HW: 1st Album

[skarsol]

Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
>
> > Actually, this sounds like an opening to ask other people what their
> > first HW albums were, if that sounds like an interesting thread.
>
>      It's been done, but it's a fair enough multiple-repeat :)
>
>      First HW I ever heard was _Xenon Codex_ which my old mate Ben Cash
> (once of this list, long ago) got on cassette.  He had joined boc-l for the
> BOC content and thought all this "Hawkwind" stuff sounded interesting.  We
> though _XC_ was pretty keen :)
>      But the first HW I properly heard was _Palace Springs_, since I found
> the CD going cheap second-hand and remembered that that "Hawkwind" stuff I
> had heard had been pretty cool.  This was rapidly followed by _Hall of the
> Mountain Grill_ which was also going cheap.
>
>      And then, between the mighty onslaught of "Assault & Battery/Golden
> Void" and "Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke)", there was no escape.
>  Before long I had a taped copy of Space Ritual--this was back in the days
> not-so-long-ago when we believed it would *never* be issued on CD, much
> less *remastered*.  Ah, it was the bass ritual, and it sealed my fate :)
>
>      And now I'm very poor, but I have lots of Hawkwind (and some cool
> musical instruments) and I can't say I would do it any differently if I
> could :)
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>

beautiful,man,just beautiful! <sniffle>  rj