HW: Hawkwind - Live 1990

Michael W Blackman Michaelangelo68 at AOL.COM
Wed May 29 06:57:00 EDT 2002


Got it organised - yup

In a message dated Wed, 29 May 2002 06:12:29  AEDT, Stephan Forstner <stemfors at PIPELINE.COM> writes:

> This is now out, and it's an absolutely essential release from one of the
> high points of the band's career. Starting on disc 2, track 4, and
> continuing to the end, is the 1990-01-25 Nottingham (Live Legends) gig, the
> Bedrock show described in the liner notes. These tracks constitute one of
> the finest releases EVER from Dave Brock and company and you are required to
> go out and buy it now. Amazing stuff. To nitpick a bit, the sound does not
> seem to be much different from the *ahem* unofficial 'Temporal Adventures'
> disc, and it is missing the closing track 'Wind of Change' that appeared on
> 'TA' and the video (but which apparently also does not appear on the recent
> DVD release, as per previous posts by others here), but that is small stuff.
> All of disc 1 and the first 3 tracks of disc 2 seem to comprise a full
> concert from another date - it does not sound like the Leicester 1990-11-05
> 'Live in Space - The NeverEnding Story of the Psychedelic Warlords' gig as
> has been surmised here, but I suspect it is from the immediately following
> US tour, and the track list matches that for 1990-11-28 or one of the shows
> between 1990-12-02 and 1990-12-05, although the closer 'Reefer Madness' has
> again been lopped off. I am sure Bernhard will be letting us know the actual
> facts as soon as he listens to it. This gig is not quite as great as the
> Live Legends set (the recently departed Simon House being the big
> difference) but it is still very good and a worthy companion to the
> Nottingham show. I repeat, you are required to go out and buy this now!
>
> Stephan



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