High Rise from PXR5 CD

Captain Bl@ck starfield at SUPANET.COM
Thu Mar 27 13:46:13 EST 2003


I have a copy here of PXR5 on reel-to-reel tape from February 1978, labelled
Office Copy.  The version of High Rise is not the one on the vinyl at least.
Curiously the running order is also different, with PXR5 being the opening
track with an extended intro and outro, followed by Robot then High Rise.
The remainding tracks are the same as side 1 of the LP.

One wonders if High Rise was reworked/remixed at the last minute for the
vinyl, and the original version has been used on the CD release?

Captain Bl at ck.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Jarrett" <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: High Rise from PXR5 CD


> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, M Holmes wrote:
>
> > Jobson, Eddie writes:
> >
> > > After finally managing to get hold of a copy of PXR5 on disc, I have
> > > listened to it and unless my memory is playing tricks on me, High Rise
> > > sounds like different vocals to those that I remember from the vinyl
one.
> >
> > Yep. It's different. I spotted that to my great surprise while doing the
> > Codex:
> >
> > High Rise
> >  L  1     Weird 103 - Free Festivals
> >  L  1     Hawkwind Live at Stonehenge and Watchfield
> >  L  1 a   The Best and the Rest of Hawkwind
> >  L  1 a   The Hawkwind Anthology Vol. I
> >  L  1 a   The Hawkwind Anthology 1967-1982 [Castle 2CD]
> >  L  1 a   Acid Daze Vol. I
> >  L  1 a   Best of Hawkwind
> >  L  1 a   Live & Rare (Onward Flies The Bird)
> >  L  1 a   Master of the Universe [Pulse CD]
> >  L  1 a   Master of the Universe [Laserlight compilation CD]
> >  L  1 b   Castle Masters Collection
> >  L  1 b   Hawkwind Anthology triple CD box set [Castle Communications]
> >     2     PXR5 [LP only]
> >     2     Repeat Performance
> >     2     Spirit of the Age [Charisma Compilation]
> >     2     Tales From Atom Henge
> >     2     25 Years On [Griffin 4-CD Set]
> >     3     PXR5 [CD only]
> >     3     Epoch Eclipse 30 Year Anthology
> >     4     Hawkwind Live at the Bottom Line
> >     5     The Hawklords Live
> >
> >       *   1a is a remix of 1
> >       *   versions 1,2 and 3 are from the same tour
> >       *   Version 2 appeared on the PXR5 LP. Version 3 appeared
> >           on the PXR5 CD.
> >       *   1b  the sound of an explosion at the end of version 1 and 1a
> >           has been cut out in editing (see British Tribal Music)
> >       *   This track is listed but not present on The Ambient Anarchists
>
>         This sparks a question which I've been meaning to ask for, ooh,
> even longer than this mail's been kicking about my INBOX.
>
>         I have neither LP nor CD, but an official Virgin pressing cassette
> copy of _P.X.R.5_. Which version of `High Rise' have I got? I've heard
> both _Tales from Atomhenge_ and _Epoch Eclipse_ and I don't remember
> noticing ether of their `High Rise' versions as not being the one I
> own... So I have cloth ears. Can anyone else tell me which version of the
> album I need to look out for more urgently? Yours,
>                                                    Jon
>
> ObCD: Porcupine Tree - _In Absentia_
> --
> "I recognise that I have transgressed many of the precepts of the divine
> law, and that I am subjected by various vices and iniquities, disobedient
> to the words of the divine mystery brought unto me and a worshipper of the
> delights of this military age." Marquis Borrell of Barcelona, 955 A.D.
>
>              (Jonathan Jarrett, Birkbeck College London)



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