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
• Solitary Mind Games Choose Your Masques, 1982
• Fall Of Earth City Church of Hawkwind, 1982
• Sleep Of A Thousand Tears The Chronicle of the Black Sword, 1985
• Sword Of The East The Xenon Codex, 1988

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 for the hard core fan of the early seventies Hawkwind is the Rob Calvert poetry recital on the first two tracks which is more or less understandable given the fact the whole album sounds like it was recorded on an old 4 track located the men`s room. Actually, it would be cool just to hear Calvert doing a whole show like this. However before writing this off consider the classic lineup and track selection . I`ve listened to it right through a few times and there are some good alternate versions of songs which appeared on Space Ritual as well as live versions of Urban Guerrila and Silver Machine. But my overall recomendation is to stick to the Space Ritual Live album unless you absolutely absolutely have to own everything and anything Hawkwind has ever recorded.

Send comments to Vibrationbaby (BETA) | Report this review (#77767) | Review Permalink
Posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006

I'm not sure if this is an official release, but it sure is in all aspects only poor bootleg quality. I bought it only on basis of it's weird name and nice home-drawn fantasy cover picture, but the audio quality of the record was a big disappointment. The record levels have been too big for the loud noise, and sometimes it's difficult to hear what is going on. 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 rhtyhm. So if you want decent live of this band from the 70's, stick to the "Space Ritual", but if you are a die-hard collector, you may want to check this out. But don't expect very much from it!

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

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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