Chronicle of the Black Sword [Bonus Tracks] [PA]

Performer: Hawkwind
Engineer: Dave Charles; David Charles
Distributor: Infinity Entertainment Gr

Notes: Hawkwind: Dave Brock (vocals, guitar, synthesizer); Harvey Bainbridge (vocals, keyboards, synthesizer); Huw Lloyd-Langton (vocals, guitar); Alan Davey (bass, background vocals); Danny Thompson (drums); Dave Charles (percussion). Producers: Dave Brock, Harvey Bainbridge, Dave Charles. Recorded in August and September, 1985. Personnel: Dave Brock (vocals, guitar, keyboards, synthesizer); Huw Lloyd-Langton (vocals, guitar); Harvey Bainbridge (vocals, keyboards, synthesizer); Danny Thompson (drums); Dave Charles, David Charles (percussion); Alan Davey (background vocals). Liner Note Author: Mark Powell. Recording information: Rockfield Studios, Monmouth, Wales. Authors: Dave Brock; Michael Moorcock. Hawkwind and science-fiction/fantasy author Michael Moorcock had been hovering around each other's vicinities for years before they finally got around to recording this adaptation of Moorcock's "Elric" novels (long a favorite on the old DAW paperback line). They seemed made to order for the project, and by and large they are; the band rocks their way through the story of Elric and the sword that becomes the basis for his survival and his doom, breaking it up with a few ethereal keyboard-dominated interludes. "Needle Gun" could have been a single by the original band had it been released a few years earlier. They aren't quite as melodic here in their writing, singing, or playing as they might have been, say, a decade earlier, and some of the songs are a bit predictable, but overall this is a fairly successful contribution to rock's rarefied body of literary adaptations, well suited to its subject. The lineup here, for anyone who cares, is Brock (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Bainbridge (keyboards, vocals), Langton (lead guitar, vocals), Alan Davey (bass), Danny Thompson (drums), and Dave Charles (percussion). ~ Bruce Eder

Inspired equally by the hippie lifestyle/marathon jamming of the '60s West Coast bands and the interstellar excursions of Pink Floyd, Hawkwind helped invent "space rock" as we know it today. Through countless albums and personnel shifts, they've continued to combine heavy rock with science fiction in a futuristic setting, inspiring a generation of bands and several international space-rock festivals.

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