TCCDM Pulls One Out..."Hall Of The Mountain Grill" - Hawkwind (1974)
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"Hall Of The Mountain Grill" - Hawkwind (1974)
"Hall Of The Mountain Grill" is much more chill than I expected, but wonderfully so. The music is dense with layers of synths, Mellotrons, and oboes. Saxes and tasty guitar-riffage. Pleasing sounds that surprise the mind. Hawkwind rocks and trips whenever and wherever it pleases, as they are wont to do. But this square sounds even more in-the-moment. Cosmic, but without the debris. I really liked it.
Perhaps not as hard as Hawkwind's earlier albums, but it doesn't disappoint. Apart from an occasional odd mixing (a little muddy in places), I like everything about it. And it's a delicious conundrum that you can crank this puppy without restraint in the daytime or kick back in the late-evening and chill the fawk out. It's a square that's two mints in one.
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"Hall Of The Mountain Grill" - Hawkwind (back)
"Hall Of The Mountain Grill" - Hawkwind
(inner-sleeve front & back)
Favorites include:
"The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke)
"D-Rider"
"You'd Better Believe It"
"Lost Johnnie"
One thing you might not have immediately noticed is that the previous owner did a rescue job on the back cover, and it's perfect. I suspect the album was packed too tightly with other albums in a very humid room, causing part of another cover to stick to it and leaving about two inches of ugly white paper damage on the back. I'm guessing the previous owner might've tried the hair-dryer trick or something, but to no avail.
So the owner made lemonade by painting over the white paper damage, blending the colors in with the rest of the original album cover. The owner obviously loved this album because they did a pretty nice job. And now a little history follows it around, and that's kinda cool. The vinyl is an early US pressing and plays in strong VG mode. I think I paid $15 at The Record Ship.
I couldn't find an exact match on Discogs. The vinyl has all the variables from a Terra Haute pressing, but there is no "T" identifier in the deadwax. The album was issued with a custom inner sleeve with credits, photos, track listings, and times. The track times, however, differ from the label. The track listing on the inner sleeve also has a different spelling of Lemmy's song, "Lost Johnny." (It appears as "Lost Johnnie" on the label.) Finally, this label version does NOT have "Ⓡ" printed beneath United Artists Records. This was Hawkwind's fourth studio album.
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United Artists Records label
Cat #
UA-LA328-G
SIDE 1 DEADWAX
UA-LA328-G-1- #2
SIDE 2 DEADWAX
UA-LA328-G-2- #22
"D-Rider" - Hawkwind - "Hall Of The Mountain Grill" (1974)
TRACKS:
A1 "The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke)" 7:20
A2 "Wind Of Change" 4:37
A3 "D-Rider" 6:15
A4 "Web Weaver" 3:12
B1 "You'd Better Believe It" 7:12
B2 "Hall Of The Mountain Grill" 2:20
B3 "Lost Johnnie" 3:28
B4 "Goat Willow" 1:34
B5 "Paradox" 5:26
PERSONNEL:
Dave Brock - lead guitar, 12-string guitar, synthesizer, organ, harmonica, vocals
Nik Turner - sax, oboe, flute, vocals
Lemmy (Ian Kilmister) - bass, vocals, guitars
Simon House - synthesizer, Mellotron, violin
Simon King - drums, percussion
Del Dettmar - keyboards, synthesizer, kalimba
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