HW : Name

[Mike Parkington]

As far as I understand it, Hawk after his habit of spitting, wind from his habit of farting. Prosaic, but plausible.

Mike P

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From:   J Strobridge[SMTP:eset08 at TATTOO.ED.AC.UK]
Sent:   Tuesday, August 27, 1996 04:04
To:     Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
Subject:        Re: HW : Name

Jon Browne writes:

> In message <01I8R4KH3H6A8YASTS at delphi.com>, HERBERT119 at DELPHI.COM writes
> >Definitely Nik. That is the schnozz that helped give HW their name...
>
> I find it hard to beieve that Hawkwind got their name from Nik's nose
> and the fact that he farted a lot. For a start weren't they called
> Hawkwind before Nik joined?
>

I think they were called Group X when Nik joined and Hawkwind Zoo
subsequently ('cos apparently they all looked like something out of a
zoo....) and then the zoo bit got dropped.

All the official histories have the naming after Nik Turner and/or Terry
Ollis (in appearance) and even, I think, Nik Turner tells this story.   The
comment afterwards is usually along the lines of "so this is the rather
prosaic reasoning behind the Hawkwind name - not very esoteric or
exciting is it!"


> I've always thought it was a referece to the Aeon of Horus, the Hawk-
> headed God as postulated by Crowley among others. (Ya know, the "Wind Of
> Change" etc.) I thought Nik's original Sphynx work bore this out to a
> degree. I was going to ask Dave in the Cyber-Interview but was too busy
> "holding the centre" at the time!
>
> Any thoughts?

Maybe this came later - once they got into the space-rock style?

yrs

jill (wet blanket) strobridge

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