Hawkwind- Master of the Universe

[@johnord684]

One of the most influential bands ever that no one gives credit to

[@julieblyton4348]

I know...I just don't get it!!x

[@adebadwolf]

Lemmy did !

[@saraivatoledo1842]

Indeed ...you can even say that all those "Industrial " bands which appeared in England mid/late 70s owe a lot to early Hawkwind´s wild experimentation /jams .

[@phylliselizahb1041]

Happens a lot, ya know.

[@Doug791]

I have tickets to prove I've seen Hawkwind at least 6 times. I only truly remember one of those occasions. 😂

[@stevewright8204]

I was at this gig with my teenage daughter,she had’nt heard of them,they blew her away she loved it. I used to watch them from day 1 in London,seen them 50 + times through all their changes.brilliant band.up the Toffees 🧢

[@marigner]

how much did you spend on tickets for them ?😉

[@keithekins6536]

The only band that have ever evolved over the years and kept inventing themselves probably the best band live ever

[@frankstecker5675]

Master of Space Rock . For the World🌍 and the Universum🎸

[@allangarwood9931]

Omg I've been on this planet 58 years and I've never heard this fantastic song.😎

[@willforbes6373]

Bought their Roadhawks album when it came out. Only grabbed it because I thought the cover was cool. Lifelong fan of the band after hearing them. Welcome listener.

[@johnneill4039]

listen to the live album space ritual live from 72 and be blown away

[@bjornbjorn8235]

61 here. The good thing about the golden age of Rock, is that you can keep on finding pearls like this one. Greetins from Denmark.

[@clivefoston2376]

The Best Band out there!!✨️ probably the best in other galaxies too!!

[@judasDIP]

Happy 80th Birthday Nik Turner! Amazing.

[@patkelly8309]

No way?

[@patkelly8309]

Amazing

[@stephendallison1465]

Nick died last year October 10th 2022. Same day as my cat Felix rip

[@phylliselizahb1041]

Saw Hawkwind 3 times in Cleveland! Thanks for the memory.

[@clouddog2393]

Saw Hawkwind in '71 supported by Status Quo and Loudon Wainwright . Brought "In Search of Space " the next day .

[@andyrizzo8070]

I was very lucky to see them, what a brilliant and underrated band. Stadia was even dancing as well.

[@davidbonner-k9b]

One of my first hawkwind records and I still have it but it never gets played but in my hay days yeah also good Psycho rock and well sung by Lemmy rip .😊

[@stephendallison1465]

It was sung by nick turner rip

[@murdoch691]

Omg I thought my trippy years were dead I remember my introduction to the hawk when Lemmy was bassist put me on a right downer I was up on a sweet heart trip and 50 mushies love it and love the hawk fast driven beat

[@JimaaaH]

Trippy years will never be dead my friend.

[@glenlundin9623]

1974 or 75: Indianapolis, Indiana US The olde Rivoli Theatre had Hawkwind live! David Brock, Lemmy Kilmeister, Nik Turner, Stacia Blake did her performance art/dance mostly nude. Incredible show. Who wouldn’t trip seeing Hawkwind? 🪐🍄

[@Headwind-1]

@@glenlundin9623 fk yea. .ems wuz the daz .... .

[@Headwind-1]

sounds better when i turn down the bass and then the treble and then the volume . . . . .

[@irisdainter6507]

Space ritual and beyond. Epic.

[@sonjaschulze8758]

I would have loved to have seen Hawkwind live. Their style of music is a mixture of magical sounds, rocky elements and the theme of Stonehenge, Celtic mythology 🕉🎸💟

[@peterhayden7136]

Still time to catch a concert

[@PodOfHeat]

They're still playing. Saw them in Chepstow castle in August 23

[@michaelreifenstein2114]

I like all version of this, heavy to freaky. its simply great!

[@vincentpascalleguesse]

Thank you Mr Exe and all the riggers and sound tecchies.

[@xyz43210]

Composer of this magickal song one Nik Turner. That cello is madness. xxx

[@mcwulf25]

He was replaced on bass.

[@stephendallison1465]

Rip nick Turner Nov 10th 2022

[@bigbasspa]

Second only to The Beatles for me. I first saw them in '73 at the tail end of the Space Ritual tour. Simply amazing to see the prime band (plus Stacia in full on nudist mode).

[@garyriggans4155]

Awesomeeeee❤

[@mickdevlin]

The band that invented punk rock before it was even a term. Fantastic!

[@oldbatwit5102]

It has absolutely nothing to do with punk. What a ridiculous thing to say.

[@PodOfHeat]

The Who

[@simonrangeley]

​@oldbatwit5102 Many Punk bands talk about the influence Hawkwind had on them. Including Johnny Rotten who said that without Hawkwind there would never have been Punk. It's a lot to do with the attitude.

[@Hawkmanes]

very nice.big song

[@oldschoolfoil2365]

green finned demon one of my fave hawk songs

[@alanburgess2203]

100% agree with you there, shared many a night with that track and a White Lightning or 2 😉

[@Bretthall8]

Digging the electric cello from Mr. Dibs on this.

[@Heater-v1.0.0]

Is there a conspiracy to never get a high quality recording of the Hawkweed gigs?

[@lthurgar3620]

Fuck me I used to trip out to these guys, awesome fkin awasome

[@johnneill4039]

never beat the space ritual version just amazing

[@Mogsey1972]

Totally agree on this one.

[@Hawkwind77]

The calvert years are all the matters with hawkwind

[@Wayne1963]

Nonsense.

[@Hawkwind77]

@@Wayne1963 fact

[@Wayne1963]

@hawkwind77 Not fact. Opinion.

[@Hawkwind77]

@@Wayne1963 the only decent hawk albums without calvert was warriors on the edge and dore me fasol and maybe levitation the rest are so so " nothing special the calvert years are stand out albums in my 60 year old opinion

[@Wayne1963]

@hawkwind77 I'm also 60, and as it happens my favourite line-up is the Quark/PXR5 line-up. Quark is my favourite Hawkwind album of all time, but I don't dismiss the rest as easily as you do. There are some fantastic albums in the first two decades of Hawkwind. After that, I'm not really fussed about the rest.

[@danielgreen3715]

Oooohhhh Yesss indeed!😆🤯🤣🤣.I am the Master of the Universe! What a great Band and Song ..Not heard this version of it from space Ritual Album

[@madmad8582]

this is not a racket it is the best scifi heavy medal on earth and to the rest of the universe so get a grip Stoneman886 there better than you are.

[@stoneman886]

hahahahahaha yea ok... been a fan for many many years... this is utter rubbish

[@nodiggity9472]

@@stoneman886 Me too. Fan of Hawkwind right from the early 80's. There was no better live experience to be had. Not anywhere. Then that whole Hawkestra all nighter at Brixton. I'll stop there, but totally agree on this bilge though. That just re-affirms for me that . . . .. ..well, things ain't what they used to be.

[@user_375a82]

Standing on the runway waiting for take-off ........

[@phillipbutler9575]

I have a Space Ritual t-shirt order ed from Finland x tow bastards sent me one 78 bucks 3 months still happy luv Hawklords ie Phil hawklords

[@peroduanippa]

There's a lot of mixed opinions of this, I think it's great and if it were a decent recording it would be even better, I've been a fan of Hawkwind since about 1973 and seen them In great and poor performances, some youtube vids are really badly recorded on the dreaded mobile phone and don't do justice to many bands.

[@mcwulf25]

I just try and imagine being at the show. I wish I was there.

[@markmanhetherington1]

I was at this gig and it was so loud I'm surprised they could record anything without major distortion.

[@1960hawklord]

@@markmanhetherington1 ..... yep, they seemed to go through a stage where they turned up the bass drum in the mix way too high. The camera I used in front of Brock has a decent mic, but couldn't take the amount of distortion from the sound. But as it happened, this audio was from the sound desk.

[@markmanhetherington1]

@@1960hawklord thanks for explaining, I must admit I did wonder!

[@Headwind-1]

@@markmanhetherington1 bad engineer ears must be fkd

[@paulcrawford1108]

This song was inspired by the little dalek thingy on Dr Who in the 70s by the way.. was his name Davros or something?

[@Wayne1963]

The song was written 4 years years before Davros was even thought of.

[@nodiggity9472]

Someone should remind Dave that this isn't a dirge. Or it wasn't.

[@Wormtongue13]

The version on In Search of Space has a sort of ominous, dirge-like vibe, especially in the vocal. My favorites are the Space Ritual and Live Chronicles reditions. I like the way the band reinterprets old favorites.

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

ha ha, funny man! He's just so... Dave! He just does his thing, and whatever he feels is how he feels it always struck me. Had a smoke with them under the stage at the Barras in Glasgow. Thoroughly nice blokes. Will only be prepared to say we played Big Ben for a while ... when it's bells struck three times... bong... bong... bong.....I almost whitied tho. But kept falling off my seat laughin. Good company. Was around 1998-ish?

[@brain8484]

I am the Master of the Universe

[@johnnyssik]

Subscribed 👽🕳️

[@Wayne1963]

Great version! Thanks for the upload. Who is the dancer?

[@brendanroberts4866]

Not the one one with the bug knockers

[@stephenwilliams1824]

Stacia.

[@Wayne1963]

@@stephenwilliams1824 It's not Stacia. It's about 30 years beyond her era.

[@martybischoff2060]

And now Mick Slattery… they’re all going too fast, love life while you can…

[@pressureworks]

In what year was this performance ?

[@1960hawklord]

It was the year after Huw had passed away.

[@brenthatcher5748]

Not bad, heard alot better versions. And contrary to what some have commented, I much prefer when they play this fast.

[@SomeBizarretaSomeBizzareLabel0]

[@andyrizzo8070]

That should say Stacia

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

YESSS!!! They are actually playing it properly again rather than that awful shitty heavy metal version they had churned out through the 80s,. But then, i guess Nik's Space Ritual tours more authentic Hawk sound maybe nudged the Hawks back into remembering to be psychedelic rather than totally untrippy metal.

[@markmanhetherington1]

I think it was actually because the original studio version of the song appeared on a TV advert shortly before this tour so they went back to doing it that way for a bit.

[@mcwulf25]

I think also that Dibs influenced that. He tried to compose early 70s style tracks and poems. Not everyone's favourite Hawk but he got them sounding raw and trippy again.

[@Magnu_Horse]

If anything they were at their heaviest during the Space Ritual era. Master of the Universe on Space Ritual would give Sabbath a run for their money. But they were never heavy metal at any point.

[@dickdarstedly5012]

Priceless comedy

[@stoneman886]

what a bloody racket ....

[@stephenbleach4668]

But sure enough important for you to slag the band off.

[@TheAsheraXonline]

Sura 1 - Allah, Rabbi l*alanima, Master of the Universe!

[@TheAsheraXonline]

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[@bumblebeeman1978]

Dibbs spoils it

[@Drivesmartube]

A sad impersonation of the original!

[@perudahudson7481]

worst version ive heared of this

[@MikeGreenwood51]

What in 2019? At the gateway to the twenty twenties. Are you joking. Have yoy any concept of the year? Hawkwind appeared at the Isle of Wight 1970. So 49 years ago. If you could understand at all the absence of time then you may have understood they were those who preformed at Isle of Wight 1970, and Bath Rock Festival 1970.

[@MikeGreenwood51]

Had you heard a lot of 2019 vesions?

[@grandmuse]

too slow … they must be on qualuudes

[@ianarchy23]

@@MikeGreenwood51 are you on shrooms?

[@markmanhetherington1]

@@grandmuse too slow? It's pretty much the same speed as it is on X In Search of Space.

[@karmapurple2548]

I can't listen to any hawkwind with Dibbs,he was bloody terrible!! Good job they sacked him

[@nodiggity9472]

Agreed. Dave must be running out of people he hasn't sacked from Hawkwind, to be *in* Hawkwind though. Ho hum, it is what it is.

[@uncleambient]

Better with Nik

[@SidBish1]

Only if you want crap honking saxophone spoiling the performance. Early 70's he was great, has never reached those heights with Hawkwind since ........

[@mcwulf25]

Still tours with Hawklords. They sometimes do this and/or Brainstorm. But his voice is shot and they keep him low in the mix.

[@TheAsheraXonline]

Allahu akbar!

[@themcgeachys]

Poor