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[Andrew Gilham]

>I bet most ppl of this list rmeber hearing
>hawkwidn in the 80s or even 70s.

Yeah, I thought "Silver Machine" was just awesome when it came out, and so
did everyone else in form 2T...  I keep forgetting that not everyone got
into HW this way, but it seemed to be pretty much the case for most of my
generation of Hawkfans.  But most of that generation seemed to fall by the
wayside at one of two points: either after Lemmy was sacked, or after the
Hawklords split and Calvert left.  I always felt I was more serious than
that, and it took four or five poor albums (starting with _Levitation_) and
a couple of really dire gigs before I gave up.

I got back on board by hearing, completely by chance, part of a BBC "in
concert" show - "The War I Survived" - and I had to check out _Xenon Codex_
after that.  Which I thought was a solid piece of work, if not spectacular.
 And of course I had to go to the Calvert memorial show, out of respect,
and that was it, I was back.

So imagine my surprise on joining this list to find that people picked up
on HW through the very albums that turned me off!  And someone describing
_Live Chronicles_ (the first HW album I didn't bother buying, because I was
there, and it was one of those gigs I just described as "really dire") as
"EPIC"! :)

BTW, of the RCA albums, I always felt the only decent one was _Church_...
 I mean, I really can't listen to _Sonic Attack_ - I do try about once a
year - but if we all liked the same albums it'd be really dull, wouldn't
it. :)

- Andy

ObCD: Radio Birdman - _Under the Ashes_

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mailto:Andy.Gilham at btinternet.com; http://www.btinternet.com/~andy.gilham


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