any Hawkwind fans?

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reason I ask is they had a huge effect on me when I was a kid and I just bought 'Space Ritual', having not heard it for something like 30 years and it's fantastic - took me right back to why I loved it in the first place

WEIRD because I just learned about them last night. They're alright by me.

Yes, I've been into them since i read about them in the venerated, but now long gone Flipside Punk 'zine in 1990. I saw Nik Turner play live in 1995 with Del Dettmar and mixture of his band, and a band called Pressurehed. The show was a disaster, but even though it was a disaster, it was still one of the most intense shows that I have ever been to.

Dell Dettmar had travelled down from Canada for the previous show, however all of his keyboards had been destroyed in transit, and the input jack on his Axe was also destroyed. Ex Hawkwind member Simon House was supposed to appear at the show but had Visa issues from being PNG'ed from the US following a drug bust in the '70's.

It was still an absolutely intense show though.

I think one of the best post Lemmy/Nik Turner era Hawkwind albums was The Xenon Codex.

Which version of Space Ritual did you listen to? The Original that featured excerpts from a Liverpool Show and a London Show, or Space Ritual 2.0 that consists of most of the London Show that appeared on the Original version?

Hawkwind kicks ass. Too bad 'orgone acumulator' wasn't included in their anthology, but they had so many good songs to add in that anthology. Other psyc rock bands worth it are Can and Lords of Baltimore.

Hell yes I love Hawkwind. I still need to fully explore their discography but its so huge it could take a while to absorb. I've heard a bunch of the classic albums though - In Search of Space, Space Ritual (various versions), Doremi Fa So Latido, Warrior on the Edge of Time. And some of Nik Turner's live stuff. I want to eventually hear it all though.

I really enjoy space-rock in general.

...Especially when you take into account all of the bands that hawkwind spawned.

Yeah just Motorhead alone would be another huge stack of albums.

Speaking of Hawkwind-related bands, anyone ever heard of The Meads of Asphodel? If you can imagine an unholy union of Hawkwind, black metal, Lemmy-esque vocals, some medieval / middle-eastern elements + general experimental insanity that's about what they sound like. And actually some members of Hawkwind have guested on their albums. They are really incredible - one of my favorite recent discoveries.

'Which version of Space Ritual did you listen to? The Original that featured excerpts from a Liverpool Show and a London Show, or Space Ritual 2.0 that consists of most of the London Show that appeared on the Original version?'



the Liverpool and London one, which I bought on vinyl in musta been 1974 I guess, much to the outrage of my mom due to the use of naked females on the huge fold-out sleeve, me aged 12

but I loved Hawkwind since I saw Silver Machine on Top of the Pops (UK TV music show, no longer in existence), saw them a few times through the '70s but then moved on to punk, Joy Division etc (for some reason in those days I didn't realise you could listen to music from all sorts of different genres, that blessing seems to have come with middle age!)

i reckon joy division were actually influenced a lot by hawkwind. if you listen to 24 hours, for example, off the album closer, i can really imagine that song being on an early 70s hawkwind album. there are others, but that's the one that always comes to mind.

"24 Hours," you think? I can't really hear it. :p

Anyway, I'm listening to Space Ritual right now. It's a cool album and you can hear the influences it's had on Kyuss or Spacemen 3 for example; the only thing is it sounds a little dated. I like the intro to "Down Through the Night."