HW: OVER CALVERT's DEAD BODY???

[Christian Mumford]

skarsol wrote:

>> >> (This Future)
>> > i dont know. this is too me a very small deal.its just a few lines of
>> >drivel
>> >imo,and if i wrote it i would probably not care if someone else took
>> >credit for
>> >it.i dont think too much of it.
>>
>> Well, personally, I consider it a great piece in the unmistakeble Calvert
style.
>> How can you say that Calvert probably wouldn't care if they took his lyrics?
>> Have you spoken to him recently (break out the oija board, folks, we need to
>> straighten this out!!)
>
>keep your sarcasm to your self please.if you will read above,you will
>see that i NEVER said anything about what bob may or may not feel
>about this.i stated how >I< would feel about it.

Sorry 'bout that - I misinterpreted that completely. Shoulda put a smiley
face on the ouija board comment, it wasn't meant to be sarcasm.

>and never mind the rest of my post.i can see that i was inaccurate on
>a few counts.i still say green finned is brock's tho.
>

I agree he probably wrote most of it, but I don't see why Calvert's name should
be left off if it was there originally.

>also i still believe that none of us has a clue to the reality of the
>situation,and we are not likely to ever understand it.who knows
>what passed between dave and bob prior to bob's death.what unwritten
>agreements were made? thing about verbal agreements with dead men,
>they dont stand in court,but thay can make it easy to sleep at night.

Okay, what do I know? Not a whole hell of a lot - I'm just a fan of their music,
and to me their music represents an... idealism, if you like. I just feel
that my illusions are in jeopardy here :). Brock & co. are people with
their own motivations, and their motivations may be sound to them. But from my
perspective I find it hard to justify this with any other reason than Brock
ending up getting a bigger slice of the cake. That bothers me a bit. No, it is
not Hawkwind's duty to be my 'moral guides' or whatever, I'm older than that.
Oh, excuse me, I'm rambling....

>i imagine,if calvert's and other's estates were concerned,there
>would probably be some contest going on about it even now.

I'm not so sure Calvert's widow has the ability to do much about it
(or even knows) - Calvert didn't pass on leaving a lot of money behind
from what I understand. Who knows about Simon King??? And Turner and Brock
have been fighting for years, so in their case it just comes off as a
part of the regular squabble....

The Business Trip is one of my favorite latter day HW live albums, and when
somebody pointed out the crediting inconsistencies, I just had to check,
and flipped out a bit -  if I came off as the 'Caped Copyright Avenger'
or something, sorry.

I just felt the issue needed pointing out though-

Christian