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verslibre 
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Joined: July 01 2004 Location: CA Status: Offline Points: 17243 |
 Posted: February 12 2017 at 11:35 |
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I must revisit Xenon. I used to have that thing on cassette! I was quite fond of "The War I Survived." Warrior is indeed a beloved favorite, but I actually enjoy Chronicle of the Black Sword more, believe it or not.
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Kepler62
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Joined: February 09 2017 Location: Fort Erie Status: Offline Points: 501 |
Posted: February 12 2017 at 11:25 |
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Lots of weird sh*t from these guys. They never get stale. I even like Distant Horizons where Alan Davey threw in the towel. Too bad because he was right there in the spirit of the early days. Some great albums with him. Haven't heard the latest Into The Woods but it seems that Dave Brock is immortal. First album I got was Space Ritual back in the seventies and played the crap out of it driving more than a few people crazy. Warrior On The Edge of Time remains their piece de resistance. One of my faves is The Xenon Codex which seems to be their lost classic. Very cool album.
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Flight123
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Joined: September 01 2010 Location: Sohar, Oman Status: Offline Points: 1399 |
Posted: February 11 2017 at 06:06 |
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Just to bump up this thread as I approach my personal 40th anniversary of seeing this great band live. What's more, it was recorded for posterity: 'Robot' and 'High Rise' from PXR5 were both recorded at the gig I attended at Leicester in 77. The great thing about Hawkwind is that they both refused to compromise while being in tune with musical developments from the late 70s as prog started to fall apart. I continue to admire them for that - and they kept their audience. I will be celebrating 40 years of Hawkwind gigs in May at the Roundhouse in London.
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: December 13 2014 at 14:12 |
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I think only Current 93 and Damo Suzuki's Network have more surprising lists of collaborators than Hawkwind.
Which reminds me, how true are the rumours that Hawkwind had behind-the-scenes connections to the Brotherhood of Eternal Love "LSD mafia" by way of the Frendz fanzine? A conspiracy blog I follow semi-regularly has done a multipart (I, II, III, IV) biography of one of that organization's central dramatis personae Ronald Stark. Frendz and for that matter Hawkwind are touched on briefly, though the rabbit hole appears to go much deeper from Scientology and the US Navy over the "Angry Brigades" and Palestinian nationalists to exiled Italian ex-fascists. Man, the 1970s were a strange decade... |
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"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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Tom Ozric
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Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15921 |
Posted: December 13 2014 at 14:00 |
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^ At least Sam is a friend of Lemmy's
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Davesax1965
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Posted: December 13 2014 at 10:32 |
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When a band release music with Samantha Fox and Lene Lovich guesting, anyone who buys the resulting dross has lost all power of critical thought.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: December 13 2014 at 02:43 |
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Alan Davey was a good find on the bass. Random thought.......
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Davesax1965
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Posted: December 13 2014 at 02:21 |
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But. Is it not a case in point that after about 1977, what you're listening to is not so much "Hawkwind" as "Dave Brock" ? ;-)
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SteveG
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Posted: December 12 2014 at 15:55 |
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Sorry, but I like traveling through space. Hawkwind lives there!
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: December 12 2014 at 15:53 |
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: December 12 2014 at 13:26 |
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I have Levitation too...I love Motorway City but have never really gotten into the rest of it too much. Do you like it more than Warrior?
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 22:46 |
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 12:29 |
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Yeah, sorry I briefly turned this into a Siouxsie and the Banshees thread instead.
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 12:26 |
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My fave Hawkwind album too. I think it's by far the proggiest album they ever recorded
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Rednight
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 12:24 |
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For me, this historic band (weren't they denied entrance to the Isle of Wight festival featuring Hendrix and ELP's first public appearance?) brings much to the aural palette, but unfortunately that means a lot going on in the random moments of attempts to listen to them. It's hard for me to get through a one-album session, and I usually get ear fatigue in doing so. Do like 'Chronicles and a couple of Brock's solo outings, though.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 12:22 |
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^ No doubt !! Warrior is AMAZING.........
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verslibre
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 11:45 |
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At work and listening to Warrior on the Edge of Time. D*mn, this is a great album!
That is all.
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 11:12 |
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She's a paragon of humility compared to Mark E. Smith from The Fall, though.
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verslibre
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 11:10 |
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 10:55 |
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That's something I noticed as well, she seems to have a very snarky and gossipy personality: Most of the interviews' contents consist of the airing of proverbial dirty laundry from the various music scenes her band was associated with.
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