Indeed, the sound of the album reflects the decision of several members’ requests that their own tracks be turned down, resulting in a weirdly hollow, highly imbalanced and inadvertent space rock dub mix years ahead of its time. Spaceship Earth ethos.Ī collection of huge, metronomic epics and wistful, lysergically-tinged ballads with electronics pushed to the fore as everything funneled through a battery of echo, reverb and phasing, “X In Search Of Space” showed how hard Hawkwind had willed themselves forward in terms of both arrangement and performance, creating a collection of material that for all its hard-won confidence was still as roughhewn as ever. And it was a perfect reflection of Hawkwind itself: a distilled collage of sci-fi scenarios, hippy values, psychedelic awareness, gnostic explorations and visions of time, space, thought and body into a D.I.Y. Also included within the album was a free, 24-page ‘Hawklog’ written by Robert Calvert and filled with information relating to scientific data, occult references, astrological tables, cartoons, and a travel log whose entries followed non-chronological progressions in time. Our ship will fold like a cardboard file and the noises of our mind compress into a disc of shining black, spinning in eternity.”Īnd graphic designer Barney Bubbles’ killer sleeve design allowed for such release when played with a tri-directional fold out sleeve and intricate die-cut cover to approximate the shape of a space hawk spreading its wings to the four corners of chaos, eternity, infinity and The Void (the very places Hawkwind’s music described and expanded into) illustrated with inlaid photographs from one of their many free concerts under the Westway overpass in their native community of Ladbroke Grove. Our thoughts are losing depth soon they will fold into each other, into flatness, into nothing but surface. Space/time supply indicators near to zero. So freaky, that the concept behind it was that playing the record would free the group from a dimensional compression within the album itself, for as the following entry in the accompanying ‘Hawklog’ attested: Completing the six man team of musicnauts whose sole offering together would be just this one album, “X In Search Of Space” it was freakiness itself. One further pair had also attached themselves to the band when dancer Stacia (whose unscheduled appearance onstage with them at Glastonbury Fayre in June) and writer Robert Calvert (who began to make impromptu live appearances on vocals as well as contributing lyrics) were absorbed into the band alongside core members Dave Brock (guitar, vocals), Nik Turner (vocals, woodwinds) and Terry Ollis (drums). At this time both bassist Thomas Crimble and audio generator operator Dikmik left the group (with the latter rejoining several months later) replaced by ex-Amon Düül 2 bassist Dave Anderson and sound mixer Del Dettmar filling in on electronics. Survivors include his wife, Evi, and his daughter, Jasmin.The springtime of 1971 was already a confusing time in Hawkwind’s history, exacerbated by the first of many major personnel shakeups that would become as much a trademark of the band about as much as their consumption of illicit euphoriates and their organic, primitive space rock freak outs. Lee’s most recent album, “Still on the Road to Freedom,” came out in the fall. Fontana, who had both worked with Presley in his early years. Lee recorded a solo album, “In Tennessee,” with the guitarist Scotty Moore and the drummer D. The name was a homage to the emergence of Elvis Presley about a decade earlier. The band changed its name to Ten Years After in 1967. Two years later he was performing with the bassist Leo Lyons, and by the 1960s they were playing in a band called the Jaybirds in small clubs in England and Germany. 19, 1944, in Nottingham, and began playing guitar at age 13. After that, it continued to tour and record with a new guitarist, Joe Gooch.Īlvin Lee was born on Dec. Lee played with the band off and on until 2003. Ten Years After regrouped in 1983 and Mr. By the end of the decade he was touring as a solo act and at one point put together a band he called Ten Years Later. He even recorded an album, “On the Road to Freedom,” with a gospel singer, Mylon LeFevre, accompanied by George Harrison, Ron Wood, Steve Winwood and other big names. To me it was a pop song.”īy the mid-’70s Ten Years After had disbanded and Mr. “By then I was rebelling, and I never played it live. “I hated it because it was a hit,” he said in 2003.
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