks like that same author that wrote that book:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/19/why-hawkwind-were-the-great-radicals-of-1970s-rock
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
very cool and so true. long may the hawkwind reappraisal continue!
his book is excellent too.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
Reading the book right now. It's very good, but as with their discography, I'm having a difficult time caring about anything after Lemmy's kicked out.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link
Hmm, how do you feel about post-Morrison Doors?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 00:38 (three years ago) link