Knights of Space review on amazon.com

[mary]

Hey Lost Johnny, (can you find the valium...),  I hope you're well. I enjoy
KOS, but if you want to buy me a more expensive system I'd even enjoy it
more.  Then I'd need the house to play it in, and on and on it goes.  I'll
always have a special fondness for Space Ritual, I've been impressed with
the diversity and extreme changes HW can go through from 1 year to another.
I have some albums that I prefer to others, but it keeps things interesting,
that's for sure.  Now How 'bout that high end stereo?What do you have for a
system?  I used to have 7 copies of SR, some gatefold, some, imports, you
know how it goes, I used to tell people I had a copy for each day of the
week.  When my friend who turned me on to Hawkwind passed away, I ended up
with his copy of SR.  A so-called friend of his took his wonderful
collection with all sorts of obscure stuff and sold it for bulk value at a
record store, as a (ak) favor to my friend's mother.  We told the owner how
we knew who had owned the copy of SR that was there, and when he heard the
story he gave me the album.
I remember years ago, trying to turn on all my friends to SR and they'd say
it's too muddy.  The quality of the recent packaging is a must have for any
collector of fine music, and it just keeps getting better with time, I guess
like people say a fine wine will do.

Happy listening,

Mary
P.S.   I want to thank Hawkwind and friends for making live shows available
to me.  I still haven't got a lot of the lyrics to the new songs, but they
are strong heavy, intense little numbers, a real trip.  Like a trip, the
messages Hawkwind are telling us about what we're doing to our world are
real and can be very frightening.  Like in the case of Pandora, we still
have hope.
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Subject: Knights of Space review on amazon.com


Cold outside, long workday ,need a laugh? Finally found out what the
problem is with Knights of Space. Like most others I thought it was the
terrible sound quality, but I guess I was wrong. On Amazon.com there is a
review for the Knights of Space cd by a Jimmy Gilas.  He says that "Knights
of Space is the greatest Hawkwind  album of all-time ." And that since it
came out he says ," he will no longer listen to the Space Ritual album of
1973." He says "the Space Ritual album of 1973 pales in comparison and is
boring and outdated." He says the problem is ,"the fans who are complaining
,have very poor and cheap stereos to play it on. If you get a high priced
stereo like I have ,the Knights of Space cd will sound like you are there
live."