HW: Hawk Logs Master Series: Part 1 (of 3)

[Colin Allen]

Stephan,

I am definitely interested in trading for Number 1.

Regards,

COLIN
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From: "Stephan Forstner" <stemfors at PIPELINE.COM>
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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 9:27 PM
Subject: HW: Hawk Logs Master Series: Part 1 (of 3)


> Hawk Logs Master Series: Part 1 (of 3)
>
> 1. I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside (70 minutes)
>      (live at the Folkestone Leas Cliffe Hotel on 12th July 1980)
>
> Shot Down in the Night / Urban Guerilla / The War / World of Tiers / Dust
of
> Time / Docking Port III / Nati / Lighthouse / Brainstorm / M.O.T.V /
Silver
> Machine / Levitation
>
> This is similar to the Complete '79 set, I would rate the sound as
slightly
> less good, but a very good set. Nati is a Tim Blake piece I haven't seen
> elsewhere, tho I think he had a similarly titled track on one of his
recent
> releases. DP3 is Space Chase with nice solos from TB and HLL.
>
>
> 2. Archives (66 minutes)
>      (Archive BBC) - no date given but I assume it's from 85(?)
> Assault & Battery / Night of the Hawks / They Got Your Number / Magnu /
Blue
> Angel/Dreamworker / Dust of Time
>      Cystal Palace Bowl 1985
> Intro / Coded Languages / Angels of Death / Needle Gun / Brainstorm
>      The Visitation Live (A Hawkwind Tribute)
> Vanishing Point / Final Day / Masters of the Universe
>
> The 1st set (ABBC) has very good sound. TGY# is an HLL tune. CPB85 has
> somewhat less good sound. I don't know anything about The Visitation
Live -
> the 1st 2 tracks are instrumentals, and overall I think its pretty good -
> I'd be interested in more of this stuff, whoever/whatever it is. Does
anyone
> know?
>
>
> 3. Out of the Shadows (60 minutes)
>      Live at Nottingham Rock City 1990
> Assault & Battery / The Golden Void / Out of the Shadows / Snake Dance /
> Utopia / Ejection / Damnation Alley / Wind of Change
>      Xenon Codex Tour Hammersmith 1988 (Part 1)
> Arrival in Utopia / The War I survived / Heads
>
> I think the '90 set is the one that is supposed to be released any day now
> by Voiceprint. Very good sound, very good set, definitely worthy of
release
> (Simon House=amazing). This is missing 2 songs that I've seen on other
boots
> of this show (Night of the Hawks and Back In the Box). The Hammersmith '88
> set is spread over the next 4 CDs. I think the same show has appeared on
the
> boots Live at Hammersmith '88 and No Sleep Til Hammersmith (wonder where
> they got that title) but I don't have those so I'm not sure. Sound is
again
> very good.
>
>
> 4. Spirit of the Ages (57 minutes)
>      Live at the Bottom Line New York 1978
> Hassan & Sahba / Brainstorm / Steppenwolf / Highrise / Robot / Spirit of
the
> Age / Sonic Attack
>      Xenon Codex Tour Hammersmith 1988 (Part 2)
> Shot Down in the Night / Mutation Zone / Tides (unlisted)
>
> The '78 set has somewhat less good sound, it fades in and out a bit in
> places, and similar versions of all the songs are available on the Weird
> CDs, but this is still a great show and one of my favorites (maybe because
> it was the 1st HW boot I ever got, way back in 1985 or so). Again, Simon
> House=amazing. Steppenwolf is split into 2 parts and Sonic Attack fades
out
> early.
>
>
> 5. Wastelands of Sleep (54 minutes)
>      Live at Stonehenge 1983
> Utopia / The Psychedelic Warlords / Motorway City / Ejection / Shot Down
in
> the Night / Master of the Universe / Spirit of the Age
>      Xenon Codex Tour Hammersmith 1988 (Part 3)
> Wastelands of Sleep / Moonglum
>
> The Stonehenge set has sound that's less good than the Collector's Series
> Choose Your Masques, lots of audience noise (but usually limited to
between
> songs), the set is a bit looser than CYM, and there are nice long
sax-heavy
> jams on TPWs and SotA. Nice version of Moonglum.
>
>
> Stephan
>
>      Stephan Forstner
>      stemfors at pipeline.com
>      stephan at mullermedia.com
>
>
>
> Stephan Forstner
> 145 - 72nd St.  Apt. D-9
> Brooklyn, NY 11209
>