Hawkwind were finally downsizing a part of their spectacle. They were on tour in Canada, crossing the border from Windsor to Detroit, when customs nabbed Lemmy Kilmister’s supply of amphetamine sulfate. The bassist spent five days in jail, and the band bailed him out and fired him. Undeterred, Kilmister promised to create a band of his own—one he could not be junked from for something as petty as a drug bust. “They’ll be the dirtiest rock and roll band in the world,” Kilmister told Sounds. “If we moved in next door your lawn would die.”
