BRING ME THE HEAD OF YURI GAGARIN

• Silver Machine In Search Of Space, 1971
• The Golden Void Warrior on the Edge of Time, 1975
• Rocky Paths Sonic Attack, 1981
• Fall Of Earth City Church Of Hawkwind, 1982
• Solitary Mind Games Choose Your Masques, 1982
• Sleep Of A Thousand Tears The Chronicle Of The Black Sword, 1985
• Sword Of The East The Xenon Codex, 1988

I was not sure if this is an official release, but it surely is in all aspects done on very poor bootleg quality. I bought it only on basis of its weird name and really nice home-drawn fantasy-themed cover picture (not the one being presented on ProgArchives album page). The audio quality of the record was a big disappointment, and I admit the album has not offered much listening enjoyments, only residing as strange artifact in the record collection. The audio recording levels have been too big for the loud noise of the concert, and sometimes it is quite difficult to hear what is going on at the stage. What's interesting about the show captured here is the big amount of Robert Calvert's poems backed up with sonic ambience by the band. But for example when "Orgone Accumulator" kicked in, it took me over a minute to comprehend that the formless static fuzz was actually a song with a rhythm. So if you want decent live of this band from the 1970's, stick to the "Space Ritual" classic or some other release. If you are a die-hard collector, you may want to check this out, but don't expect very much from its quality. Quite funnily obscure album though.

Send comments to Eetu Pellonpää (BETA) | Report this review (#119208) | Review Permalink
Posted Saturday, April 21, 2007

I bought this back in the nineties when a lot of unreleased Hawkwind was being issued and there was nothing to warn me about the bootleg quality of the recording. I thought the cover was pretty cool unfortunately they chose such a mediocre album for it. The only thing of interest here, perhaps ... (read more)

Report this review (#77767) | Posted by Vibrationbaby | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 | Review Permanlink

Erm, what is this recording? I have the complete gig sourced from this album ,and another audience recorder, but I feel that both sources are audience recordings. The Gagarin album is made from a random tape of really cruddily mixed performance, maybe a soundboard (thinks, high vocals, low ins ... (read more)

Report this review (#68307) | Posted by hawkbrock | Saturday, February 04, 2006 | Review Permanlink

You know, if you type "Bring me the Head of Uri Gagarin" into Google, you'll find an awful lot of bad press about it. It was way down on my 'should probably take a few minutes to listen to' list. Perhaps thats why, when I finally sat down and listened to it I didn't think it was that bad - low expec ... (read more)

Report this review (#25569) | Posted by | Tuesday, March 02, 2004 | Review Permanlink

The worst live Hawkwind album in the universe NOT an official release. Recorded at Wembley, yes they were that big, the sound is awful. the only reason for geting this is to hear the Calvert poems Gaga, The Egg and Wage War ... (read more)

Report this review (#25567) | Posted by Chriz | Thursday, January 08, 2004 | Review Permanlink

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