Hawkwind - Electric Tepee (14 tracks) +Album Reviews

THE BEST HAWKWIND RECORDING EVER!

Surfing Guitarist | United States | 10/13/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I have been an avid Hawkwind fan since 1971 when I saw them on the college circuit in England. Since then, they have released dozens of excellent studio albums. "In search of space" from this period was their finest moment, until the release of this greatly underrated and overlooked masterpiece..."Electric Teepee". If one looks in the racks at large record stores in the US, one is overwhelmed by absolute garbage live recordings from Hawkwind that have been re-hashed and re-packaged to infinity. In addition, there are dozens of banal compilations that suffer the same problems. Take my word and avoid them like the plague. Instead, buy "Electric Teepee" and "In search of space" to begin your Hawkwind collection, and you will have two gems in your collection. My favourite tracks from "Teepee" are 'LSD", "Blue shift" and "Space dust". Most of the 78 minutes is first-class. I never tire of it- Magnificent!!"

My favorite HAWKWIND album of the 90s!

R. Recchia | blodgett mills, ny | 03/19/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"down to a trio after the departure of longtime keyboardist
HARVEY BAINBRIDGE , vocalist BRIDGET WISHART and violinist SIMON
HOUSE, HAWKWIND made one of their strongest albums in well over
a decade with ELECTRIC TEPEE. the opening track is a very
powerful and spacy riff rocker, with sound effects and synthe-
sizers flying everywhere. tis one of the best WIND songs in many
an album! this album has it's share of hard rockers, even tho
it is a very synthesizer dominated album, which is not a com-
plaint, for the songs are very strong. containing 14 songs and
clocking in at over 70 minutes long, there is nary a dull moment
on the entire album. there are some very soothing, almost ambient
instrumentals, along with an Egyptian flavored instrumental and
a very hypnotic, trancy one! there's a song about secret agents
getting themselves into tight spots(SECRET AGENT, one of HAWK-
WIND'S funniest songs), along with some narsty garden pests and
a song about a relationship gone bad! the last two songs are an
indication of the musical direction WIND would go on future al-
bums. ELECTRIC TEPEE is a very enjoyable and entertaining album!"

Hawkwind - 'Electric Teepee' (Griffin)

Mike Reed | USA | 07/07/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Very good later-day Hawkwind release.'Electric Teepee' appears to be the band's first indication of their interest in fusing classic space rock sounds with techno and ambient.Does the formula work?Are gas prices too high?Total of fourteen tracks and most of them do stand up rather well.I used to like "LSD" and "Blue Shift" more than I do now.Reason for that is they played those two songs like on every live show they'd done for several years.Guess I sort of got burned out on them.Other cuts I thoroughly enjoyed were "Snake Dance",their UK hit single "Right To Decide"(saw a bootleg video for this song-very exciting to view!),"Space Dust" and the bassist Alan Davey penned "Secret Agent"(another good song to experience while played live).I got many plays out of this CD.So will you,if you haven't already.Recommended to all true Hawkfans."

A little tedious in places, but still good

BENJAMIN MILER | Veneta, Oregon | 11/24/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"While this isn't a bad album, as just about everything Hawkwind did that was not some obscure compilation, live album, or outtakes album from a small label, the problem I have with 1992's Electric Tepee is some of the music seems to just go on longer than it needs to, like on "LSD". When it comes for 1990s Hawkwind, I prefer Palace Springs (1991), which is a live album with a couple of new cuts. Why? Well the music seems to be more cohesive and it doesn't sound so much like they were trying to blast the listener with amplifiers turned to max. Some time after the release of Palace Springs, Harvey Bainbridge, Bridget Wishart and Simon House all left, leaving the band a trio with Dave Brock, Alan Davey, and Richard Chadwick. With Electric Tepee, they obviously wanted to be much more heavy, bordering on heavy metal. I have nothing wrong with that, since that's been their influence all along. The problem is they have over an hour of material and not enough good ideas, so in between some killer cuts are some rather tedious cuts. In between the heavy cuts are some rather ambient numbers that sounds like Enigma minus the dance beats. I happen to like these cuts, like "Blue Shift". Another one of these ambient cuts, "Space Dust" is so creepy it needs to be heard to be believed! "Mask of the Morning" is actually a reworking of "Mirror of Illusion" from their self-entitled 1970 debut. The lyrics are the same, but the music itself is different and is excellent in this form as well. "Right To Decide" is perhaps the weakest cut here, it's rather boring and tedious. Sounds like the band was trying pull a Genesis (Phil Collins-led, that is) on us and try to write a commercial pop song (but with guitar instead of synthesizers). One it comes for the heavier songs, aside from "Mask of the Morning", I also really dig "Sadness Runs Deep", with the line, "She says that she loves me as she tightens up the noose". The last two cuts, "Going to Hawaii" and the title track are more killer ambient numbers. If you're a Hawkwind fan, Electric Tepee will be in your collection, but I know of better albums from these guys."

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