Palace Springs
Live album by
Hawkwind
Released3 June 1991
Recorded10 October 1989
VenuePalace Theatre, Los Angeles
GenreSpace rock
Length45:22
LabelGWR
ProducerHawkwind
Hawkwind chronology
Space Bandits
(1990) 		Palace Springs
(1991) 		Electric Tepee
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]

Palace Springs is a 1991 live/studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind.

Although released in 1991, this album was recorded in 1989 prior to the previous album Space Bandits. The first two tracks had been recorded with a mobile studio, while the remainder were recorded during a tour of North America.

Background

The live tracks were recorded during the band's 1989 tour of North America, their first tour there since the late 1970s. The Minneapolis show was issued as a double CD in 2008 by Voiceprint.[3]

Set

The full set typically ran as "Magnu", "Down Through The Night", "Treadmill", "Time We Left"/"Heads", "Hassan I Sabbah", "Wind Of Change", "Assault and Battery", "The Golden Void", "Back In The Box"/"Arrival In Utopia", "Brainstorm", "Dream Worker" and "Damnation Alley" with an encore of "Needle Gun" and/or "Ejection".[4]

Tour dates

Atomhenge bonus CD tracks 1-11 was released in USA as California Branstorm in July 1992 (Iloki – ILCD1014), and in UK December 1994 (Cyclops – CYCL-015) including track 12 as a bonus track.

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Back in the Box" (Harvey Bainbridge, Dave Brock, Alan Davey, Bridget Wishart) – 6:21
  2. "Treadmill" (Brock) – 8:09
  3. "Assault and Battery" [listed as "Lives of Great Men"] (Brock) – 3:26
  4. "The Golden Void" [listed as "Void of Golden Light"] (Brock) – 6:51

Side 2

  2. "Time We Left (This World Today)" (Brock) / "Heads" (Brock, Roger Neville-Neil) – 7:19
  3. "Acid Test" [aka "Dream Worker"] (Bainbridge) – 6:01
  4. "Damnation Alley" (Robert Calvert, Brock, Simon House) – 7:15

Atomhenge CD bonus tracks

  2. "The Damage Of Life" (Brock) – 7:21
  3. "Treadmill / Time We Left" [alternate version] (Brock) – 9:23

Atomhenge bonus CD: "California Brainstorm"

  1. "Void's End" (Dave Brock) – 5:28
  2. "Ejection" (Robert Calvert) – 5:58
  3. "Brainstorm" (Nik Turner) – 8:51
  4. "Out Of The Shadows" (Bridget Wishart, Brock, Alan Davey) – 8:27
  5. "Eons" [aka "Snake Dance"] (Davey, Brock, Harvey Bainbridge, Richard Chadwick) - 4:16
  6. "Night Of The Hawks" (Brock) - 5:24
  7. "TV Suicide" (Bainbridge) - 7:09
  8. "Back In The Box" (Davey, Wishart, Brock, Bainbridge, Chadwick) - 9.13
  9. "Assassins Of Allah" (Brock, Calvert) – 3:51
  10. "Propaganda" (Brock) – 1:07
  11. "Reefer Madness" (Brock, Calvert) – 8:28
  12. "Images" (Wishart, Brock, Davey) – 6:17

Notes

Disc one:

Personnel

Hawkwind

Credits

Release history

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ Voiceprint Archived 23 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b Hawkwind Gig and Set Lists 1989
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