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Now that most collectors have this, and given the fact that it is in VG+ condition, maybe a last chance to have this.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... ink:top:en

One label has a date corrected by pen.

opaloka wrote:Now that most collectors have this, and given the fact that it is in VG+ condition, maybe a last chance to have this.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... ink:top:en

One label has a date corrected by pen.

There IS an alternate way......
But I'm going to need Hawkwind's permission

alternative way?

opaloka wrote:alternative way?

emits sound from inside a walt disney pluto costume (with a tiny barely noticeable magic wand in hand)

"uh huh"

...is it Stacia from 1973 wearing a G thong and boots to the knee? I always liked such women...
But I suppose you mean something else.

opaloka wrote:...is it Stacia from 1973 wearing a G thong and boots to the knee? I always liked such women...
But I suppose you mean something else.

"Rocky Paths....................... ................ ................ ......."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OULlWNCqDQ

Mike, I prefer more chubby chicks and definitely more trampy than Belinda Carlisle. I cannot listen to this crap (my fav music is ACDC and Motorhead - not even Hawkwind) as it is too soft for my ears... I guess i cannot guess what you mean. If I had the cash i'd go for it to keep it for a trade or a future sale, but for 500 bucks that would be too much. If I hadn't it already, i'd kill for it, knowing that both serious collectors from the neighbouring countries in Europe have it already.

if you LOOK, BEYOND distraction, you will begin to see the road that could lead you into the halls of amenti.

I am not trying to be unkind.

By the way, that starting price for the BBC LP is pretty low. Interesting that it appeared here in the USA too.
I tend to wonder if it is being dumped because of the recent appearance of a bootleg version: "co pilots of space ship earth"

I have decided to go ahead and mention it for a couple reasons. It's high price would likely make it prohibitive for most Hawkwind people, and also because it is vinyl, which is not the main format of the mass.
My copy was provided "as though by a higher power", and it is the best bootleg I have ever got.
There are 3 versions, laminated gatefold jacket. One with red foil front jacket (the one I have), a blue foil, and a silver foil.
This part is really freaky: it sounds slightly different to me, at least parts, and I don't THINK it is the mono mix, but I am not an expert of this.
If I get in trouble you better do something Opa-Loka, and fast

and Opa-Loka:
if I had neither, the real BBC LP is stilll, firmly "the way to go".

Any bets on what it'll go for?

I seem to remember seeing one fetch over £1000, but the last one didn't make much over £800, if I recall.

Not that I pay that much attention. Even if I won the lottery and had a million quid to spare, I'd have better things to spend my money on than a vinyl duplicate of something I already have on hard drive!

Anyway, I'd have to buy a record player first!



With three days to go, my feeling is it'll go for £550, seeing as the global economy is screwed.

I have no idea whast it will go for, but since 2008 when the economy went, things don't fetch what they once did.
Every time a certain recording is succeeded by another, it can deflate what it was once fetching.
last night playing some music, my friend noticed and commented how CDs never sound like the records. We were playing his "moving sidewalks" LP. (he doesn't have much of a table, he just buys some records to have for now)
When I went to play CDs, mine and his, I ran into that damn compression problem or whatever it is.
Vinyl is a labor of love, and it is very taxing to do overall. But it is a bit better. The magic of CD's, for me, is not having to mess with changing sides and most of all being able to shuffle the tracks.

When I touched base with my friend known here as Lucidsound(s) not too long ago he told me he'd been to a friends with an all-digtal set up that really caught his attention, so it can be done !!!

BTW, my (other) friend should have arrived from China today (if it's the 20th here), and I expect to try to put him in front of my computer one of the days I see him and try to figure this thing out a bit more (hope I can keep him here long enough, he's a jumping bean)

Personally I have never seen the transcription disc as a Hawkwind disc. Its the same IMO as all the other BBC transcriptions, but with Hawkwind on it, if that makes sense? And since its been widely reissued, IMO it is just a novelty item, albeit an expensive one. Also I have been burnt recently with a couple of items from US ebay. They take so long now to get to Germany, that the 28 day claim back from ebay and paypal has passed.

Regarding a digital only hi fi system sounding fantastic; I agree, its what I have built now. I have all my CDs ripped to a server and can play them back using my iPad as a controller through a hi end DAC, head phone amp and headphones. I dont bother so much with using speakers, as IMO headphones are more detailed and neighbour friendly. I also bought recently a quite expensive CD player which I use as a CD transport feeding my DAC. However I also have a vinyl playback system and it sounds different to the digital system. Vinyl IMO sounds better mainly as Mike says, because of lack of compression. It also sounds more alive. Nothing IMO beats a G&T on a sunday afternoon, dropping the needle on a mint 180g and chilling.

But I am in at the moment for some multiroom system like Sonos, so I can stream my music around my flat.

Mike, so you have a bootleg version of this? I never thought one existed...
My copy (which came from the land of beer and wurstel) has a gatefold cover (not laminated though) with a plastic inner sleeve attached to the inner of the cover. The cover has not writing on it (BBC Transcription services or anything). The label looks just like the one on auction (not that it is hard to fake it), and I don't know what is carved after the grooves. My labels are spotless clean, and I also have the cue sheets as a photocopy. I paid 1100 Euros for it plus some greek Hawkwind stuff if i remember well. I don't have a turntable (never had - I prefer the ease of a CD and i just collect vinyl) and i played just once to transfer it on a CD using a really neat machinery of my pal.
As Jamun said, it is a novelty for collectors/purists only. That mark on one label will take something off the price. I guess 600 max.

opaloka wrote:Mike, so you have a bootleg version of this? I never thought one existed...
My copy (which came from the land of beer and wurstel) has a gatefold cover (not laminated though) with a plastic inner sleeve attached to the inner of the cover. The cover has not writing on it (BBC Transcription services or anything). The label looks just like the one on auction (not that it is hard to fake it), and I don't know what is carved after the grooves. My labels are spotless clean, and I also have the cue sheets as a photocopy. I paid 1100 Euros for it plus some greek Hawkwind stuff if i remember well. I don't have a turntable (never had - I prefer the ease of a CD and i just collect vinyl) and i played just once to transfer it on a CD using a really neat machinery of my pal.
As Jamun said, it is a novelty for collectors/purists only. That mark on one label will take something off the price. I guess 600 max.

Your copy was once mine. I had 3!!!
You're welcome!!!
Both copies I sold came from an Australian dealer, at different times. Your copy messed with my mind. I thought it might have sounded slightly diff. Surely my imagination carrying me away, but it seemed like it might. I would have kept that copy if I could have until I decided it was identical.
I wanted to (ultimately) keep 2 copies so i could play one as much as i wished but you know how life is.