Hawkwind

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/

yup.

and its fucking brilliant.

in praise of... ((( HAWKWIND )) (( SPACE RITUAL ))) oO0OoO0OoO0OoO0OoO0OoO0OoO0Oo

:-)

Ha! Didn't see a thread had been bumped. Lots of Hawkwinfd threads.

$59.00 in the states.

I got it for about $45 (including shipping) on eBay.

That's probably what it'll be on Amazon marketplace after it drops.

Oh man that is like the most called for of any deluxe edition yet

for uk viewers / those who can access bbc iplayer, hawkwind was a specialist subject on mastermind yesterday.

hah I saw your post on fb about it. I bet there was loads of old hippies scrambling to watch it

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?

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.

SOLD. Thanks.

1999 Party is my fave record of theirs

Better than Space Ritual.

nothing is better than space ritual, and that includes any record made by anyone else ever.

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/

committee!

mike FUCKING batt?!?

eric FUCKING clapton?!?

this is def the funniest bad idea Brock has ever had

Sax FUCKING quintet!?

mike FUCKING batt?!?

Womble on the Edge of Time
The Psychedelic Wombles (Disappear in Smoke)
Orinoco Accumulator

... und so weiter

hawkwind ft katie melua

lets face it, I'm going to listen to this at least once and so are all of you

say no to drugs, kids

should've called it Road to Uttoxeter

first two tracks of this are on spotify btw

it’s no space ritual tbh

Better days (nights): some lost "Atomhenge" footage has been posted recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xniSGsBwlG8

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

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 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

indeed! thanks for the heads up.

Whoa! That looks great.

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."

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

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.

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).

This was recently posted on Aging rock act on new album: This time we wanted to go back to the basics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBweqmLk6dU

Nope, I still hate Silver Machine.

Still?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF2ODWluPlY

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.

the best version of silver machine is always the one played by a busker you happen to be walking past

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.

that is incredible that you had managed to go so long without having heard of james last.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X2xr2Xbdaw

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

very cool and so true. long may the hawkwind reappraisal continue!

his book is excellent too.

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.

Hmm, how do you feel about post-Morrison Doors?

i love, nay adore everything up until '79 so the book covering just the whole of the first decade is perfect for me.

fair enough not being into anything they did post lemmy but there is a lot of gold in the next three or four years.

I tried Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music earlier this evening and couldn't get into it at all. Most of the problem was Calvert's vocals — he sounds a lot like early Bryan Ferry, which is a Very Bad Thing.

ok, if you don't like calvert then no point listening to that era.

i can't hear any similarity to ferry at all. he is simply the greatest.