Wednesday, 3 August 2022

































Hawkwind
QUARK 1977

I've seen these tracks listed variously as:
Stone Henge free festival June 21st 1977
Queensway Hall, Dunstable September 28th 1977 
De Montford Hall, Leicester September 29th 1977
New Theatre, Oxford September 30th 1977
It could be any of them
or a mix of them
or none of them at all.
According to setlist FM
'Quark' was not played at any of those gigs
and  so was difficult to place contiuity-wise.
I miss Uncle Bob











































This has all been lovingly remastered and reassembled
into what I think is a resonable running order.
Check it out through headphones,
'twill blow your mind!
Adrian Shaw is brilliant.
This is my favourite Hawkwind line-up
and this is my favourite Hawkwind album.
(maybe)
It was the norm during 'Wind of Change'
for a film to be projected over the band.
Rudimentary graphic art showing a seed maturing into a tree.
Eventually houses would appear, then skyscrapers.
The tree became a lone emblem of nature
in a courtyard between corprate tower blocks.
Then came the downfall of humanity,
maybe war, (I forget) but the buildings crumble
and with the passiage of time only our humble tree remains.
Pretty cool.
(well it entertained the acid heads)
regards
Titus

Disc 1
01 Hassan I Sahba
02 The Forge of Vulcan
03 Brainstorm
04 Steppenwolf
05 High Rise
06 Robot
07 Wind of Change
08 Quark, Strangeness and Charm

Disc 2
01 Spirit of the Age
02 Sonic Attack
03 Damnation Alley
04 Uncle Sam's on Mars/The Iron Dream 
05 Master of the Universe
06 Welcome to the future
07 Reefer Madness

11 comments:

  1. Hawkwind are great, I've been listening to Hawkbinge, an excellent podcast in which every episode is dedicated to an album. I think they are now discussing the early 80's records.
    You can also find lots of their recordings on the fb page HAWKWIND And Related Album History.
    My preferred Hawk era is Lemmy's period :)

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    1. I was reading about the annual Hawkfest they do. Apparently this will be the last one. Guessing Brock is nearing retirement. Lemmy not as good as Adrian :)

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  2. this a beauty titus! thank you for sharing.
    mikeL

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  3. Thanks Titus, I used to have some of these tracks on one of the 'Weird Tapes'.

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    1. That's right, don't know iof those are still available

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    2. No idea, I think my old tape has been lost or chewed up, but to hear this whole concert is great, a favorite era, thanks.

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    3. Have you checked out the Cardiacs post? You're one of the few people I know who likes them

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    4. Hi Titus, thanks I gave it a quick listen, but haven't heard it all yet, bit busy atm.

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  4. Here's a bit of their show at R-Fest five days ago, very nice:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXaLLsQFY_U

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    1. Thanks, I'll have a look. You just caught me working on another (horrible) Hawkwind bootleg Ha Ha

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