Hawkwind
Dave Brock: guitar, vocals and keyboards (1969- current)
Harvey Bainbridge: keyboards, bass, vocals (1978-91)
Alan Davey: bass, vocals, synthesizers (1984-96, 2000-2007)
Richard Chadwick: drums, vocals (1988- current)

Johnny D's Restaurant and Lounge
Somerville, Mass. U.S.A.
September 27, 1989
runtime: 91:19 (minutes/ seconds)
source: master audience tape
916 MB wav
508 MB flac
starting about 2:30 into the show, there's an aprx. 12 minute silent gap
near beginning of the show missing (watergate tape?)

setlist: (tracks 2 and 3 are bits of one or more of the 1st 3 songs,
included solely for archiving completeness of this recording)
01: Magnu 1:07 (cuts, very incomplete)
X: down through the night (missing)
X: treadmill (missing)
02: :56
03: :44
04: time we left > heads (this world today, cuts in) 10:12 >
05: Hassan I sabha (assassins of Allah) > 5:20
06: wind of change > 4:26
07: assault and battery > 5:33
08: the golden void > 5:24
09: back in the box 1:12 (cuts, tape flip)
10: back in the box 6:07
11: brainstorm 10:54
12: dream worker 8:02
13: damnation alley 13:03
14: needle gun 5:42
15: ejection 8:34
16: welcome to the future 3:26

lineage:
Nakamichi CM-100 microphones >
Sony WMD-6 cassette deck (dolby off) >
Maxell MX (metal) cassettes >
tascam 112 > soundforge (16/44 wav) >
flac 8 (sb's aligned w/TLH)
A this and that, you are there, 3 step torrent production.
(master > WAV > FLAC > you).
Do not sell this recording.
share freely and losslessly.
(the 1st few tracks have some problems,
the rest sound very good)

comments:
This recording was a bit of a fiasco in the beginning, and there is about a 12 minute
silent gap in the master tape, and a few much shorter gaps in the 1st track, once it
fades into Time We Left, the quality stays nice, and there is just one more interruption
after that for a quick tape flip. So if you're a completist (I try to be with recording
a concert) this may be a bit of a disappointment, but knowing how many medium to crummy
sounding HW recordings are out there, this may be a welcome addition. It's a nice show,
and except for some movement in front of mic's every once in a while, the fidelity is
pretty good on this. Johnny D's was a small place, and the sound is nice in there,
I didn't think it would work that well for a HW show, but it sounded good at the show,
and here too for the most part. I would guess a total of about 15 minutes are missing from
this near the start, due to a mic connection problem, but the encores are in here.
CD and DAT lineage are not. This comes directly from my master tape, which while not
perfect, is still one of the best if not the best sounding 89 HW aud I've heard, and
one of the better shows too. It has my favorite version of Needle Gun, which had no flaws
(that part 2 of this tape has been played often, the rest, hardly ever due to the flaws,
the worst of those are no longer audible after remastering). all instruments and vocals
come through clearly. I was about 20 feet from stage, about 7 feet left of center stage.
It's not a perfect recording, due to an intermittent problem in one of the mic's, but
still quite enjoyable. The concert was also quite enjoyable, tight inspired performance.