HW: Motorhead / Kings of Speed answers

[eddie jobson]

The Hawkwind Zoo 12" says Kings of Speed (live) though doesn't it? So are
the single and WOTEOT versions from an orginal live track? Doubt it as it's
not listed in the '74 or '75 live sets anywhere.

Eddie.


>From: Doug Pearson <jasret at MINDSPRING.COM>
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>Subject: HW: Motorhead / Kings of Speed answers
>Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:22:29 -0400
>
>This is interesting ...
>
>All the versions of Motorhead are approximately 3.05.
>The differences between the B-side and Flicknife/Anthology versions are
>pretty obvious (The 1981 version subtracts the Lemmy vocals, sax & violin,
>and adds Dave vocals, arpegio synth, noise synth @ 1.35, and an extra
>guitar solo from 2.02 through the end).  The Flicknife version sounds a bit
>rougher than the Anthology version, but I can't hear any significant
>difference between those two.
>
>There are 3 lengths/versions of Kings of Speed, one without overdubs:
>basic track: 4.25 (including 10 second false start / feedback)
>album version: 3.50 (missing false start, last 25 seconds faded)
>single version: 3.30 (guitar & violin solos edited from the album version)
>
>The version of "Kings of Speed" on the Griffin CD is the single version
>(3.30), not the album version (3.50).  Can someone with the Dojo version
>of 'Warrior' check the length of "Kings of Speed" on theirs (I don't have
>the 'Sonic Boom Killers' CD either, but I assume that would have the 3.30
>7" version)?  The basic track is the instrumental version (from the
>Flicknife 12" with "Hurry On Sundown" & "Sweet Mistress of Pain"), which
>includes quite a bit of sax not audible on the final versions (LP or 7"),
>but has no violin (so that was obviously an overdub) or (obviously) vocals.
>
>For the single version, the guitar solo is edited from about 28 seconds to
>14 seconds, and the violin solo from about 33 seconds to 27 seconds (which
>adds up to the 20 second discrepency).  Both the single and album versions
>seem to have the same (faded) ending.  The basic track has a later cold
>ending with slight sax fadeout.
>
>Signing off from the age of the minutae man,
>
>     -Doug
>      jasret at mindspring.com
>
>ObCD-R: Hawkwind - multiple versions of "Kings of Speed" and "Motorhead"


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