Hawkwind

troubleshooter

Any Hawkwind fans on here. Hawkwind have never been that big over here considering Stacia was Irish, apart from amongst new age travellers. Going for 40 years, many different sounds, remember them at Stonhenge, they still play Hawkfest, any fans. Love their lyrics. Any bands inflenced by them over here ?

Deathtrap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVtbEmzjUxk&feature=related

In the back of my neck I can feel a strange sensation
Feels like I'm heading for the crisis of all creation
Only those with 'death wish' understand my situation
Feels like Jesus Christ heading for the stations of the cross,
In my death trap, death trap
Running in my death trap, death trap
Chicken running in my death trap, death trap
Heading for the crossroads of fiery crucifixion
Lighting up the night sky with bitterness distinction
While I hold the wheel of fate, smell of burning friction
I feel like a hero heading for extinction

Ejection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8d7CP6H0ss

There's only one
course of action
Left for me to take
I've tried every
switch selection
That might
control this
state
I think for my protection
I better make it straight
Into Ejection
Better tell Base
Ejection
That I think it's a case
For Ejection
Explode into Space
Ejection
Protect my Face
Ejection

The radar
screen's
projection
Tells me I'm too late
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To make a course correction
I'm about to meet my fate
No time for reflection
I'd better make it straight
Into Ejection
Bust through the sky
Ejection
The air rushing by
Ejection
It's a case of goodbye
Ejection
I'm too fast to die
Ejection

When a ship meets
with destruction
The Captain stays to drown
But no tin contraption
Is going to drag me down
My reference intersection
Tells me that I'm bound
For Ejection
Eight times my weight
Ejection
I've got to escape
Ejection
Only one move to make
Ejection
Abandon this crate
Ejection

Ejection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLfHlbGJMps&feature=related

Nephilim Wolf

I love Hawkwind. I've only started to listen to them in the last while, because a friend got me more into them. Some of my absolute favourite songs at the moment are 'Hassan I Shaba, High Rise, Levitation, Motorway City, Motorhead, Night of the Hawks, Who's Gonna Win the War?, Spirit of the Age, Silver Machine and Quark Strangeness & Charm'.:) I still need to get the six minute version of 'Dust', by I can't find it anywhere.:(

troubleshooter

First time I listened to Hawkwind I never got it, then I listened on acid at about 20 and it all became clear, love the Bob Calvert stuff the best, saw Nick Turners Hawklords play a while back, wanna go to Hawkfest next yr, wanna take a ride in the silvermachine ha.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXb_ckgy410

Strings.ie

Saw Hawkwind many times as a lad. Best time was 93/4 on the Electric Teepee tour. Dave Brock, Allen Davey and Richard Chadwick, just the three of them.
There wasn't that many people at the gig so I got to stand right at the front and just watch them do their thing. As a young musician it was most inspiring. Great band!

anti-venom

Yeah, you gotta love Hawkwind. I always thought they should have been bigger but the music industry probably didn't know how to pigeonhole (market) them properly. Instead they seemed to have got lumped in with the metal/Hard rock scene and that just wasn't right either. Hawkwind managed to plough their own furrow for all these years without compromises to fashion and style - respect.

Having said that, though, their sacking of Lemmy for getting busted for coke was one of the most hypocritical, bullet in foot tales in the history of music.

bodhrandude

Bump: Well this thread is old but it was the first I think with Hawkwind as the title. Was just listening to Hawklords 25 Years On album and forgot how amazing it was for its time, a transitional album that sat between the magnificent Quark, Strangness and Charm and the trippy PXR5 album. I went to see Hawkwind at this one day festival called Acid Daze at the Queens Hall in Leeds, Robert Calvert and the Starfighters was one of the acts supporting and it was a spellbinding intense performance from Mr Calvert, little did I know it would be one of his very last gigs in December 12th 1987. By the time of the next Acid Daze at Finsbury Park in London in August 20th, Calvert had passed on. He died in August 14th from heart attack so I am really glad to have witnessed him in action. Here was the lineup for that gig.

Acid Daze 12th December 1987 Queens Hall Leeds.

1: Hawkwind
2: Doctor And The Medics
3: The Enid
4: Suicide
5: Pink Fairies
6: Robert Calvert And The Starfighters
7: Spacemen 3
8: Tubular Dog