Hawkwind-Hassan I Sabbha at Cubby Bear 1997

[wiimojo]

Robert Calvert had the vocal range for this song. R.I.P. Rob.

[wiimojo]

Robert Calvert had a better vocal range for this track. R.I.P Rob.

[SouthCoastNetter]

Englands Finest...We love you HawkWind...

[quarkwrok]

This sounds like a wicked gig. Hawkwind always different, always Hawkwind.

[sexyEmma4u]

HAWKWIND and EARTH CULTURE where the best new age band of their time without a doubt.

[MasqueChosen]

Saw them in 72 at Liverpool Stadium doing Space Ritual - I was late getting there and the place was heaving and I ended up stuck up against a speaker right at the front. Never heard anything but tweets and whooshes the whole concert and couldnt see much either. But they were the best tweets and whooshes ever :)

[barzatops]

Seen them 3 times over the years most recently was Dec. 19th 09 @ Newcastle o2 and they were the best ever...

[AttackShipOnFire]

Many of us saw them on several occassions. Some like different styles of their music.Personally, I have my own tastes, but I 'll keep that to myself, for fearof trolls & the like>

[darknights113]

i saw them in the 80s in Bristol it seems they have lost some thing

[yorkieso]

was it not their spaceship.......;-)

[darknights113]

na some thing in there music it just did not sit right it was not the hawkwind i remmber

[skawashers]

yeah most of the band because brocks pissed them all off

[HansCoffe]

/ashisz haszisz szaszich haschisz hashisz hasihs marijhu harimu DXM

[burgersoft777]

"my first HW show which I waited 14 years to see. Not quite as long as I had to wait to see Psychic TV but I digress... "

Were Gen and his tits worth the wait?

H.W I agree are awsome. PTV..well lets just say Tits.

[skawashers]

my first Hawkwind gig was when i was about 18 . and i loved every weird krautrock spaced out minute of it. Think i It was the Chaos Tour in about 1987 I also went to see PTV. And i thought it was going to be a big blood letting psychedelic experience. But was very disappointed, But that was when PTV came back for the second time about 5 years ago, It was dreadful and watered down to what i was expecting

[LongRangeX]

I was at this show. It was the WORST show of the tour. The soundchecks were awesome they spent three hours getting it perfect.. Along comes Mr. C.B. and fucks it ALL up. It was about 97 degrees in here, and I ended up having to carry some BIG girl outside. The main event of this tour, StrangeDaze97 was AWESOME!

[aa9il]

I saw Hawkwind at the Cubby Bear and it just blew my mind. I think it was the close confines that gave the whole show an intense vibe that would have been lost at a larger venue or festival. That show rocked.

Also saw Gong play at the Cubby Bear and again it was like - Wow, I cant believe Im seeing this.... That was my first HW show which I waited 14 years to see. Not quite as long as I had to wait to see Psychic TV but I digress...

[uncleambient]

The singer here is Ron Tree, he was great with Hawkwind, I wish they'd have him back, but new singer Mr Dibs is good also, and sounds a lot like Bob Calvert :)

[SovietTelevision]

I remember when I saw the poster for this show. I thought "WHO THE FUCK would organize a Hawkwind show at the fucking Cubby Bear?" It's a yuppie frat boy sports bar. Hawkwind should have been playing the Metro or Double Door or something like that. No wonder they've never really taken off in the US, the person promoting them here is a dolt.

Anyway, looks like a kick ass show.

[TarawaMan]

Later in the year they did play at the Metro. The show paled in comparison to the Cubby Bear show but some of the band did not show up. That Cubby show was intense. The close confines were great to experience HW at the Cubby. My brain was cut to shreds by the sonic blasts!

[SICKBOY687]

I Jus smoked a fat spliff closed my eyes an im away to this !

[gunsanddrugs]

hawkwind and captain rizz anyone?¿?!!!

[impablomations]

gunsanddrugs..... you cant be serious about capt rizz?? he's a complete asshole, cant sing for shit. Known him for years, used to do artwork for his old band.... rizz ruined ay hawkwin gig he played at. Only good thing to come from capt rizz band is sean - guitarist, who went on to play for Alan Davies solo project - Bedouin. Alan Davies still owes me for designing the band logo!! Hes so tight, it hurts him to go for a piss! lol.

Anyways.... Hawkwind rule... esp with Bob or Ron

[PAULLONDEN]

Nice soundtrack for 9»II«

The original studio version,mind./

[54spiritedwill54]

i lovew to see people still realise how good they are

[dakker4001]

The cubby bear show was awesome,Me and my buddy were in pittsburg and drove to chicago hammerdown to make it there,saw them a week later at the first strange days fest in Sherman NY,Nik Turner played there also and was first time I got to meet him,wish the syrange days fesy could have remained a yearly event

[eaglewebb]

Saw em again In an enormous ex-steel foundry (magna),along with a five hundred fans in android/futuristic garb...or headlining the first eastern haze festival..

Space Ritual have as much of a claim to the great bird,and yes its a tragedy that Bob has departed...but he left us

this..And I for one am glad I have heard it-live. Dancing/jumping to this fantastic song, to that heavy eastern riff...has been 1 of life's great pleasures over the last 21 years...

*

[eaglewebb]

On the tour of the album ("its the business of the future to be dangerous" ( which included the title 'Tibet is not

China..') I saw them again, this time in sythesis with and in the midst of early nineties underground trance/techno/dub/dread

scene...They influenced and grew alongside a significant number of music making techno heads , at the same time as the Orb,

Orbital and Underworld...those kinda acts...

[neonskyline1]

Oh and another thing,I'm suprised Brock hasn't changed the name 'Ejection' to 'Let me out of the plane' just to get some royalties for that !well somebody had to pay the price for being a Genius !!

[neonskyline1]

shit vocals as usual,can nobody even attempt to sing like Bob RIP.and why do Hawkwind always sound so amature since Lemmy left,I've seen them a few times live..shite.Space Ritual were nearer the real thing,and they nicked my nickname for a song title

[eaglewebb]

My own experience of things is rather different.. For me, first seeing Hawkwind in nineteen eighty something, just at the

time of the poll tax rebellion, with brock davey and chadwick was an incredibly important gig... I remember the visuals, an

animation of a copper beating a protester on the head..it gave an alternative voice to the media which-hunt, and with the

lights and wall of space guitars/synths...

[gunsanddrugs]

yep! my first gigs in early 80's.. we had spg cops in edinburgh, , cops were very heavy, youth out of control, glue and no answers.. cops left the heavy metal crowd alone, u know that leather and stud shit.. hairspray lol.. and beat up on us, hawks used to come a few times per year to edinburgh/scotland, miss that dearly! and all the freaks in the alley lol..!

[jimmywires500]

Sorry who's bob

[safeashouses211]

Robert Calvert

[riveroflife777]

Dont miss Wye Festival, Hereford 7 June when Just Fuzz awesome new indie rock band play with Hawkwind!

[industi]

Hassan I Sabbah or Hassan Ibn Sabbah not Sabha.pozdrawiam

[Halath]

i feel nostalgia for the old versions of this :/

[iezavel]

Hey hey,

I would like to know if this version can be found in some kind of recording. It is truly upsetting, geee!!!

[tim13331]

of course: quark strangeness and charm

[iezavel]

Nop, not the acoustic version; sorry but there is one electro of about 10min like the one above.... THE best ever!

Any help pls, I am desperate!

[tim13331]

try in: Kanterbury Fayre or: Yule Ritual .but its Assassins of Allah

[Rolandzebub]

This is the fucking shit, right here. What a show that must have been.

[Duenderelojero]

Esta cancion se adelanto al futuro.

[jackjingles]

I was at this gig nice to see some footage cant remember a fookin thing off me tits on army grade acid thought i was canoe for three days after... long live the hawks thanks for eating my brain...!

[liamardo007]

shame space ritual got their equipment nicked!

[johnnybadshirts]

"Richard Chadwick was on drums, Alan Davey was on Bass, Harvey Bainbridge on Keys, Ron Tree Lead Vocals, and of course cat Dave on Guitars & everything else"

Forgive me but that dont look right to me. Surely that isnt Alan D on bass and vocs (Ron T maybe) and someone to his right is playing guitar and singing (Capn Brock on bassists left),.. Jerry Summat ?

[canley1]

Hi

RonTree on bass/vocls

Jerry richards lead guitar

[johnnybadshirts]

Ahh, yes Jerry Richards.

I saw the Space Ritual perform a few weeks ago. I met Jerry afterwards for a chat, and the rest of them. Seem a decent bunch. Yes its a shame about all the the isms and schisms but I don't think we'll see a resolution myself. Davey's flown the HW nest again also ..

[SICKBOY687]

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ..... ITS Mushr00m season at last !!!!!

[Enysvar]

gotta get out on the fields then

[greasytruckers]

Crap!!!Hawkwind hmm lets see , yeah they were well good then Mr Brock hacked me off. His attitude towards Nik sucks...long live the Space Ritual they seem to be better than Hawkwind are now.We used trip out so often to all of this in the 70's , shame Brock forgot what made him , grow up Man it's music not flamming politics

[canley1]

It is a shame that Dave and Nik fell out, but many Hawkfans like me go to both Hawkwind and Space Ritual shows and just enjoy the great music that they both produce. You don't have to take sides. I personally think mister Brock and mister Turner should have their heads banged together and make up before it's too late: as Simon House once said 'It's only music..and we're all gonna die, y'know'

Wise words my friend!!

Peace

Commander Zen Dad

[Fersumenjun]

Well said mate!

It's indeed a shame, much in the same way as with what happened with starfighter Calvert. It was so exciting to hear they had made up and were planning to get together on stage only for Bob to die first.

Doom and gloom aside, I had some of the best times of my life while folling the Hawkwind circus in the late 80's and early nineties. Memorieswill never die.

[yellowhawk451]

hey we can all go and see alans band soon gunslinger he fell out with dave it will be hard to bang alans head with dave as he is so small

[VictimofAtkins]

my favourite song of this album, shame a lot of hawkwind stuff isn't available easily on cd. i've had to find a lot of things on vinyl.

[hiwattdex]

I was at this show and actually right in front.

I got in line VERY early ;)

They played the Cubby Bear again a few years later.

I've seen every Hawkwind tour thru Chicago except one VERY obscure tour which very few ever knew about

I DID get to see and meet them in England in Dec 2000.

They have been and always will be true to their own vision.

I've been a fan since '72 and saw the original Space Ritual Tour in Chicago in '73.

[VoiceofThisGod]

Hey! who is in this particular line up, i thought Alan Davey was in the band by 94 along with Richard Tree on drums?

[hiwattdex]

Richard Chadwick was on drums, Alan Davey was on Bass, Harvey Bainbridge on Keys, Ron Tree Lead Vocals, and of course cat Dave on Guitars & everything else

[VoiceofThisGod]

Thanks for the update...not good with names, I saw then in 91 twice, once at 1st Avenue and again at Princes bar in MPLS, at first avenue, i actually got to talk to Dave, and at Prince's Bar they autographed my guitar, and Bridget Wishart was on Vocals.

[bezale]

Do not panic.

[iaindcosta]

i once had some weed in september that was nearly black -hawkwind the d,kudhgvf live rock band i've seen...

[panzermort]

fattwat1 you know the band were so bitchy m8 ?

[darktime1]

I hope they play the Eastern Haze this year - because live there is no band (for me) that can compare.

[panzermort]

i lovew to see people still realise how good they are

[benediktron]

Afterthought: notice the transition between Petrol d'Allah to Petro Dollar.... I mean, war always have at least TWO contendants....

[benediktron]

read more lyrics from Hawkwind and you will see they do not mind the time. Maybe their "meditation methods" permits them foresee scenes from the future. (strictly, Black September refers to Olympiade Munich attacks, i guess).

[oakandwillow]

True, but plug in two events that also happened in September... One quite obvious and one not so... September 10-14, 1960 when a conference formed OPEC.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I find this piece brilliant.

[oakandwillow]

Sorry, I meant this in response to bendiktron's two comments.

[oakandwillow]

sorry, Benediktron, my mistake.

[randomuser15]

the world keeps turning. fuck the yankees and the arabs. let them kill each other. the rest of the world is out of it. for fuck's sake man... it's their problem not ours.

[ploermel56490]

hashish hashish haaashiiish

[gunsanddrugs]

yeah strange how people pick up on hawkwind suddenly.. edinburgh used to see em 3 times a year, always on tour and always for the people.. so this song is about hashishin... could not die as they were already in heaven,(high!) so they got directed off to fight under the guise that nuthin could happen to them.. great! aparent even today no?! words are superb, the great long time gone bob calvert..

[Psolorious]

love this song!hasis in greek means weed in case you didn't know :P

[fattwat1]

yes hawkwind have always been has good if not better

than other similar bands like pink floyd or king crimson or yes

but have never sold out i am 52 and saw them years ago

when they started out on there great journey

still a great band

long live dave brock

[KorkInNotts]

Quite simply the best band ever....and still awesome live!

[oakandwillow]

Eerie... This song could be a war cry for the Mujeheddin or Al Quaeda... However this song was written in 1979 by a British rock band... Black September now makes my hair stand up where it only raised an eyebrow before... This is a brilliant and chilling piece of work!!!

[oakandwillow]

Sorry, the copyright date is 1977... My bad.

[RedArmyMostar]

Cool, favorite song, tripy