Hawkwind

[RelayerI]

Gone are the days when a coked-up teen superstar/psychedelic warrior presents a children's TV show with Hawkwind on.

Brian

Shame isn't it ?

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i LOVE Hawkwind, but i'm really picky/specific on the stuff i like. Anything until 1976 is pretty much Bullet-Proof, be it an entire LP or a one-off 45. after that, i dont care much for their official recorded output outside of "Hassan I Sabbah" on Quark Strangeness & Charm. theres a live video from like 1983/4 that is a line-up i dont care for on vinyl, but the live performance on this is Really Special, and TOTALLY KICKS ARSE!!!

ive seen Hawkwind 3 times; Sort Of. 2 different times in 1993/94(?) i saw Nik Turners Space Ritual...Freakin' Amazing!!! even though the 2nd time it was Nik Turner, Del Detmar(!!!), and Simon House being backed-up by the band Pressure Hed. played for Damn Near 3 hours and it was ALL the classics in a 500-capacity 'ballroom' setting...i was smashed-up close to the stage in front of Del the whole time...watching that Man with his 'Neanderthal' gear (broken mellotron, a literal Axe Handle with a guitar string attatched to it, some black-n-white TV sets, a couple proper keyboards)...WOW!!! afetr they played "Brainstorm", i just jumped at him and shook his hand and yelled out "THANK YOU!!!" as he just looked dazed,confused,spaced-the-fukk-out, but did manage a cross-eyed smile,, and just made a 'noise' back to me somewhat sounding like "ERRRRGGGGHHHHYYYYAAAAAEEEERRRRR" and Ferociously shook my hand with a gracious look in his eyes...and seeing Nik Turner walking about 2 feet to my left at the end of the set, fully clad in his space-suit & helmet. arms stretched-out...i HAD to be a 'Fan-Boy' and just reach out to touch his shoulder as he brushed pass...

the one time i saw an 'official' Hawkwind line-up was in like 1996/7. Dave Brock, Tree, and 2 others i dont know who. a small 1,000 capacity theater that had about 20 people in the entire place. NOBODY was there. they started with "Assault & Battery", and that was quite good.then they went into stuff i wasnt familiar with, and just went into a 'void' that was NOT Golden. and it really sucked. i got in for free (a then-bandmate of mine was a reviewer for a local paper and got me in), so i geuss i should just leave it as "you get what you pay for", but it was REALLY Awful; almost as bad as the one time i saw Pink Floyd in 1988(but thats a different story). i can still see the chubby 'dancer girls/groupies' the band had in tow attempting to 'dance' on the front of the stage during certain songs just literally Fighting with eachother on missing various moves/accents to the songs being played. one of the WORST live shows ive ever seen, and thats saying quite a bit.

that being said, im very much a 'newbie' to Hawkwind. im a HUGE Motorhead fan from since i was a kid, and had always had heard about them thru that, but it wasnt until 1991~2 when someone i used to buy weed from left a tape of "Space Ritual" with me...it changed my life!!!

since then, ive been Rabid for their stuff. my favorites include-

"The Text Of Festival 1970-72" CD/2LP
"Space Ritual" 2LP
"Space Ritual Vol 2" CD
"Doremi Fasol Latido" LP
"In Search Of Space" LP
"Hawkwind Zoo" 12ep
"Urban Guerilla b/w Brainbox Pollution" 45
BBC Live October 1972 FM Broadcast
"Greasy Truckers Party" CD with the Complete Set
and the 6 or 7 1971-75 live bootleg shows i have in varying degrees of horrendous-quality sound

dammit, theres GOT TO BE MORE live shows out there.

this band is NOT "Prog". they are Pure Sludge From Space.
and they rock HARDER than any miserable 'Rock' band from that era, or beyond.

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You can't beat the humour of Lucky Lief and the long ships.

Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters is an AMAZING LP. Lucky Lief is one i own as well, but have never listened to. and i once found a home-made 8-Track tape/cartridge at a local junk-shop that just had "Captain Calvert's Star Fighters" scrawled across the front of it. was a home-made cart of 'doremi fasol latido' & 'captain lockheed' on it. i did once find a very battered original 8-track of the original "Doremi Fasol Latido"...it now sits on the end of the bar of the club/livehouse i spend most of my time at, in a stack of Deep Purple & Grand Funk Railroadn 8-tracks...with a late-70's player that still works...and it gets 'plugged-in' at least 1 or 2 times a week at this place during closing time, or when the bartenders are sick of the same selections on the jukebox while theyre closing up... www.nowthatsclass.net

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in a bored minute of soltace, i did a search of Hawkwind shows. apparently theres TONS of stuff out there that is sactioned by the band, as long as its freely traded. give me a week or 2 and ill post the shows im looking for. but if anyone cane give me links for this recent Master Tape that has appeared in .flac in the last month or 2,...WOW!!!

http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f14...ac-142284.html

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and gthese links dont work for "Free" members...ugh...

[Bo Locks]

PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 13th FEBRUARY 2013

HAWKWIND
Warrior on the Edge of Time

Atomhenge, the Cherry Red Records label managed by Esoteric Recordings, the home of the entire HAWKWIND catalogue released between 1975 and 1997, are very pleased to announce that the classic HAWKWIND album “WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME”
will be released in May 2013 as a newly remastered edition from the original stereo master tapes. Atomhenge label manager Mark Powell said; “Contrary to popular myth, the master tapes of this classic album were never lost. They remained in the United Artists vaults. The Atomhenge reissue will be the first ever CD edition to be taken from the original first generation master tapes. All previous editions have been taken from vinyl transfers or inferior copy master tapes”.

Aside from a single disc remastered edition, there will be two other expanded editions of the album. Mark Powell adds; “I’m extremely pleased to say that Steven Wilson has mixed the album into a stunning 5.1 Surround Sound mix from the original multi-track master tapes and has also undertaken a new stereo mix of the album which has an amazing depth and clarity whilst remaining faithful to the original release. “Warrior” is one of THE classic albums of the 1970s and is a land-mark album in Hawkwind’s history. The forthcoming reissues will do justice this magnificent record”.

Full details of the editions of “Warrior” will be announced in the coming weeks.
Cherry Red managing director, Adam Velasco added; “The album “Warrior on the Edge of Time” has been unavailable officially on CD for many years and it is our intention to make the forthcoming releases definitive editions in terms of audio remastering (from the original master tapes), content and packaging”.

[TOBYSGRAPHICGOKART]

Bo, thank you so much for this!!

At last. At long last. Can't wait for this!!

Steven Wilson remix too!! Yessssss!

[RelayerI]

i saw Nik Turners Space Ritual...Freakin' Amazing!!! even though the 2nd time it was Nik Turner, Del Detmar(!!!), and Simon House being backed-up by the band Pressure Hed.

You lucky b*****d ! They didn't play over here, but the live album is amazing...The Hawklords are great though. I'll have to go and see them again.

And Warrior rerelease - wow. I wonder if it will be in a itty bitty fold out shield ?

[Meng]

Bring it on, babeeeeee!

[Bo Locks]

I wonder if it will be in a itty bitty fold out shield ?

I wonder if I should keep my naughty Korean bootleg itty bitty fold out shield or sell it before the official one (itty bitty-ness unknown) comes out?

[RelayerI]

I wonder if I should keep my naughty Korean bootleg itty bitty fold out shield or sell it before the official one (itty bitty-ness unknown) comes out?

I'd wait and see first...

[Ian B]

From Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music to PXR 5, though I really like Hall of the Mountain Grill and Warrior on the Edge of Time as well. Once Calvert left the band in '78, I lost interest; Levitation didn't do it for me; nor anything subsequent, apart from Chronicle of the Black Sword, which was more or less a (short lived) return to form. I know some people wanted Captain Bob burned at the stake for taking the band away from their wall-of-noise grebo roots, but I found his 'lay off the drugs in the studio and concentrate on playing properly' philosophy refreshing. Also his restlessly intelligent lyrics, something noticeably absent from Hawkwind before and since. I'm sure his bi-polar tendencies and inability to stop obsessing about a project before he frequently crashed and burned were less fun, but that's one of the joys of not being in a band, you get the end result without some talented nutter chewing your ear off. Whatever; Brock/Calvert were a powerful force when they got going.

Still, part of me would have liked to have stood in Liverpool Stadium, sh*tfaced on acid, assaulted by the music, lights and Stacia's enormous bouncing gazongas. Alas, I was only eight at the time. An uncle who did go assured me that Space Ritual on vinyl was only a pale shadow of the actual live experience.

PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 13th FEBRUARY 2013

HAWKWIND
Warrior on the Edge of Time

Atomhenge, the Cherry Red Records label managed by Esoteric Recordings, the home of the entire HAWKWIND catalogue released between 1975 and 1997, are very pleased to announce that the classic HAWKWIND album “WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME”
will be released in May 2013 as a newly remastered edition from the original stereo master tapes. Atomhenge label manager Mark Powell said; “Contrary to popular myth, the master tapes of this classic album were never lost. They remained in the United Artists vaults. The Atomhenge reissue will be the first ever CD edition to be taken from the original first generation master tapes. All previous editions have been taken from vinyl transfers or inferior copy master tapes”.

Aside from a single disc remastered edition, there will be two other expanded editions of the album. Mark Powell adds; “I’m extremely pleased to say that Steven Wilson has mixed the album into a stunning 5.1 Surround Sound mix from the original multi-track master tapes and has also undertaken a new stereo mix of the album which has an amazing depth and clarity whilst remaining faithful to the original release. “Warrior” is one of THE classic albums of the 1970s and is a land-mark album in Hawkwind’s history. The forthcoming reissues will do justice this magnificent record”.

Full details of the editions of “Warrior” will be announced in the coming weeks.
Cherry Red managing director, Adam Velasco added; “The album “Warrior on the Edge of Time” has been unavailable officially on CD for many years and it is our intention to make the forthcoming releases definitive editions in terms of audio remastering (from the original master tapes), content and packaging”.

There goes another fifteen quid!

[Bo Locks]

... his restlessly intelligent lyrics...

Nice. That's what they were.

[Ian B]

Nice. That's what they were.

I bought Calvert's first book of poems, Centigrade 232, around the time it was published and didn't really appreciate what a great wordsmith he was until I got a bit older. Such a shame he died at the age he did and seems to languish in relative obscurity nowadays, apart from those with long memories who remember his unique talents and sardonic sense of humor. How many interesting projects must have died with him.

[Punj Lizard]

I was fortunate to see a Calvert gig once. Mad joy.

[likecats]

A heads-up for anyone who lives in the L.A. area: I just learned that "An Evening of Space Ritual with Nik Turner ex-Hawkwind" is booked for the Echoplex in L.A. on March 10.
The press release says they're playing the entire Space Ritual album. It's not Hawkwind of course, but sounds like a fun show. I already bought a ticket.

[Punj Lizard]

A heads-up for anyone who lives in the L.A. area: I just learned that "An Evening of Space Ritual with Nik Turner ex-Hawkwind" is booked for the Echoplex in L.A. on March 10.
The press release says they're playing the entire Space Ritual album. It's not Hawkwind of course, but sounds like a fun show. I already bought a ticket.

Interesting.
Nik Turner will be on the Moody Blues cruise as part of Billy Sherwood's Prog Collective. I wonder if Sherwood et al will be involved in the Space Ritual gig. I'm sure Turner must be in the area rehearsing with Billy et al. anyway.

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cant wait to see what comes of this; audio or video-
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/hawkw...-space-ritual/

[Bo Locks]

"Hi guys

Finally--just announcing the May remasters of Warrior on the Edge of Time.

Im listing content below simply because I don’t know how well this programme can cope with attachments--

anyway guys (and the occasional gal) heres the low down

May 25th release

3 editions---single CD, 3 disc deluxe clamshell (like Levitation) or the all singing , all dancing box set, complete with exact vinyl replica, large book, poster, postcards etc. --see text for details.

Those that buy direct from Cherry Red will also receive a unique bonus download of the first run through of "Assault and Battery" . This will be available for those that order the full box set and direct from the website.

SINGLE EDITION (DIGIPACK)

“WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME”
Remastered original stereo master tapes:

1. Assault and Battery / The Golden Void
2. The Wizard Blew His Horn
3. Opa-Loka
4. The Demented Man
5. Magnu
6. Standing at the Edge
7. Spiral Galaxy 28948
8. Warriors
9. Dying Seas
10. Kings of Speed

Bonus track:

11. Motorhead

B-side of single – Released in March 1975

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• 3 Disc Edition (Clamshell box)
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• THE LONG AWAITED OFFICIAL EXPANDED 3 DISC DELUXE REMASTERED EDITION OF HAWKWIND’S CLASSIC 1975 ALBUM
• FEATURING THE FIRST EVER REMASTERED VERSION MADE FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOGUE MASTER TAPES ON CD ONE PLUS 8 BONUS TRACKS, FIVE PREVIOUSLY OFFICIALLY UNRELEASED
• CD TWO FEATURES A NEW STEREO MIX BY STEVEN WILSON MADE FROM THE MULTI-TRACK MASTER TAPES PLUS 5 BONUS TRACKS, TWO PREVIOUSLY OFFICIALLY UNRELEASED
• DISC THREE – NTSC REGION FREE DVD FEATURING NEW 5.1 SURROUND & STEREO MIXES OF “WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME” BY STEVEN WILSON & A 96 kHz 24-BIT FLAT TRANSFER OF THE ORIGINAL 1975 STEREO MASTER TAPES
• ALSO FEATURES BOOKLET WITH PHOTOS, MEMORABILIA & ESSAY

ATOMHENGE, the home of HAWKWIND’s catalogue from 1975 – 1997, are pleased to announce the long awaited release of a definitive edition of the classic 1975 album “WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME”. Recorded in 1975, the album is a ground-breaking classic of Hawkwind’s career. Featuring a line-up of DAVE BROCK, NIK TURNER, LEMMY, SIMON HOUSE, SIMON KING & ALAN POWELL, the album is arguably one of the finest rock albums of the mid-1970s. This Atomhenge edition marks the first time that the original analogue stereo master tapes have been used for a remastered edition. This set also features a wonderful 5.1 Surround Sound remix from the original 16-track master tapes by Steven Wilson, who has also undertaken a splendid new stereo remix. The set also features a total of thirteen bonus tracks drawn from out-takes of the recording sessions and the 1975 Watchfield Festival, seven of which are previously unreleased. This deluxe edition of “WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME” is a definitive release of this classic album.

DISC ONE

The remastered original stereo master tapes:

1. Assault and Battery / The Golden Void
2. The Wizard Blew His Horn
3. Opa-Loka
4. The Demented Man
5. Magnu
6. Standing at the Edge
7. Spiral Galaxy 28948
8. Warriors
9. Dying Seas
10. Kings of Speed

Bonus tracks:

11. Motorhead

B-side of single – Released in March 1975

12. Soldiers at the Edge of Time
(Michael Moorcock version)
13. On the Road
14. The Wizard Blew His Horn (Nik Turner version)
15. Spiral Galaxy 28948 (demo)
16. Soldiers at the Edge of Time (Nik Turner version)

Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth in March 1975
Previously unreleased

17. Motorhead (Dave Brock vocal version)
18. Kings of Speed (instrumental version)

Recorded at Olympic Studios, Barnes in January 1975

DISC TWO
New stereo mixes by Steven Wilson:

1. Assault and Battery / The Golden Void
2. The Wizard Blew His Horn
3. Opa-Loka
4. The Demented Man
5. Magnu
6. Standing at the Edge
7. Spiral Galaxy 28948
8. Warriors
9. Dying Seas
10. Kings of Speed

Bonus tracks:

11. Motorhead (instrumental demo)
12. Dawn

Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth in March 1975
Previously unreleased

13. Watchfield Festival Jam
14. Circles
15. I Am the Eye

Recorded at the Watchfield Free Festival on 23rd August 1975

DISC THREE – REGION FREE NTSC DVD

5.1 Surround Sound & new Stereo mixes by Steven Wilson:

1. Assault and Battery / The Golden Void
2. The Wizard Blew His Horn
3. Opa-Loka
4. The Demented Man
5. Magnu
6. Standing at the Edge
7. Spiral Galaxy 28948
8. Warriors
9. Dying Seas
10. Kings of Speed

Dolby 5.1 Surround, DTS 5.1 Surround Sound & DVD-A Lossless files playback options


96kHz 24-Bit Flat transfer of the original 1975 stereo master tapes:

1. Assault and Battery / The Golden Void
2. The Wizard Blew His Horn
3. Opa-Loka
4. The Demented Man
5. Magnu
6. Standing at the Edge
7. Spiral Galaxy 28948
8. Warriors
9. Dying Seas
10. Kings of Speed

Dolby 5.1 Surround, DTS 5.1 Surround Sound & DVD-A Lossless files playback options

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• WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME BOX SET

ALL THE CONTENT FROM THE 3 DISC VERSION PLUS THE FOLLOWING HOUSED IN A BEAUTIFUL BOX-----PHIL SMEE PACKAGE.
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• 180g VINYL LP FACSIMILE EDITION WITH “SHIELD” GATEFOLD SLEEVE & INNER BAG (cut from the original analogue cutting master tapes)
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• ALSO INCLUDES:
- DELUXE 48 PAGE BOOK WITH PHOTOS, MEMORABILIA & ESSAY
- A REPRODUCTION OF THE AMERICAN IN-STORE PROMOTIONAL POSTER
- A REPLICA CONCERT TICKET FROM DETROIT IN 1975
- THREE PROMOTIONAL POSTCARDS

FOR THOSE THAT PURCHASE THE FULL BOX SET DIRECT FROM ATOMHENGE THERE WILL ALSO BE A UNIQUE DOWNLOAD ENCLOSED OF THE FIRST RUN THROUGH OF ASSAULT AND BATTERY

The vinyl will only be available as part of the box--we are not doing a separate vinyl pressing.



The box set will be a limited edition and once the first press has gone--that will be it.

I will alert you immediately when presell starts--should be either later this week or early next week at the very latest-we just have to notify retail first. I know there will always be the ---why not XXX etc, please bear in mind , it has all been scoured and we are only happy to use content that is of really good quality. The unique download track was left off the box because it wasnt felt that it wasnt quite 100% --however it makes for a great bonus."

[TOBYSGRAPHICGOKART]