A two-CD repackaging of two primal Hawkwind collections, 1983's Zones and the following year's This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic, both of which brought together a remarkably cohesive smattering of live and studio material dating from earlier in the decade: a late-1980 studio session with newly (and surprisingly!) recruited drummer Ginger Baker, plus concerts at Lewisham Odeon in December 1980, Stonehenge in June 1984, and Bristol's Colston Hall that same year. Despite the time lapse, the two discs offer a strong survey of ...
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A two-CD repackaging of two primal Hawkwind collections, 1983's Zones and the following year's This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic, both of which brought together a remarkably cohesive smattering of live and studio material dating from earlier in the decade: a late-1980 studio session with newly (and surprisingly!) recruited drummer Ginger Baker, plus concerts at Lewisham Odeon in December 1980, Stonehenge in June 1984, and Bristol's Colston Hall that same year. Despite the time lapse, the two discs offer a strong survey of Hawkwind's state of health during what was an extraordinarily tumultuous period in the band's history. Having risen to fresh heights on the back of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal boom, the group was then unceremoniously dropped back into obscurity once that movement paled; it would take them the best part of the decade to return to anything approaching their earlier prominence, with the difficulties of the task doubled by the morass of semiofficial compilations and live recordings that now flew out in their name. Zones and Do Not Panic did not, initially, fall into that category. However, the haste with which they themselves were repackaged into innumerable other collections did, and this set, enjoyable though it is, was simply one more brick in that particular wall. ~ Dave Thompson, Rovi
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