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A FOREFATHER OF SEVENTIES UK PUNK DRUMMING -- PLAYING FAST IN '72-'73.

^NOTE: Listen to the speed and/or tempos of the drumming on "Brainstorm" (1972) and don't tell me that all the UK punks weren't emulating a similar sound in 1976-'77. King was already playing fast in '72!

PIC INFO: Mega spotlight on in-the-studio shots of heavy metal-space punk drumming powerhouse Simon King (age 22-23 here), captured in a HAWKWIND rehearsal with the companion bass drumhead in the foreground, c. 1973. 📸: Barrie Wentzell.

Sources: www.pinterest.com/pin/796503884078901358 (Pinterest 2x).

READY TO PERFORM THE SPACE RITUAL ON YOUR MIND AND BODY -- SHE'LL TAKE YOU ON A RIDE.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 2567x3579 -- Mega spotlight on the interstellar Stacia (Stacia Blake), in full costume, the famed dancer with the space-faring English space rock band HAWKWIND, posing in Amsterdam, Netherlands, c. 1972, during the band's "Doremi Fasol Latido" era, photographed by Gijsbert Hanekroot.

PIC #2: The original photo, from the studio of Gijsbert Hanekroot in the Netherlands.

LOUDER SOUND: "What it was like to be in the centre of that intense multi-media live show with Hawkwind on the "Space Ritual" tour?"

STACIA BLAKE: "It’s so difficult to put something like that into words, because you’re so in the moment. It was awesome, obviously. We were really lucky to have [fellow dancers] Miss Renee and Tony Carrera with us on "Space Ritual" too. They were two great talents. We were all as important as each other, in my mind. We were all cogs in the machine."

LOUDER: "Did you ever have any stage direction beforehand?"

STACIA: "What I did was totally up to me. A lot of it was interpretive dance, which was just going with the music. There were no set sequences. I had my robot routine, which always cropped up. It was basically a robot who’s given a pill and comes to life, then at the end of the sequence the pill starts to wear off and he begins to turn back into a robot and becomes frantic, because he doesn’t want to return."

Sources: https://gb.readly.com/magazines/mojo/2023-08-15/64d42cc059925ceba35a14d5, Louder Sound, various, etc...

"WE FLEW HAWKWIND POSTER BOY, LITTLE JOHNNY KAYE, ALL THE WAY FROM LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA..."

"...to London, England so he could witness a HAWKWIND Space Ritual performance firsthand. The results were positive: Permanent brain damage. Now, we're flying HAWKWIND all the way from London, England to the U.S.A., to perform their incredible "Space Ritual" for you. Be like little Johnny Kaye: A little mixed up, feeling fine. Brain damage to go. HAWKWIND's: A Space Ritual. On United Artists Records and Tapes."

-- UNITED ARTISTS (Records and Tapes), c. winter 1973

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a record advert for English space rock/progressive rock/proto-punk band, HAWKWIND, titled "Victim of Sonic Attack!," promoting the band's crucial and pivotal live double album, "Space Ritual," printed in "Rolling Stone," December 6, 1973, uploaded by "Jamie" c. December 2012.

Source: www.flickr.com/photos/jbcurio/8232809873.

"DIM VISIONS SMOKED HIS BRAIN. PICTURES OF PEOPLE STANDING AND SCREAMING AND A BAND....

"...playing loud shrieking metal music…"

– Extract from "The Saga Of Doremi Fasol Latido," c. 1972

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a concert poster design for English space rock group HAWKWIND, during the band's "Space Ritual Tour," for a performance at the Rheinhalle in Düsseldorf, Germany, on May 7, 1973. Artwork/poster design by Barney Bubbles

Source: https://pt.pinterest.com/pin/839499186828018955.

"BRAIN DAMAGE TO GO" IN '73 -- ONLY ON UNITED ARTISTS RECORDS AND TAPES.

PICS INFO: Mega spotlight on assorted print and/or record adverts for 1973's "Space Ritual" double LP by English space rock/prog rock/proto-punk band, HAWKWIND, also doubling as an American "Space Ritual" tour advertisement.

PIC #2: A cleaned-up version of the above HAWKWIND 1973 American tour advertisment, with upgraded resolution -- at 706x1141.

Sources: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/511228995218199609, various, etc...

"THAT WHOLE ERA – "SPACE RITUAL," IN 1973 – WAS AN INCREDIBLE TIME, THOUGH YOU DON'T REALIZE THESE THINGS UNTIL MANY YEARS LATER."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on Dave Brock, Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister, and a proper sci-fi masked Nik Turner, of English space/progressive rock band, c. May 17, 1973. 📸: Michael Putland.

"That whole era – "Space Ritual," in 1973 – was an incredible time, though you don’t realise these things until many years later. I wish I’d appreciated it more as it was happening, but then again I was pretty stoned for most of the time.

Once when we played at the Roundhouse, somebody spiked up the whole band, and when the time came we had to tell our road manager: "We can’t possibly go on yet."

I used to share a room with Lemmy on tour, which was quite an experience because he would be up for days on end.

I once saw him fall asleep with his eyes open while reading a book. Trying to wake him up became a major problem, especially if there was a bus or a flight to catch. When you’re in a band, little problems like that can grow into bigger ones."

-- LOUDER SOUND, "Remembering Lemmy: The Bandmate," -- "It's great that he made it to 70… I never thought he'd make it to 50," by Dave Brock, published 21 January 2016

Source: www.loudersound.com/features/remembering-lemmy-the-bandmate-dave-brock.