Hall of the Mountain Grill

Artist: Hawkwind
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724383755523
EAN: 0724383755523
ASIN: B00000K458

Release Date: 2001-04-24

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Tracks:

The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)
Wind Of Change
D-Rider
Web Weaver
You'd Better Believe It
Hall Of The Mountain Grill
Lost Johnny
Goat Willow
Paradox
You'd Better Believe It (Single Version Edit)
The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke) (Single Version)
Paradox (Remix Single Edit)
It's So Easy

Customer Reviews:

An incredible blend of heavy beats, spacey synthesizers, and mellotron.......2006-07-30

This incredible 1974 album opens with Lemmy's chugging Rickenbacker bass and the thunderous drumming of Simon House on The Psychedelic Warlords. Adding a very nice textural element to this track is the spacey mellotron work of Simon King. As a huge fan of the mellotron, I can't get enough of this instrument and it is all over this album. In fact, this album is a little different than previous efforts such as Doremi Fasolatido (1972) in that there is a bit of a proggier feel. Hawkwind would continue this approach on the absolutely incredible follow up album Warriors on the Edge of Time (1975).

The lineup on this album includes Dave Brock (electric, acoustic 12 string guitar, synthesizers, Hammond organ, and vocals); Lemmy (bass, vocals and guitar on Lost Johnny); Simon House (piano, mellotron, mini moog synthesizer, violin); Nik Turner (saxophone, oboe, flute, and vocals); Del Dettmar (piano, Hammond organ, synthesizers, and kalimba); and Simon King (drums). This is my favorite Hawkwind lineup.

The music on this album is very spacey, loaded chock full of synthesizers, and drenched in mellotron. Good examples of the synth-heavy tracks include Wind of Change, Hall of the Mountain Grill, and Goat Willow. All three feature very haunting melodies. At the other end of the spectrum is Lemmy's crushing and bass-heavy tune Lost Johnny and the tracks You'd Better Believe It and Paradox, which feature a pulverizing and insistent beat. These three tracks are the heaviest on the album. The remaining tracks more or less straddle both extremes. All in all, it is a very nice blending of styles and is precisely the reason why I like Hawkwind so much. According to the liner notes, of the tracks included on the original album You'd better Believe It and Paradox were recorded live although you would never know it - there is no audience noise whatsoever, although there is an energy to the tunes that suggests a live performance. The live tracks on this album were recorded at Edmonton Sundown in January of 1974.

This remastered album is quite nice and features fold-out cardboard flaps that feature glossy photos of the band. Unfortunately, there are not any liner notes. The bonus tracks include versions of You'd Better Believe It (single version) and The Psychedelic Warlords (single edit) along with a remixed version of Paradox and finally, the decent track Its So Easy (live).

This album is very highly recommended along with the eponymous debut and Warriors on the Edge of Time. I should note that if you are able to find a copy of Warriors on the Edge of Time issued by the German Rock Fever label grab it - it contains bonus live tracks not available on other versions of the album.

Hawkwind's progressive rock album........2002-04-13

When I try to get my friends into Hawkwind, I usually
start them out with this album, for it really is a good intro-
duction to them. Hawkwind got a tad more musical on HALL, due in
part to the arrival of violinist/keyboardist SIMON HOUSE, and
HALL also was their first progressive rock album. I don't like
every song on this, but I still think it's a very powerful album.
YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT has a very memorable vocal line to it; the chorus,
which has LEMMY singing the song title, is one of their best
choruses ever. Tis a very heavy song, with an extended instru-
mental break during which the soloists go nuts! The title track
is a very spacy, but melodic instrumental and is quite lovely,
actually. WIND OF CHANGE saw the first appearance of a mellotron
in a HAWKWIND song.LOST JOHNNY is one of LEMMY's best songs.
It's very spooky sounding, with it's dark lyrics and sythesizers
and is really a very enjoyable hard rock song. DEL DETTMAR con-
tributes a very nice, soothing instrumental. YOU BETTER, PSYCHE-
LEDIC WARLORDS and PARADOX showed that HAWKWIND hadn't complete-
ly abandoned their hard rock side. HALL is a terrific HAWKWIND
album!

Hawkwind's best?.......2001-07-25

With so many great albums, it's hard to say which one is Hawkwind's best. If it all came down to it, my vote would probably go to Mountain Grill. Well, for best studio album, anyway. With Psychedelic Warlords, D-Rider, Lost Johnny, Paradox...how can you go wrong? Hard to come by, but incredibly rewarding.

Good Tunes plus awsome album cover.......2001-01-26

When I first saw this album back in the 70's I bought it for the album cover because I never heard of them and because they cut a corner from the album it was like two bucks a bargin in my book even if the album sucked, but it was great I played that on my turntable over and over. I haven't heard it in ten years but now that its out on cd I will repurchase it and still keep my album cover.

Psychedelic Warlords became psychedelic songcrafts.......2001-01-24

The quality of this album is still as thrilling as their former classics (in search of space, Space Rituals, etc.) The song cycles are inspiring and impressive. However, we could saw a crisis that Hawkwind was beginning to repeat themselves (which later came true) and began to craft their songs instead of filling it with accidential muse. The songs are less intact, and we could see more "individual works" (like excellent solo Hall of the Mountain Grill, Goat Willow by the two Keyboard wizzard Simon House and Del Dettmar) but less fascinating collaboration, which is a trademark found in "Space Ritual". It seems that Hawkwind were beginning to degenerate. Anyway, it's still a great work in 70's work.

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