HW: Levitation - couple of questions

[Max Wilcox]

Tony A. Rowe wrote:
>
> In a message dated 97-06-19 06:02:54 EDT, you write:
>
> << I remember the digital-ness of Levitation being slightly newsworthy at the
>  time. I had thought it was the first album recorded digitally. Maybe it was
>  the first album to be entirely recorded thus?
>
>  Alasdair
>   >>
> I remember reading something about this also.  I thought it was inside the
> album sleeve, but there wasn't a word of it in there.  I remember looking for
> more information on this a while back, but being unable to figure out where
> the heck I had read it in the first place.
>
> Did the lot of us all suffer some massive group hallucination or is there
> really something to this?  Do we have to ask Dave Brock himself?

        In my copy of Levitation - the double set with Hawkwind Live, there is
a small bit of writing for each album. It says, and I quote:-

                "Levitation, one of the first rock albums to be recorded using
digital technology, was cut in London's Roundhouse Studios in mid
1980..."

        So there you have it.

- Max Wilcox