Del Dettmar | |
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| Born | (1947-04-20)20 April 1947 (age 77) Thornton Heath,Surrey, England, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Space rock |
| Instrument | Keyboards |
| Formerly of | Hawkwind |
Del Dettmar (born 20 April 1947 inThornton Heath,Surrey, England) is an English musician, best known as synthesizer and keyboard player with Englishspace rock bandHawkwind from 1971 to 1974.
After leaving school he had a number of jobs including working in a bank, digging potatoes onJersey, and punting tourists up and down the river inCambridge. Eventually he got a job as roadie withThe Pretty Things and subsequently worked as road manager forEdgar Broughton Band,Arthur Brown,Juicy Lucy,Pete Brown, and thenCochise.[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 (withDave Brock) the albumDoremi 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 groupMelodic Energy Commission in 1979 and 1980 (with help from fellow ex-HawkwinderPaul Rudolph).[5] He is an occasional contributor to the bandSpace Ritual.
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