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Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters

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Alan Davey is a magician and to think if he hadn't left H/W we may never have got this beautiful work.

What can you say about an album that crosses space rock charge out with Monty Pythonistic skits -- except that it’s hazardous Rock with ever-darkening humour direct from the bi-polar brainpan of Hawkwind’s erratic vocalist/lyricist, Robert Calvert. Arthur Brown's turn at vocals gives us "The Song of The Gremlin" parts one and two, one of the top tunes on the CD. It wasn't recorded at the time but it was eventually recorded in 1984 with Calvert's wife Jill Riches on lead vocals and included on the Hawkwind, Friends and Relations Vol.the aerospaceage inferno I immediately compaired this to motorhead when recorded with hawkwind before the synthesiser was replaced when rerecorded by motorhead. I have this original version with insert containing lyrics and dialogue stapled to inside center of gatefold. It was these severe structural modifications which rendered the jet unstable and difficult to control. It was once recorded that Nico was named as a possible contributing vocalist on “Lockheed”, and in all certainty “Widow’s Song” was slated for her.

I’m too high to die” intones Calvert, and Rudolph proceeds to tear it up with yet again before the final crash. overalls onstage at times during his Hawkwind days) saw the headlines generated by Lockheed’s abysmal legacy surrounding the Starfighter F-104 as creative stimulus. Robert Calvert, a longtime member and lyricist of space pioneers Hawkwind, crafted this record, inspired by the Lockheed bribery scandals. Rhythm section Lemmy and Simon King are present throughout, Lemmy's contribution can not be understated, hiss trademark rhythm bass ties the whole sound together magnificently.

The album has been re-released in the late 1990s by BGO Records and is currently available on Eclectic Records (ECLCD1056) with bonus tracks. And I am hugely impressed, previously, I had the Hawkwind album around Moorcock's works, and that was fun also as a space opera. In the end, one of the more mentally anguished and drug addled albums I have ever heard - and rock n roll on par with Hawkwind where it appears. If you like everything about Hawkwind, and need to have as much as you can relating to the band, then this may be as essential to you, as it is to me.

It's the effective combination of rock and Monty Python skits where the true power of the album lies.I'm very allured by psychedelia and many other releases of these spaceheads, but this is just different kind of music than majority of their releases. Recorded at about the same time as Calvert’s first and only studio release with Hawkwind during their tenure on United Artists, the “Urban Guerilla” / “Brainbox Pollution” single, Hawkwind all appear here (minus the recently-departed Dikmik. Ejection" (coupled with "Catch a Falling Starfighter") was released as a single, although both songs are slightly different versions to those on the album.

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