Menu Shopping Cart Mailing List August Top Sellers Newsprint | Release ![]() £11.99 In stock Catalogue number HAWKVP4CD Release date 01/06/2001 Format 2CD Label Hawk Hawkwind Official Bootleg vol 1: Complete 79 Disc 1 1. Disc One 2. Shot Down In The Night 3. Motorway City 4. Spirit Of The Age 5. Urban Guerilla 6. Who's Gonna Win The War 7. World Of Tiers Disc Two 8. New Jerusalem 9. Light House 10. Brianstorm 11. Satalite 12. PXR 5 13. Masters Of The Universe 14. Silver Machine 15. Levitation By 1979 the band consisted of Brock, Lloyd - Langton, King, Bainbridge with special guest Tim Blake of Gong.The album Live Seventy Nine (re -issued by Castle) captured the punky spirit of the period and resulted in a minor hit single "Shot Down In The Night". This double cd set is a complete show from the 1979 tour, and the booklet consists of a full colour reproduction of the tour programme. Musicians
Reviews In 1979, Hawkwind released their "Live 79" album. The "Complete '79" double CD (totaling 91 minutes in length) features twice the material as that original release. At this point the band line-up is: Brock, Huw Lloyd-Langton on guitar, Harvey Bainbridge on bass, Simon King on drums, and the synthesizers of Tim Blake (from Gong). The music here is savage with a flowing touch. Blake's electronics are bubbling and organic, his keyboards drone with an endless shimmer. This sparkle adds an odd flavor to the razor guitar and growling bassline and critical mass drums. The vocals have a rock band quality, husky and insistent. Frequently, the electronics and guitars go head-to-head, exerting maximum force with their melodic outbursts, generating a sonic duel (where the real winner is the listener). These moments are very reminiscent of early Hawkwind, evolving that savagery with a compressed refinement, then injecting it into a hard rock format. It is a satisfying union. This sound mutates classic tunes like "Spirit of the Age", "PXR5", "Silver Machine", and the obligatory fave "Brainstorm", while the sound is aptly applied to material current to the period, like "Motorway City", "World of Tiers", and "Levitation". Meanwhile, tracks like "New Jerusalem" and "Lighthouse" display Blake's electronic wizardry with amazing capacity...for nearly 20 minutes too. Here, his synthesizers gurgle and swoop with a pronounced sedative quality, going astral before the music resumes its savagely rhythmic structure. | |
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