Yuri Remastered

[mike coleman]

oh geez, another hurtle for me to overcome!!
what about 'wage war', that's important too innit??
anyway a little factoid: Dave Anderson can possibly get a _little_ relief
 here, as Nik copped to putting this out when I was with him, said it was a
special memory......


On 5/8/08, M Holmes <fofp at holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Email from C&D. The ad claims that Yuri has been cleaned up. Can anyone
> report good results?
>
> FoFP
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> A new 2008 Remaster for Hawkwind's Bring Me The Head Of Yuri Gagarin...
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> HAWKWIND: BRING ME THE HEAD OF YURI GAGARIN (2008 Remaster - Stock #
> 1049930) Normally CD £12.99 -
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> Ltd Offer CD £10.99 Featuring the classic line up that appeared on the
> 'Space Ritual' tour: Lemmy, Dave Brock, Robert Calvert, Dik Mik & Nik
> Turner, this album featured the voice or Yuri Gagarin for the first ever
> broadcast from space! So here are Hawkwind caught in a rare 'live'
> performance from their halcyon days, rough and unpolished; punk before
> punk; grunge before grunge - true cosmic space explorers on a journey to
> the edge of time.  So, take your protein pills, put your helmet on, it's
> time to leave earths gravity...
>
> So what happens when you fly sideways through time? You end up at a
> Hawkwind gig at the Wembley Arena in 1973.  Yes there was a time when
> Hawkwind were that big! This album is the definitive recording of that
> amazing event.  It gives an insight into Hawkwind at their peak with the
> same classic line up that featured on the 'Space Ritual' tour.  Here we
> have unique and alternate versions of 'Orgone Accumulator', 'Sonic
> Attack', 'Master Of The Universe' and 'Welcome To The Future'.  Also
> extremely rare live renditions of 'Urban Guerilla' and 'Silver Machine'
> complete with Bob Calvert vocals.
>
> The recordings lack, shall we say, certain finesse, but this makes it
> all the more exciting, it draws you in: making you listen deeper into
> the void.  This new version of the old album has undergone some
> "cosm-et-ic surgery" - the label say: "We have sonically spliced:
> atomically re-arranged; accelerated and discharged the particles that
> make up this historic recording, to try and polish the undeniable gem
> that lives within.  It is presented here with all the modern gadgetry
> and wizardry that we can muster to recreate it in the cleanest version
> ever released: Listen for yourself, we think we have succeeded."
>
> Undoubtedly the focus of this rare 'live' recording is the two poetry
> readings by the legendary Robert Calvert: 'Gaga' and 'In The Egg' -
> unavailable elsewhere in the known Universe; these are rare gems indeed.
> It is a huge shame that there are not more recitals by Calvert on record
> from this or any other period!
>
> Track List:
>
> 01.     Gaga / In The Egg
> 02.     Orgone Accumulator
> 03.     Wage War
> 04.     Urban Guerilla
> 05.     Master Of The Universe
> 06.     Welcome to the Future
> 07.     Sonic Attack
> 08.     Silver Machine
> 09.     Yuri Gagarin - The First Man In Space, Speaks To Us
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