HW: Live 79 (An invitation to a 1 minute hate)

[M Holmes]

Patrick Cordiner writes:

> So what is the next official live HW album (just for comparative purposes
> against '79)??

After the breakup of the Hawklords on their US tour, Dave Brock called
Tim Blake and Huw Lloyd Langton with a view to reforming Hawkwind with
Bainbridge and Simon King. This was the lineup for the UK '79 tour and
subsequent album. Later King was replaced by Ginger Baker and the
Levitation album was produced. Blake left after an argument on the 1980
tour and was replaced by Keith Hale. In 1981 Hale and Baker left and
Martin Griffin joined as drummer.

The albums bracketing Live '79 are therefore Quark, PXR5 and Hawklords
before it and Levitation, Sonic Attack and Glastonbury '81 afterwards.

IMHO apart from an awful version of Brainstorm and the poor choice of
Lighthouse instead of New Jerusalem, it pretty much stands with the
rest, though Levitation and Quark certainly head the group.

FoFP