NIK - Space Ritual

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Don't think it was the same band but wasn't there a Space Ritual theme
kind of tour in 1994? I'm starting to look around for bootleg videos
at least of Hawkwind from around that time or earlier, hard to find
that I guess because BBC owns the archive footage of whatever was
actually recorded before video cameras were at anything, even at some
horrible art gallery called the "Zeitgeist" that is soon to be
damaged. Is there really any video recording of Sphynx or more than a
few clips of shows from the 1980s? There's a live ICU video that was
released commercially as part of a concert , however the only thing
I've seen in a store was Love in Space, 1987 and it's just one show
with giant Frank Frazetta projections and very kind of laid back like
Pink Floyd but nowhere near that lurid and aseptic. Dave Brock had a
Blue Oyster Cult shirt on! Ha!

On 7/21/05, Stephe <lindas1 at adelphia.net> wrote:
> Hi Paul, never got into the dead scene, so I can't relate to what your
> saying. Space ritual has been around since 2000 if memory serves me right.
> Heard a few gigs, which weren't that great, but I enjoyed. The setlist
> hasn't changed a whole lot over the years. Ho hum!!! Don't think I will pay
> $1000 to fly over to europe to see them play. I would do it for Brock + co.
> Maybe if Nik tried to recreate the Spirit of Sphynx it would be a bit more
> interesting. Cheers Stephe
>
>  >
> > If Nik and co. want to be the Dark Star Orchestra of the Hawkwind scene
> > then good luck to them.  I'm sure they float someone's boat.
> > (Personally, I think there probably *is* a niche market in "recreating"
> > the early Hawkwind sound, but I suspect Space Ritual lack the
> > musicianship[*] and, more importantly, the energy to do it really well.)
> >
> > I admit I did chuckle at people decrying "heresy!" at the mere thought
> > of Space Ritual doing what they are doing, mainly because I remember
> > most folks creaming themselves when the Hawkestra event was announced,
> > and the attendant possibility of a "Lemmy-era" mini-set...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Paul (deftly trying to avoid the True Hawkwind religious wars)
> >
> > [*] Because people usually want to recreate the myth rather than the
> > reality, with rough edges sanded down.
> > --
> > e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
> >
> > "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
> > deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
> >        --- Frank Vincent Zappa
>


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