hawkwind name
Dan Witt
hawkwind1 at EARTHLINK.NET
Thu Jul 10 11:24:13 EDT 1997
I received this from a member of the AC list I'm on.
Has anybody ever heard this story before:
> I've got this book about how rock bands got their names. Saw Hawkwind and I
> thought of you. (I hardly knew there was a band called Hawkwind until you mentioned
> it on SickThings.)
>
> Anyway, you probably already know this but ...
> Lemmy says they got the name because the sax and flute player, Nick Turner, had
> a big nose and he farted alot. It was Hawkwind Zoo before that but he says it
> was still for the same reason. He says there is no such place as Hwakwind Zoo in
> London.
> Anyway, that's what Lemmy say.
Sounds like just a myth to me, but I don't how they got the name.
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Dan Witt
MInneapolis, MN USA
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