Steve Hillage - Searching for The Spark

Taken from the album "Motivation Radio"

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• Motivation Radio

[diydummy]

What a classic album! I was listening to this back in 1978 at the age 14, after discovering Steve Hillage from "GREEN". Man, he was ahead of his time, and even more so by todays standard given the descending level of pop music. Thanks for bringing some great music to public view.

[fredders56]

I bought this when it first came out in the late 70s when I was a young squaddie based three miles from Stonehenge and I'd forgotten how good it was. Nobody in my billet bar a cook who was also a  teapot pixie liked it. The others preferred 'John Travolta and Olivia Newton John' How sad is that?

[MrPsa19]

@lalogreiner then your not a huge hillage fan if you dont think he's good, not all music is for everyone, everybody has different taste in music.

[MrPsa19]

@vaspers you forgot too mentioin Ozric Tentacles. lol

[MrPsa19]

@WG1807 well I like Hillage too and yup Green is the best one, I'm 32 years and discover this band a few years ago though Ozric Tentacles fans mentiooning him.

I like the Ozric Tentacles muisc though out my whole life.

[lalogreiner]

Not a very good solo, though.

[lalogreiner]

@fredders56 Totally, utterly, completely sad.

[GhibliFan1]

1979... talk about before its time. You can hear serious electronica/techno system 7/Orb in this. If someone young hears me playing techno, I get that look... as if you're a dad dancing at a wedding. I like to remind them they never invented the wheel, or I tell them to fuck off... one or the other. :)

[ZEROTHEHERO1960]

I remember the squaddies from Stonedhenge..and Green drifting across the site as the Summer solctice took it's course..Glad you made it to this point! Just made it myself too..Peace mate.

[jonjuliecat]

i remember playing this on my shortwave pirate radio station .. or lack of motivation radio as i called it at the time ...

[pvincent]

I think this track captures the moment where Steve pointed towards his future incarnation as System 7. Still a fantastic track, from a terrific album. Loved Steve's stuff right from his early days with Gong through to the System 7 / Mirror System stuff.

[fredders56]

1977, the year that Hawkwind ran out of fuel for the generator. Saw Hillage twice in 1978 on tour for the Green album in Swindon and somewhere else, I think it was Paignton in Devon? Almost made the Poole gig too but was on duty at the time. A lifetime ago.