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Live at Glastonbury 1990

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First off,I'd like to encourage anyone who's considering purchasing this CD to ignore the numerous negative reviews it's received.It's simple...if you're a Hawkwind fan,you'll like it.'...Glastonbury 1990' was obviously mastered from an audience recording.Gig took place at a 5 am outing on the Sunday morning of June 24,1990.The quality is a bit rough on just a couple of spots;pretty much the vocals are weak during "Brainstorm" and "Ejection".Other than that,it's a very nice collector's item.Tunes such as "Angels Of Death","Golden Void","Assassins Of Allah","Dream Worker","Shouldn't Do That" and "Images" are of decent live album quality.A couple of songs that I've never heard before are "The Door" which is a brief noodling of keyboard and guitar which is good,just should've of been longer and "Sword Of Dawn",a fantastic number that vocalist Bridget Wishart simply never sounded better!After you hear this disc,like maybe three times,it really grows on you.

Live Hawkwind recordings are usually better than the studio efforts, but Live at Glastonbury is a total joke. It sounds like it was recorded on a micro-cassete recorder that somebody smuggled in and never bothered to take it out of their pocket. For all we know this could have just been a party where they happened to be playing Hawkwind CD's. With so many other great live efforts such as Live Chronicles, Love In Space, and California Brainstorm, there is absolutely no reason to buy this CD.

For real Hawkwind fans, a real historic occasion, for collectors. If you're not a collector/Hawkfan the sound is so bad that it's not worth listening to. I mean, it is funny when someone comes up to the person recording it (probably on a small tape recorder) and asks him for Rizzlas, and says 'Great concert mate' but it is not what I call a good recording. There are much better recordings of these great songs!

I agree with what the other folks are saying about this one. great tunes, dreadful sound. not worth buying at all. the crowd conversations are much louder than the band! avoid this one!