HW: Hawkwind, _The 1999 Party_ (Review)

[DAMON CAPEHART]

Is there something wrong with your e-mail or mine, Carl?  I'm getting a
lot of incomplete sentences from you recently.

Damon

On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:47:50 +0000 "Carl E. Anderson"
<cea20 at CUS.CAM.AC.UK> wrote:

>    A never-before-released complete Hawkwind show from 1974, digitally
>remastered, in a 2 CD set which comes in a special cardboard box
> including a
>9+ page booklet and groovy A3-sized mini-poster.
>
>    And not before time.
>
>    What can I say?
>
>    'Phooowaaar' would cover it nicely I think.  This album
unquestionably
>dwarfs every Hawkwind release since 1975, and that's despite a few quite
>good albums in the last dozen years.  This album is clearly up with
1973's
>sun-shattering _Space Ritual_ an

..There's one.

>
>    Recorded at the Chicago Auditorium, 21 March 1974, on the band's
second
>US tour, this captures Hawkwind in full flight and taking no prisoners.
A
>nuclear-powered rhythm section of Dave Brock (guitar), Lemmy (bass), and
>Simon King (drums), propels the
>

..There's another.

>    On to the packaging ... Well, the recent EMI remasters of Hawkwind's
>first five albums broke new ground on their own, but _The 1999 Party_
>probably scores slightly over them in terms of practicality; instead of
the
>pretty-but-fragile digipacks, _The 1
>

..and another.

>    No doubt about it: this is an album no less essiential for the newbie
>fan than for the hardened Kollector.  While confessing to Hawkwind
influence
>isn't as fashionable in the UK as in the US, this album continues to
>highlight the debt--acknowledged or
>

..and another.