i got a silver machine, silver machiiiiiiiiine.

Nar fuck it, I like 'em.

dude - Supertramp aren't the most god awful band ever to exist!

it's Terry Poisin

Yes they are medicineman, yes they are.

I met Dougie from Supertramp not so long ago. The guy I was talking to (who knew him) said "Dougie, you should talk to this guy, he's a really big fan!" and he came and talked to me. I was thinking "Please don't ask me what my favourite album is..."

Oh yeah, whatever.

I enjoy both Hawkwind and Supertramp. Fya, you suck.

easily you just need to say "breakfast in america" it is everybodyy's favourite supertramp record...

the logical song is great!

I can think of worst bands....

hillsong: Yeah, I'm digging Hawkwind, but Supertramp... nar.

I'd like to see Supertramp and Hawkwind in a no-holds-barred battle to the death!

Hawkwind were a total trip when the toured here in 2001.
Old acid casualties rockin' out in slippers!

Hawkwind rule. I just bought their 1st 3 albums at Dragonfly last week. Make sure you dont go past 1974 though. Lemmy stuff is the best

hawkwind can be hit and miss but when they're on they're ON! :-)

for a punked up version of hawkwind check out Nik Turner's later band Inner City Unit

I just bought a CD of a band called High Tide. Simon House is on violin. FUCKING AMAZING! Recorded in 1969.

I'd like to see Supertramp and Hawkwind in a no-holds-barred battle to the death!

With Terry Poison as referee?

michael moorcock is boss.

for another punk version...check out "the heads" . And yes...good early hawkwind is awsome. The stooges meets spacemen 3.

Studio 22
Hawkwind

10:30pm Saturday, 04 Nov 2006 ABC2

Hey, just listening to Space Ritual on the sterereo.

Definitely only their early stuff is worth any time. The late 70s stuff is all experimental and whatnot, but fuck it's dull.

I got an orgone accumulator
it's a superman creator

Hmmm, since this thread I have listened to Hawkwind maybe once or twice, but have become a bit of (not too much though) a Supertramp fan.

So, how was it?

Does anyone want tickets to the Melbourne show tonight?

Nobody went?

i'm not sure if i enjoyed them at Golden Plains. loved the dancers

i went to billboard and my night was initially marred by 2 very rude ladies next to me taking constant photos of themselves, playing with their mobile phones, uploading pics to fartbook and paying no attention to the band, whilst right in front of the band...... we had to move further back away from them.

hawkwind: dave brock said we needed to heed that it was 5am in their time. the sound needed to be louder and faster. was entertained by the centre stage keytar solos. most of the time they were trying to get their act together - mics off, leads unplugged etc. but for about 3 songs where they got it all together we were immersed in that expansive sound that hawkwind are famous for, 'angel of death' the highlight. silver machine was their last song of the night, no orgone accumulator.

I agree with all of that but the keytar, MissAus03. They have ditched the things that made me like them in the first place: the analog synth sci-fi bleeps & bloops & swoops being replaced by a keytar being one of them. If I want to hear some clown soloing with a keytar I'll go & see ... well, I don't know who because I don't want to hear that.

Anyway, I thought it was pretty lame. Fun to watch but I missed volume, speed, the dirty guitar and the relentless bass. I think ''going through the motions'' is a pretty apt description but still, there were good moments.

Angel of Death was a winner at GP too....

They were telling the GP crowd to 'wake up'... and it was true, that most of the kids who'd just dropped pills were stunned and didnt know how to react..

I thought they were great though

the keytar was .... just ..... weird ........ but entertaining in that he'd always move to centre stage whenever he played it like it was the god instrument of music. i've never seen someone embrace the keytar so much.

hmmm... yeah.. keytar bloke was kinda funny.... but detracted from the greatness....
they started doing a song where he sang.... and most of the other guys left the stage... thankfully they cut that song short due to time constraints

I couldn't understand the need for the keytar at all, I felt like I was at a evangelical sing song.

Yeah, it was funny the first time, and when he went centre stage & the spotlight was on him while the rest of the stage was dark but after about the third time I was well over it.

Actually, speaking of ''well over it'', probably my favourite thing was hearing their East End London accents, especially when they were talking about cosmic themes. It was very ''Spinal Tap''.

totally spinal tap!

...a little bit of Dethklock too

i'm now feeling pretty comfortable at having skipped this

thank you m+n

But there were babes in ''underwater alien'' suits and with lights on their heads, __v.

i can get all that at home thanks ron

i went to billboard and my night was initially marred by 2 very rude ladies next to me taking constant photos of themselves, playing with their mobile phones, uploading pics to fartbook and paying no attention to the band, whilst right in front of the band...... we had to move further back away from them

I spent most of the night wondering what the fuck those girls were doing there. They looked like they'd accidentally wandered in off the street. they seemed to enjoy it though so more power to them.

I liked it 'cause it was Hawkwind but the technical fuckups were embarrassing, the vocals were flat, the volume was low, the keytar got old fast and they didn't do Sonic Attack. But the dancers were rad. Like really, really rad.

Has anyone seen Sonic Attack? The Hawkwind tribute act? I hear there is another Hawkwind type prog-rock band about to hit the scene. Some weird unpronounceable name, but my mate on twitter reckons they're RAD.

Has anyone seen Sonic Attack? The Hawkwind tribute act?

Yes! Quite good actually. More enjoyable than the band that played at Billboard and pretended to be Hawkwind.

Silver machine....

I saw a tribute group called Brainstorm play about a decade ago in the lounge at the Baden Powell hotel or someothersuch non-traditional venue.

Bones Of Elvis by Inner City Unit is the good stuff. Not too much like Hawkwind, more that sinister post-apocatlyptic postpunk like Do You Believe In The Westworld or Wiseblood or something