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[Martyn White]

             IN THE BEGINNING (CDCD 1131)

     1. MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE Brock, Turner 6.03

     2. DREAMING Brock 4.05

     3. SHOULDN'T DO THAT Brock 6.00

     4. HURRY ON A SUNDOWN Brock 6.20

     5. PARANOIA Brock 2.59

     6. SEE IT AS YOU REALLY ARE Brock 9.27

     7. I DO IT Brock 6.36

     8. CAME HOME Brock 7.20

     The Notting Hill/ Ladbroke Grove area of wet London was a
     focus for the "alternative culture" growing out of art
     collegehippydom in the late 1960s. It had record shops and
     clothes stalls, clubs and pubs, magazines (Time Out started
     there as a one-sheet gig guide, and it was home to Oz and It)
     and of course it had the bands. Hawkwind, half noise and half
     mysticism, were one of them, and another was r&b outfit the
     Pretty Things, whose guitarist Dick Taylor was to produce
     Hawkwind's first album.
     Science fiction was Hawkwind's chosen metaphor for escape
     (the sci-fi writer Michael Moorcock was involved with the
     band) and illicit chemicals fuelled their rocket. They began as
     Group X, became Hawkwind Zoo, and then dropped the Zoo.
     A nucleus developed around founder members Dave Brock
     (guitar) and Nik Turner (saxophone). Other notables in the
     ranks included bass player Lemmy, soon to become
     Motorhead's greasy mainman, dancer Stacia, never averse to
     shaking her stuff around, drummer Simon King and South
     African-born writer Robert Calvert, later to go solo.
     Eventually, in 1972, they broke the rules and found huge
     commercial success with 'Silver Machine'. They were also to
     break another rule for 60s hippy bands - they survived into the
     90s. But this live record takes us back to Brock and Turner's
     early days in Hawkwind, when there was always a community
     benefit or college freak-out going on, and inevitably
     Hawkwind were on the bill.


From: http://www.cdj.com.br/cdj/labels/charly/cd1131.htm
(Also worth seeing for the cover photograph)

Martyn