HW: 1st Album

[Christian Mumford]

I got into Hawkwind the dorky way, via Elric of course - after consuming about
40 Moorcock paperbacks. First Comics were adapting the books into comics, and
there were references to Hawkwind in the lettercollumns and I got real curious.
This was around '88 or '89 and I was in my first year of high school. At
this point, my favorite music was fairly diverse within rock: AC/DC, Doors,
Queen,
Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Ramones. But I had an aversion to straight metal
(I place AC/DC firmly within trad. blues-rock, thankyou), but lo and
behold, I found the Flicknife CD of Chronicle of The Black Sword!! I wasn't
overly impressed, but it grew on me - it was, after all, Elric... and I was a
pimply kid! Beyond that, I decided to pick up In Search of Space - this blew
me away and I could hardly believe it was the same band... then things get hazy,
but my earliest HW records after that were ASAM, Quark, Strangeness & Charm,
Xenon Codex, and PXR5 (I had a thing for the Calvert stuff and still do!), and
British Tribal Music I picked up because it had a cool title, great design...
and I thought it was an actual album... Now, I, like many others on this list,
live in poverty with at least 50 Hawkwind records (not much compared to some of
you!!) and I'll ramble on about Hawkwind to anybody whenever I lose control
of myself. When I die, I want to be buried with all my HW stuff, and I want my
funeral music to be either 'Born to Go' or perhaps 'Wind of Change', depending
on whether I have a sense of humor or if I'm overly sentimental when I write
my will... Hawkwind was probably the band that 'broke' my tastes in modern music
beyond just rock and into uncharted territory...

Christian