(1947-04-20) 20 April 1947 (age 77) Thornton Heath, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Genres
Space rock
Instrument(s)
Keyboards
Formerly of
Hawkwind
Musical artist
Del Dettmar (born 20 April 1947 in Thornton Heath, Surrey, England) is an English musician, best known as synthesizer and keyboard player with English space rock band Hawkwind from 1971 to 1974.
After leaving school he had a number of jobs including working in a bank, digging potatoes on Jersey, and punting tourists up and down the river in Cambridge. Eventually he got a job as roadie with The Pretty Things and subsequently worked as road manager for Edgar Broughton Band, Arthur Brown, Juicy Lucy, Pete Brown, and then Cochise.[1]
He was recruited as road manager for Hawkwind by their manager Doug Smith. While attending to his road manager duties, he also sat out front at gigs operating a synthesizer and mixing the band.[2] He was brought into the band proper to replace a temporarily absent Dik Mik in May 1971. He co-produced (with Dave Brock) the album Doremi Fasol Latido and is credited as composer of the tracks "One Change" (Doremi Fasol Latido), "Electronic No. 1" (Space Ritual), and "Goat Willow" (Hall of the Mountain Grill).[3]
He left Hawkwind in June 1974[4] to emigrate to the East Shore of Kootenay Lake, in B.C. Canada, where he still lives. He recorded two albums with the Vancouver-based experimental group Melodic Energy Commission in 1979 and 1980 (with help from fellow ex-Hawkwinder Paul Rudolph).[5] He is an occasional contributor to the band Space Ritual.
^The Saga of Hawkwind (p64) - Carol Clerk
^The Saga of Hawkwind (p63) - Carol Clerk
^Allmusic credits for Del Dettmar
^NME; 29 June 1974 - Del quits Hawkwind
^Aural Innovations #5 - Melodic Energy Commission
(Review/Interview)
DelDettmar (born 20 April 1947 in Thornton Heath, Surrey, England) is an English musician, best known as synthesizer and keyboard player with English...
sedate instrumental featuring a heavily echoed keyboard contribution from DelDettmar. An edited version of "Lord of Light" (see Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light)...
Mik Davies had also temporarily left so the band's live sound engineer DelDettmar was pulled in as a replacement, whilst Huw Lloyd-Langton had departed...
contributing to the band. Dik Mik had left the band, replaced by sound engineer DelDettmar, but chose to return for this album giving the band two electronics players...
"D-Rider". The band's line-up would continue to shift during the year. DelDettmar left prior to the release of Hall of the Mountain Grill to live in Canada...
contributing to the band. Dik Mik had left the band, replaced by sound engineer DelDettmar, but chose to return for this album, thus giving the band two electronics...
St John La Baptiste De La Salle) - Synthesizer and electronic effects DelDettmar - synthesizer Adrian Wagner - keyboards on "The Song of the Gremlin (Parts...
the music is concerned, many of the band weren't happy with it anyway. DelDettmar commented "The mix is too toppy. I'd like to re-do the ending. Ah well...
Dettmar Cramer (4 April 1925 – 17 September 2015) was a German football manager who led Bayern Munich to the 1975 and 1976 European Cups. He was born...
Kilmister – bass guitar, vocals Dik Mik (Michael Davies) – Synthesizer DelDettmar – Synthesizer Simon King – drums The writing credit on the single is...
Genesis P-Orridge, Jello Biafra and former Hawkwind members Simon House, DelDettmar and Powell. One studio album Prophets of Time was released in 1994 followed...
King – drums (tracks 3 to 8) DikMik – audio generator (tracks 1 to 6) DelDettmar – synthesizer, keyboards (tracks 3 to 7) Simon House – synthesizer, violin...
Turner; DelDettmar; Dik Mik; Simon King. Tracks 2–4: The Roundhouse, 12 February 1972: Robert Calvert; Dave Brock; Lemmy; Nik Turner; DelDettmar; Dik Mik;...
Musicians Helios Creed – vocals, guitar, sampler, percussion, production DelDettmar – synthesizer on "Hyperventilation" Paul Fox – bass guitar on "Hyperventilation"...
without Robert Calvert and Dik Mik who had left in July. On that tour DelDettmar had bought land in Canada with the intention of emigrating, but remained...
Etchamendi 1 – 1 Ștefan Kovács 1 – 1 Roberto Ferreiro 1 – 1 Luis Aragonés 1 – 1 Dettmar Cramer 1 – 1 Juan Carlos Lorenzo 1 – 1 Luis Cubilla 1 – 1 Juan Mujica 1...
join the German football association DFB as a youth team coach alongside Dettmar Cramer, one of the assistants to head coach Helmut Schön. In this role...
the DFB and only readmitted after the intervention of the side's coach Dettmar Cramer. Beckenbauer made his debut with Bayern in a Bundesliga promotion...
similar to the one we would do in Tel Aviv, on 11 January, for US$255,000. —Dettmar Cramer, Bayern Munich's manager, 1975–1977, commenting on the low relevance...
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