HW: Equipment (was Re: HW:Theremin)

[Doug Pearson]

There's a great *complete* list of the band's equipment (instruments,
effects, amps - everything!) from the Space Ritual era on
http://www.hawkwind.com ... you can go to the "scrapbook" section and
select the following article:
Band breakdown: Melody Maker, 7 April 1973

or just go directly to:
http://www.hawkwind.com/cutting14.htm

Also, the back cover of 'Church of Hawkwind' has an equally-great list of
the band's equipment right at the end of the analog synth era (c.82/83 -
the Yamaha DX7 became the first "mass-popular" digital synth around 84/85)
including the ubiquitous EMS Synthi (which, I believe, has been used on
just about every Hawkwind album, and is pictured in one of the 90s-trio
promo photos with, I believe, Alan pointing a microphone at it), and the
Korg MS-20, one of the baddest-ass analog monophonic synthesizers ever made
(a personal favorite), which I'm pretty certain (it has a very distinctive
resonant filter sound) is responsible for most of the "sound effects"-type
sounds heard on post-Blake early-80s live recordings.

As for Harvey's gear, I'm pretty certain he used the same kind of Korg &
Roland keyboards that Dave did at the time ...

        -Doug
         ceres at sirius.com