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  Matt Howarth's Sonic Space - Hawkwind Rocks Live (part one)
All Hawkwind is intense and compelling, delivered in songs steeped in sci-fi lore or the lure of space.
But the best Hawkwind is a live Hawkwind -- when unleased on the stage, their passion translates into impressive epic riffs and mounting rhythms.
The music is unbridled Hawkwind: primal and prone to wandering into improvisational riff sessions of intensely spacey quality.
www.space.com /sciencefiction/sonic_space_hawkwind_live_000920.html   (950 words)

  
  Hawkwind
Hawkwind are a serious bunch of musicians who write and perform their own music.
Hawkwind have always been a band you experience, however you interpret that, their shows have always been an event and the magic of a group of professional musicians who don't take themselves just the music seriously.
Hawkwind (see website link) are playing over the spring/summer of 2004 in Europe and returning to tour the UK in the autumn/winter.
www.duchyparadefilms.com /hawkwind.htm   (1688 words)

  
 Hawkwind, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
Hawkwind's history has been marked by a series of confusing lineup changes, as members began an almost revolving-door relationship with the band virtually from the outset.
Their first album, Hawkwind, was released to little public notice in August, but that same month the group made a modest splash by playing outside the fences of the Isle of Wight Festival.
Hawkwind was still working as a quintet, but by this time their chronic instability was about to reach critical levels -- at the end of their 1978 American tour, Calvert quit the band again, and then the entire group virtually disbanded.
www.emusic.com /artist/11512/11512003.html   (1987 words)

  
 Hawkwind | Featured Videos, Photos and Articles | MTV
Hawkwind's history has been marked by a series of confusing lineup changes, as members began an almost revolving-door relationship with the band virtually from the outset.
Their first album, Hawkwind, was released to little public notice in August, but that same month the group made a modest splash by playing outside the fences of the Isle of Wight Festival.
Hawkwind was still working as a quintet, but by this time their chronic instability was about to reach critical levels -- at the end of their 1978 American tour, Calvert quit the band again, and then the entire group virtually disbanded.
www.mtv.com /music/artist/hawkwind/bio.jhtml   (1961 words)

  
 Hawkwind Information
Hawkwind have had a long-standing connection with many free festivals including the Stonehenge free festival that ran from 1973 until banned in 1985.
Hawkwind should be partly credited for Lemmy's Motörhead speed metal style of music, so named because of the slang name "Speed" for Amphetamines, which the members of Motörhead consumed with relish.
Hawkwind's discography is baffling and large; this list mainly represents the "core" albums as defined by the band themselves on their web site, along with significant solo projects and related releases.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Hawkwind   (1293 words)

  
 HAWKWIND discography, MP3 and reviews
Dave BROCK was the leader of HAWKWIND and he was the captain, as it were.
With the primary use of the synthesizer, heavy and delay with the touch of techno, HAWKWIND practically created a genre of music that be called: psychedelic space-rock.
Their creativity seems to be in the use of the synths to add to the intense moods of their songs.
www.progarchives.com /artist.asp?id=732   (657 words)

  
 Hawkwind / Collaborators of Robert Calvert - Part II ( Hawkwind / hawkwind / Hawklords / hawklords / Robert Calvert / ...
Hawkwind appeared as one of the top-bands at
So, it was also due to these infrequent appearances that Calvert never got involved in the studio-recordings from that period, though he was frequently given credit for the conceptual influence.
Hawkwind and Calvert didn't earn their street-cred for nothing - they surely knew what was going on - or was bound to come up soon down here on earth - on it's capitol and capitalist-ridden streets...
www.aural-innovations.com /robertcalvert/hawkwind/calhw2.htm   (2802 words)

  
 Calvert & Hawkwind live 76 / #2
Hawkwind arrived onstage and the object blazed into life that I realised that it was in fact an integral part of the band`s new stage show.
Hawkwind's show it pulses on and off quite dramatically - and effectively: when slides are projected onto the screen behind it, the 3-D effect is quite startling.
Apparently, the Bay City Rollers had been staying at the hotel the night before Hawkwind and, as we pulled up outside, a few persistent tartan clad youngsters were still in attendance in front of the lobby doors.
www.aural-innovations.com /robertcalvert/hawkwind/live762.htm   (1245 words)

  
 Hawkwind
(Hawkwind had apparently been one of Nik Turner's nicknames.) Their first performance attracted a booking agent and shortly afterwards, in November 1969, they were signed to United Artists.
Hawkwind made a couple of trips to the United States in 1974 to support "Hall of the Mountain Grill" but late in the year, police in Indiana, claiming the group owed over $8,000 in back taxes, impounded all its equipment and the band returned to England.
By the spring of 1975, Hawkwind were back in America for their fourth tour, to support "Warrior on the Edge of Time".
www.hgriggs.com /hawkwind.html   (2619 words)

  
 alan daveyhf2
BT Yes, Dave calls that one the armchair Hawkwind album because it sounds as though they are all lazing back in armchairs or rocking chairs, relaxing and quietly strumming their instruments - and, of course playing their guitars.
It just seems to me that the main difference between Hawkwind and the other other heavy rock bands is that hawkwind tend to let solo pieces blend in with the rythm, while other bands play a rythm intended to support solo pieces.
Hawkwind present themselves as a unit of equals instead of some of them acting as background for central figures.
www.hawkwindmuseum.co.uk /alan4.htm   (2916 words)

  
 Hawkwind: Album Reviews, Biography - MOG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups.
Lemmy was fired from Hawkwind because his preferred vice (amphetamines) clashed with that of the band (hallucinogenics).
Hawkwind was still working as a quintet, but by this time their chronic instability was about to reach critical levels — at the end of their 1978 American tour, Calvert quit the band again, and then the entire group virtually disbanded.
mog.com /music/Hawkwind   (2716 words)

  
 David's Hawkwind Page
Hawkwind refuses to "ride the gravy train": they remain on the physchedelic/fantasy/space/mind expanding track with total disregard to "air-play" potential.
Hawkwind has a few "trademarks" to their sound, in my opinion...synth sweeps being one of the main ones.
Hawkwind saw the potential of this music device before many other bands, even before the advent of what we know as the present-day synthesizer...back long ago when they were simply audio-generating devices without piano keyboards, or if they had keyboards, it was only a couple of octaves.
www.datasync.com /~davidg59/hawkwind.html   (3710 words)

  
 BBC - Tyne - Entertainment - Hawkwind @ Tyne Theatre
So when space-rockers Hawkwind landed there on Saturday 4 December 2004, with their ambitious sci-fi inspired lyrics, revolutionary psychedelic romps, and boasting a full futuristic stage show, who knows what the Theatre’s creator, William B. Parnell, would have made of it all.
There were ageing hippies clinging on to a bygone era, old rockers sporting Hawkwind T-shirts from all eras of the band, and dads were dragging along their sons to show them what it was all about.
The stage was set up to look like a laboratory, and when the curtain went up, there Hawkwind stood, dressed in long white coats, mad scientists ready to grab you and take you into their own, mind-expanding world.
www.bbc.co.uk /tyne/content/articles/2004/12/06/hawkwind_event_feature.shtml   (809 words)

  
 Hawkwind Chuckhole. Roadside America.
Our attempt to see a Hawkwind performance was partly thwarted when a Canadian customs checkpoint stops Dave Brock and another band member from crossing into the US.
Surviving Hawkwind members soldier on with the aid of supporting bands.
We have found that Hawkwind music, while not the most hummable or well-crafted, is ideal for long stretches of hypertouring.
www.roadsideamerica.com /rant/hawkwind.html   (549 words)

  
 Hawkwind, Friends and Relations
The world of Hawkwind is a unique one.
They've been ridiculed but they never gave in, always producing the music that they wanted to, regardless of what others thought.
One band member who's often overlooked, and who's had more influence on Hawkwind and their sound than anyone, apart from Dave Brock himself, is Simon King, their 'power drummer'.
3lib.ukonline.co.uk /hawkwind   (123 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Space Ritual: Music: Hawkwind   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The speil I usually give to people who turn their nose up at me when I announce my rabid Hawkwind fandom (people, by the way, who've usually never even heard any of their music) is that Neil from "The Young Ones" TV show ruined Hawkwind for an entire generation.
Hawkwind, at their peak, as on '73's live "Space Ritual" double LP, were an air-tight rock'n'roll demolition unit who combined the best of trancey psychedelia and buttocks-scorching rock'n'roll.
It's not as though Hawkwind had not already enjoyed success, as their first three albums had already charted in the U.K. `Hawkwind' (1970), `In Search of Space' (1971) (complete with fabulous foldout cover and Hawklog), and `Doremi Fasol Latido' (1972) which had a vaguely space concept.
www.amazon.com /Space-Ritual-Hawkwind/dp/B00005MCX2   (2269 words)

  
 Hawkwind - Satan Stole My Teddybear
Lacking the powerful trance inducing ambient drone of later Hawkwind or the psychedelic jams of their earlier years, the mid-era Hawkwind was somewhat flat throughout.
It was around this point in Hawkwind's career that they really began to pursue the electronic/synthesizer sound that made more than one rock journalist refer to them as new age music for metalheads.
Considering the massive recorded output of Hawkwind in the past thirty years, there is always the chance that some of the releases are going to be utterly a drag.
www.ssmt-reviews.com /db/searchrev.php?artistID=529&showReview=true   (3440 words)

  
 Hawkwind and Hawklords
Hawkwind Gig List - a useful reference listing most of the live shows ever played, and who was there.
Hawkwind Live Setlists - a useful reference of track lists for individual live concerts played by Hawkwind throughout their history, up thru 1995.
Hawkwind Anthology - a scanned-in copy of the booklet that came with Hawkwind's Anthology box set (in MS Word.doc format).
www.hawklord.com /hw   (228 words)

  
 Hawkwind interviews, articles and reviews from Rock’s Backpages
OF THE MERE six dates Hawkwind had chosen for their American debut tour, it seemed most appropriate to be seeing them in Detroit, the ancestral home...
Robert Calvert, former Hawkwind person, playwright, raconteur, bon viveur, joyeux noel, has just returned from an enjoyable and instructive visit to Paris at the...
Emerging from the hippie heartland of London's Ladbroke Grove in 1969, Hawkwind invented space-rock with a potent, psychedelic mixture of jamming blues, electronica and lights.
www.rocksbackpages.com /artist.html?ArtistID=hawkwind   (442 words)

  
 Philm Freax: Hawkwind X-In Search Of Space
All deny conspiring to corrupt public morals on 8 August 1970 when at a dance members of the group appeared naked; drugs, contraceptives and magazines were handed to the audience and "free love" was encouraged from the stage.
The spacecraft Hawkwind was found by Captain RN Calvert of the Société Astronomæ (an international guild of creative artists dedicated in eternity to the discovery and demonstration of extra-terrestrial intelligence) on 8 July 1971 in the vicinity of Mare Librium near the South Pole.
The discovery of the Hawkwind has led to more wild speculation than any of the mysteries of space that we have so far encountered.
sunsite.unc.edu /mal/MO/philm/hawkwind   (664 words)

  
 Hawkwind CD United Kingdom
Over the course of the 1970s, British freaks Hawkwind came to be known as the ultimate space-rock band, with trippy, science-fiction-themed songs full of far-out electronic effects.
While all the electronic bells and whistles had yet to be firmly affixed to the Hawkwind spaceship, the mindset of these cosmic warriors was already very clearly focused on the farthest reaches of the galaxy.
The sound is very raw and electronic wizard DikMik didn't have much to play with (if you know what I mean) however lead guitar star man Huw LLoyd-Langdon makes an elecric appearance on the album which was his only stint with the band between 1970 and 1981.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/3081567/a/Hawkwind.htm   (434 words)

  
 MySpace.com - HAWKWIND - Official Myspace Page - UK - Rock / Progressive / Psychedelic - ...
Voiceprint and comes in the format of "Dual Disc" which roughly translated means a conventional music CD on one side but flip it over and there's a full selection of DVD material to enjoy.
On the live front the band recently headlined the inaugural Eastern Haze festival and it would be fair to say that Hawkwind stole the show (well we would say that wouldn't we!) with a classic set that took in tracks from all eras of the bands long and varied career.
And so we come around to 2007 and as I update this we've just returned from the third Hawkfest, which against all the odds, well mainly the weather, was a huge success.
www.myspace.com /hawkwindofficial   (1060 words)

  
 Hawkwind - Icons of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The progressive rock band Hawkwind have now clocked up 37 years in the music business, and are still defying the encroaching years with gigs, record releases and a regularly updated website.
Live appearances in London in the run-up to Christmas 2005 were accompanied by the expected mind-blowing lighting effects, and a new troupe of what the website called “surrealistic dancers”.
Only one member of the current line-up was there at the formation of Hawkwind Zoo (as they were then known) in 1969, singer and guitarist Dave Brock.
www.icons.org.uk /nom/nominations/hawkwind   (270 words)

  
 Mike & Cathy Deans' Web-Site
I first started listening to Hawkwind when I was introduced to them by a friend at university in 1977.
Hawkwind has always been a very fluid band, with members coming and going (and often coming back again!).
Another of the main driving forces of Hawkwind was Robert Calvert, singer, writer and space-poet.
www.deans-inter.net /mike/music/hawkwind/hawkwind.htm   (496 words)

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