Possible Dave Brock/Richard connection

[M Holmes]

Ted Jackson jr. EL 84 writes:

> NOTE--
> This appeared pn the Richard Thompson List.  Thought you all would
> get a kick...
> theo
>
>
> I was looking over the BEAT THE RETREAT (the RT tribute album) CD
> slipcase yesterday and came across a name I didn't expect to see at
> all in the "thanks to" section (which is huge), that of Dave Brock.
> If it's the Dave Brock I'm thinking of, he's the captain of the
> starship Hawkwind, the grandfathers of the "space rock" movement (such
> as it is), a band with more lineup changes than Fairport (if that's
> possible), though unlike Simon Nicol, Brock's been in *every* version
> of the Hawkwind.  So despite the fact that Brock and Thompson are
> about as far apart musically as I can imagine (cerebral "folk-rock"
> singer-songwriter vs. primitive, apocalyptic space-sludge with
> cornball lyrics by people like Michael Moorcock (as well as the
> genuinely talented and alas, departed, Robert Calvert)), why on earth
> would BTR thank him?  I noticed that there are several other musicians
> on the the "thanks to" list who DON'T appear on the album itself, so
> perhaps these are people who wanted to contribute, or did and didn't
> make the final cut, etc.  If so, which song could Dave Brock have
> possibly done?  The mind reels.  "Madness of Love" might work as a
> kind of outer space rave-up.
>
> Maybe it's a different Dave Brock.
>
> Any ideas?

Err, Dave Brock employed his son as drummer in Hawkwind?

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