The Friday Rock Show Sessions

Infobox Album
Name = The Friday Rock Show Sessions
Type = live
Artist = Hawkwind


Released = March 1992
Recorded = Reading Festival, 24 Aug 1986
Genre = Space rock
Length =
Label = Raw Fruit
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:bq5j8qfpbtz4 link]
*Prog Archives Rating|3|5 [http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=4001 link] (1 rating)
Last album = "BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert"
(1991)
This album = "The Friday Rock Show Sessions"
(1992)
Next album = "Hawklords Live"
(1992)

The Friday Rock Show Sessions is a 1992 live album release of Hawkwind's headline set at the Reading Festival, August 24, 1986.

The set was recorded by the BBC and transmitted soon after on Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show. The broadcast excluded performances of "Paradox", "Shade Gate", "Choose Your Masks" and "Moonglum". This album was released as per the broadcast.

Track listing

#"Magnu" (Brock)
"Angels of Death" (Brock)
#"Pulsing Cavern" (Bainbridge/Davey)
#"Assault and Battery" (Brock)
#"Needle Gun" (Brock)
#"Master of the Universe" (Turner/Brock)
#"Arrival in Utopia" [listed as "Utopia"] (Moorcock/Brock)
#"Brainstorm" [unlisted] (Turner)
"Dream Worker" (Bainbridge)
"Dust Of Time" [unlisted] (Brock/Bainbridge/Lloyd-Langton)
#"Assassins Of Allah" [aka "Hassan-i-Sabah"] (Calvert/Rudolph)
#"Silver Machine" (Calvert/Brock) / "Paranoia" [unlisted] (Brock)Note: The banding of tracks together on CD would suggest either medleys or interpolations, but they are in fact segues, with the exception of "Paranoia" which interpolates "Silver Machine".

Personnel

*Dave Brock - guitar, keyboards, vocals
*Huw Lloyd-Langton - guitar, vocals
*Harvey Bainbridge - Keyboards, vocals
*Alan Davey - bass guitar, Vocals
*Danny Thompson - drums;with
*Lemmy - bass guitar, vocals ("Silver Machine")
*Dumpy Dunnell - guitar ("Silver Machine")

Release History

*Mar 1992: Raw Fruit, FRSCD005