(Sighs heavily!) Know JUST how you feel... Can I come too? 😊

Find people that are still doing what they used to do back then. Rainbow gatherings or some music festivals still have some of the magic that used to be prevalent back then but overall our world is in a different place due to the mindset of the masses. Only we can bring back the mystery and wonder of the etheric realm and it's our obligation to do so for if not were just merchants of death just like the machine mind that's encroaching upon us.

You can never go back..only forward. The Future Never Waits!

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@@stephennicolay1940 Unless you understand time is just an automated illusion. We can travel both back & forward in space & time but all in all both ways take us to the same space & time....the Eternal NOW. The only thing we have is this moment now which is forever. I'm 66 & still haven't gone back on my commitment to psychedelic breakthroughs just not weekly since the 70's passed but now there's DMT & Diviners Sage holotropic breathwork with Stanislav Groff. We always had it & we always will. It's in our spirit between the mirrors we call eyes with are our stars of infinity!~

@@nige3801 Lemmy on his experience with Hawkwind, from the BBC Hawkwind documentary Do Not Panic.

Lemmy loved it.

I loved Lemmy. He was a unique , one of a Kind, Charismatic person. We miss you Lemmy !!!

@@benhalloren7599 We ALL loved it! 😁

Hi Peter I just stumbled upon your comment to this post and I had to add my own! Best regards David Buck

@@davidbuck1915 Is that THE David Buck? If so, man it’s been a very long time!

first gig too.... December 74... the month before yours... I had just turned 13.... must've been same tour... Dr Feelgood supporting

Man I dropped acid to Hawkwinds 'In Search Of Space' at 14 in 1972 on headphones all night, read the logbook & still here! Best thing for me was my mum was a smoker & had taken acid so she didn't try to be a pest, worry or do anything to put me off & the whole house was on acid & up all night too so there were candles etc lmao PS Try Diviners Sage if you ever get the chance but make sure it's dead of night & dead of sound & you'll go places!!!~~~ Who'd think they'd be spending one of the best nights of their life by 14...close to my best time of life was in my Hippy Daze which I'm still in as I still love my smoko & shrooms, DMT etc

The classic linehp is the best by far. Lemmy couldn't even play bass b4 they threw him up on stage after some meth & he just nailed it!~

People Born TO Go....I'm ready to board the Hawkwind space/time craft & go back for a rerun!!~~

Got the first album in '70 when l was 16 . Still one of my all time favourite L.P's . Saw the band in'71 supported by Status Quo . Happy days . Great time for music the early '70's . so many good and obscure bands about .

Drop acid see hawkwind 😊

Stacia was a big girl ( 6' at least...a hard tough ride baby

Tend to look at that and it’s like last year, they don’t age, stuck in the 70’s like me, but 71 now, still play there stuff, on a USB stick in the car, we’ll times change lol.

The first album was my first album. Brilliant. My brother and I used to play Subbuteo to it - one side was the first half, the other the second. Mirror of Illusion is a gorgeous song.. The cover is in another world!

The acid was good, too...

I've heard it is not possible to describe the loudness of Hawkwind in this period without the use of explosives.

@PeterSnull They could be loud, for sure. I actually prefered them live in the 1980s with Langton and Davey. Those sound-systems and light shows were epic.

@@lukeriely4468 Indeed that was when they got their shit together & nailed Space Rock. Only took 'em 10 years.....

I'm 40 and I KNOW. I CAN TELL. I can only imagine how immense they sounded back then, in this, their golden era. It would have been INSANE to see live! I'm jealous!!!!

What happened to Jesus I wonder ? He would seem pop up at most festivals in the 70's, rake thin, shirtless and...yes, freakin' out

@@TheVideoLounge I remember that too... he was dancing just a few feet in front of me and my mate. I saw him a few years later in a pub in Notting Hill Gate where I used to play at a folk-club called 'Matilda's' (run by a little Australian Jew from Perth, named Phil Rebe... a banjo picker). He was still dressed as 'Jesus', and handing out grapes to all the people in the pub. I said hello to him and mentioned seeing him at that festival but he was very shy and didn't say much... just handed me a grape and moved on. That was the last I saw of him.

@@theseustoo Oddly enough I also lived in Notting Hill, although I don't recall Matilda's, but used to sometimes go to the Black Swan pub further down Bayswater where a guy bashed away at the piano in the back room to bewildered foreigners (usually). It's interesting that you saw Jesus there, because I once studied sound engineering in N Kensington/Kensal rise and I vaguely remember the owner of the studio, Jose, an old electric hippie himself, recounting stories about Jesus and also Sid Barrett.

@@TheVideoLounge The 'Black Swan'? Or was it the Old Swan? At the top of Kensington Church St? (Rather than down Bayswater). Literally just around the corner from Notting Hill Gate underground station. That's where Matilda's was... (Matilda's being the name of the folk-club, not the pub! The pub's name was the Old Swan!) However, I don't remember the Old Swan ever having a piano... though it is possible! There was a blind woman, however, that I DO remember, named Betty who played the piano-accordion, and there were always plenty of 'bewildered foreigners'! (Not to mention lots of bewildered locals!) I met my first Eskimo at Matilda's, who regaled us all with some Eskimo 'throat singing'! I think your memory may be playing tricks on you, mate... I reckon you went to 'Matilda's', whether you realise it or not! I don't remember ANY pub called the 'Black Swan' in Bayswater. The Old Swan, however, was run by a bloke named Alan Parrot... who bore a remarkable resemblance to Henry VIII... He was quite a character, though, and used to chase the customers out at closing time using a bull-whip! (Or an old car's horn... depending on his mood, I suppose... or the degree of reluctance, on the part of the customers, to move!) He had a gorgeous Scandinavian wife named Eva... When did you live there? Perhaps it was the same pub but from a different period. Matilda's kind of 'died' after it was bombed by the IRA. (In fact the bomb was not placed in the pub, but rather in the doorway to the shoe-shop that was just across the road to it... the scare was designed so that the pub-goers would come out of the pub as the bomb went off... though this didn't happen because the police made us all leave via the rear entrance. A policeman, however, who had been stupid enough to act on the persistent persuasion of the shop's manager, was blown to smithereens when he tried to remove the bomb before the arrival of the bomb squad by the shop's owner. (Silly bugger! He left a widow and two children, if memory serves!) I was there that night... playing 8-ball downstairs after I'd finished my set at 'Matilda's' which was in the front bar. I think the pub may have changed managers shortly after that.

@@theseustoo Well I moved to Notting Hill Gate around 1987 until the late 1990s (Pembridge Square) and you're right, it may have just been The Swan (past the champion) not the Old Swan at the start of Ken Church street, but our regulars were the Earl of Lonsdale and The Leinster Arms, and of course The Chepstow if you wanted a 'lock in' until the wee hours.

Lemmy was always a handful... you know how he got his nick-name, of course? From his habit of saying, "Lemme a quid 'til Friday!" 😉 I remember him walking past me and dropping a fifty pence piece into my guitar case as I was busking at Marble Arch in '74...

I know just how you feel! 😁

Maybe irresponsibility was your answer to the man machine controllers agendas!~

@@jasondalton-earls9972 Maybe. Could have been the orgone accumulator thingy the guy next door had in his shed 🤔

I liked this comment so you come here and listen to it again 😅😊

Also have a listen to "Nadir's Big Chance" by Peter Hammill. Lydon's acknowledged him as an influence, but it's got all the bass punch and mad sax of Hawkwind into the bargain.

What a duo!

Stück in the middle with... "ooh!..." there's drums...

1:31

Did someone say Lemmy ?

Michael Moorcock was my favourite sci-fi author for a LONG time! Have you read the book he wrote, starring Hawkwind, entitled, "The Time of the Hawklords"? I suppose it's a bit silly now, but it was a fun read... Hawkwind use their music to save the world from destruction by the evil corporations! If only! 😁

Bowies' Memory of A Free Festival just makes me 😀

That was their only 'big hit single'... it was great, but on the whole I preferred the albums, especially 'In Search of Space' and 'Space Ritual'... Those were the days! 😁

Not just the best Hawkwind song ever, it really is my favourite song of all time... I could listen to it a million times and never get bored with it...metronomic mayhem....

Hahaha it IS you! Yes a memorable night for sure! How great to hear from you, here of all places!

@David Buck Hahaha it IS you! Yes a memorable night for sure! How great to hear from you, here of all places!

@@petergoddard1960 Hi yes music can bring people together after over 40 years!

Ten years after... ♠️The Ace Of Spades♠️ 😉

@@rp2364 Imagine anything like that happening nowadays ….

I saw Gong recently (well about ten years ago, but that is recently for Gong really...) Fabulous gig, especially as I had no idea who/what I was going to see, very glad I did. 😊

Gong didn't play there in '73. They did in '74, and it was an amazing show.

@@lunarseed23 Thought so as i dont remember seeing Hawkwind.

@@lunarseed23 nor did I

Go on then let us have a story or two, please cheers.

Somebody did actually film bits of it - take a look over here! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fa-pndl2uq-yqGw.html

Just about to type that

@@trevstapes cool thanks!

Thanks Trev for pointing people to my film. No sound on it though as I shot it on a clockwork 8mm camera. Great to hear the sound and see the photos. Long lost happy days.

​@Reg Miles Music I'm just a minute into your super 8 film. My first thought was how all the tents were canvas as opposed to festivals today like Glastonbury were an ocean of plastic tents are just dumped......in sight of a greenpeace or friends of the Earth banner.

The site I nabbed the photos from says '73 - www.ukrockfestivals.com/windsor-73-dave-walkling.html and www.ukrockfestivals.com/windsor-73-alun-anderson.html and www.ukrockfestivals.com/windsorfest1973-craigspix.html

@@trevstapes Thanks for posting those links. Having looked at them all. I think that you are probably right.

Definitely 1973. What a blast!!!

Yeh its not 73 music but the pics are 73. Standing at the edge was on their 75 lp. I was at the 73 & 74 windsors doing my Space cadet national service.

No, it's definitely 1973. I was at both, and my band played on the same stage.

hilarious that mate, what a wit you are, did you think of that by yourself?

@@kirkhunter146 What stone did you crawl out of?

Its possible.🎸

I believe they housed some kind of projector or lighting effect, Hawkwind had their own lighting effects company called Liquid Len And The Lensman that toured with them for the A Space Ritual Alive In Liverpool And London tour.

Those graphics on them were part of the Hawkwind mythology designed by Barney Bubbles - www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/in-search-of-barney-bubbles

They were parts of Del Dettmar's electronic devices set ( that included two EMS synthis ).

They were just 4x12" speaker cabinets made from tubes, with grilles painted by Barney Bubbles.

You have no soul! 🤨😉

The sound track is not of very high quality either, which is a pity because Hawkwind music is awesome.

@@funnycat1957 Yeah, though to be fair, it's really hard to get a good recording of any live performance... and to manage to capture Hawkwind's famous quadrophonic sound would, I think, be virtually impossible outside a studio. But that really was a fantastic concert! In fact it was a fabulous weekend! At one stage I remember the police started trying to invade the field in order to try to arrest people for smoking pot, using a fire-truck to drive into it (slowly, but very definitely!) Until a certain Bill (Ubi) Dwyer threw a crowbar through its windshield... At that moment the whole crowd (of around 250,000!) realised what was going on and, as a single mass, stood up and started walking towards the police! The cops, of course, wisely withdrew to the edge of the field and contented themselves with searching any cars who might be leaving the field... A lot of fun was had by all! 😁

PS: At least they now seem to have edited the video and included a lot of still photos, which at least manages to capture just a taste of what the atmosphere was like... I might even watch it now! As you say, Hawkwind's music is fabulous! 😊