Yuri Remastered

[Michael Crook]

Maybe you can polish a turd?

Mick


--- M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK> wrote:

> 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...
> 
> HAWKWIND: BRING ME THE HEAD OF YURI GAGARIN (2008
> Remaster - Stock #
> 1049930) Normally CD £12.99 - 
> 
> 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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