Nik Turner's Hawkwind w/ Nightbitch 10/30/13 BAR

A fitting musical event for the day before halloween. Local group, Nightbitch was more metal than prog. Frontman had a Vedder-esque delivery and they came armed with some capable songs. The evenings highlight was a revisit from the 70s prog behemoth Hawkwind. Founding member Nik Turner on sax and flute is now in his 70s. Guitar, bass, drums, and spacekeys with Turner played in front of a video screen that switched from vintage video to trippy blaxploitation footage. Hawkwind was prog-metal somewhere between Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath. Turner's current (much younger) bandmates certainly worshipped at the altar of original Hawkwind. The scantily-clad twentysomething female on keyboards spent much of the time suggestively gyrating, which was definitely part of this bands m.o. Performing much of the epic album Space Ritual to a near capacity crowd, Hawkwind hasn't skipped a beat (and even if they had, who would know?)