PLEASE READ There is a Hawkwind Playlist on this channel- linked at the end of this video- which looks at a number fo their albums in depth, discussing lyrical themes realted to SF and Literature in general.
Great video. I still have my original Hawkwond LPs from my teen years. Steve, have you read Jason Heller's 2018 book "Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi [sorry] Exploded"? Enjoyable book on the 1960s/1970s ties between rock music and the science fiction world.
I have- it's an idea I had decades ago and never got around to writing. I felt it was lacking in its understanding of Sf- as in the 'Sci Fi' for example. In the 1960s and 1970s, there were of course many rock musicians making SF records, many great ones!
Jealous! I'm going to have to order a copy! Funnily enough, I just uploaded a video about Space Ritual on my music channel this morning! Great video, as always!
My introduction to Hawkwind was this album, Hall of the Mountain Grill, and Doremi Fasol Latido. My holy trinity. If you only buy three of their albums, buy those. Maybe make it five, with Space Ritual and Levitation added. My desert island discs.
I saw Hawkwind back in the very early 80's (IGinger Baker was drumming for them at the time!)... sublime times... thank you for the interesting unboxing!
Hawkwind is the *perfect* place to restart your album pieces! You've brought up things that give me a new perspective! I pursued Hawkwind out of academic interest in Moorcock originally, then developed a taste for their unique charm. I particularly love the songs with a science fictional premise and coherent lyrical follow through. My first was either HotMG or more likely Xenon Codex. Over the years I pull out the CD's & LP's less and less - So I doubt *I* need to upgrade all media; but if I *were* pulling out my slipcase CD of "In Search of Space" monthly or more often, then a new sound would be great! Like a lot of folks, my life has reshaped around NOT playing music, so everything on CD lies more and more fallow. Before I chose to upgrade my sound system, stores stopped selling them. Now there are no more stores. . . BUT BACK TO THE CD! I *would* love to have a larger, more readable copy of the Logbook, but there *is* a small facsimile in my CD (which I had forgotten) so I probably don't need it as much as I would ethically need to send you money, so it's decided. Ye GODS! What self involved drivel! I thought someone might share my experience, but. . . I would love a "Best of" remix box, and of course a 5.1 "Live Chronicles" Ah brevity is the soul of remembering why you commented!
Great video as usual Stephen. I'm honoured to make a credit! I'm delighted with this release, I'm hearing a favourite album and getting a different experience. The tracks are all treasures, for myself it's a perfect album. Dave has always been my favourite vocalist from the band and he sounds wonderfully clear. I haven't heard the 5.1 yet but you've certainly convinced me I should so I've ordered a 5.1 system.
My pleasure chum, sorry I've not been in touch recently, been quite unwell and trying to get better for my trip to Paris in just under ten days to meet up with Michael Moorcock and to have a short holiday. I think since you already have all the box sets with blurays, it's worth you upgrading as you have a stack of material to listen to there. Get something that will enable you to play the stereo mixes through all 6 speakers as even stereo multiplied is great on all sounds of music you like- electronic music particularly is good this way and of course there's the Doremi/Greasy Truckers set to come- no doubt we'll get HOTMG next year -at least that's what I'm hoping. 'Levitation' seems a natural too, especially since it was digitally recorded and should be very, very punchy and clear in 5.1.Take care, my friend!
Great Steve. I know Hawkwind's albums well, though I've never seen them live. I have seen Hawklords though, which I think was Calvert's version of the band. Love tracks like "Psi Power" and that ilk. Lots of Hawkwind titles are taken from SF stories, so they're the ultimate SF rock band. I think they've done an extended version of "Space Ritual" which you probably have.
Very much so, I do have it. If you look at the playlists on the channel, there is a Hawkind one in which I analayse the albums in terms of lyrics and literary content.
Love Hawkwind. Late to the show; I first heard them c1980. I saw them live in '83 and had many altered state, recreational experiences to this very LP - and others - in the early '80s, when I was being naughty with my friends. 🙂
I love this album my introduction to the band so always had a soft spot for it. Not heard it in the new format yet. But I will . Just finished reading a dream of Wessex which I really enjoyed just started the thing itself . Thanks for the heads up on all this stuff Steve as always you’re the man🫡
You probably know this already, but in the '90s Steve Sneyd's Hilltop Press brought out a booklet on Dave Brock and Hawkwind, 'Gnawing Medusa's Flesh'. Also, I remember the old myth going round my old school that Hawkwind used a special tone or harmonic that caused their audience to lose control of their bowels. You've got to wonder where these stories come from!
it's a fact that Dik mik's ring modulator or audio generator frequencies go out of human hearing range high and low , high makes you fall over and low could empty bowels , i know he made people topple over , i doubt he used the low freq lol
Great unboxing. I really need to explore Hawkwind because I love Motörhead. Do you recommend Ballard’s The Kindness of Women be read after Empire of the Sun? I could not put Empire of the Sun down. It was gut wrenching and powerful. Thanks Steve!
Yes, 'Kindness' is pretty much a follow-up to 'Empire', but quite different. A reading of his autobiography, 'Miracles of Life' will then help you put both into context. But he wrote far more powerful books than those....
Good morning from AZ you sound better! I have neatly ignored Hawkwind and your ramblings about them up until today. I am going to cave and check them out. What album should I start with? My favorite Psych rockers are Dead Meadow whom I highly recommend
You wouldn't think I sounded better had I not edited my three coughing fits out! Well, a big question to answer! You should go with 1970s material and initially avoid live albums and compilations. If you like it crystaline, hard and focused, 'Levitation', if you like it hypercoloured and prog-psych 'Warrior on the Edge of Time'. If you like it tight, satirical and quasi New Wave, 'Quark, Strangeness & Charm' or 'Hawklords: 25 Years On'. If you like a mixture of grungy and pastoral 'Hall of the Mountain Grill'. If you must go for a live, get 'The Space Ritual Alive' (aka 'Space Ritual'). You should be able to find snippets of these to listen to online. But show no fear, Hawkwind will fly you away...
Completely agree with you on Masters…. I love my copy on the Masters of the Universe compilation cassette that had the synth intro twice with only the second mixing into the other instruments. I have the previous box sets, but this is the first that I have not ordered yet because it seems so little for the price. Perhaps they could have put ISOS and Doremi into one set for the same price as Space Ritual and Underground.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal and everyone else thank you for the recs! what a great community we have right here. I have Mtn Grill and Levitation vinyl enroute!
Picking your Brain: What is the name of the Moorcock story that inspired (or expands) "The Tenth Second of Forever?" by Hawkwind, And do you recall which collection it's in?
In short, "No, I can't," but I have read it, as I've read everything up to a certain date - i.e. the end of the 80s- and there's not much after that I haven't read. But it's been a long time for some of it. Very often in the early days, lines that became associated with Hawkwind were just mini chapter headings and the like and weren't always expansions and the like...plus I'm pretty sure from memory that Bob Calvert wrote that poem, which first appeared in 'The Hawkwind Log' book that came with 'X-In Search of Space'. It's always felt more Ballardian to me.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Thank you. No Pressure. Your vid reminded me of it and I tried looking it up and was going in unsuccessful circles, so I thought I'd just ask. There was a short story I've not been able to find, where of the hundreds who competed for the "job", a poet was selected to be the final person left behind on the homeworld when the last ships were escaping (I think) the sun going nova. He was broadcasting his thoughts and feelings back to the ships for his last impressions to be recorded. It had to be a stable person with a family who had something to live for. So his experiences would be extrapolatable to the greatest number of people. There is a countdown that starts a few hours out, & he's walking around being fancy & trying to compose something "Great". As it gets closer he walk around looking at empty homes and a museum but images start to jump as he gets closer to the end (like in the song.) He cries, he rages, in the last moments he thinks of family, then humanity and in the last moment he loves everything. Due to the similarity to the song, I always assumed it was Moorcock. Could it really be someone else? Geez! How will I ever find it? ** NOT your problem. Feel better, ol chum. Excelsior!
@@outlawbookselleroriginal @kirkhunter146 I don't doubt you know what you know, but I'm not talking about a poem, as you can see by the *lengthy* summary I did from memory. I don't own any books w/ Bob's poetry, and haven't bought any random British anthologies till I started listening to OB, and I read it YEARS ago. I assumed it was Mike because I remember it being in a DAW book & it's similar to the song/ accompanied poem. 2 Possibilities remain: 1-Bob was inspired by an SF story he read, OR 2- Someone plagiarized it into a story. Me thinking it was Mike was, well, likely.
I have a twenty plus years old Sony which has 5 mini speakers and an integrated woofer/amp unit and I've used this with a 25 yr old Sony DVD/SACD player for DVDA and with two different Sony Blureay players for 5.1 on the BD format. The 5.1 system has always delivered great results for my living room and there are far better ones out there now, so it was a budget buy back around 2003/4. My bluray would have been just under £100 but as I have it chipped for region free BD- meaning I can watch blurays from anywhere on Earth, it was £200.
Thanks, but I wish you hadn't skimmed through the book and shown much more of it. It being the most important part for me. We aren't even told who did the essay at Cherry Red. I can for sure believe there ain't much new in it for the avid fan but I need to see more! Does look good, but the SR remix didn't do much for me, we already got the outtakes on Parallel Universe.......
SO many of their collections cover the same ground that getting a "Best Of" is really a solid idea. Steve makes a bunch of great recommendations on another comment, so I'l just say see which of those intrigues you on a youtube listen. I think Xenon Codex is clean & cool & approachable & Kinda SF. If you like Mike Moorcock then you gotta try "Live Chronicles" it's all Elric stuff.
PLEASE READ There is a Hawkwind Playlist on this channel- linked at the end of this video- which looks at a number fo their albums in depth, discussing lyrical themes realted to SF and Literature in general.
Great video. I still have my original Hawkwond LPs from my teen years. Steve, have you read Jason Heller's 2018 book "Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi [sorry] Exploded"? Enjoyable book on the 1960s/1970s ties between rock music and the science fiction world.
I have- it's an idea I had decades ago and never got around to writing. I felt it was lacking in its understanding of Sf- as in the 'Sci Fi' for example. In the 1960s and 1970s, there were of course many rock musicians making SF records, many great ones!
Hawkwind is in my top 10 bands. Absolutely luv 'em. Levitation is a particular favorite.
'Me mum's got a washin' machine'
Jealous! I'm going to have to order a copy! Funnily enough, I just uploaded a video about Space Ritual on my music channel this morning! Great video, as always!
My introduction to Hawkwind was this album, Hall of the Mountain Grill, and Doremi Fasol Latido. My holy trinity. If you only buy three of their albums, buy those. Maybe make it five, with Space Ritual and Levitation added. My desert island discs.
All great records, on my turntable and in my CD chamber for longer than I've been bookselling!
All the UA daze is the definitive Hawkwind
I saw Hawkwind back in the very early 80's (IGinger Baker was drumming for them at the time!)... sublime times... thank you for the interesting unboxing!
Hawkwind is the *perfect* place to restart your album pieces! You've brought up things that give me a new perspective!
I pursued Hawkwind out of academic interest in Moorcock originally, then developed a taste for their unique charm. I particularly love the songs with a science fictional premise and coherent lyrical follow through. My first was either HotMG or more likely Xenon Codex. Over the years I pull out the CD's & LP's less and less - So I doubt *I* need to upgrade all media; but if I *were* pulling out my slipcase CD of "In Search of Space" monthly or more often, then a new sound would be great!
Like a lot of folks, my life has reshaped around NOT playing music, so everything on CD lies more and more fallow. Before I chose to upgrade my sound system, stores stopped selling them. Now there are no more stores. . .
BUT BACK TO THE CD!
I *would* love to have a larger, more readable copy of the Logbook, but there *is* a small facsimile in my CD (which I had forgotten) so I probably don't need it as much as I would ethically need to send you money, so it's decided.
Ye GODS! What self involved drivel! I thought someone might share my experience, but. . .
I would love a "Best of" remix box, and of course a 5.1 "Live Chronicles"
Ah brevity is the soul of remembering why you commented!
pity there isn't an affordable 2 disc version for fans not into 5.1 like the recent space ritual and forthcoming Doremi remix
That price is quite reasonable for such a lovely edition. I don't know what people are complaining about.
Great video as usual Stephen. I'm honoured to make a credit!
I'm delighted with this release, I'm hearing a favourite album and getting a different experience. The tracks are all treasures, for myself it's a perfect album. Dave has always been my favourite vocalist from the band and he sounds wonderfully clear.
I haven't heard the 5.1 yet but you've certainly convinced me I should so I've ordered a 5.1 system.
My pleasure chum, sorry I've not been in touch recently, been quite unwell and trying to get better for my trip to Paris in just under ten days to meet up with Michael Moorcock and to have a short holiday. I think since you already have all the box sets with blurays, it's worth you upgrading as you have a stack of material to listen to there. Get something that will enable you to play the stereo mixes through all 6 speakers as even stereo multiplied is great on all sounds of music you like- electronic music particularly is good this way and of course there's the Doremi/Greasy Truckers set to come- no doubt we'll get HOTMG next year -at least that's what I'm hoping. 'Levitation' seems a natural too, especially since it was digitally recorded and should be very, very punchy and clear in 5.1.Take care, my friend!
Great Steve. I know Hawkwind's albums well, though I've never seen them live. I have seen Hawklords though, which I think was Calvert's version of the band. Love tracks like "Psi Power" and that ilk. Lots of Hawkwind titles are taken from SF stories, so they're the ultimate SF rock band. I think they've done an extended version of "Space Ritual" which you probably have.
Very much so, I do have it. If you look at the playlists on the channel, there is a Hawkind one in which I analayse the albums in terms of lyrics and literary content.
Robert Calvert. My hero. Im a big Hawkwind fan, my fave was 'Amazing music Astounding sound.'
A favourite Hawks album of mine- this is the one I most want to see as a 5.1 version.
Shame they didn't do the die cut on vinyl plus the booklet...
There is a multi colour splatter vinyl option limited to 500 copies
As a big fan, there is no way I'm passing this up. Cheers Stephen!
I like Hawkwind but I came to them later than I should’ve. Space Ritual, which is excellent, is the only physical album that I have.
Love Hawkwind. Late to the show; I first heard them c1980. I saw them live in '83 and had many altered state, recreational experiences to this very LP - and others - in the early '80s, when I was being naughty with my friends. 🙂
Silver Machine in the charts in 1972
I love this album my introduction to the band so always had a soft spot for it. Not heard it in the new format yet. But I will . Just finished reading a dream of Wessex which I really enjoyed just started the thing itself . Thanks for the heads up on all this stuff Steve as always you’re the man🫡
Cheers comrade!
❤️🔥❤️
You probably know this already, but in the '90s Steve Sneyd's Hilltop Press brought out a booklet on Dave Brock and Hawkwind, 'Gnawing Medusa's Flesh'. Also, I remember the old myth going round my old school that Hawkwind used a special tone or harmonic that caused their audience to lose control of their bowels. You've got to wonder where these stories come from!
I actually don't know that book, so thanks for that. The bowel loosening story is much told though...LOL
it's a fact that Dik mik's ring modulator or audio generator frequencies go out of human hearing range high and low , high makes you fall over and low could empty bowels , i know he made people topple over , i doubt he used the low freq lol
That booklet was primarily focused on Robert Calvert
great review :)
Cheers- check the Hawkwind playlist for indepth stuff.
Great unboxing. I really need to explore Hawkwind because I love Motörhead. Do you recommend Ballard’s The Kindness of Women be read after Empire of the Sun? I could not put Empire of the Sun down. It was gut wrenching and powerful. Thanks Steve!
Yes, 'Kindness' is pretty much a follow-up to 'Empire', but quite different. A reading of his autobiography, 'Miracles of Life' will then help you put both into context. But he wrote far more powerful books than those....
All the 70s lps are classic but Live chronicles is my go to album especially if you like elric.
Yep, great live shows. Had both studio & live on this week. Love Harveys synths. Church of another favourite....
Good morning from AZ you sound better! I have neatly ignored Hawkwind and your ramblings about them up until today. I am going to cave and check them out. What album should I start with? My favorite Psych rockers are Dead Meadow whom I highly recommend
Warrior on the edge of time ; or my first Hall of the mountain grill.
You wouldn't think I sounded better had I not edited my three coughing fits out!
Well, a big question to answer! You should go with 1970s material and initially avoid live albums and compilations. If you like it crystaline, hard and focused, 'Levitation', if you like it hypercoloured and prog-psych 'Warrior on the Edge of Time'. If you like it tight, satirical and quasi New Wave, 'Quark, Strangeness & Charm' or 'Hawklords: 25 Years On'. If you like a mixture of grungy and pastoral 'Hall of the Mountain Grill'. If you must go for a live, get 'The Space Ritual Alive' (aka 'Space Ritual'). You should be able to find snippets of these to listen to online. But show no fear, Hawkwind will fly you away...
Completely agree with you on Masters…. I love my copy on the Masters of the Universe compilation cassette that had the synth intro twice with only the second mixing into the other instruments. I have the previous box sets, but this is the first that I have not ordered yet because it seems so little for the price. Perhaps they could have put ISOS and Doremi into one set for the same price as Space Ritual and Underground.
I would say from XISOS up to Levitaion is essential. That's a fun of 11 brilliant albums.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal and everyone else thank you for the recs! what a great community we have right here. I have Mtn Grill and Levitation vinyl enroute!
Picking your Brain: What is the name of the Moorcock story that inspired (or expands) "The Tenth Second of Forever?" by Hawkwind,
And do you recall which collection it's in?
In short, "No, I can't," but I have read it, as I've read everything up to a certain date - i.e. the end of the 80s- and there's not much after that I haven't read. But it's been a long time for some of it. Very often in the early days, lines that became associated with Hawkwind were just mini chapter headings and the like and weren't always expansions and the like...plus I'm pretty sure from memory that Bob Calvert wrote that poem, which first appeared in 'The Hawkwind Log' book that came with 'X-In Search of Space'. It's always felt more Ballardian to me.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Thank you.
No Pressure. Your vid reminded me of it and I tried looking it up and was going in unsuccessful circles, so I thought I'd just ask.
There was a short story I've not been able to find, where of the hundreds who competed for the "job", a poet was selected to be the final person left behind on the homeworld when the last ships were escaping (I think) the sun going nova. He was broadcasting his thoughts and feelings back to the ships for his last impressions to be recorded. It had to be a stable person with a family who had something to live for. So his experiences would be extrapolatable to the greatest number of people. There is a countdown that starts a few hours out, & he's walking around being fancy & trying to compose something "Great". As it gets closer he walk around looking at empty homes and a museum but images start to jump as he gets closer to the end (like in the song.) He cries, he rages, in the last moments he thinks of family, then humanity and in the last moment he loves everything.
Due to the similarity to the song, I always assumed it was Moorcock.
Could it really be someone else?
Geez! How will I ever find it?
** NOT your problem.
Feel better, ol chum.
Excelsior!
It isn't by Michael, it's a poem by Bob read by by Bob.
@@kirkhunter146 Spot on.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal @kirkhunter146
I don't doubt you know what you know, but I'm not talking about a poem, as you can see by the *lengthy* summary I did from memory. I don't own any books w/ Bob's poetry, and haven't bought any random British anthologies till I started listening to OB, and I read it YEARS ago.
I assumed it was Mike because I remember it being in a DAW book & it's similar to the song/ accompanied poem.
2 Possibilities remain:
1-Bob was inspired by an SF story he read, OR
2- Someone plagiarized it into a story.
Me thinking it was Mike was, well, likely.
What sort of 5.1 system do you listen on?
I have a twenty plus years old Sony which has 5 mini speakers and an integrated woofer/amp unit and I've used this with a 25 yr old Sony DVD/SACD player for DVDA and with two different Sony Blureay players for 5.1 on the BD format. The 5.1 system has always delivered great results for my living room and there are far better ones out there now, so it was a budget buy back around 2003/4. My bluray would have been just under £100 but as I have it chipped for region free BD- meaning I can watch blurays from anywhere on Earth, it was £200.
@@outlawbookselleroriginalthanks
Thanks, but I wish you hadn't skimmed through the book and shown much more of it. It being the most important part for me. We aren't even told who did the essay at Cherry Red. I can for sure believe there ain't much new in it for the avid fan but I need to see more! Does look good, but the SR remix didn't do much for me, we already got the outtakes on Parallel Universe.......
I've never listened to Hawkwind. Any suggestions on where to start?
SO many of their collections cover the same ground that getting a "Best Of" is really a solid idea. Steve makes a bunch of great recommendations on another comment, so I'l just say see which of those intrigues you on a youtube listen.
I think Xenon Codex is clean & cool & approachable & Kinda SF. If you like Mike Moorcock then you gotta try "Live Chronicles" it's all Elric stuff.
I'd suggest reading the other comments and my responses in this thread.
@@salty-walt Thank you!
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I will, Efendi!
@@comicbookcrazy You are so welcome my dude!
Have they re-issued my favourite Album, Steven?
Doremi farso latido?
If you mean in a box set version, that's coming out on 8th November, also double CD and vinyl reissues.