The Business Trip
The Business Trip | ||||
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Live album by Hawkwind | ||||
Released | 19 September 1994 | |||
Recorded | November 1993 | |||
Venue | Thames Valley University | |||
Genre | Space rock | |||
Length | 73:05 | |||
Label | Emergency Broadcast System | |||
Producer | Hawkwind | |||
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The Business Trip is a 1994 live album by the English space rock group Hawkwind. It was recorded at the Slough gig of the group's 1993 tour to promote the It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous album.
Although credited as being live, some of the tracks are studio recorded backing tapes, to which the band mimed, such as "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" and "Berlin Axis". "Terra Mystica". was a bonus on the original vinyl-only release, and has never been performed live. The version of "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" here has a new slower musical backing than the version that appeared on the group's 1977 album Quark, Strangeness and Charm, and this new version was released as an EP without the overdubbed crowd noise. "The Right Stuff" is a cover version from Robert Calvert's 1974 album Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters.
Track listing
Side 1
- "Altair" [a.k.a. "Wave Upon Wave"] (Alan Davey) – 1:02
- "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" (Robert Calvert, Dave Brock) – 6:24
- "L.S.D." (Davey, Richard Chadwick) – 5:30
- "The Camera That Could Lie" (Brock) – 6:55
Side 2
- "Green Finned Demon" (Calvert, Brock) – 6:32
- "Do That" [a.k.a. "You Shouldn't Do That"] (Nik Turner, Brock) – 3:09
- "The Day a Wall Came Down" (Brock) – 3:32
- "Berlin Axis" (Brock) – 2:27
- "Void of Golden Light" [a.k.a. "The Golden Void"] (Brock) – 5:50
Side 3
- "The Right Stuff" (Calvert) – 5:31
- "Wastelands" [a.k.a. "Wastelands of Sleep"] (Brock) – 2:10
- "The Dream Goes On" [a.k.a. "The Iron Dream"] (Simon King) – 1:56
- "Right to Decide" (Brock) – 7:31
Side 4
- "The Dream Has Ended" [a.k.a. "You Know You're Only Dreaming"] (Brock) – 4:44
- "This Future" [a.k.a. "Welcome to the Future"] (Calvert) – 1:52
- "Terra Mystica" (Brock) – 8:00 – vinyl and Atomhenge CD bonus track
Note
Although banded as a separate track, "The Camera That Could Lie" forms the middle section of "L.S.D."
The notable tracks omitted from the album, recorded at the gig are:
Letting In the Past (Living in the Past), Tibet Is Not China, Psychedelic Warlords, Sputnik Stan, Assassins of Allah (Hassan-i-Sahba) / Space Is Their Palestine.
Davey's original vocals on Golden Void were overdubbed with Brock's.
A good quality video of the entire Slough gig is known to exist.
Personnel
- Hawkwind
- Dave Brock – guitar, keyboards, vocals
- Alan Davey – bass guitar, vocals
- Richard Chadwick – drums
Credits
- Recorded live Thames Valley University, November 1993, engineered by Raymond Steeg.
- Photographs and fold-cover design of the original digipack release by John Chase.
Charts
Chart (1994) | Peak position |
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UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)[3] | 30 |
Release history
- September 1994: Emergency Broadcast System Records, UK; CD (EBSCD111), CD digipak (EBSSCD111) and 2x12" vinyl (EBSLP111)
- November 1994: Griffin Music, USA; CD (GCD 280-2), CD digipak (GCD 279-2) and 2x12" vinyl (GCD 280-1)
- 28 November 2011: Atomhenge (Cherry Red) Records, ATOMCD1031, UK CD
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
External links
- The Business Trip at Atomhenge Records
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- Dave Brock
- Richard Chadwick
- Magnus Martin
- Thighpaulsandra
- Doug MacKinnon
- Nik Turner
- Dik Mik
- Huw Lloyd-Langton
- Thomas Crimble
- Del Dettmar
- Simon King
- Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister
- Robert Calvert
- Simon House
- Alan Powell
- Paul Rudolph
- Adrian Shaw
- Harvey Bainbridge
- Steve Swindells
- Keith Hale
- Ginger Baker
- Andy Anderson
- Robert Heaton
- Alan Davey
- Clive Deamer
- Bridget Wishart
- Ron Tree
- Mr Dibs
- Tim Blake
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- Hall of the Mountain Grill
- Warrior on the Edge of Time
- Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
- Quark, Strangeness and Charm
- 25 Years On (as Hawklords)
- PXR5
- Levitation
- Sonic Attack
- Church of Hawkwind
- Choose Your Masques
- The Chronicle of the Black Sword
- The Xenon Codex
- Space Bandits
- Electric Tepee
- It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous
- White Zone (as Psychedelic Warriors)
- Alien 4
- Distant Horizons
- In Your Area
- Spacebrock
- Take Me to Your Leader
- Take Me to Your Future
- Blood of the Earth
- Onward
- The Machine Stops
- Into the Woods
- Road to Utopia
- All Aboard the Skylark
- Carnivorous (as Hawkwind Light Orchestra)
- Somnia
- The Future Never Waits
- Stories from Time and Space
- Space Ritual
- Live Seventy Nine
- Coded Languages
- This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic
- Live Chronicles
- Palace Springs
- The Business Trip
- Love in Space
- Hawkwind 1997
- Yule Ritual
- Canterbury Fayre 2001
- Spaced Out in London
- Knights of Space
- Space Ritual Live
- At the Roundhouse
- 50 Live
- We Are Looking in on You
- The Weird Tapes
- Hawkwind, Friends and Relations
- The Text of Festival
- Zones
- Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin
- Space Ritual Volume 2
- Hawkwind Anthology
- Out & Intake
- BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
- The Friday Rock Show Sessions
- Hawklords Live
- California Brainstorm
- Undisclosed Files Addendum
- The 1999 Party
- Glastonbury 90
- Choose Your Masques: Collectors Series Volume 2
- Complete '79: Collector Series Volume 1
- Atomhenge 76
- Live 1990
- Roadhawks
- Masters of the Universe
- Repeat Performance
- Angels of Death
- Spirit of the Age
- Stasis (The UA Years 1971–1975)
- Tales from Atom Henge
- Epocheclipse
- Future Reconstructions – Ritual of the Solstice
- Masters of Rock
- Spirit of the Age Anthology
- The Dream Goes On
- Hawkwind Zoo EP
- Sonic Assassins EP
- The Earth Ritual Preview
- Quark, Strangeness and Charm
- "Hurry On Sundown"
- "Silver Machine"
- "Urban Guerrilla"
- "Kings of Speed"
- "Kerb Crawler"
- "Back on the Streets"
- "Quark, Strangeness and Charm"
- "Psi Power"
- "25 Years"
- "Shot Down in the Night"
- "Who's Gonna Win the War?"
- "Spirit of the Age"
- Sonic Assassins
- Hawklords
- Space Ritual
- Hawklords (2008)