HW: Black Sword

[Chuck Rosenberg]

(he got me i a good idea of whats out there.
>  Jeff >>
> Well, I am no longer a teen (24 yrs old now) but I got into Hawkwind when
I
> wasn't much older than you.

I proudly state that I used to be one of the youthier ones here...24 now,
long out of the race...
I think Brian Halligan (BOC fan) is about my age, or 23...and Damon
Capehart.
It's tough to be a young Hawkfan in the US, ain't it? You kinda feel like
you're alone and cold on the edge of time...

 I also had discovered and devoured the Elric
> series (along with Corum, Erekose, and of course HAWKMOON).  I was also a
big
> fan of Motorhead and watched an interview with him in which he was handed
a
> bag of goodies and asked to comment on each item in the bag.  One of the
> items was a Michael Moorcock novel (to which he stated something to the
> effect of "a great author... but a pity about the last name.")

"Michael More Plots. Yes, Michael Moorcock, most unfortunate name, but we
won't go into that on family television now, will we?"

Moorcock indirectly got me into BOC, via Black Blade. I had read the Elric
series and was a big fan. At first I thought BOC just wrote a tune about
Elric, then realized MM had actually collaborated with them...then heard he
collaborated w/HW...finally realized he was actually a member with
HW...that was the evolution of my realization of MM's involvement w/rock
music...

and another
> was a Hawkwind album.  I was 16 at the time, and had read some mentions
of
> Hawkwind in the gaming magazine White Dwarf, along with some mentions of
> Elric.  I decided that I just had to hear Hawkwind.
>
> About a year later, I finally found my first Hawkalbum: Anthology 2 on
> cassette.  As I have said before and will say again, it can be such a
pain to
> find Hawkwind in the U.S.!!
>

Amen, Tony! Such frustration. Gotta move up to Frisco, someone here said
that's a good place to find Space Rock in the Western Hemisphere.

> 5 Fave Hawkalbums?   In no particular order: Doremi Faso Latido, Quark,
> Strangeness and Charm, California Brainstorm (how did I miss this
concert?),
> Palace Springs, and Electric Tepee.
>

Space Ritual (though I've finally grown a bit tired of it after 500 plays),
Doremi, Warrior, Church (I love the early '80s stuff...lush, electronic,
experimental, successfull--Mists of Meridin is to me the pinnacle of
ambient music, "Void City" is another favorite, and I find alot of
inspiring stuff on Sonic Attack, too), PXR5.

Just picked up It Is The Biz, finally, some wonderful tracks, esp. Space is
Their Palestine...

> Tony

A less descriminating Hawkfan, Charlie