The Business Trip is a 1994

1994 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.-January–February:*January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so....

 live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by the English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 space rock

Space rock

Space rock is a subgenre of rock music; the term originally referred to a group of early, mostly British, 1970s progressive and psychedelic rock bands such as Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, characterised by slow, lengthy instrumental passages dominated by electric organs, synthesizers, experimental...

 group Hawkwind

Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....

. It was recorded during the group's 1992 tour to promote the It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous

It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous

It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous is the eighteenth studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1993. It spent one week on the UK albums chart at #75....

album.

Although credited as being live, some of the tracks are studio recordings, such as "Quark, Strangeness and Charm

Quark, Strangeness and Charm (single)

"Quark, Strangeness and Charm" is a 1977 song by the UK rock group Hawkwind, being the title track from the Quark, Strangeness and Charm album....

", "Berlin Axis" and "Terra Mystica". The version of "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" here has a new slower musical backing than the version that appeared on the group's 1977 album Quark, Strangeness and Charm

Quark, Strangeness and Charm

Quark, Strangeness And Charm is the seventh studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1977. It spent 6 weeks on the UK albums chart peaking at #30....

, and this new version was released as an EP without the overdubbed crowd noise. "The Right Stuff" is a cover version from Robert Calvert

Robert Calvert

Robert Calvert was a writer, poet, and musician.-Biography:Born Robert Newton Calvert in Pretoria, South Africa, Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two years of age and later attended school in London and Margate. He began his career by writing poetry and in 1967 formed a Street...

's 1974 album Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters

Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters

Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters was a 1974 satirical concept album by Robert Calvert, the former frontman of British space-rock band Hawkwind. It consists of a mixture of songs and comic spoken interludes....

.

Side 1

1. "Altair" [aka "Wave Upon Wave"] (Alan Davey
   Alan Davey (musician)
   Alan Davey is best known as the former bassist with Hawkwind. He is now the bass player and vocalist for Gunslinger as well as Hawklords, Meads of Asphodel, and Thunor.-Early musical career:...
   
   ) – 1:02
2. "Quark, Strangeness And Charm" (Robert Calvert
   Robert Calvert
   Robert Calvert was a writer, poet, and musician.-Biography:Born Robert Newton Calvert in Pretoria, South Africa, Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two years of age and later attended school in London and Margate. He began his career by writing poetry and in 1967 formed a Street...
   
   , Dave Brock
   Dave Brock
   David Anthony "Dave" Brock is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He plays electric guitar, synthesizer, bass and oscillators. He is best known as being one of the founders and musical focus of the English space rock group Hawkwind...
   
   ) – 6:24
3. "L.S.D." (Davey, Richard Chadwick) – 5:30
4. "The Camera That Could Lie" (Brock) – 6:55

Side 2

5. "Green Finned Demon" (Calvert, Brock) – 6:32
6. "Do That" [aka "You Shouldn't Do That"] (Nik Turner
   Nik Turner
   Nik Turner is a British musician, best known as a founding member of space rock pioneers Hawkwind. Turner plays saxophones, flute, sings and is a composer...
   
   , Brock) – 3:09
7. "The Day A Wall Came Down" (Brock) – 3:32
8. "Berlin Axis" (Brock) – 2:27
9. "Void Of Golden Light" [aka "The Golden Void"] (Brock) – 5:50

Side 3

10. "The Right Stuff" (Calvert) – 5:31
11. "Wastelands" [aka "Wastelands Of Sleep"] (Brock) – 2:10
12. "The Dream Goes On" [aka "The Iron Dream"] (Simon King
    Simon King (musician)
    Simon King is an English drummer most noted for his work with Hawkwind. He was described in 1985 by British rock magazine 'Sounds' as 'definitive rock drummer.'...
    
    ) – 1:56
13. "Right To Decide" (Brock) – 7:31

Side 4

14. "The Dream Has Ended" [aka "You Know You're Only Dreaming"] (Brock) – 4:44
15. "This Future" [aka "Welcome To The Future"] (Calvert) – 1:52
16. "Terra Mystica" (Brock) – 8:00 – vinyl only track

Note

Although banded as a separate track, "The Camera That Could Lie" froms the middle section of "L.S.D."

Personnel

• Dave Brock
  Dave Brock
  David Anthony "Dave" Brock is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He plays electric guitar, synthesizer, bass and oscillators. He is best known as being one of the founders and musical focus of the English space rock group Hawkwind...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Alan Davey
  Alan Davey (musician)
  Alan Davey is best known as the former bassist with Hawkwind. He is now the bass player and vocalist for Gunslinger as well as Hawklords, Meads of Asphodel, and Thunor.-Early musical career:...
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals
• Richard Chadwick – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  

Credits

• Recorded live Thames Valley University, November 1993
• Photographs and cover design by John Chase.

Release history

• September 1994: Emergency Broadcast System Records
  Emergency Broadcast System Records
  Emergency Broadcast System Records was a record label setup in UK in the early 1990s by Hawkwind and Doug Smith.-External links:* - full catalogue...
  
  , UK; CD (EBSCD111), CD digipak (EBSSCD111) and 2x12" vinyl (EBSLP111)
• November 1994: Griffin Music
  Griffin Music
  Griffin Music was an independent record label created in 1989 in Toronto, Canada by author/publisher Robert Godwin. It was originally created to finance and record the second album of Led Zeppelin tribute act, Michael White & The White...
  
  , USA; CD (GCD 280-2), CD digipak (GCD 279-2) and 2x12" vinyl (GCD 280-1)