A very well reworked version of Paradox live at Magna, Rotherham, on 18th Dec 2006.
Again Alan Davey is outstanding providing the basics of Lemmy’s original bass line, and then his own interpretation, driving the song ever onwards and providing great melody.
Paradox was the second track on Hall of the Mountain Grill live from the 26th January 1974 Edmonton Sundown show. This song ends the album.
Dave Brock's style of stun-guitar riffing is very recognisable here, this could only be Hawkwind. His vocal is heavily reverbed and the melody is sombre, the lyrics again lamenting our inability to divine what's really important in life -
“See the signs, they're always there / But you know you never care / You're always looking for another reason.”
There's an urban commentary to many of the words on HOTMG, and the elegant Mellotron and bobbing bass uplift the message on the studio track.
The song then shifts up a gear, Brock the moody seer becoming the agitator -
“Always, always it's the same thing / Try it, try it, you just can't win!”
The song rises to a crescendo of energy, and falls back to a fatalistic chant -
“Down, down, down, down you go.”
The song finishes with a guitar solo, melodramatic Mellotron, and a fitting piano-and-bass coda leaving the listener to their thoughts, presumably the concrete jungles of urban decay carried through from Psychedelic Warlords.
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