Yuri etc...

[Bryan Young]

From: "Alan Linsley" <alankerren at YAHOO.CO.UK>
> Starfarer has done a pretty good guide to these
> ripoffs, shown here -
>
> http://www.starfarer.net/bringme.html


OK, if this list is complete, then here's what I've bought over the years:

Space Ritual 2 -- I've bought four different variations on this (a total of
four purchases).
Yuri Gagarin -- I've bought four different variations on this, one 2x
purchased (a total of five purchases)
Text of Festival -- I've bought this only three times actually, all
different versions (a total of three purchases)

So that's 12 times I've bought this stuff, and I don't particularly like any
of these.  Space Ritual 2 is essential, but I certainly didn't need this
many of them.  Text of Festival is fine, but I'm still waiting for the
complete setlist (which is only available on vinyl).  So don't buy that yet.
And Yuri is terrible -- the worst money you can spend on Hawkwind will be
buying Yuri.  But it's cool to hear Bob doing some of those spoken pieces,
so it's a must have for a Hawkwind enthusiast.  But when you spend your cash
on this, you'll feel ripped off and cheated.  Too bad I can't advise you to
steal it.  Too bad it won't help if I offer to pirate a copy for anybody
interested.  Too bad Nik didn't just hand these tapes out freely to the tape
trading fans in the first place, and maybe Dave Anderson would not have got
a copy and started this royal mess which must be a terrific pain in the butt
for the Hawkwind organization.  A tape like this should be traded (only
amongst diehard fans) -- it has no business being released as a legitimate
album.

Bottom line -- don't buy these.  I've spent more than I should have already,
and I'm sure lots of Hawkwind fans are the same.  And I'm not stupid, I knew
I was getting the same thing.  But I had cash in pocket, and that's all I
could find at the time (and it's rare to find Hawkwind here in the remote
areas of Canada, so if I get to the city one time per year and find a
Hawkwind title, I always seem to snap it up).

And let's not even get started on the "Acid Daze" stuff, which I've got
multiple permutations of...

So let's all do the band a favor and "just say no" to buying any more of
these.  That's the only way they're going to go away, and once they
disappear the back catalog won't look so crowded and devalued for the
Hawkwind mothership proper.

Bryan