musings on "Alien 4/"Love In Space" 1995/1996...

[MiChAeL "aLiEn DrEaM" bLaCkMaN]

I've got Allieen 4 both on digi and Jewel case and love in space in digi.
I'm pretty sure the jewel allieen 4 is ebs not griffin

I thinks its an awesome album and the music is hot hot hot - good album to
listen to whilst stoned - SORRY KIDS and remember - dont say say NO to
drugs..... say no thank you (its more polite)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian" <christian.eric_mumford at CHELLO.NO>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 8:31 AM
Subject: HW: musings on "Alien 4/"Love In Space" 1995/1996...


> .... I thought "Alien 4" quite the highlight CD of Hawkwind's 90's output,
> except that the sides got torn where you slide the disc in... I am quite
> the romantic with this CD... a tasty little package for old Hawkwind fans
> with Ron Trees debut in studio. I don't know if there was a jewel case
> version for this rather nice EBS release, which, I presume would have been
> on Griffin. Some people have me framed as a liar who didn't have this CD
> for real, as someone who just talks about it without ever having owned it,
> which is not true at all..... From my website:
>
> " I just thought the "Alien4" album was too slickly produced and that the
> music was too simplistic, and the overall effect was a bit "blah", despite
> a nice digipak and everything. I never knew there a jewel case edition of
> this thing until years later. Was the jewel case edition released on
> Griffin or something? My digipak was on EBS, of course. I got it at Free
> Record Shop in Oslo in 1995 when it just came out, in fact. Highlight
> tracks included for me "Sputnik Stan", "Beam Me Up", "Blue Skin" and
> "Festivals". Dandy little booklet with some nice illustrations, though! I
> truly hated "Love In Space" by the way, their suckiest live set in years,
> IMO. Nifty robot of Ron's onstage, though. I have the video so I should
> know. Did he ever get to sell the thing? Great stage show on the tour
> despite suckily and over slicked up production detracting from the band's
> live sound, I thought, though the video isn't half bad. Alien 4 had a cool
> pic of an alien peeking at a pregnant lady too on the cover if I remember
> correctly! My problem with the digipak was that the sides got torn where
> you slide the disc in, other than that it was very nice, I may have seen
> the jewel case version somewhere but wouldn't want it for all the world,
> though.
>
> Christian, probably aka Ax Gengrich or somebody equally qualified on these
> matters of digipaks and things
>
> "you shouldn't get a dog if you've already got a cat"
>
> I was just thinking about Ron Tree and Captain Rizz and how much they
> contributed to the Hawkwind sound in the latter half of the 90's. Ron Tree
> (Bastard) always seemed like the new Nik Turner to me, bringing a punk
edge
> to the band again unheard since the 80's with stuff like "Reptoid Vision"
> and "Phetamine Street" and the giant stage prop robot. When I saw them in
> NYC in '95 he just blew me away in full flight goggles and a fluorescent
> paint spattered lab coat doing "Master Of The Universe" and "Urban
> Guerilla", it was hardcore at its best with the subtle reggae bits in
Urban
> Guerilla really making the grade too. I also liked his version of "Lord Of
> Light" on the "Love In Space" EP and some of stuff off "Alien 4" as well
> like "Beam Me Up" and stuff. Anyway, as for Captain Rizz, I thought him
> such a wise Rastafarian philosopher of The Apocalypse (as Ron Tree also
> seemed such a philospher on the Apocalypse too with "I am The Reptoid")
> that he just made the grade as full time member in my opinion. His whole
> thing on "Wheels" about oil and the rap that goes "Hawkwind's in your
area,
> Hawkwind's on your land" was just great. In spite of what people have said
> about him, I just thought he added to the spirit and anarchy of the
> Hawkwind spirit that made Hawkwind so great in the early and mid 80's with
> Harvey Bainbridge, Danny Thompson, Nik Turner, Alan Davey and Huw
> Lloyd-Langton and the rest of the members in the band. It's great to know
> Huw and Alan (Ali) are back in the band but shouldn't there be a fully
> fledged new studio album in the works from this rejuvinated classic 80's
> lineup?
>
> Anyway, I just had to ease my mind about Ron and Rizz because it's been on
> my mind for awhile. Do any other Hawkwind-deadheads share my opinions on
> them? Aren't they the two wisemen of the Apocalypse?? "
> Chr.
>