HW: everything there is to know

[M Holmes]

Andy Gilham writes:

> Chris suggested:
>
> >Given how much collective knowledge the fans of the band have, esp
> >on BOC-L, why not try to put together a sort of FAQ listing songs,
> >meanings/stories (however disputed) and references. T
>
> I was thinking on these lines myself; in fact, I just spent a half-hour when
> I should have been working writing the following (I started with the Calvert
> era, for no particular reason):
>
> *Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music*
>
> Reefer Madness - title taken from circa 1940's anti-marijuana propaganda film
> Steppenwolf - book by Hermann Hesse
>
>
> *Quark, Strangeness and Charm*
>
> Damnation Alley - book by Roger Zelazny
> Quark, Strangeness and Charm - in fact, Einstein was married, and had several
> children including at least one outside his marriage; and of course,
> Copernicus made his discoveries before the invention fo the telescope
> Hassan I Sahba - leader of mediaeval Moslem sect known as the Hashishim, or
> "assassins", who used hashish to induce an ecstatic state; Black September
> was the name of a Palestinian terrorist organisation notorious for the
> massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic games; a "petrodollar" is a
> term for hard currency earned by oil producing countries.
> Days of the Underground - autobiographical piece about Hawkwind's early days;
> John the Bog and Smiling Mike were friends of the band.
> The Iron Dream - book by Norman Spinrad
>
>
> *25 Years On*
>
> Psi Power - refers to "Zener cards" used in attempts to measure telepathic
> phenomena; these cards are marked with symbols such as squares and triangles,
> which one subject will try and telepathically send to another
> Free Fall - 32 feet per second squared is the rate of accelartion due to
> gravity
> Flying Doctor - Australia's Flying Doctor service provides emergency medical
> care in the remote outback; a Percival Proctor is a light aircraft; a
> coolibah tree is a native Australian tree.
>
>
> *PXR5*
>
> Jack of Shadows - book by Roger Zelazny
> Robot - refers to Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics
> High Rise - book by JG Ballard
>
>
> I'm happy to extend this and collate any contributions, if there's support?

I reckon we oughta put together a dictionary of Komplete Hawkwind
References.

Entries something like:

WORD/PHRASE  blahblah
             blahblah
TRACK        tuntetun
ALBUM        thingummy
REFERENCE    texttextext
             textetext

if we do it in this format we can bung it into a bibliographic package
and play with the print formats.

It should be good for an article in Hawkfan/Kadu-Flyer/Hawkeye or
something and would be kinda neat to have in the archives.

Anyone wanna volunteer to keep track of contributions? If they keep 'em
in the above format, I'll volunteer to do any 'puting.....

> - Andy

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