28 replies to this topic

[scorp]

and a full set of 'silver machine' - 1972



Hawkwind Glast0 2010 please!!

[HandFedFred]

ahhh yes! The festival definately needs a massive injection on hippy psychedelia, nevermind all this wizzy wascal wubbish.  

Great clip of silver machine,  thanks.  

(not sure what was going on in the first clip though)

[scorp]

HandFedFred, on Jul 9 2009, 02:14 PM, said:

ahhh yes! The festival definately needs a massive injection on hippy psychedelia, nevermind all this wizzy wascal wubbish.  

Great clip of silver machine,  thanks.  

(not sure what was going on in the first clip though)

1st clips seems to be snippet of a tv report or similar. god knows why it's zapped at 0.21. hawkwind is the band playing. they used to do loads of free concerts in those days and were always at the windsor free festivals, from which this one-off fest sprang.

i agree with you re glasto needs 'a massive injection of hippy psychedelia' :-))

[Karlhippy]

I am sure there's a reason why Hawkwind are 'not allowed' into Glastonbury. Not sure what tho'

[jameshunt]

scorp, on Jul 9 2009, 02:21 PM, said:

1st clips seems to be snippet of a tv report or similar. god knows why it's zapped at 0.21. hawkwind is the band playing. they used to do loads of free concerts in those days and were always at the windsor free festivals, from which this one-off fest sprang.

i agree with you re glasto needs 'a massive injection of hippy psychedelia' :-))

Hawkwind, along with Here & Now and various forms of Gong, were the house bands of the Stonehenge free festivals.  I went from '78 to '84. Fantastic days....

[scorp]

Karlhippy, on Jul 9 2009, 02:38 PM, said:

I am sure there's a reason why Hawkwind are 'not allowed' into Glastonbury. Not sure what tho'

we'll see :-)

the band may have been built on lsd and the nutter calvert [talented but quite mad] but maybe, just maybe, it has mellowed fractionally...enough to grace the magickal fields of avalon, i hope.

[scorp]

jameshunt, on Jul 9 2009, 02:42 PM, said:

Hawkwind, along with Here & Now and various forms of Gong, were the house bands of the Stonehenge free festivals.  I went from '78 to '84. Fantastic days....

Now here is a very difficult question, i will admit :-)  i didn't go [duh!]  but a friend called Mick [or Micky] did. He was red haired and typically on anything that was around, from cider upwards [or downwards, lol]. Did you know him? He died about 4 years ago.

[jameshunt]

scorp, on Jul 9 2009, 03:09 PM, said:

Now here is a very difficult question, i will admit :-)  i didn't go [duh!]  but a friend called Mick [or Micky] did. He was red haired and typically on anything that was around, from cider upwards [or downwards, lol]. Did you know him? He died about 4 years ago.

I'm really sorry to hear that, but can't say I remember him.  I met loads of regulars over the years, but did take a lot of things that mess with one's memory back in those days.  Chances are we would have shared a spliff or two at some point though as in the late 70s there were only a few hundred of us there. The number did seem to double each year until Thatcher used the storm troopers to illegally cancel it.

[Ponyegg]

jameshunt, on Jul 9 2009, 03:26 PM, said:

I'm really sorry to hear that, but can't say I remember him.  I met loads of regulars over the years, but did take a lot of things that mess with one's memory back in those days.  Chances are we would have shared a spliff or two at some point though as in the late 70s there were only a few hundred of us there. The number did seem to double each year until Thatcher used the storm troopers to illegally cancel it.

I was lucky, my brother took me down to Stonehenge in 83 and 84 (I was 15 and 16 respectively) and it totally 'blew my mind'. You try and tell people what it was like for the time and it simply makes you sound a gibbering drug addled wreck :-)

Everytime we drive down to Glastonbury and we go past Stonehenge it all floods back, I esp remember the walk in from Amesbury, just as you cross the top of the hill you then got the view of the festival... one of the few times you can use the word 'awesome' I thought.

[jameshunt]

Ponyegg, on Jul 9 2009, 05:01 PM, said:

I was lucky, my brother took me down to Stonehenge in 83 and 84 (I was 15 and 16 respectively) and it totally 'blew my mind'. You try and tell people what it was like for the time and it simply makes you sound a gibbering drug addled wreck :-)

Everytime we drive down to Glastonbury and we go past Stonehenge it all floods back, I esp remember the walk in from Amesbury, just as you cross the top of the hill you then got the view of the festival... one of the few times you can use the word 'awesome' I thought.

Aye.  Can't pass the place without some memory popping up.  The walk to Amesbury and back was a regular thing.  Can't remember the name of the big pub in town (possibly the Dragon although I think it's changed its name now) that used to be festival friendly.   Many a time we played pool in there on mushies during a trip ( ) into town for provisions.

[scorp]

Ponyegg, on Jul 9 2009, 05:01 PM, said:

I was lucky, my brother took me down to Stonehenge in 83 and 84 (I was 15 and 16 respectively) and it totally 'blew my mind'. You try and tell people what it was like for the time and it simply makes you sound a gibbering drug addled wreck :-)

Everytime we drive down to Glastonbury and we go past Stonehenge it all floods back, I esp remember the walk in from Amesbury, just as you cross the top of the hill you then got the view of the festival... one of the few times you can use the word 'awesome' I thought.

i think it was william of walworth who posted some stonedhenge fest pics on here a year or so ago.  must check his name tho, so back in a mo.  but see other [new] posts in this discussion for *vids* of stonedhenge.

Edited by scorp, 09 July 2009 - 04:30 PM.

[scorp]

Ponyegg, on Jul 9 2009, 05:01 PM, said:

I was lucky, my brother took me down to Stonehenge in 83 and 84 (I was 15 and 16 respectively) and it totally 'blew my mind'. You try and tell people what it was like for the time and it simply makes you sound a gibbering drug addled wreck :-)

Everytime we drive down to Glastonbury and we go past Stonehenge it all floods back, I esp remember the walk in from Amesbury, just as you cross the top of the hill you then got the view of the festival... one of the few times you can use the word 'awesome' I thought.

ha ha....i luv youtube. look at this!!!!!#



with hawkwind music, too :-))))



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBUw8kyAJiM

and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT6vMPt4X_o&feature=PlayList&p=8FF23F4AC32139B6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=9

search youtube using 'stonehenge festival' for more!

[scorp]

jameshunt, on Jul 9 2009, 05:08 PM, said:

Aye.  Can't pass the place without some memory popping up.  The walk to Amesbury and back was a regular thing.  Can't remember the name of the big pub in town (possibly the Dragon although I think it's changed its name now) that used to be festival friendly.   Many a time we played pool in there on mushies during a trip ( ) into town for provisions.

then dig this, man!




and it's hawkwind again :-)))

look at 2 minutes 43 :-)))  and thus also 5 mins 58 :-)))

and the wooded and field scenes with tents shown here are at windsor free festival 1974. i'm in there somewhere were :-)  The other bits, including the crowds behind metal fencing, are reading  '76.

this is hyde park in '69 or '70. if it was '69, the act was blind faith or other. if it was '70 it was pink floyd or other. i went to both the blind faith and the pink floyd concerts, as they were called in those days. be patient...the crowd in hyde park scenes come later in the vid :-)  ....

Edited by scorp, 09 July 2009 - 05:00 PM.

[jameshunt]

scorp, on Jul 9 2009, 05:19 PM, said:

then dig this, man!




and it's hawkwind again :-)))

look at 2 minutes 43 :-)))  and thus also 5 mins 58 :-)))

I'd forgotten The Enid were on the bill as well as good old Roy Harper.  And I was head over heels in lust with that Hawkwind girl, and still am.  

Thanks for that!

[scorp]

jameshunt, on Jul 9 2009, 05:39 PM, said:

I'd forgotten The Enid were on the bill as well as good old Roy Harper.  And I was head over heels in lust with that Hawkwind girl, and still am.  

Thanks for that!

ah, me too. wonder what she's up to now. i've added more youtube links to my previous message to you, via 'edit'

see also the stonedhenge links i've posted to ponyegg.

chiz, scorp ['routeoz' on youtube]

Edited by scorp, 09 July 2009 - 05:08 PM.

[Nickyboy]

The girl was called STACIA from memory.....story goes she just got up on stage at a Gig and started dancing....and the Hawklords were so impressed they asked her on tour

[scorp]

Nickyboy, on Jul 9 2009, 06:51 PM, said:

The girl was called STACIA from memory.....story goes she just got up on stage at a Gig and started dancing....and the Hawklords were so impressed they asked her on tour

how suitably 'random' for the psychedelic hippy era :-)

those were the daze...

ah, just found this about stacia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacia

Edited by scorp, 09 July 2009 - 06:02 PM.

[jameshunt]

scorp, on Jul 9 2009, 06:59 PM, said:

how suitably 'random' for the psychedelic hippy era :-)

those were the daze...

ah, just found this about stacia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacia

And this:



edit:  happily bisexual and now married to a Mr Dyke.  

Edited by jameshunt, 09 July 2009 - 06:10 PM.

[scorp]

jameshunt, on Jul 9 2009, 07:06 PM, said:

And this:



edit:  happily bisexual and now married to a Mr Dyke.  

corrrrr...

beats page 2, oops, typo...page  3 any time, lol.

that's what a call a woman...and a bi married to a 'dyke'. could only happen in hippiedom.

long live the hippies  

Edited by scorp, 09 July 2009 - 06:52 PM.

[HandFedFred]

Sorry if this is slightly off topic, but me old ma keeps going on about Pink Floyd playing a festival and an aeroplane fliying out of a barn as part of the show. Do any of you hippy sorts know exactly which festival this was? I have got it down to either Stonehenge or Glastonbury 1980ish. I have tried googling it but can't find anything.

Apparently I was there but a bit too young to remember specifics apart from that it was a bit muddy and that we had an orange tent.