Like the Screech of a Hawk

Somehow, despite doing Rocktober for several solar cycles, I haven't ever explored our friends from the UK: Hawkwind. This oversight is an odd one. I mean, Hawkwind has all the components that any first to tenth-level adventurer is going to want out of a band:

• Full-on fantasy-adventure album covers
• Lyrics by Michael Moorcock, whose Eternal Champion cycle a young me read obsessively, especially Elric
• Arguably the first band to use strobe lights 
• Performing at the Isle of Wight festival inside an inflatable sphere that slowly began to deflate, causing one member of the band to quit playing live
• Causing audience members to pass out by using keyboard frequencies 
• A song about psi power
• A song with lyrics about moving parallelograms 
• A song extolling the joys of being an urban guerrilla 
• Many, many songs about space
• The seemingly always-topless Stacia
• Ditching Lemmy at the border because he did "the wrong kinds of drugs"
• "Motorhead" the song giving birth to Motorhead the band
• "Master of the Universe" as the ur-text for space metal
• The fact that they are still touring.

Hail Hawkwind and let's get this space ritual started.

Beats the alternative

Osmosites-
Sorry about the long, long delay in content, but the perverseosmosis.com site was hacked, and I am still trying to figure out how to un-hack it [I am looking at you, Network Solutions]. Until I can get it back and running, I will take advantage of Google and work on a shadow site that will be all the usual AD&D mayhem, but without the fancy non-blogspot URL.

No real idea about how this version of ye olde internet works, but I will see what I can figure out. Learning is always good.

As some may know, October means it is time for the annual Rocktober post-a-thon where all the streams get crossed, where the Fiend Folio and Monster Manual do the mambo with Kreator or Wraith, and Queen of the Demonweb Pits is both a module and an album.

Hail yourselves!