Brain Surgeons, Hawkwind, Quarkspace

[Gary Davis]

Hi, folks:

The latest Artist Shop newsletter is out and you'll find it in its entirety
at <http://www.artist-shop.com/news.htm>.  Here are some excerpts of
interest to Hawkwind/BOC fans.

This first tidbit wasn't in this last newsletter, but will definitely be in
the forthcoming one.  On our Cellsum page
<http://www.artist-shop.com/cellsum> we now have the long awaited Brain
Surgeons/Piece of Work!  I think Brain Surgeons fans in general would have
to agree that each album keeps getting better and better.  You'll be glad to
know that Piece of Work doesn't change that trend.  Piece of Work is
defintely the most diverse of the Brain Surgeons albums so far.  While the
last BOC album was OK, if it had had more of the creativity and diversity
that is on Piece of Work, it would really have been a killer album!  Just my
humble opinion.

We have a lot of new and forthcoming releases on our Voiceprint page
<http://www.artist-shop.com/voiceprt>.  Among the forthcoming releases are
Hawkwind/Live At Glastonbury Festival 1990 - By the end of the 80's, after
numerous line up changes, arguments over royalties and the death of Robert
Calvert it looked like the end of Hawkwind.  But with yet another new line
up, the album Space Bandits was issued on Castle to great acclaim, with the
band's date sheet fuller than ever, playing dates with the new breed of
festival acts such as Ozric Tentacles.  This gig was recorded at the band's
spiritual home Glastonbury at 5 a.m. in the Travellers Field, it is
previously unreleased and includes a blend of old and new material.
Musicians Bridget Wishart::vocals. Dave Brock::vocals, guitars, keyboard.
Alan Davey::bass, vocals.  Harvey Bainbridge::vocals, keyboards Richard
Chadwick::Drums.

Hawkwind/Greasy Truckers - This gig was recorded at the Roundhouse in 1972
at The Greasy Truckers Party.  Featuring the classic line up of Brock,
Calvert, Turner, Lemmy, King, Dikmik and Dettmar.  The original version of
Silver Machine, with Calvert on spoken - word vocals was featured in the
set.  Hawkwind's manager Doug Smith then took Lemmy into Morgan Studios to
re-record the vocals,and the single released later in the year became an
international best seller.

Hawkwind/Choose Your Masques - Live 1982 - Collectors Series Volume 1 - The
early 80's saw Hawkwind signed to RCA, 3 albums were released, of which
Choose Your Masques was the most successful.  Whilst the band had gone
through another line up change, the core of Dave Brock, Huw Lloyd - Langton
and Harvey Bainbridge saw their date sheet as full as ever.  This double cd
is a 24 track recording of the complete show with a full colour booklet,
which is a faithfull reproduction of the tour programme.

Hawkwind/Complete '79 - Collectors Series Volume 2 - By 1979 the band
consisted of Brock, Lloyd - Langton, King, Bainbridge with special guest Tim
Blake of Gong.  The album Live Seventy Nine (re -issued by Castle) captured
the punky spirit of the period and resulted in a minor hit single "Shot Down
In The Night".  This double cd set is a complete show from the 1979 tour,
and the booklet consists of a full colour reproduction of the tour programme.

On our Outer Music page <http://www.artist-shop.com/outer> you'll find
Various Artists/Strange Daze '97 - Live 2-CD set from America's first
outdoor SpaceRock Festival "STRANGE DAZE '97" featuring the legendary
Hawkwind and Nik Turner playing together again for the first time in over 14
years.  Disc One is 13 full length tracks by some of America's top SpaceRock
bands who played - Alien Planetscapes, F/i, Melting Euphoria, Architectual
Metaphor, Quarkspace and many others.  Disc Two features full length tracks
by Hawkwind w/ Nik Turner and Nik w/ Far Flung, plus sampled bits of all the
acts who appeared. It's a non-stop "Cosmic Trip" though the festival!

And speaking of Quarkspace <http://www.artist-shop.com/newart/index3.htm>
Quarkspace/The Hidden Moon - Eternity's Jest Records' motto is a dedication
to freaky sounds and the new quarkspace 2-CD, The Hidden Moon, is packed
full of all things freaky, dreamily flowing, and even fun. Right from the
beginning we hear "attention alien aircraft!", and know that the space
journey has begun. From the cosmic space guitar licks of Prince(?), to the
techno sampled experiments of Starbridge Freaks, and the space blues of
Bones Blues For Planet X, there's something here for all fans of spacerock,
improvisational jams, and ambient music. The Hidden Moon also includes the
epic spacerock opera Where Galaxies Collide in which Earth battles for
survival. quarkspace improves with each new release and The Hidden Moon
draws from the past as well as moving forward to the future."  - Jerry
Kranitz of Aural Innovations magazine

And I know there are some King Crimson fans here that might be interested to
know that we have a new IRC Chat planned!  Composer and
multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald, a founding member of both King Crimson
and Foreigner, will join The Artist Shop and Talk City for a chat on
Wednesday, October 27 at 9pm eastern/6pm pacific.  Ian will be taking your
questions and discussing such topics as his debut solo album, Drivers Eyes,
and its impending US release, his recent work with Steve Hackett, and the
30th anniversary edition of the album, In the Court of the Crimson King, for
which he was the main composer.  Details on joining the chat can be found at
<http://www.artist-shop.com/irc>.

Gary

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