HW: OVER CALVERT's DEAD BODY!!!!!

[William Duffy]

skarsol wrote:
>
> > (The Dream Goes On)
> > 1. If you guessed "The Business Trip" from 1993 and credit the song
> > Brock, you are apparantly right! However, it's really called "The
> > Iron Dream" and was written by Simon King and appeared on "Quark,
> > Strangeness & Charm" in 1977 - strange huh? Just slap some lyrics
> > about silicon chips in your head onto it, and it's a new song!
>
> perhaps the original iron dream was an interpretation of some lost
> classical piece?

Some of you may recall my reference to this music being used in a
Japanese SF?Puppet show. Maybe they also reused an old classical piece?
>
> > (Green Finned Demon)
> > 3. Okay, this one ain't hard. Of course it first appeared on the "Earth
> > Ritual Preview" EP back in the early 80's, and later on the "Mighty Hawkwind
> > Classics" CD. And, it was written by Brock/Calvert. But, take a look at "The
> > Business Trip" album again, and you'll find that it's only credited to Brock -
> > boy, it must have slipped his mind completely! Hey, lay off the weed, your
> > memory's going!
>
> i dont know,but the 'earthed to the ground' album (1984) credits brock
> alone with writing this tune.and it just doesn't seem like calvert's
> style,to me.besides,
>

Maybe the original credit for Calvert was a boo-boo, since he wasn't in
the band at the time. Album covers have been known to do that sort of
thing before.

> > (Do That)
> > 4. Now, isn't it funny, it seems something is going on here that shouldn't be
> > going on - because not only is this song called "You Shouldn't Do That" on
> > "X In Search of Space" back in '71, it's also written by Brock/Turner. Slip
> > sideways thru time to the future again, and you'll find out that apparantly
> > Brock/Davey/Chadwick wrote this song especially for us on "The Business Trip"!
> >
> again,these lyrics sound like brock.i don't know if its so.but if brock
> was responsible for the words,the tune is his.all that would leave to
> nik is the sax,which is not present in the re-write.????
>

It's not the complete song. Maybe Nik wrote the missing bits??

> > (The Right Stuff)
> > 5. Ah, this one's easy! Bob Calvert again, obviously, on his solo album from
> > 1974, "Captain Lockheed & the Starfighters". But, unbeknownst to us until
> > 1993's "The Business Trip", Brock had a hand in its creation along with
> > Calvert as well!
> ya got us here,for sure.if hw played it w/out lyrics and put brock's
> name on it w/out calvert's,i dont think there would be a problem.i think
> probably calvert gave the
> band a poem,and they wrote music for it.im with ya on this one tho',cos
> these
> lyrics are unquestionably calvert.
>

I seem to remember my copy of "Captain Lockhead..." crediting Brock as
well?

> maybe im splitting hairs,maybe not.but the fact is,none of US really
> knows the deal on any of this,and becos of that,we should probably
> withhold judgement.i have personally seen far too much kindness and
> generosity from brock to think that he deserves
> any label such as "greedy".i think what we have here,is a "1500.00
> paycheck,
> and each of five members feeling that they deserve a 500.00 cut".
> i am no writer,so these thots may not make much sense to most of you.try
> to think about it and see if ya can understand what im trying to say.
> sorry for babbling,   rj

As I said earlier in this piece as well, as these versions are not
entirely accurate recreations of the originals (eg "Do That"), the it
may be that the parts that the other ex-members were involved in have
been removed from the new versions??

William