{"id":973750,"date":"2019-11-26T13:59:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T20:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=918984"},"modified":"2019-11-26T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T20:59:43","slug":"todd-rundgren-ex-hawkwind-bassist-cover-post-malones-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/todd-rundgren-ex-hawkwind-bassist-cover-post-malones-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Rundgren, Ex-Hawkwind Bassist Cover Post Malone\u2019s \u2018Circles\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bassist Alan Davey joined space rockers Hawkwind<\/a> in 1984 \u2014 more than a decade before Post Malone<\/a> was born \u2014 but he felt such a kinship with the pop star\u2019s Number One hit \u201cCircles\u201d that he decided to redo it with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee Todd Rundgren<\/a>. Violinist L. Shankar also sits in.<\/p>\n

Davey\u2019s version, an instrumental, is naturally trippier and more psychedelic than Post\u2019s, with Shankar taking the lead on most of the song before Rundgren plays a freewheeling solo toward the end. The one-off track is credited to Hawkestrel, Davey\u2019s consortium of Hawkwind alumni, and it\u2019s coming out ahead of the group\u2019s 2020 LP.<\/p>\n

Davey recently told Billboard<\/a><\/em> the Post Malone cover came about because the song reminded him of his own \u201cCosmic Doll,\u201d which he wrote in 1985. \u201cI started playing it in the house and started to hear, \u2018Oh, I can do this with it and that with it \u2026 \u2018\u201d he said. \u201cBefore I knew it, I was recording it. Three hours goes by and all of a sudden you\u2019ve written this piece of music for no reason. Then I approached Cleopatra [Records] with it, and they were like, \u2018Wow, this sounds like Post Malone meets [Hawkwind\u2019s 1975 record] Warrior on the Edge of Time<\/em>!\u2019 \u2014 which is kind of relevant because I\u2019m making music with all these old Hawkwind members. Everything goes around in circles, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hawkestral\u2019s debut, The Future Is Us<\/em>, came out earlier this year and it featured guest recordings by former Hawkwind members, including Nik Turner, Simon House and Paul Rudolph, among others, as well as several now-deceased members such as Huw Lloyd-Langton, Ginger Baker and Lemmy Kilmister. Davey, who was a member of Hawkwind from 1984 to 1996 and again from 2000 to 2007, told Billboard <\/em>his new record will feature contributions from Baker, Carmine Appice, Mick Taylor, Arthur Brown and William Shatner.<\/p>\n

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Bassist Alan Davey joined space rockers Hawkwind in 1984 \u2014 more than a decade before Post Malone was born \u2014 but he felt such a kinship with the pop star\u2019s Number One hit \u201cCircles\u201d that he decided to redo it with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee Todd Rundgren. Violinist L. Shankar also sits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 03:32:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}