Re HW: Introductions

[Dr. T.]

Let me tell you about a dream I had in late 1972 early 1973. I was
squatting in an empty apartment flat and selling a certain indole based
hallucinogen. These were simpler times – I got by with a few changes of
clothes, a mattress, a stereo, and some lp records. The few folks I was
dealing with would come by
 we’d do a hit (as we called it then) and I
would put my newest musical find Hawkwind – X in Search of Space (again, as
we called it then) and by the start of the second side, the curious effects
of the drug and the music would be playing together quite nicely.  Those
sessions made some strong converts


I don’t do much proselytizing these later years. I found Electric Teepee
was easily appreciated by a wide variety of non-initiates. For me, its
balance of the more modern davey-spacey synth stuff and reworked guitar
power-chords of old Hawkwind classics made it very approachable. But hey,
that was ten years ago.

If I have a sci-fi geek or literati in the house I hit them with the 1-2
punch of Astounding Sounds and Quark. Who can resist Spirit of the Age? or
Steppinwolf? But is that representative Hawkwind?

As I approach the 30th anniversary of my first hawkwind show (11/26/73) I
have found that to fulfill my needs for fresh space rock I have had to turn
to the younger 3rd gen artists. If you were to hang at my place now-a-days,
you’d be hearing much more of Anubian Lights, Farflung, and Starfield; and
I’d mix in In Search of Space here and there, pointing Hawkwind out as the
progenitors.