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Hawkwind – Hall of the Mountain Grill (1974) (@256)
11 Mar 2007
(Review from vintageprog.com)
Hawkwind was joined by violinist Simon House (ex-High Tide) on their 5th album. Some of the heaviest riffs were toned down a bit in favour of much more majestic and symphonic soundscapes dominated by organ, synths, Mellotron, violin and choir. This can be heard especially well on the beautiful instrumental “Wind of Change” and the fantastic, grandiose and very atmospheric “D-Rider”. The production and arrangements of the latter have to be some of the biggest sounding and most spacey ever. But the band could still rock hard and energetic on “You’d Better Believe It” and the best song Lemmy ever wrote for the band: “Lost Johnny”. The best-known track from the album, “Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke)” and “Paradox” fused the old riff-style with their newfound symphonic sound in a very striking way. And in between all these tracks are also some short interludes like “Goat Willow” and the title-track. “Hall of the Mountain Grill” is a masterpiece of symphonic space-rock.
Line-up:
- Dave Brock / vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, organ synthesizers
- Del Dettmar / keyboards, kalimba
- Simon House / keyboards, Mellotron, backing vocals
- Lemmy Kilminster / bass, vocals, lead & rhythm guitars (7)
- Simon King / drums, percussion
- Nik Turner / sax, oboe, flute, vocals
Track List:
01. The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke) — 6:50
02. Wind of Change (5:08)
03. D-Rider (6:14)
04. Web Weaver (3:15)
05. You’d Better Believe It (7:13)
06. Hall of the Mountain Grill (2:14)
07. Lost Johnny (3:30)
08. Goat Willow (1:37)
09. Paradox (5:35)
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about 5 years ago
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about 4 years ago
Hi, I had this at a lower bitrate, so thanks for this. The real name of the album is “Hall of the mountain grill”. Great album!
about 4 years ago
> The real name of the album is “Hall of the mountain grill”. Great album!
Oops… that’s why there is copy-paste and I should use it more :) (Fixed, thanks)
about 4 years ago
Hi Sakalli,tell me – could you read my mind ?? Right this weekend I decided to start closing the painful gaps in my Hawkwind collection (in albums and in bitrate). btw: I’m also looking since long time after Golden Earring (1977) – LIVE at respectable bitrates. If you found it somewhere …….Thx for this one here !!
about 4 years ago
> I’m also looking since long time after Golden Earring (1977) – LIVE at, respectable
> bitrates.
Sorry, don’t have it.
about 4 years ago
Heck, that didn’t last long – deleted already!
about 4 years ago
hawkwind_hallofthemountaingrill.zip: The archive is either in unknown format or damaged!!!It seems to be Deleted during My Dwnload….POOOOH
about 4 years ago
> It seems to be Deleted during My Dwnload….POOOOH
I’ve already re-uploaded it, try again.
about 4 years ago
Got it now – merci bien Sakalli
about 4 years ago
just started listening to Hawkwind yesterday and was wondering what there best album is considered ? this album by the description sounds like it should be a good one thanks for the post
about 4 years ago
Many thanks for this, I am also rebuilding my Hawkwind collection again. I sold all my original lps years ago and had forgotten how good they were.
welcome back by the way