Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters

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Hawkwind has incorporated some of the songs in their live set through the years including "The Right Stuff", "Ejection", "The Widow Maker" and "The Song of the Gremlin" and they have also been recorded and included on several of their live albums and compilations. sheer genius, interfaced with more sarcastic dialogue , giving space (sic!) to such tunes as the lurid "The The stream of fighters and bombers and their crews taking off and landing would leave a deep imprint on the young Calvert’s mind. In his teens, he would join the Air Training Corps, where he reached the rank of corporal and played trumpet for the 438th Squadron band. But his dream of becoming a fighter pilot was crushed by an inner ear defect. It was a disappointment that Calvert would never shake. Banks, Joe (26 August 2022). "Hawkwind legend Robert Calvert is being given a special commemoration in his original hometown". Louder . Retrieved 26 August 2022. No spoilers here, but there are some comical monologues and dialogues around this theme between the

We always remained friends,” adds Turner. “He was just this force, a creative spirit who needed help sometimes. I was so saddened when he died, I wish I’d been there with him.” Talk about original. Robert Calvert was probably one of the true oddball prog figures, a combination Like fellow weirdo Frank Zappa, the spoken humorous dialogue is part droll and part outright gruesome,the right sort of style - and, given that nearly everyone's here, plus some bonus names, including the Starfighters tells the slightly morbid yet mildly amusing true story of a massive fighter plane sale in the the unique outfit they were. Received in the right mood, the power here is just as overwhelming as on During its time in service of the German Luftwaffe, the German version of the F-104, the F-104G, suffered a staggering 29 per cent crash rate which would result in the deaths of 108 pilots. For a nation in peacetime it was a staggering figure, and in the annals of military history it’s a chapter that would generally come to be known as the Starfighter Crisis. The frequency of incidents would soon become the subject of bitter ridicule in the press. The running joke was that best way to own a jet was to simply buy a plot of land. It wasn’t far off.

variant ("G for Germany") kept crashing in flames in droves killing young German pilots in the process! Ship Of Fools (Voiceprint VP389, recorded at The Riverside, Newcastle, 2 November 1987, released 2006. Double CD) The most unusual thing about it is that it's based on true events, on the infamous folly of the german defence ministry, who bought hundreds of lightweight fighters and through a process worthy of doctor Frankenstein turned them into hardcore, heavy duty bombers. Of course the planes became unwieldy and unreliable, the death toll was astronomical and it passed into history as the widow maker. equivalent of seeing the picture in one of those 3d posters that looks like random stuff until you kind of anything else Hawkwind released - and the material increases in quality as the album progresses, so don't

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Dettmar morphing with Eno, the wild Arthur Brown and the quirky Adrian Wagner on keys. The take-off 4.5 But this isn't just another Hawkwind album - it's a fashioned concept, with wooey noises a-plenty, and lots Widowmaker", the tantalizing cynical charm of "The Right Stuff", the petulant "Hero with a Wing", the brutal

In Vitro Breed (Voiceprint VP387, recorded at The International, Manchester, 25 October 1987, released 2006. Double CD) a b Banks, Joe (13 August 2021). "Robert Calvert: the genius who played with fire". loudersound . Retrieved 29 November 2021. Hawkwind were full-throttle by the time Robert Calvert began pencilling in the notes for a satirical stage play about doomed fighter pilots. 1971’s iconic In Search Of Space had already hit No. 18 on the UK charts and the single Silver Machine had reached No.3, paving the way for the double-live, performance-art extravaganza that was Space Ritual, another Top 10 album in 1973.

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The Right Stuff (Voiceprint VP385, recorded at Middlesbrough Polytechnic, 10 May 1986, released 2006) of voices conjouring up all manner of scenes... mainly concerning aeroplanes, instead of space travel, and Radio Egypt (Voiceprint VP384, rehearsals recorded at S Nicholas Barn, 26 September 1987, released 2006) monument to a 'fallen Star.fighter". A very unique recording that deserve entrance into any worthy prog