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Released
  
3 June 1991

Palace Springs (1991)
  
Electric Tepee (1992)

Release date
  
3 June 1991

Label
  
GWR Records

Length
  
45:22

Artist
  
Hawkwind

Producer
  
Hawkwind

Genre
  
Space rock

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Recorded
  
Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, 10 October 1989

Similar
  
Hawkwind albums, Space rock albums, Other albums

Hawkwind 1991 palace springs remaster 2012 2cd full album


Palace Springs is a 1991 live/studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind.

Contents

Although released in 1991, this album was recorded in 1989 prior to the previous album Space Bandits. The first two tracks had been recorded with a mobile studio, while the remainder were recorded during a tour of North America.

Hawkwind back in the box


Background

The live tracks were recorded during the band's 1989 tour of North America, their first tour there since the late 1970s. The Minneapolis show was issued as a double CD in 2008 by Voiceprint.

Set

The full set typically ran as "Magnu", "Down Through The Night", "Treadmill", "Time We Left"/"Heads", "Hassan I Sabbah", "Wind Of Change", "Assault and Battery", "The Golden Void", "Back In The Box"/"Arrival In Utopia", "Brainstorm", "Dream Worker" and "Damnation Alley" with an encore of "Needle Gun" and/or "Ejection".

Tour dates

  • 24 September: Toronto, Diamond
  • 26 September: Washington, 9:30 Club
  • 27 September: Sommerville, Johnny D's
  • 28 September: New York, New Ritz
  • 29 September: Ardmore, 23 East Cabaret
  • 30 September: Cleveland, Phantasy Theater
  • 1 October: Chicago, Lounge Axe
  • 3 October: Milwaukee, Odd Rock Cafe
  • 4 October: Minneapolis, First Avenue
  • 7 October: San Francisco, Stone
  • 9 October: Santa Clara, One Step Beyond
  • 10 October: Los Angeles, Palace
  • 12 October: San Diego, Bacchanal

    • Side 1

    1. "Back In The Box" (Hawkwind) – 6:21
    2. "Treadmill" (Dave Brock) – 8:09
    3. "Assault And Battery" [listed as "Lives Of Great Men"] (Brock) – 3:26
    4. "The Golden Void" [listed as "Void Of Golden Light"] (Brock) – 6:51

    Side 2

    1. "Time We Left (This World Today)" (Brock) / "Heads" (Brock, Roger Neville-Neil) – 7:19
    2. "Acid Test" [aka "Dream Worker"] (Harvey Bainbridge) – 6:01
    3. "Damnation Alley" (Robert Calvert, Brock, Simon House) – 7:15

    Notes

  • "Assault And Battery" and "The Golden Void" were renamed for publishing purposes. However, in renaming the tracks, their titles were erroneously transposed.
  • Although "Heads" forms the middle section of "Time We Left (This World Today)", it is banded as a separate track on the CD.
  • "Damnation Alley" has a different middle section to the Quark, Strangeness and Charm studio version, this one being a reggae influenced piece that would be worked into "The Camera That Could Lie" from It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous album.

    • Personnel

  • Bridget Wishart – vocals
  • Dave Brock – electric guitar, keyboards, vocals
  • Harvey Bainbridge – keyboards, vocals
  • Alan Davey – bass guitar, vocals
  • Simon House – violin
  • Richard Chadwick – drums

    • Credits

  • Tracks 3-7 recorded live at Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 10 October 1989

    • Release history

  • June 1991: GWR, GWLP104, UK
  • July 1992: Castle Communications, CLACD303, UK/Germany
  • July 1999: Castle Communications, ESMCD739, UK CD digipak

    • Songs

    1Back in the Box6:21
    2Treadmill8:10
    3Void of Golden Light3:27

    References

    Palace Springs Wikipedia
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