HW: finest moments

[ANDREW GARIBALDI]

interestingly enough......that phrase again tonight......the definitive
version of the BBC Radio One In Concert Broadcast still hasn't appeared on
CD - the official one on Windsong is in mono, and the bootleg 'Space Rock
Live From London', while stereo, starts off with a weird mix whereby one of
the instruments is hardly evident and does not seem to be from the same
source even as the original Radio Broadcast (or if it is someone has done
some funny things to it) - if I want to hear this in all its glory, I still
play my tape of it, which incidentally was taped from a Canadian Radio
Broadcast of the same concert rather than the UK one, although still from
the transcription disc if I remember rightly. Years ago I suggested to Doug
Smith that this and the subseqquent BBC Radio One In Concert hour-long
broadcast in '88 would be prime candidates for CD issue, but nothing ever
happened and they fell into the same black hole of EBS as the Jack London CD
and the Brock '76-'96 (both of which I ended up with advance tape copies
and, no, they are not for copying - a condition of getting these things -
but that's just to say the music did exist) and the reissue programme for
the old ones, all of which actually were given EBS cat numbers too (and I've
got the sheet to prove it)
Andy Garibaldi.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Medford" <nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: HW: finest moments


> In message <memo.20001211083618.1015J at slitchfield.ukonline.co.uk>,
> Steve Litchfield <slitchfield at UKONLINE.CO.UK> writes
> >Here's a small survey I've wanted to do for a while.
> >
> >What's your single finest memory of recorded Hawkwind (live or studio)?
It
> >can be a phrase, a passage or even an entire song or album. i.e. what bit
> >of recording encapsulates everything you like about the band most? And
> >why?
> >
> >To kick things off, for me it's the first few minutes of "Born to Go" on
> >Hawkwind: Space Rock from London - utterly awesome in its energy and
> >driving force (and fun).
> >
> >Steve Litchfield
>
> Interesting question.
>
> If I had to whittle it down to a single magic moment, it'd be the sudden
key
> change about 2/3 of the way through Golden Void (studio version).
>
> Other Great Hawkwind Moments:
>
> The superlative jamming on the Space Ritual version of Orgone
> Accumulator.
>
> The start of Born To Go as you say- haven't heard that version but Space
> Ritual one is pretty damn wonderful
>
> The riff of Treadmill.
>
> Harvey's keyboard solo on the Palace Springs version of 'Void'.
>
> Simon House's violin solo on Robot
>
> Simon House's violin solo on Damnation Alley
>
> and not forgetting Simon House's violin solo on Steppenwolf.
>
> Lemmy's bass solo on Time We Left
>
> Calvert: should possibly have his own section here, some of his vocal
> phrasings just get me every time... check out the way he sings "..rip up
the
> pages of di-rec-tor-ies.." on High Rise for a fine example.
>
> Huw's guitar playing on the live "Assault and Battery/Sleep of a 1000
Tears"
> medley on Independent Days 2.
>
> Dave Brock has produced some brilliant guitar solos too- the live versions
of
> Paradox and Damnation Alley spring to mind.
>
> The more I ponder this, the more things come to mind, but I'll leave it
> there.. for now..
>
> --
> Nick Medford