how we got into hawkwind

[ANDREW GARIBALDI]

Bizarre here - for some reason I can't remember I decided to borrow a copy
of 'In Search Of Space' from a postal lending library I was with back in '72
and could not believe 'Shouldn't Do That' - that track started a career, let
alone a collection.
Andy Garibaldi.
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> i first heard "master of the universe" on LA FM radio in the summer of
> '72....seems like i heard it several days in a row. upon reflexion, it
> must've been the hypnotic repetitition and that phasing which sucked me
in. i
> was soon to turn 15.
> i bought the ISOS lp as soon as i could, and liked that lp plenty, but
> really, for me, that was the summer of the "ziggy stardust" lp. proper
> hawk-fanaticism would have to wait awhile...
>
> ....until early the next year, when i bought the 'doremi' lp. amazing
> drumming! amazing in general! >>>LEMMY!<<<
> ==
> i had yet to become the cannabis enthusiast i would become [to this very
day]
> and i must divide my fandom twixt 'pre-pot' and 'post-pot'...and hearing
HW
> _stoned_, well,...here i am over a quarter-century later still discussing
> them.
> dont try this at home, kids.
>
> i have written of my growing disenchantment with post-lemmy HW too many
times
> here...but the era w/lemmy in the band, and the non-conformist if not, um,
> 'revolutionary' attitude they seemed to project, had a great deal in my
> leaving home the day after i turned 18 to play rock music on my own...and
> much later, in the tres unreal das ludicroix, to enjoy drumming in 'simon
> king mode'. and once i figured it out, it wasnt so much what he did but
the
> authority with which he did it.
>
> the hawkestra show must've been awesome; hoping to acquire tapes of it
before
> long.
>
> salud!
> shalom!
>
> "<>"