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.