1999 Party [Import, Original recording remastered, Live]

Hawkwind | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 6, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered, Live
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000007VV5
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,201 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Intro Standing On The Edge

2. Brainbox Pollution

3. Its So Easy

4. You Know Youre Only Dreaming

5. Veterans Of A Thousand Psychic Wars

6. Brainstorm

7. Seven By Seven

8. The Watcher

9. The Awakening

10. Paradox

11. Youd Better Believe It

12. The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)

13. D-Rider

14. Sonic Attack

15. Master Of The Universe

16. Welcome To The Future

Editorial Reviews

UK remastered & repackaged reissue for the British progressive rock act, recorded live at The Chicago Auditorium on March 21, 1974.

Customer Reviews

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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hawkwind Live at the Chicago Auditorium (The 1999 Party), June 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: 1999 Party (Audio CD)

In short, this is it - the real thing!

Hawkwind fans have long endured poorly recorded early live sets (endless re-packagings of Text of a Festival and Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin), unimaginative alternate versions and re-mixes from the definitive tour (Space Ritual Vol 2, Ridicule) and numerous later era official live releases that are often very good, but always very different to the classic era of the band (Palace Springs, Live Chronicles, Live '79), all in the pursuit of the heady first rush of the Space Ritual - this landmark '73 amalgam of Bob Calvert's interstellar poetry and Dave Brock's grinding tunes was thankfully captured on a double album, which has recently been re-issued by EMI UK with the original encore restored, and it remains the band's most significant release.

Also from EMI UK comes Live at the Chicago Auditorium (The 1999 Party), which was actually recorded in March 1974, and it is the first Hawkwind live album ever (official, semi-official, bootleg or just straight off the back of Dave Anderson's truck) that might be considered as in the same league as Space Ritual Alive. For a start, the band line-up remains largely unchanged from the earlier tour, with Lemmy contributing his trademark vocals, although Calvert has been replaced by Michael Moorcock as poet in residence. Several key elements of the actual Space Ritual remain (The Awakening, Sonic Attack, Welcome to the Future), however it is no mistake that the title features the word 'party', and while Space Ritual Alive fully captured the reverential awe of that particular event, the 1999 Party is a wonderful document of the band at their most playful, with even Sonic Attack rendered slapstick by the addition of 'boom-tish' drum fills to punctuate the dire warnings.

Whereas the Space Ritual tour had largely utilised songs from the Doremi Fasol Latido album to fill the musical gaps in Calvert's original vision, the 1999 Party showcases tunes from the Hall of the Mountain Grill and features the first live version of D-Rider on record anywhere, while You'd Better Believe It and Paradox, which were actually live versions when first issued on the Hall of the Mountain Grill, get their first outing on an official concert album. You get yet another version of Brainstorm, albeit a particularly good one, the first live recording of single Brainbox Pollution, which is an absolute gem, and while this set was purged of all other Doremi material, the 1999 Party paradoxically features the first live recording of Lemmy's menacing The Watcher - and what an incredible bass-driven rendering it is!

Lemmy would be busted for possession of amphetamines on the next North American tour and sacked from the band, dancer Miss Stacia and kinky saxophonist Nik Turner both left during the next couple of years, and although Robert Calvert later returned in an expanded role as genuine frontman of the band throughout the second half of the seventies, as the band surprisingly trailblazed their way through the landscape of punk/new wave, Hawkwind would never again be the same band that they were during '73/'74 - if you were weaned on Space Ritual Alive, then Hawkwind Live at the Chicago Auditorium (The 1999 Party) is the only alternate source of the sustenance to which you have become accustomed.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hawkwind - 'The 1999 Party' (EMI International) 2-CD import, April 11, 2004

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This review is from: 1999 Party (Audio CD)

Being the HUGE Hawkfan that I am,the reason I'm giving this title a four star rating instead of five,is that I was just a TAD let down.Don't get me wrong,'The 1999 Party' is well worth picking up and keeping for life,it's just that it's not as fantastic as their 'Space Ritual',WHICH could probably never be beat anyway.Was recorded at The Chicago Auditorium on March 21,1974.A time when Hawkwind was actually doing quite well in the states.Any old fan would want '1999 Party' because it has Lemmy and Del Dettmar on it.I know several people that saw HW on this very tour.The sound mix is a 9.5 out of 10.It's a blast to listen to "Standing On The Edge","Brainbox Pollution","You Know You're Only Dreaming"(one of my all time favorites),"The Watcher"(where Lemmy sings),"You'd Better Believe It","Psychedelic Warlords" and "D-Rider".Actually,one doesn't JUST listen to a Hawkwind record,they EXPERIENCE it.Very nice space rock double disc release and a true keeper.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars KICKS A$$!, March 25, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: 1999 Party (Audio CD)

I was quite unprepared the first time I heard this...lights out, lying in bed and just staring at the glow from my cd player...transported to another place. Let's just say after hearing this you can throw away your Pink Floyd cd's, really don't even bother to sell them...just throw them away.