I never get tired of Hawkwind. The only constant being Dave Brock. 'Space Rock' indeed. The only band I know of that gave album credit to their lighting guy, Liquid Len. What can I say...the '70's
Their first two albums were for people who were tripping on acid, by their third album they were making music that would take you on a trip even if you weren't on acid. The opening lines "lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sand of time" are from a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Loved your reaction, you hit the nail on the head with it. This is from '75 but they were doing stuff like this from 1970 and were pioneers of the sub-genre "space rock". This album was a joint project with science fantasy author Michael Moorcock, who was very big over here at the time. The album and the cover are based, loosely, on one of his books, The Eternal Champion. The first few lines on Assault and Battery is a quote from old American poet and scholar Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was Lemmy's last album with the band before leaving to for Motorhead. Saw them a few times live and were always terrific. Nik Turner plays Flute and Sax, they had 2 drummers and guitarist Brock always laid down heavy riffs as well as good lead. once again, nice reaction, thanks.
I love Hawkwind especially this incarnation of the band. This was Lemmys last album with them before getting fired and starting Motorhead. But lysergically speaking, these guys are in 2nd place with Gong taking the top spot. I urge everyone to give the new version of Gong a try. Daevid Allen died a few years back and now the band is run by Kavus Torabi and that was a big step up sonically speaking. Paul you agreeable bastard, great pick man!
Haha, it's getting too regular, this agreeing stuff, lol. I like Gong too, haha. Met Steve Hillage once but he was solo then. So many inventive european bands from this period. Faust, Nektar, Guru Guru, Tangerine Dream, Amon Duul to name just a few more.
@Glen Plant I found Gong through Steve Hillage. After he went solo I saw him open for ELO in Philadelphia. Gong and Hillage were not big names in Philadelphia or the US really but I was hooked immediately. After Daevid Allen left Gong they became more of a jazz type outfit and they reminded me of Soft Machine. They even had Allan Holdsworth playing with them at one point. I like all of it!
At 4.40 I couldn't hold back the tears any longer as so many memories of my life with this band came flooding back to me like a surging tide. The mellotron added so much as did the striking violin playing...my journey will end one day and I will be happy to ride into the golden void down a corridor of flame...the never ending journey to the edge of time itself.
Nice surprise to see Hawkwind here. I left the UK some time ago and there's not much I really miss apart from Hawkwind gigs. A massive part of my childhood. Good to see so many cool conversations too. Nice one everybody.
The band I've seen most in my life, starting off in 84 and the last time I saw them was in 2019. So much to discover. I'd highly recommend Spirit of the Age, Lighthouse or Brainstom next.
"It was like Star Trek with long hair and drugs" ~ Lemmy. A Space Ritual Alive In Liverpool And London is a must, it is considered by many to be the best live album ever recorded and is the best album cover ever made, hands down. Hawkwind is the band that Lemmy first played bass with, which happened by default when the bass player didn't show up at his first gig with the band. Lemmy does some of his best work on the album,Orgone Accumulator being my favorite.At one point Lemmy said that if he hadn't been sacked he'd still be with the band. Johnny Rotten said that there would have been no Sex Pistols if it wasn't for Hawkwind's song Brainstorm. Welcome aboard the good spaceship Hawkwind, a genre of one fueled by LSD, except for Lemmy (speed whiskey and cigarettes) Thanx for the Hawkwind reaction, Here's a great BBC documentary about the early days of Hawkwind with Lemmy, Terry, Nik, and others. Kudos Paul !!!: ~ ruclips.net/video/9zBNQL7Uo9w/видео.html
@@SightAfterDark I was going to say, you'll love it, I promise, but who knows? It's an important piece of music history that's worth a listen and a gander at the cover if you ever get a chance to at a used vinyl shop. Thanx guys
Saw them a few times First time Glasgow Apollo stoned out my skull they had nik Turner singing and on sax audience was diverse; old hippies, new hippies, metal heads, bikers and punks.
Psychedelic space rock, with metal overtones before there was metal. I love Hawkwind's sound. And the horns are so good in this context, because horn players don't think about music the same way as guitar players, so you get a totally different vibe. Very cool.
This is great but to get a real feel of Hawkwind. Then Space Ritual is where you get a proper vibe 👍, when listening I’m taken back to the time my hair was past my shoulders 🤣🤣👍
Great reaction to a great song from a great album. Oh, and there was electric violin in it too! The screeching sound at the beginning of the "Golden Void" was made by keyboarder Simon House on his electric violin.
Keep the Hawkwind coming guys, it's a vast rabbit hole but I'd love to see you're reactions to the title track from the album Levitation, or Lighthouse from Live '79, or the title track from the album Quark Strangeness and Charm.
Hawkwind: around when Hendrix was playing and still around now. One continuous band? Not exactly. Like 50 bands in 1. Love the prominent Lemmy bass here, but overall this jam predates the arrival of their genius lyricist the mad Robert Calvert.
This is the first version of Hawkwind back in the psychedelic sixties and seventies. I believe their best music. The band underwent a number of transformations. They took fans on an opiate driven adventure through time and space, or should I say spaced. Have a listen to The Assassins of Allah.
All their best album sleeves are done by Barney Bubbles. He died young but achieved so much. Did sleeves for many great Brit artists from Hawks into New Wave. He's even got work in MoMA New York. K ( :
A great reaction guys. You gotta open up that gatefold cover for full effect! These two tracks and a couple of others on the album have a retro psychedelia feel but the production is crisp. The previous 3 albums had a 'wall of sound' effect making them a bit fuggy but that adds to the appeal I think - production not as refined as this but the instruments work because of way the band uses them. Anyways, Hawkwind is not a rabbit hole, its an interdimensional wormhole spanning decades and complete with a world of solo stuff and lots of variety.
@@SightAfterDark No problem. As others have mentioned tracks to listen to, I'll just put forward 'Hassan I Sahba' from the Quark album (my youtube stage name is a mash up of Quark Strangeness and Charm by Hawkwind and ROckWrok by Ultravox) that is a real gem. From the late 70's Robert Calvert era (live they were fantastic too).
I'm a bit behind on this one but they hit a definite peak here before reinventing themselves. Lemmy of Motorhead fame was a member at this point and the same year recorded the track "Motorhead" with Hawkwind before going on to form Motorhead. If you liked this, try something from the year before like "Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)", "D-Rider" or maybe something from slightly later that has a completely different feel like "Reefer Madness" or "The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon".
To do these 2 songs proper justice you really need to listen to the whole of that first side in one go, as the 3 songs that come after those 1st 2 songs will give you a greater insight into how diverse and magical Hawkwind are. the 4th song for example 'Opa Loka' is actually like some king of early rave / dance tune (Hawkwind are indeed known as being pioneers and influencers of the original rave scene from the late 80's onwards, as well as being pioneers and a massive influence on the Punk scene which came a year or 2 after this album) The whole Hawkwind back cataloue from 1970 to mid 80's is especially filled with absolute gold, both lyrically and musically.
Sick,My go to band for the day`z of youth n` Acid/speed/dope women ,not now- Old age, Good memories.And Young people like you pair digin this Shit, from Brock & co The UK`s answer to the Grateful Dead. Jon
Great reaction guys.... Hawkwind are awesome, they were ahead of their time in many ways, check out the albums "Levitation" or "Quark, Strangeness & Charm" they are classics and quite different to this era of the band.
Oh god this abumm is so fudging brilliant. First heard this around 1983 and it was the album I played to death at Stonhenge that year. Check out Opa-Loka, a Can/Neu! inspired track that... is just... well... just listen to it, :-)
i never much listened to Hawkwind but had friends at school who did...maybe the hawk should not eat dairy products...they had this space concept running....maybe funkadelic borrowed from that in a comical way.
If you want to 'do' Hawkwind then you listen to A Space Ritual but, it's a long trip - suggest you just do the first tracks - 'Earth Calling' into 'Born to Go'! It's a trip..... go on you know you want to! (Lemmy on board btw)
Hawkwind are a fantastic band with many iterations over the years, but always centered mostly around space and fantasy. For an incredible song and video the song Space Is Deep from their first album with Lemmy, Doremi Fasol Latido is hard to beat: ~ ruclips.net/video/cULwlnEok1c/видео.html
For hard to beat and incredible, you've got to include Spirit Of The Age with its fractal video (extended version) and Lyrics by poet and swazzle Robert Calvert!
This was cool but gave me an anxious feeling. Like when you can feel a trip starting but it hasn’t quite yet and you’re just in a giggly but stomach flipping, uncomfortable state. Sounds like Ozzy singing towards the end. 😂 Interesting!
When I bought this album I was really pleased when I opened it up because it folds out into a shield! How cool is that? Imaging the cover mirrored and then each half folds down into a shield-shaped cover. I first got into Hawkweed with "In Search of Space". But their very best album is the live "Space Ritual" album. "Organ Accumulator" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Ritual) from that album is a must to listen to!
You know you've arrived at a great party when Hawkwind is playing!
Nik Turner's flute and sax. Still kicks ass. RIP Nik.
I never get tired of Hawkwind. The only constant being Dave Brock. 'Space Rock' indeed. The only band I know of that gave album credit to their lighting guy, Liquid Len. What can I say...the '70's
Nektar (another 70s band) credits their lighting/visuals guy (Mick Brockett).
Love the work Liquid Len and his Lensmen... I would love to see again the light show they did to Hawkweeds track "Wind of Change"
Their first two albums were for people who were tripping on acid, by their third album they were making music that would take you on a trip even if you weren't on acid. The opening lines "lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sand of time" are from a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The Mellotron makes it for me.
My favourite band since the early 70s. Great album.
A fantastic band and album!
Loved your reaction, you hit the nail on the head with it. This is from '75 but they were doing stuff like this from 1970 and were pioneers of the sub-genre "space rock". This album was a joint project with science fantasy author Michael Moorcock, who was very big over here at the time. The album and the cover are based, loosely, on one of his books, The Eternal Champion.
The first few lines on Assault and Battery is a quote from old American poet and scholar Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
This was Lemmy's last album with the band before leaving to for Motorhead.
Saw them a few times live and were always terrific. Nik Turner plays Flute and Sax, they had 2 drummers and guitarist Brock always laid down heavy riffs as well as good lead.
once again, nice reaction, thanks.
Thanks so much for this one Paul!
Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix, great album by one of the great fantasy/science fiction writers. No doubt about that.
@@letstalk3265 Agree with you about his books. I was addicted to them in the 70's
My favourite band of all time
Also worth a listen is the original "Motorhead" by Hawkwind. The last song written for HW by Lemmy.
One of the greatest song intro's ever
Listened to this album on shrooms, good times.
☺️nice
I love Hawkwind especially this incarnation of the band. This was Lemmys last album with them before getting fired and starting Motorhead. But lysergically speaking, these guys are in 2nd place with Gong taking the top spot. I urge everyone to give the new version of Gong a try. Daevid Allen died a few years back and now the band is run by Kavus Torabi and that was a big step up sonically speaking. Paul you agreeable bastard, great pick man!
Haha, it's getting too regular, this agreeing stuff, lol. I like Gong too, haha. Met Steve Hillage once but he was solo then. So many inventive european bands from this period. Faust, Nektar, Guru Guru, Tangerine Dream, Amon Duul to name just a few more.
@Glen Plant I found Gong through Steve Hillage. After he went solo I saw him open for ELO in Philadelphia. Gong and Hillage were not big names in Philadelphia or the US really but I was hooked immediately. After Daevid Allen left Gong they became more of a jazz type outfit and they reminded me of Soft Machine. They even had Allan Holdsworth playing with them at one point. I like all of it!
@Glen Plant Think it was a promotional thing for the Virgin launch. I also got The Faust tapes for the same price about the same time
Reminds me of Moody Blues with some Sabbath undertones. Good stoner music from the 70's...
Ah, the power of alternative tobacco...
The family band of the Free Festival era in the UK. Played every Stonehenge festival.
The first concert I went too was Hawkwind in the late 80's they put on a very theatrical show.
At 4.40 I couldn't hold back the tears any longer as so many memories of my life with this band came flooding back to me like a surging tide. The mellotron added so much as did the striking violin playing...my journey will end one day and I will be happy to ride into the golden void down a corridor of flame...the never ending journey to the edge of time itself.
The Demented Man kills me ! I know what you mean btw !
Nice surprise to see Hawkwind here. I left the UK some time ago and there's not much I really miss apart from Hawkwind gigs.
A massive part of my childhood.
Good to see so many cool conversations too.
Nice one everybody.
Thanks for being here!
RIP Nik Turner and of course dear old Lemmy.
The band I've seen most in my life, starting off in 84 and the last time I saw them was in 2019. So much to discover. I'd highly recommend Spirit of the Age, Lighthouse or Brainstom next.
Same here first seen them in glasgow 1978 next time i see them will be roughly my 63rd time seeing them
Awesome!!!!! Space Rock!!!!!!
Great choice..... great band.... Go the Hawks💪 my original album cover opens out into a shield....
"It was like Star Trek with long hair and drugs" ~ Lemmy. A Space Ritual Alive In Liverpool And London is a must, it is considered by many to be the best live album ever recorded and is the best album cover ever made, hands down. Hawkwind is the band that Lemmy first played bass with, which happened by default when the bass player didn't show up at his first gig with the band. Lemmy does some of his best work on the album,Orgone Accumulator being my favorite.At one point Lemmy said that if he hadn't been sacked he'd still be with the band. Johnny Rotten said that there would have been no Sex Pistols if it wasn't for Hawkwind's song Brainstorm. Welcome aboard the good spaceship Hawkwind, a genre of one fueled by LSD, except for Lemmy (speed whiskey and cigarettes) Thanx for the Hawkwind reaction, Here's a great BBC documentary about the early days of Hawkwind with Lemmy, Terry, Nik, and others. Kudos Paul !!!: ~ ruclips.net/video/9zBNQL7Uo9w/видео.html
Thanks for the tip Tim, we’ll check it out!
@@SightAfterDark I was going to say, you'll love it, I promise, but who knows? It's an important piece of music history that's worth a listen and a gander at the cover if you ever get a chance to at a used vinyl shop. Thanx guys
Saw them a few times
First time Glasgow Apollo stoned out my skull they had nik Turner singing and on sax audience was diverse; old hippies, new hippies, metal heads, bikers and punks.
Old school epic space journey. Cool.
Saw Hawkwind & Tubulah Dog one night then Zappa the next B'ham '88. A total blur of a weekend... The Drum Empire v Lemmy album 😁
Sounds like it was awesome!
Psychedelic space rock, with metal overtones before there was metal. I love Hawkwind's sound. And the horns are so good in this context, because horn players don't think about music the same way as guitar players, so you get a totally different vibe. Very cool.
This is great but to get a real feel of Hawkwind. Then Space Ritual is where you get a proper vibe 👍, when listening I’m taken back to the time my hair was past my shoulders 🤣🤣👍
Great reaction to a great song from a great album. Oh, and there was electric violin in it too! The screeching sound at the beginning of the "Golden Void" was made by keyboarder Simon House on his electric violin.
Wow. Thanks for the info ❤️!
The only two bands I really listen to ! Hawkwind and Zappa ! Great reactions you two 👍
Thanks so much Simon!
Totally agree, but you might have forgotten Gong
this was from the last album that the best line up of Hawkwind made. many more albums were released but this is the golden era. Also Lemmy's last.
Keep the Hawkwind coming guys, it's a vast rabbit hole but I'd love to see you're reactions to the title track from the album Levitation, or Lighthouse from Live '79, or the title track from the album Quark Strangeness and Charm.
We’d definitely love to hear more, thanks for watching!
Hawkwind: around when Hendrix was playing and still around now. One continuous band? Not exactly. Like 50 bands in 1. Love the prominent Lemmy bass here, but overall this jam predates the arrival of their genius lyricist the mad Robert Calvert.
This is the first version of Hawkwind back in the psychedelic sixties and seventies. I believe their best music. The band underwent a number of transformations. They took fans on an opiate driven adventure through time and space, or should I say spaced. Have a listen to The Assassins of Allah.
All their best album sleeves are done by Barney Bubbles. He died young but achieved so much. Did sleeves for many great Brit artists from Hawks into New Wave. He's even got work in MoMA New York. K ( :
Thanks for the info Keith!
Yeah, BB did the cover art for Edgar Broughton Band's 'Oora'. Not their best album, the art was better than the music!
A great reaction guys. You gotta open up that gatefold cover for full effect! These two tracks and a couple of others on the album have a retro psychedelia feel but the production is crisp. The previous 3 albums had a 'wall of sound' effect making them a bit fuggy but that adds to the appeal I think - production not as refined as this but the instruments work because of way the band uses them. Anyways, Hawkwind is not a rabbit hole, its an interdimensional wormhole spanning decades and complete with a world of solo stuff and lots of variety.
Wow, we can’t wait to hear more! Thanks for sharing Quarkwrok!
@@SightAfterDark No problem. As others have mentioned tracks to listen to, I'll just put forward 'Hassan I Sahba' from the Quark album (my youtube stage name is a mash up of Quark Strangeness and Charm by Hawkwind and ROckWrok by Ultravox) that is a real gem. From the late 70's Robert Calvert era (live they were fantastic too).
The original came with a fold out poster of the cover and if you see the entire picture, well, there's something else going on too 😮
We were fired this vinyl by a patron and haven’t opened it yet jic we get more Hawkwind requests, but we’ll open it now!
You check out the Pink Fairies too
Epic !!
I'm a bit behind on this one but they hit a definite peak here before reinventing themselves.
Lemmy of Motorhead fame was a member at this point and the same year recorded the track "Motorhead" with Hawkwind before going on to form Motorhead.
If you liked this, try something from the year before like "Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)", "D-Rider" or maybe something from slightly later that has a completely different feel like "Reefer Madness" or "The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon".
Thanks for being here!
Listen to the new Hawkwind album. Out this year ‘23.
“ The Future Never Waits”
To do these 2 songs proper justice you really need to listen to the whole of that first side in one go, as the 3 songs that come after those 1st 2 songs will give you a greater insight into how diverse and magical Hawkwind are. the 4th song for example 'Opa Loka' is actually like some king of early rave / dance tune (Hawkwind are indeed known as being pioneers and influencers of the original rave scene from the late 80's onwards, as well as being pioneers and a massive influence on the Punk scene which came a year or 2 after this album) The whole Hawkwind back cataloue from 1970 to mid 80's is especially filled with absolute gold, both lyrically and musically.
Sick,My go to band for the day`z of youth n` Acid/speed/dope women ,not now- Old age, Good memories.And Young people like you pair digin this Shit, from Brock & co The UK`s answer to the Grateful Dead. Jon
hawkwind 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Hey S.A.D.. I would love for both of you to hear " You Shouldn't Do That" from Hawkwind album "In Search Of Space" it's a knockout in my opinion.
Agree, my favourite version
Great reaction guys.... Hawkwind are awesome, they were ahead of their time in many ways, check out the albums "Levitation" or "Quark, Strangeness & Charm" they are classics and quite different to this era of the band.
Thanks for the tip Sonic Art!
RIP Nik Turner.
CHOOOON
Oh god this abumm is so fudging brilliant.
First heard this around 1983 and it was the album I played to death at Stonhenge that year.
Check out Opa-Loka, a Can/Neu! inspired track that... is just... well... just listen to it, :-)
i never much listened to Hawkwind but had friends at school who did...maybe the hawk should not eat dairy products...they had this space concept running....maybe funkadelic borrowed from that in a comical way.
If you want to 'do' Hawkwind then you listen to A Space Ritual but, it's a long trip - suggest you just do the first tracks - 'Earth Calling' into 'Born to Go'! It's a trip..... go on you know you want to! (Lemmy on board btw)
Thanks for the tip John!
Nice choice. May I suggest Hawkwind doremi fasol latido?
'Space Is Deep' is a more iconic Hawkwind track
Still cooll
Hawkwind are a fantastic band with many iterations over the years, but always centered mostly around space and fantasy. For an incredible song and video the song Space Is Deep from their first album with Lemmy, Doremi Fasol Latido is hard to beat: ~ ruclips.net/video/cULwlnEok1c/видео.html
For hard to beat and incredible, you've got to include Spirit Of The Age with its fractal video (extended version) and Lyrics by poet and swazzle Robert Calvert!
Thanks SLUGGO!
From their greatest studio album for me ... though Space Ritual is even better. This piece is genius.
Still tell matey he's me son!!!!
You need to listen to THE Demented Man
Hawkwind were to sci fi what Sabbath were to horror.
Sounds a bit like Spinal Tap. In a good way, that is.
This was cool but gave me an anxious feeling. Like when you can feel a trip starting but it hasn’t quite yet and you’re just in a giggly but stomach flipping, uncomfortable state. Sounds like Ozzy singing towards the end. 😂 Interesting!
Thanks for watching Amber!
If you think the end sounds like Ozzy try Demented Man on the same album. When I listened to that the first time I thought it was Ozzy!
2 long this song in it!!!!!
1 pound Wass the price of acid
I'm a wich
Es caust more play the orb then r...... the pixel then that what the UK was!!!!
Nothing worse than sitting watching a couple of bobbleheads out of sync
There’s a remedy for that
@@SightAfterDark Ecstasy?
Not watching ☺️ save yourself the stress
When I bought this album I was really pleased when I opened it up because it folds out into a shield! How cool is that?
Imaging the cover mirrored and then each half folds down into a shield-shaped cover.
I first got into Hawkweed with "In Search of Space".
But their very best album is the live "Space Ritual" album. "Organ Accumulator" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Ritual) from that album is a must to listen to!
That’s thee most excellent album cover!