Hawkwind
Stonehenge Festival
22nd June 1983

(I seem to remember starting this recording around 3am on
22/6/83, finishing around 5:30am, with the sun coming up.)

Dave Brock : Guitar, keyboards, vocals
Harvey Bainbridge : Bass guitar, keyboards, vocals
Huw Lloyd Langton : Lead Guitar, vocals
Nik Turner : Saxophone, vocals
Dead Fred : Keyboards, violin
Rob Heaton : Drums

(I don't remember seeing Dead Fred, but who knows ...)

Aiwa microphone>Aiwa Walkman>master cass>Sony MDS-JE530>Dio2448>.wav>MKW 0.97beta1>.shn with seek tables appended.

taper: Alasdair Macdonald

(NB The Sony JE530 is a standalone Minidisc recorder, however
there is no MD/ATRAC compression in this lineage. I used the
JE530 as a "passthrough" device taking the digital output
without actually recording to MD. Thus it is simply acting
as an external A/D converter).
Repeat : this is a master cassette>digital transfer with no
MD generation or compression.

CD #1:
 1. Introduction                 3:59
 2. Tuning                       4:05
 3. Coded Languages              5:28
 4. Magnu >                      4:39
 5. Dust Of Time                 3:59
 6. Waiting For Tomorrow         6:14
 7. Ghost Dance                  5:48
 8. Angels Of Death              6:37
 9. //Utopia                     4:37
10. Psychedelic Warlords        11:21
11. Motorway City                7:03
12. fade-out (overlaps t2t02)    0:12
 Total Time : [64:01]

CD #2:
 1. fade-in (overlaps d1t11)     0:06
 2. Nik banter & Sundown tease   2:37
 3. Silver Machine              10:51
 4. electronic jam               6:21
 5. Brainstorm                   4:31
 6. Power cut: In The Mood etc   9:02
 7. Ground Control To Pilot      0:56
 8. Ejection >                   2:45
 9. Shot Down In The Night       2:26
10. Master Of The Universe       3:29
11. //Audience Applause etc      6:30
 - encore -
12. Stage Banter                 4:00    
13. Spirit Of The Age >          8:54
14. jam >                        9:37
15. Brainstorm                   1:06
 Total Time : [72:12]


(If you ever want to rejoin the entire show onto a longer
medium ie DVD, simply omit d1t12 and d2t01. The join will
be perfect).

Notes:
The rambling introduction at the start has one or 2 cuts
(tape pauses). The guy asking for money to be passed to the
stage is possibly Sid Rawls. Nik Turner mentions (during the
power cut) that "Big Steve" is welding the generator with
his fingers. Big Steve was a VERY tall guy who did a lot of
the onstage announcements/between-band stuff.

At some time during the power cut Nik Turner dropped his
trousers and mooned at the audience. There's a big cheer
from the audience at 5:12 of d2t06; I suggest you use your
imagination.

I hit the pause button during the extended intro & pleas
for money, the power cut section seems clear of pauses.
The pause before the calls for encore was probably for a
battery change. I think it's Big Steve that you can hear
talking about how tired the band are etc.

Editing:
I topped & tailed the start/end of each cassette side. The
Aiwa walkman uses a magnet instead of an erase head, which
leaves a loud "thump" when the tape is stopped. These thumps
were simply cut out, and a 1/2 second of silence or so left
between each tape flip. The start of segment #4 suffered a
couple of low frequency thumps in the first fraction of a
second, so I took those out with a low frequency filter.

I then joined the whole thing into OBW (one big .wav),
Normalisation was simply a matter of multiplying every
sample by 166% in Cool Edit Pro's Transform/Amplitude/Amplify.

Next CDWAV to split up into 2 separate CDs (CDWAV doesn't
work over 100 minutes so this has to be done to d1 & d2
first, then the individual tracks on each disc). CEP to
create the fade-out/fade-in tracks over the CD break.

.wav file lengths verified to sector boundaries using shntool.

alimac@netcomuk.co.uk
21st February 2002.