HW on call (was Re: HW: 1999 Party lineup?)

[Carl E. Anderson]

On ons 19 nov 1997 17.10 +0000 "Dave Berry" <daveb at HARLEQUIN.CO.UK> wrote:
> On 19 Nov 15:57, Carl E. Anderson wrote:
>>     My remasters sit within arms reach on my desk and get played lots :)
 I
>> expect _1999_ to join them :)
>
> Ah, well you're just a young scrap of a thing ;-).

    Guilty :)

> I've known the old
> albums for so many decades that I don't need to play them any more.
> I can conjure a note-perfect rendition of the entirety of HotMG in my
> head :-).

    Well, I can hum pretty much all the bass part from "Orgone Accumulator"
:)

> Not such good evidence for the theory of Hawkfan bipolarity, then.
> The albums I play the most are the 90's albums (excluding Space Bandits),

    I keep forgetting that's a 90s album.  I don't have it with either.

> plus Live Chronicles.  (Also the two studio Spiral Realms albums).

    I actually have the first one here, I think.

> Seriously, I think my preference for the newer albums is largely to
> do with familiarity.

    Well, really my favorite period for HW after the UA years is post-Space
Bandits.  I love Palace Springs and the rockier tracks on Electric Teepee.
And California Brainstorm.  And some of the raging live tapes from the
early 90s.

    I like the Tree-period stuff pretty well so far, but don't like Dave
fading into the background.  You could really hear his guitar right out
there in the live material from about 92 or so!

> It's the same reason I really liked hearing SteppenWolf
> and Aerospaceage Inferno live, but couldn't get excited about
> Brainstorm and Ejection.

    I like a lot of the material from the Calvert years, but find I often
like it better done by later lineups.  The Calvert-era lineups often tended
to lack both punch _and_ spaceiness, IMO.

>>     On the spinoff side, I've got Uncle Nik's _Past or Future_
>
> I don't think that much of this.  It's got its good moments, but
> it's also got its bad moments (like Nik's voice on D-Rider).

    Nik's voice dipped below the passable some time ago :)  I like it
better than the first Nikwind CD, but now that I have _1999_ I may send it
back to the warehouse (ooo, except for the cool "Lord of the Hornets" ....)

> I have just a tape of No Sleep Til Hammersmith, which has got all the
> good early stuff on.  I don't really know his later stuff.  I got 1916
> out of the library, but wasn't impressed.

    The EQ was not good on 1916, but I like the material.  I really like
the recent Motorhead stuff quite well (Beats the hell out of the recent
Metallica stuff, anyway :)

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/