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Subject: Re: Hawkwind
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 20:52:00 EDT
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>Of course!  Hawkwind is the best underground psychedelic space-rock
>heavy metal new wave SF (oops, I should say Sci-Fi) punk band ever to
>exist!

>Also, Nik Turner's album "Sphinx" is probably the best space music I've
>ever heard.  Robert Calvert's albums "Freq" and "Captain Lockheed and
>the Starfighters" are also quite good.  Anyone have anything to say

Actually I was dissapointed with Sphinx, it is a little mellow for my tastes.
I like Steve Hillage and was expecting better, since the group was basically
Hillage's group plus Turner (anyone ever hear 'Fish Rising'?) Calvert had 
another album titled along those lines which was amusing (Bar-bar-bar Bar-bar-
ians, to the tune of Barbara Ann by the beach boys...)

I don't know about hard to find. I have 17 Hawkwind albums, all bought in the
US in about the last 4 years. I am probably missing some recent ones, though,
and I know I missed the Sonic Assassins EP. I'll get it one of these days. I 
even have an EP by the Hawkwind Zoo, before the band was truly organized.

I like all of their stuff (maybe a little less around the Quark-Hawklords period)
but my favorites to date are The Church of Hawkwind and the live album.

Terry Poot

	Lives of great men all remind us,
	We may make our lives sublime,
	And in so doing leave behind us,
	Footsteps in the sands of time...

	Dave Brock, Dr. Technical