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lp ROBERT CALVERT

(Ex-Hawkwind)

CAPTAIN Lockheed & THE Starfighters

Country of release: Netherlands, 2018

Original released: 1974

Label: MUSIC On VINYL

Catalog number: MOVLP2043

Barcode: 8719262005440

Folding cover / gatefold sleeve: Ja / YES

Includes lyrics insert & innersleeve

 

 Condition record: mint

Condition Cover: mint

 

 

Tracks Side 1:

1. Franz Josef Strauss, Defense Minister Reviews The Luftwaffe In 1958 (1:40)

2. The Aerospaceage Inferno (4:35)

3. Aircraft Salesman ( A Door In The Foot) (1:41)

4. The Widow Maker (2:42)

5. Two Test Pilots Discuss The Starfighter's Performance (0:41)
 

6. The Right Stuff (4:23)

7. Board Meeting (Seen Through A Contract Lense) (0:58)

8. The Song of The Gremlin Pt.1 (3:21) 

Tracks Side 2:

1. Ground Crew (3:17)

2. Hero With A Wing (3:20) 

3. Ground Control To Pilot (0:52)

4. Ejection (3:35)

5. Interview (3:55)
6. I Resign (0:27)   7. The Song of The Gremlin Pt.2 (3:10)

8. Beer garden (0:37)

9. Catch A Falling Starfighter (2:54)


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Recorded in 1974 FOR United Artists Records The concept album featured classic songs such as Ejection, The Right Stuff and The Widowmaker interwoven with humorous satirical dialogue From Calvert, Jim Capaldi & Vivian Stanshall. The musical guests included Hawkwind , Arthur BROWN FORA unique and legendary album. (plastichead.com)

What Can You Space Rock charge out with Monty Pythonistic skits - except that it's hazardous rock with ever-darkening humor direct FromThe bi-polar brainpan ofHawkwind 's erratic vocalist / lyricist, Robert Calvert. Recorded at about The Same Time as Calvert's First and only studio release with Hawkwind during their tenure On United Artists, The "Urban Guerilla" / "Brainbox Pollution" single, Hawkwind all appear here (minus The recently-departed Dikmik.) And co-joined by Paul Rudolph ( On 6 string and bass guitar), Twink, Arthur BROWN , Adrian Wagner, Brian Eno, Vivian Stanshall and Jim Capaldi The result what A virtual Hawkwind EP peppered by spoken word skits and ATwo part Arthur Brown-tormenter, “ The Song of The Gremlin. ” The veritable Hawkwind tracks are all supremely mental Space Rock outs ofTheHighest order, giving A hint as To what Hawkwind would've sounded like if Paul Rudolph had replaced not Lemmy but Dave Brock.

This concept album deals with The tragedy that occurred when American made Lockheed Starfighter jets were purchased in The The West German Air Force in A supreme act of folly. As stated in The gatefold, The The US Air Force as A light, single seater, fair weather fighter [that The German Defense Ministry had hastily converted into] HEAVY duty, atom bombers. It was these severe structural modifications which rendered The jet unstable and difficult To Calvert must have felt A strong affinity with them as he too was unreliable, difficult To control and unstable as Hell .

The sputtering of A The album over Calvert's brilliant portrayal ofThe West German Defense Minister as A raging psychopath who begins angrily berating HIS country's Air Force power, which mutates into A vainglorious fantasy ofA “Reawakening of German air supremacy ”as HIS raving overdubs into backward Strauss masking and into TheFirstof four 1973-styled Hawkwind hard Space Rock thrash outs, "Aerospaceage Inferno." Calvert calmly intones echoed lines over Rudolph's swooping guitar lines AND HIS overdubbed, pumping bass riffs and Simon KING 's ever-stamina drumming. It links directly into The hilarious “Aircraft Salesman”, where The The still-uptight German Air Defense Minister with buying HIS wares with promises not of safety or of adequate ground crew support, but ofA tasty-looking logo with an identifying “G” ( FOR 'Germany. ”) The only non-calvert composition (co-written with Dave Brock) " The Widow Maker ”follows, and it is pure Hawkwind : all churning guitar and Rudolph's (or Lemmy's?) heat-generating bass over more Simon KING drums and cymbal bashing.

() It is interesting To note The of " The Widow's Song, ”which appears in The printed libretto. It is nowhere To be found On The album, but turned up years later OnA crap Hawkwind collection with Calvert femme-vocalising. It was once Recorded that NICO A possible contributing vocalist On "Lockheed", and in all certainty "Widow's Song" was slated FOR forth. Between Calvert's vocal renditions, The funereal nature of The song and The overall Teutonic effect makes it seem more than A possibility.) A screeching electronic swirl crashes OpenThe Hawkwind-styled “Ejection” with classic Calvert lyrics that rhyme every word with The title over repeated rhythms and omnipresent Simon KING high-hat and piston-like fills. "I'm too high To die" intones Calvert, and Rudolph proceeds To The final crash. The dirge-like “Catch A Falling Starfighter” is surrounded by ghostly electronics as Twink beats A The assembled moaning of blackened starfighter pilots.

Unfortunately, Calvert's follow up “ LUCKY Leif And The Longships” album was hardly as successful. Although it includes personnel From this album, it was an outright disaster. But then again, Robert Calvert was never exactly known FOR doing anything in half measures. (headheritage.co.uk)

Robert Calvert - Vocals, Voice (Spoken Word), Percussion
Arthur BROWN - vocals
Paul Rudolph - Lead & RhythmGuitar, Bass
Adrian Wagner - keyboards
NIK TURNER - saxophones
Del Dettmar - synthesizer
Brian Peter George St John Le Batiste DE La Salle (Brian Eno) - Synthesizer, Effects
Lemmy - bass, rhythm guitar
Simon KING - drums
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Jim Capaldi - Voice
Richard Ealing - Voice
Tom Mittledorf - Voice
Vivian Stanshall - Voice  

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  lp ROBERT CALVERT (Ex-Hawkwind) CAPTAIN Lockheed & THE Starfighters Country of release: Netherlands, 2018 Original released: 1974 Label: MUSIC On VINYL Catalog number: MOVLP2043 Barcode: 8719262005440 Includes lyrics insert & innersleeve    Condition record: mint Condition Cover: mint     Tracks Side 1:   6. The Right Stuff (4:23) Tracks Side 2: 1. Ground Crew (3:17) 2. Hero With A Wing (3:20)  4. Ejection (3:35) 5. Interview (3:55) 6. I Resign (0:27)   7. The Song of The Gremlin Pt.2 (3:10)     Shipping within Germany (insured ASK FOR COMBINED SHIPPING !!     More information or photos? Please ask Need more info or photo Musikgruppe ROBERT CALVERT (Ex-Hawkwind) Format Album Plattengröße LP (12 Inch) Herstellungsland und -region Niederlande Genre Rock EAN 8719262005440 Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min Eigenschaften 180-220g Eigenschaften Limited Edition Subgenre Psychedelic Rock, Spacerock Erscheinungsjahr 1974 / 2018