Robert Calvert and bikes...

[dbmtb]

Like most serious business people, I did my last tax return today with the soundtrack of Hawkwind's PXR5, Astonishing Sounds and Quark Strangeness and Charm...

Once I'd finished I was still listening to the music and found myself in a Wiki//google wormhole....

Which resulted in me finding this....
http://www.aural-innovations.com/robert ... lepoem.htm
And this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Machine, with the little gem
"I did actually have a silver racing bike when I was a boy. I've got one now, in fact. – Robert Calvert"

So... Silver Machine is about a bloke building a bike telling it like it's a time machine.
and
Calvert was a keen cyclist.

Which to a retrobiker means only one thing.....

"Silver Machine" ... was it an Alan?

 

[highlandsflyer]

Cool, I always thought it was a motorbike! Can't forget Hawkwind at Treworgey 1989.

 

[REKIBorter]

Hawkwind are responsible for my loss of hearing in my right ear. 1982 -Regal, Hitchin. Something to do with standing next to the speaker stack which was right at the front of the stage at about head height. Also the first time I tried 'mind enhancing' chemicals. The support band - The Enid - were good.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r78ghxlcXU[/youtube]

 

[Nob]

Warrior on the Edge of Time I feel is there best Album

 

[The History Man]

Hawkwind are responsible for my loss of hearing in my right ear. 1982 -Regal, Hitchin. Something to do with standing next to the speaker stack which was right at the front of the stage at about head height. Also the first time I tried 'mind enhancing' chemicals. The support band - The Enid - were good.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r78ghxlcXU[/youtube]

That was all a bit spinal tap with your Withnail style anecdote thrown in

Love it.

 

[andyz]

The only time ever I have experienced "passive stoning" was at a Hawkwind gig! The air was so thick with the stuff it was unavoidable!

Bob Calvert is truly a genius and unsung hero. I wish I knew what bike he actually had, all I remember is that it was a racer.

 

[The History Man]

These days the youngsters call it 'hot boxing' my first experience of it was in 86 in an extremely risky location with the door sealed with duct tape. :facepalm:

 

[Orange16]

well thats a least 3 of us on the forum who can remember being at The tree fayre, two of us were on mountainbikes!

 

[DrJo]

aah brings tears to my eyes the thought of riding a silver machine to a beautiful psychedelic future fuelled by spacerock . I'm a treworgey kid and hawkwind were the sound of my yoof...
there is no singular best hawkwind album as they can't relly be thought of as a band, space ritual nik turner Stonehenge era is where it's at for me, like a manic shamanic Marilyn manson 20 years earlier

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO9_DDhW3ME

Anybody remember those rippoff tape merchants at gigs, god some of the bootleg tapes were truly shite..... I love those tapes, anybody got any old hippy tapes they don't want my bikeshed needs em.

 

[andyz]

, anybody got any old hippy tapes they don't want my bikeshed needs em.

Got almost the entire backcatalogue, 35-odd albums if you want some CDs burnt! No tapes any more though.