BRING ME THE HEAD OF YURI GAGARIN

I bought this back in the nineties when a lot of unreleased Hawkwind was being issued and there was nothing to warn me about the bootleg quality of the recording. I thought the cover was pretty cool unfortunately they chose such a mediocre album for it. The only thing of interest here, perhaps for the hard core fan of the early seventies Hawkwind is the Rob Calvert poetry recital on the first two tracks which is more or less understandable given the fact the whole album sounds like it was recorded on an old 4 track located the men`s room. Actually, it would be cool just to hear Calvert doing a whole show like this. However before writing this off consider the classic lineup and track selection . I`ve listened to it right through a few times and there are some good alternate versions of songs which appeared on Space Ritual as well as live versions of Urban Guerrila and Silver Machine. But my overall recomendation is to stick to the Space Ritual Live album unless you absolutely absolutely have to own everything and anything Hawkwind has ever recorded.