Opener MV and EE are a guitar psych duo. Matt Valentine played some blistering leads and his female cohort EE played lap rhythm guitar. The songs meandered and the vocals were Flaming Lipsesque.
Bay Area psych group Hedersleben played a set and stayed on as Nik Turner's band. Guitar, bass, drums, and dueling young female keyboards/vocals had some decent originals. The main female singer donned a Muslim headscarf and took a backseat when Turner took the stage. Between sets, I chatted with Turner about hitch-hiking, our kids (his son just earned a law degree from Cambridge), drugs, traffic, and the kindness of strangers. Hawkwind released the Prog-metal-psych live opus Space Ritual in 1973. With Turner on sax, flute, and vocals Hawkwind owns a special place in the rock continuum. Their concerts were happenings that lasted hours, with light shows, go-go dancers and such. On this evening, Turner was in good form, chugging through old and new material.
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