The Weird Tapes Volumes 1-8

The "Weird Tapes" are a set of music tapes issued in the early 1980s containing live, outtake and demo performances by Hawkwind.

Dave Brock collated this material from his own private library and issued them as 40m TDK cassette tapes on his own Weird imprint through Geoff Hocking. The first tape (101) was made available through mail order at the beginning of 1980, whilst the last tape (108) was first issued at the end of 1983. When Brock hooked-up with Rob Ayling of Voiceprint Records at the end of 1999, this material was re-released without alteration.

Track listing

"Volume 1 - Sonic Assassins / Dave Brock"

#"Over The Top" (Calvert/Brock) 7:53 - Sonic Assassins 1977
#"Magnu"/"Angels of Life") (Brock) 4:23 - Sonic Assassins 1977
#"Freefall" (Calvert/Bainbridge) 7:54 - Sonic Assassins 1977
#"Death Trap" (Calvert/Brock) 4:30 - Sonic Assassins 1977
#"Nuclear Toy" [aka "Nuclear Drive"] (Brock) 4:21 - Dave Brock demo 1979
#"Who's Gonna Win The War" (Brock) 5:55 - Hawklords 1979
#"The Dream" (Brock) 1:21 - Dave Brock demo 1979
#"Assassination" [aka "Some People Never Die"] (Brock) 3:34 - Dave Brock demo 1979
#"The Dream II" (Brock) 0:26 - Dave Brock demo 1979
#"Satellite" [aka "The Phenomenon Of Luminosity"] (Brock) 2:49 - Dave Brock demo 1979
*Sonic Assassins, Barnstaple 23-Dec-1977: Bob Calvert; Dave Brock; Harvey Bainbridge; Paul Hayles; Martin Griffin
*Hawklords, Rockfield Studios 1979: Dave Brock; Harvey Bainbridge; Steve Swindells; Simon King

"Volume 2 - Hawkwind Live / Hawklords Studio"

#"Quark, Strangeness And Charm" (Calvert/Brock) 2:38 - Leicester 1977
#"Master Of The Universe" (Turner/Brock) 4:44 - Leicester 1977
#"Welcome To The Future" (Calvert) 2:10 - Leicester 1977
#"Spirit Of The Age" (Calvert/Brock) 5:57 - Leicester 1977
#"Sonic Attack" (Moorcock) 5:27 - Leicester 1977
#"Valium 10" (Brock/Bainbridge/Swindells/King) 7:51 - Hawklords 1979
#"Douglas In The Jungle (Ode To A Manager)" (Brock/Bainbridge/Swindells/King) 6:53 - Hawklords 1979
#"Time Of The Hawklords" (Brock/Bainbridge/Swindells/King) 4:07 - Hawklords 1979
*Listed as Leicester De Montfort Hall, 29-Sep-1977, but reportedly from the Stonehenge Free Festival 21 June 1977 [http://www.starfarer.net/gigs1977.html] [http://www.starfarer.net/weirdcds.html] : Bob Calvert; Dave Brock; Adrian Shaw; Simon House; Simon King. Another source has tracks 1-3 from Stonehenge and 4-5 from Chicago on 12th March 1978. [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/hawkwind/disc_weird102.html]
*Hawklords, Rockfield 1979: Dave Brock; Harvey Bainbridge; Steve Swindells; Simon King

"Volume 3 - Hawkwind Free Festivals"

#"High Rise" (Calvert/House) 5:37 - Leicester 1977
#"Damnation Alley" (Calvert/Brock/House) 8:00 - Leicester 1977
#"Uncle Sam's On Mars" (Calvert/Brock/House/King) 6:33 - Leicester 1977
#"The Iron Dream" [unlisted] (King) - Leicester 1977
#"Robot" (Calvert/Brock) 7:21 - Leicester 1977
#"Cake Out" [aka "Hash Cake"] (Hawkwind) 4:44 - studio 1976?
#"Circles" (Turner/Brock/Rudolph/Powell) 4:29 - Watchfield 1975
#"Elements" [aka "I Am The Eye"] (Turner/Brock/Rudolph/Powell) 4:26 - Watchfield Festival 1975
#"Slap It On De Table" (Hawkwind) 0:50 - studio 1976?
*Leicester De Montford Hall, 29-Sep-1977: Bob Calvert; Dave Brock; Adrian Shaw; Simon House; Simon King. Other sources attribute tracks 1-4 to the Stonehenge Free Festival. [http://www.starfarer.net/weirdcds.html] [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/hawkwind/disc_weird103.html]
*Hawkwind, Watchfield Festival Aug-1975: Dave Brock; Paul Rudolph; Nik Turner; Alan Powell

"Volume 4 - Hawklords Live 1978"

#"Death Trap" (Calvert/Brock) 6:21
#"Age Of The Micro Man" (Calvert/Brock) 3:40
#"Spirit Of The Age" (Calvert/Brock) 9:25
#"Urban Guerilla" (Calvert/Brock) 5:18
#"Steppenwolf" (Calvert/Brock) 9:07
#"Freefall" (Calvert/Bainbridge) 5:28
#"Uncle Sam's On Mars" (Calvert/Brock/House/King) 6:28
#"The Iron Dream" [unlisted] (King) 2:05
*Hawklords, Plymouth 1978: Bob Calvert; Dave Brock; Harvey Bainbridge; Steve Swindells; Martin Griffin

"Volume 5 - Hawkwind Live 1976-77"

#"Back On The Streets" (Calvert/Rudolph) 3:50 - Hammersmith 1976
#"Chronoglide Skyway" [incorrectly listed as "City Of Lagoons"] (House) 5:09 - Hammersmith 1976
#"Brainstorm" (Turner) 7:25- Leicester 1977
#"Wind Of Change" (Brock) 4:07- Leicester 1977
#"Assassins Of Allah" (Calvert/Rudolph) 7:17 - Leicester 1977
#"Forge Of Vulcan" (House) 2:33 - Leicester 1977
#"Steppenwolf" (Calvert/Brock) 10:29 - Leicester 1977
#"Where Are They Now?" (Brock) 2:19 - studio 1976?
*Hammersmith Odeon, 5-Oct-1976: Bob Calvert; Dave Brock; Paul Rudolph; Nik Turner; Simon House; Alan Powell; Simon King
*Leicester De Montford Hall, 29-Sep-1977: Bob Calvert; Dave Brock; Adrian Shaw; Simon House; Simon King

"Volume 6 - Hawkwind Live 1970–73"

#"Make What You Can" (Brock) 7:11 - studio 1973
#"Born To Go" (Calvert/Brock) 12:49 - Roundhouse 1972
#"Master Of The Universe" (Turner/Brock) 7:18 - Roundhouse 1972
#"Seeing It As You Really Are" [listed as "Jam"] (Hawkwind) 3:25- Roundhouse 1972
#"Hurry On Sundown" (Brock) 4:49 - BBC Session 1970
#"Come Home" (Hawkwind) 2:11 - BBC Session 1971
#"We Do It" (Hawkwind) 10:35 - BBC Session 1971
#"Earth Calling" (Calvert) 3:28 - London Sundown, 30-Dec-1972
*Hawkwind 1973: Dave Brock; Lemmy; Nik Turner; Del Dettmar; Dik Mik; Simon King
*Roundhouse, 12-Feb-1972: Bob Calvert; Dave Brock; Lemmy; Nik Turner; Del Dettmar; Dik Mik; Simon King
*BBC sessions, 18-Aug-1970: Dave Brock; Thomas Crimble; Nik Turner; Dik Mik; Terry Ollis; Huw Lloyd
*BBC sessions, 19-Apr-1971: Dave Brock; Thomas Crimble; Nik Turner; Dik Mik; Terry Ollis

"Volume 7 - Dave Brock Demos"

#"Welcome To The Dream Machine" [unlisted] (Brock) 0:19
#"Streets Of Fear" (Brock) 4:18
#"First Landing On Medussa" [aka "The Church"] (Brock) 3:14
#"Touchdown" (Brock) 1:56
#"Winter Of Discontent" (Shakespeare/Brock) 2:41
#"Outer Limits" [unlisted] (Brock) 1:03
#"Choose Your Masks" (Brock) 4:58
#"Looking In The Future" (Brock) 3:39
#"Space Travellers" (Brock) 2:36
#"Disintegration" [unlisted] (Brock) 1:06
#"Circles" (Brock) 6:25
#"Speed Of Light" [aka "Transdimensional Man"] (Brock) 5:40
#"Bombed Out" (Brock) 4:08

"Volume 8 - Live 1966–73"

#"Space Is Deep" (Brock) 8:05 - London Sundown, 30-Dec-1972
#"Down On Her Knees" (Brock) 5:58 - studio 1973?
#"Live And Let Live" (Brock) 4:07 - studio 1973?
#"Etchanaty" (Brock) 3:21 - studio 1973?
#"Roll 'Em Pete" () 2:15 - pre-Hawkwind Dave Brock 1967
#"Come On" () 2:25 - pre-Hawkwind Dave Brock 1967
#"Dealing With The Devil" (Sonny Boy Williamson II) 2:10 - pre-Hawkwind Dave Brock 1967
#"Bring It On Home" (Willie Dixon) 3:11 - pre-Hawkwind Dave Brock 1967
#"You Know You're Only Dreaming" (Brock) - BBC Session 1971
#"You Shouldn't Do That" (Turner/Brock) 12:00 - BBC Session 1971
*BBC session, 19-May-1971: Dave Brock; Dave Anderson; Nik Turner; Dik Mik; Terry Ollis

Release details

*Volume 1: Cassette, Mar-1980, Weird Records, WEIRD101; CD, Sep-2000, Voiceprint Records, HAWKVP6CD;
*Volume 2: Cassette, Oct-1980, Weird Records, WEIRD102; CD, Sep-2000, Voiceprint Records, HAWKVP7CD;
*Volume 3: Cassette, Oct-1980, Weird Records, WEIRD103; CD, Sep-2000, Voiceprint Records, HAWKVP8CD;
*Volume 4: Cassette, Jun-1981, Weird Records, WEIRD104; CD, Sep-2000, Voiceprint Records, HAWKVP9CD;
*Volume 5: Cassette, Sep-1981, Weird Records, WEIRD105; CD, Sep-2000, Voiceprint Records, HAWKVP10CD;
*Volume 6: Cassette, Oct-1982, Weird Records, WEIRD106; CD, Sep-2000, Voiceprint Records, HAWKVP11CD;
*Volume 7: Cassette, Oct-1982, Weird Records, WEIRD107; CD, Sep-2000, Voiceprint Records, HAWKVP14CD;
*Volume 8: Cassette, Nov-1983, Weird Records, WEIRD108; CD, Mar-2006, Voiceprint Records, HAWKVP36CD;