Hawkwind

[DBoon]

[Big Kahuna]

1. I read a Scifi book about them as a teen...

I can't remember the title. My favorite part was the description of the mighty bass guitar "Boneshaker, which all women love, and all men fear!" :)

[LunaSea]

2. "Time of the Hawklords"

by Mike Moorcock and a guy named Butterworth.
Moorcock worked with the band from time to time even after he became a famous fantasy writer.

Its amazing they still sound the same since the late 60's.
More amazing still that such an unmusical group, often derided as "the poor mans Pink Floyd" will still show up for free gigs, and are cited as major influences on a couple of generations of musicians.

Whoda thunkit?

Weirdest though, is the number of scientists (physicists especially)
who are huge fans.

Time to crank up some vinyl!

Space Ritual...yeah.
My neighbors used to complain about it sounding like flying saucers landing on the roof.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. "Weirdest though,

is the number of scientists (physicists especially) who are huge fans."

Not really, considering their 1977 album "Quark, Strangeness and Charm."

Cover by the inimitable Hipgnosis.

There's a thread that's waiting to happen: what is your favorite Hipgnosis album cover? I think I'll do just that.

[Tahkcalb]

3. Still looking

and rocking!!!

[bobaloo2]

4. asdf

I was listening to some of their stuff the other day and realized that it was the clearest precursor to trance / techno, they just started it 30 years earlier. It had to have been an influence.