Hawkwind
Dave Brock-guitar/vox/keys
Alan Davey-bass/vox/synth
Richard Chadwick-drums
Bridget Wishart-vox
the Channel
Boston, Mass.
November 28, 1990
(Architechtural Metaphor opened)
performance quality: A- (My favorite HW show of this era that I've heard. Very good tight show)
recording quality: B to B+ (has right channel flaws in some parts, due to mike chord problems,
        most have been repaired by monoizing some sections but some still remain.)
source: master audience tapes
lineage: Realistic mini-mikes >
         Sony D-6 cassette deck (dolby off) >
         Maxell XLII-S cassettes >
         soundforge 4.5 (WAV) >
         FLAC 6 > torrentially yours.
         A this and that, 
         you are there production.
         this is a 3 step torrent when first posted.
         (master > WAV > FLAC > torrent.)
         This time, tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11 were re-tracked, 
         requiring an additional FLAC > WAV and WAV > FLAC conversion.
runtime: 98:34
setlist: 
     disc 1 
  1: angels of death 12:08
  2: the golden void (spliced, tape flip)  7:15
  3: ejection  11:25  
  4: wings  5:03
  5: out of the shadows >  10:26
  6: snake dance >  4:50
  7: night of the hawks > the 7th star  10:11

     disc 2 
  8: TV suicide 6:20
  9: back in the box >   9:42
  10: Hassan I Sabha (a.k.a. Assassins of Allah)  4:07
  11: images (spliced, tape flip)  9:06
  12: (encore) reefer madness  7:51
(thanks to mcfessel for the setlist.
Track 8 starts at one of the only points in this show that is suitable for a disc break.)
  Very nice versions here of angels of death, back in the box, out of the shadows
  Hassan I sabha and reefer madness.
comments: I included a spliced track of "edge of time" in addition to the split version,
the 1st time I posted this, and also left a song in 2 parts (images) so this time I've
amended things, including some re-tracking. this was a project to make it listenable
and was 1st posted without a sound sample, and with a few confusing aspects to it.
not only that, this is a conjoined twin torrent surgery seperation project.
 this time hopefully all of that has been rectified. so there's been some alteration 
to these Hawkwind FLAC files from the 1st post.  the tracking here is considerably better 
than my 1st post of this was.
  This has Hawkwind's full set, recorded standing about 15 feet right in front of 
center stage, with no obstruction to the stage at all in AM set, occasionally 
some in HW set, very good stereo seperation in the recording. I may have missed 
the 1st second or 2 of the AM beginning (mike switch not on) but it's barely noticable, 
and despite the Radio Snack mikes, they did a good job here (as they have many times). 
  the Hawkwind set was much more of an adventure, due to a mike cord connection problem.
most of those noises are gone now, they all show up in the right channel because
several times the right side mike connection was pulled slightly, causing loud static
usually for a split second only at a time, some parts more extended. The left side had 
no problems. So if anyone hears a little more static in a track than they can handle 
(I only removed the most noticable parts which were very loud by splicing the left side 
into those parts) you can just monoize the whole track and there will be no static at all. 
The mono parts still sound good too, alot better than the staticy stereo, but Hawkwind is a 
band better heard in stereo. Fortunately I was able to leave well over half of this concert 
in stereo. Tracks 1-8 are mostly or all stereo, due to a couple of hundred short patchings, 
but the last 5 minutes of it had way too much shorting out to fix on the right 
side so it's mono. Tracks 9-12 have several long mono portions. I tried to preserve as 
much of the stereo effect as I could, because the stereo effect is pretty good in this 
recording. I used my head for seperation on this one (literally) and some may find it 
annoying to have the recording switch randomly from mono to stereo and back. Fortunately 
alot of it is not too noticable, and the mike chord problem is even less so now. (some 
400 patches later) I was really pissed, I had similar problems recording HW the 1st time 
I saw them in 1989 too, with different mikes. It was only a problem a couple of times 
very briefly in the Arch. Met set, which is almost unnoticable now. Same deck, mikes 
and recording location, but after all this patching (they ought to just call me patches) 
it will be a much nicer adventure for you all to hear, since otherwise it's a nice recording, 
and unlike my 89 one, I got the whole show this time, with just the usual 2 tape flip interruptions. 
(my 89 has about 8 min. missing near the beginning of the show) and if not for the mike 
chord problems in parts of this one, it would be close to the quality of the Ambler, Pa. 
1990, 1/2008  upload from zombiwoof (which is quite nice). The Angels of Light is a very 
good version here (I think it starts about 3 min. into track 1) and track 6 is a nice 
one too (probably 4 songs, the third one night of the hawks), track 8 is a nice long 
juicy back in the box jam > hassan I sabha, the best version I've ever heard of that one. 
This was a general admission standing room stage area situation, so I just stood in
the optimum spot which is where you hear it from now. Don't let the Radio Shack put 
you off to this one. Most of my recordings with them have come out well. Not too much 
crowd noise, the band is right there, where they belong. I've made this seamless, if
burning to disc I recommend track 6 for the 1st track on disc 2, since it's one of 
the few stoppages in play. There aren't many stoppages in this concert. lots of jamming,
all the instruments and vocals sound very good in this show, band had a real good night,
the songs flowed very smoothly from one to the next, no obvious mistakes in the music.
As much as I like Hawkwind and have several of their live shows due to recent dimestorm,
this is the show I listen to more than any other HW. I'm partial to it because I saw it,
but mostly because I thought this was an excellent concert, and I was able to stand in
almost perfect spot to record this. The Channel is not the best for its sound, although
their sound system was pretty good for this, the place was very kind to both these bands
acousticly. Probably the best sound I've ever heard for a Channel concert. The sound for
both was very good at the show and in the capture of it so enjoy this one, it has become
a personal glasnostrd19 listening favorite since its Jan. 2008 2nd transfer. This was a 1st 
time seed from my master tapes of both these fine sets that I think will be a welcome (to 
the future) addition to your hard drive.  This is one of 2 HW shows I will be throwing into 
the recent dimestorm. the other has some problems too but both are quite enjoyable and very 
good performances. this one may be my favorite post-70's HW show.
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly.