HW: HW - Leave No Star Unturned / drummer question

[Ian Abrahams]

Er, no, I'm not inferring that at all... this is recorded just over a couple of weeks before Simon King would assume that role so most likely still Ollis I would think, though the drum seat does seem to have had a revolving occupancy during late 71 and early 72.


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Hi Ian...I know you've addressed the chronology but I'm still a mite confused. It seems like you're inferring Simon King is the drummer for this gig. Am I correct in that deduction? Thanks for the clarification. Thick as a brick in the USA, Eli Friedman





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I've been asked to pass on this detail from Easy Action Records who have a 1972 
live Hawkwind release coming in August:
This one is due out in August with the initial pressing coming in a limited 
edition deluxe packaging before reverting to standard CD format for future 
pressings. There’s also a vinyl edition planned for this, details on the label’s 
website (www.easyaction.co.uk). Here’s the press release information:
Artist: Hawkwind
CD/Vinyl Release: Leave No Star Unturned
Release Date: 28th August 2011 
Label & Cat: Easy Action Recordings, EARS041 (CD) – DPROMLP88 (LP)
On 27th January 1972, Hawkwind, their comrades in Notting Hill / Ladbroke Grove 
psychedelic proto-punk agitprop The Pink Fairies, and what would be labelled as 
The Last Minute Put-Together Boogie Band featuring the elusive Syd Barrett were 
brought together at The Cambridge Corn Exchange under the title The Six Hour 
Technicolor Dream by local music promoter and ‘Head Shop’ proprietor Steve 
Brink. If we’d had the technology of today way back then, then for such a 
line-up we’d most certainly have on our shelves the DVD with its 5.1 stereo 
soundtrack, the CD box set, and the Blu-ray package. Instead, what we have is 
something previously shrouded in mystery and rumour; quarter-inch ReVox open 
reel sourced recordings that have been whispered of in the circles of those who 
know. One of only two known copies of this show surfaced in the mid-80s, 
promptly to vanish into the vaults unheard and unreleased. Thankfully, the other 
finally emerged from a
forgotten loft space in 2005 and made its way into the hands of Easy Action 
Records via a circuitous route which included an appearance at the famous 
Bonham’s auction house in London’s affluent Knightsbridge - what a contrast to 
the anarchic ‘peace and love’ characters decrying the evil tentacles of ‘The 
Man’ who play on these recordings.
The three bands lining-up that night represent a legacy of huge importance to 
students, followers and historians of the underground counterculture of the late 
‘60s and early ‘70s. Leave No Star Unturned delivers the Hawkwind portion of 
that gathering and in doing so illuminates the band at the start of what can be 
seen in hindsight as its mainstream breakthrough year – if ‘mainstream’ could 
ever be a label applied at any time across the band’s forty-year-plus history of 
being the perennial outsiders surviving, if not on the edge of time, then 
certainly on the outside of the music industry. But it’s 1972 – the year that 
‘Silver Machine’ took them to the top reaches of the Singles Chart and on to Top 
Of The Pops, the year that Radio One embraced them for In Concert and the year 
that they embarked on their ambitious science fiction theatre Space Ritual tour 
– the show that yielded the fabulously dense and atmospheric wall-of-sound that
is the Space Ritual Alive In Liverpool And London double album.
Featuring among the Hawkwind ranks here are their ever-present figurehead and 
Hawklord Dave Brock, the thundering pre-Motorhead bass-playing of Lemmy, space 
poet and lyricist Robert Calvert, and the freewheeling, improvisational and 
theatrical heart of the band, Nik Turner. There’s an early version of ‘Silver 
Machine’, before the single version was captured at The Roundhouse and 
overdubbed at Morgan Studios with Lemmy’s growling vocal, and featuring here an 
all together different delivery by Calvert (the song’s co-writer alongside 
Brock). There’s only the second known live recording of ‘Born To Go’, blistering 
versions of ‘Master Of The Universe’ and ‘You Shouldn’t Do That’, and a 
contrastingly spacious and spacey rendition of ‘You Know You’re Only Dreaming’. 
This is Hawkwind building to a crescendo on stage and off – building up the myth 
and legend that would make them the embodiment of tripped-out space rock in
perpetuity. 
The Hawkwind back catalogue of this era, their time on United Artists, has been 
lovingly managed and maintained for availability by EMI who have generously 
granted a licence for the release of this historic recording. Hawkwind fans are 
indebted to them for their support in enabling this show to be widely heard and 
cherished. The deluxe packaging, and the extensive sleevenotes written by 
Hawkwind biographer Ian Abrahams support this soundtrack but it’s the blistering 
power and energy of the improvisational Hawkwind that, indeed, leaves no star 
unturned.