Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

Good story I just heard.

Hawkwind were playing the Cambridge Corn Exchange on the Space Ritual tour in 72, during the soundcheck the police turn up to do a search for drugs.

The band all run off the stage & leg it apart from Del Dettmar & Dik Mik who are fiddling around with their audio generators, they start playing these really high pitched weird noises and basically freak the fuck out of the police dogs to the point they refuse to enter the building causing the police call off the search.