Can hear the Can influence here. Yes, the GT Party with the three hour power cut (stopping Byzantium play) was an unfortunate wait for us on the steps at that gig. Great post!
This was recorded in February '72, months before the actual Space Ritual tour, they played Born to Go at this gig which is also awesome, the Greasy Truckers Party, the gig was interrupted by power cuts due to the miners strikes over the Winter.
Agreed, I met Richard Chadwick a few years ago and mentioned Simon King, and Richard couldn't believe how Simon could play at that intensity night after night, an awesome drummer, the best.
Great posting and thanks, not heard this version before, but It sounds to me like they've done to this what they did to the Space Ritual album (if you don't believe me about the S R album research it) Thin Lizzy did the same thing with their Live and Dangerous album. I always used to wonder how H W played so faultlessly on the S R album yet all the other live recordings of that era were very off their heads and sloppy stoned/acidy, then I found out and it was AHA, no wonder,they overdubbed all the mistakes and bits they didn't like in the studio.It started with Brock apparently not liking some of his guitar parts in solos, then ended up with a hell of a lot of the guitar ended up being overdubbed, so the rest simply followed suit. I have a tape with the original released recordings and they are sloppy as ****, BUT you can hear through the whole set that they were having a lot of fun and a laugh, that is what it was about back then, this is a sterilised, sanitised version of what once was a great sounding gig.
Hawkwind off their heads? Never!!! Here is an except from a Lemmy interview about the Greasy Truckers party. "Me and DikMik had been up four days on Dexedrine spansules and were pretty well bent." Lemmy explains. "But we had the gig at the Roundhouse - the one where we recorded Silver Machine - so we had a couple of Mandrax to calm us down. Then it got a bit boring, so we had two Black Bombers each. "We get to the Roundhouse and somebody comes in with a load of bombers, and we take ten each - a lot. Then someone comes up with some Mandrax and we were gettibg pretty twisted up by now, so we had at least three each to calm us down. The somebody came up with cocaine, fucking big bags of it, and we thought we'd have some of that. All of this time in the dressing room there's constant smoking - we were all blasted out of our heads from dope. And people were producing acid and mescaline. We all had some of that. "By the time we come to go on stage me and DikMIk are stiff as boards. I said 'I can't move, can you?' He went 'No, it's great, isn't it?'' I said 'What are we going to do when we can't play?' He said 'We'll think of something..' "The Gig itself was incredible,' says Hawkwind manager Doug Smith. 'But that was the thing about Hawkwind. You never really knew how out of it they were because they were like that all the time. It was insane. I think we were insane for a long time..." Taken from Q Classic ' Pink Floyd & The Story Of Prog Rock'
Can hear the Can influence here. Yes, the GT Party with the three hour power cut (stopping Byzantium play) was an unfortunate wait for us on the steps at that gig. Great post!
This was recorded in February '72, months before the actual Space Ritual tour, they played Born to Go at this gig which is also awesome, the Greasy Truckers Party, the gig was interrupted by power cuts due to the miners strikes over the Winter.
Why can't any other hawkwind drummer after the great Simon king play this fabulous drum beat - it's classic hawkwind - never beaten! !!!
Because they're not Simon King???
Agreed, I met Richard Chadwick a few years ago and mentioned Simon King, and Richard couldn't believe how Simon could play at that intensity night after night, an awesome drummer, the best.
Great posting and thanks, not heard this version before, but It sounds to me like they've done to this what they did to the Space Ritual album (if you don't believe me about the S R album research it) Thin Lizzy did the same thing with their Live and Dangerous album.
I always used to wonder how H W played so faultlessly on the S R album yet all the other live recordings of that era were very off their heads and sloppy stoned/acidy, then I found out and it was AHA, no wonder,they overdubbed all the mistakes and bits they didn't like in the studio.It started with Brock apparently not liking some of his guitar parts in solos, then ended up with a hell of a lot of the guitar ended up being overdubbed, so the rest simply followed suit.
I have a tape with the original released recordings and they are sloppy as ****, BUT you can hear through the whole set that they were having a lot of fun and a laugh, that is what it was about back then, this is a sterilised, sanitised version of what once was a great sounding gig.
AHA ?
Hawkwind off their heads? Never!!! Here is an except from a Lemmy interview about the Greasy Truckers party.
"Me and DikMik had been up four days on Dexedrine spansules and were pretty well bent." Lemmy explains.
"But we had the gig at the Roundhouse - the one where we recorded Silver Machine - so we had a couple of Mandrax to calm us down. Then it got a bit boring, so we had two Black Bombers each.
"We get to the Roundhouse and somebody comes in with a load of bombers, and we take ten each - a lot. Then someone comes up with some Mandrax and we were gettibg pretty twisted up by now, so we had at least three each to calm us down. The somebody came up with cocaine, fucking big bags of it, and we thought we'd have some of that. All of this time in the dressing room there's constant smoking - we were all blasted out of our heads from dope. And people were producing acid and mescaline. We all had some of that.
"By the time we come to go on stage me and DikMIk are stiff as boards. I said 'I can't move, can you?' He went 'No, it's great, isn't it?'' I said 'What are we going to do when we can't play?' He said 'We'll think of something..'
"The Gig itself was incredible,' says Hawkwind manager Doug Smith. 'But that was the thing about Hawkwind. You never really knew how out of it they were because they were like that all the time. It was insane. I think we were insane for a long time..."
Taken from Q Classic ' Pink Floyd & The Story Of Prog Rock'
Fantástico!!!!
good !!!