HW: everything there is to know

[J Strobridge]

Just been exploring my faq file:   I seem to have kept more than I
realised!

I'll check the Shakspeare refs. some other time!

jill

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> Entries something like:
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WORD/PHRASE  : Black Elk

TRACK        :Black Elk Speaks
ALBUM        : Space Bandits
REFERENCE    :  And while I seem to be on slightly off-beat subjects
here's some info about Black Elk I found while browsing through
backissues of Hawkfan:

"BLACK ELK SPEAKS by John G. Neihardt... this book is listed here
because of its connection with the Space Bandits album - namely the
track Black Elk Speaks.   The book is the life story of Black Elk, a
Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux Indians, who was second  cousin to Crazy
Horse.  A chance to read the Indian viewpoint of the battle with Custer,
the ghost dance (which inspired the Hawkwind track of that name) and the
Wounded Knee massacre.   Neihardt also recorded some of Black Elk's
words onto tape and it is from those that Neihardt's voice appears on
Space Bandits"




WORD/PHRASE  : Heads

TRACK        : Heads
ALBUM        : various
REFERENCE    : Ken Alexander writes:
>> I just got a book by Greg Bear called _Heads_.  It appears to involve an
>> attempt to read the brains of 400 cryogenically frozen dead heads.
>> What, if anything, is the connection between these two?


Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 00:08:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matthew Braun <mbraun at com.mot.mcd.urbana.hydra>
Subject: Re: heads

>
>Words from the 1988 Hawkwind tour prog and there are images all round
>the text of the band members' heads all sitting on metal plates and
>wired up to some complex machinery.

The first use of heads I saw was in the (too cool) Sci-Fi comic "Nexus",
back in 1981-82.  Initially published by Capital comics (in Madison, WI)
it moved to First Comics (in Chicago) for about 80 issues, and now to Dark
Horse Comics.  It's written by Mike Baron, and was initially illustrated
by Steve Rude.

In the first three issues, we learned the story of Clausius The Slaver,
who kidnapped beings, and chopped off their bodies.  Once a head was free
of its body, it gained psychic and other abilities.  Some heads became
insanely great stellar navigators.  Some just became insane.

Sane or not, Clausius kept the heads, putting each in its own liquid-
filled glass helmet, and wired 'em all together.  Among the heads' "other
abilities" was the ability to cast and channel "fusion energy" from the
stars.  This energy could power ships or weapons.

Clausius wired thousands of heads from hundreds of races together on his
ship in an attempt to harness enough energy to destroy Nexus (our hero).
The attempt failed, when the conduit (Clausius himself) overloaded and
burned up.  Nexus freed the heads.  Most were mounted on small flying
platforms.  Many got mechanical (flying) hands, and could psychically
controlled them.

Although offered asylum on "Ylum" (Nexus' base of operations) they left to
find their own home.  This didn't take long, as another of the heads'
abilities was using the energy for terra-forming.  With this power, they
formed "the Headworld".

                                        Anyway...



WORD/PHRASE  : Dangerous Visions

TRACK        : Dangerous Visions (lyrics by HLL)
ALBUM        : oops
REFERENCE    : sf book edited by Harlan Ellison



WORD/PHRASE  : World of Tiers - Philip Jose Farmer

TRACK        : World of Tiers
ALBUM        : PXR5
REFERENCE    : sf book by Philip Jose Farmer


WORD/PHRASE  : The Black Corridor


TRACK        : The Black Corridor
ALBUM        : Space Ritual Alive
REFERENCE    : book/story by Mike Moorcock & Hilary Bailey


WORD/PHRASE  : Slaughterhouse 5

TRACK        : The War I Survived
ALBUM        :
REFERENCE    : brief reference to Kurt Vonnegut's book Slaughterhouse 5




WORD/PHRASE  : Brainstorm

TRACK        : Brainstorm
ALBUM        : various
REFERENCE    : From: Alun Hughes <a.hughes at uk.ac.newi>


>> There's an sf novel called _Brainstorm_ : can't remember who it's by
>> just now, but I'm sure it has as much connection with the HW song as
>> David Karp's _One_ has with Metallica's...

LoC gives _Brainstorm_ as by Walter Dean Myers, published in 1977. The
blurb goes like this:

"FORTIA, the army of the world in the year 2076, investigates a
powerful, sinister ray that beams to earth from the planet Suffes
causing people to lose their minds."

aaargh.



WORD/PHRASE  : Master of the Universe

TRACK        : Master of the Universe
ALBUM        : many and various
REFERENCE    : From: Alun Hughes <a.hughes at uk.ac.newi>

>
>I would be curious, sometime, to put together a full history of the
>phrase "master(s) of the universe", including 'Awkwind, He-Man and Tom
>Wolfe...
>
>- Andy

For good measure, I also checked "Master of the Universe" in the LoC
title sequence, and there is indeed such a title, by Carl K. Urban,
published 1979. The LOC subject heading is "Spiritual Life".

aaargh again!


WORD/PHRASE  : Agents of Chaos

TRACK        :
ALBUM        : title of an album by Dave Brock and Crum
REFERENCE    : From: M Wright <M.Wright at uk.ac.shef>
Subject: Books with HW connection


There is a pulp SF book entitled 'The Agents of Chaos', by someone I cannot
remember [but I think it is a known SF author], that deals with a band of
anarchists attempting to change a world to anarchy. I t was written in the
sixties, I think, and was interesting enough to make me think that Dave
might have read the book and been impressed with it enough to name the
album after it, rather than it being a process of parallel evolution.




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