HW lyrics

[J Strobridge]

> Where did Calvert get the German from? Did he live in Germany
> for a while, or did he happen to speak German?

The lyrical concept of the track has been taken straight from Hesse's
book "Steppenwolf" which folk on this list recommended me to read and I
now recommend in turn to anyone who hasn't done so yet.

However the German phrase doesn't seem to occur in the book - or at
least it doesn't figure much in the translation (I'm assuming from
memory it was a translation!) I read so I'm not at all sure where
Calvert got this from or why he made such a feature of it in the
lyrics.

> I know he guested on Nektar's 'Down To Earth' album. Nektar
> were all living in Germany at that time.

>From what I remember of the early Hawkwind history years the band (well
Brock anyhow) spent quite a lot of time in Holland and Germany playing
music over there - the music and especially the prog-rock scene seems to
have been a whole lot more advanced and considerably more relaxed than
it was in this country.

Maybe Bernard can give us some historical insight into this?


cheers

jill


obOrganisationalProblems> EasterCon,Ozrics,PT - all on the same day
but 200 miles apart 8-(

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