HW: Church of Hawkwind

[Max Wilcox]

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From: William Duffy <xl5 at IINET.NET.AU>
To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, 8 October 1997 02:21
Subject: Re: HW: Church of Hawkwind


>Hi there
>
>>            This has been in the corner of my mind for the past few weeks,
>>and I thought, seeing as I've got lots of uni writing to do, that I would
>>purge it from the dark recesses of my mind now.
>>            What's the deal with Church of Hawkwind? I know it was
>>origionaly `ol Brockey's solo album, but then he got the others in on it.
>>Why? How did this come about?
>>            It gets strange here. The copyright is 75, and Bainbridge &
>>HughLL are listed as composing some of the songs - how? More astounding is
>>how Chadwick and Dayey are on it.
>>            My only thoughts are that Brock recorded the demos in 75 and
>>then the others got them out of the vaults and added backing etc....
>>            Or is this just a strange time warp thingie?
>>
>I'm not sure about the copyright date on it (maybe a misprint), as mine
does
>not have this anywhere, but some of the material on the CD version was
>recorded at a different time to the album. The Chadwick/Davey track should
>really be on "It Is The Business..."


            Well, this CD was purchased in the UK a couple of weeks ago (not
by me, sadly), and has the copyright dates - 1975 Hawkdisks/1994 Dojo
Limited. I thought it was a bit funny myself....

>The album should chronologically sit between "Sonic Attack" & "Choose Your
>Masques".

            Does anyone have the original lp version? What does that say?

- Max Wilcox