HW: Your captain is dead...

[herbert rosenberg]

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> originally it was Lemmy on vocals, but Calvert's were added later for the
> single...
> the original Lemmy version is on..i believe Greasy Truckers?
> havent listened to that one for a few years
>

The only thing I have with it is a bootleg called Assassins of Allah. Vocals aside, the remix-single version is far, far better, clearer...

> In a message dated 98-02-08 18:58:48 EST, you write:
>
> << Well, I was reading the sleeve notes of Stasis, and it said that the
>  single release of Silver Machine was originally with Bob Calvert on
>  vocals, but was later changed to Lemmy (I thought Dave sounded funny that
>  day!)
>  So, my question is, is the original version of Silver Machine with Bob on
>  vocals available?  Am I a moron for even asking?  Also, it's Bob who sings
>  Kadu Flyer right?
>   >>

Nik songs it on Astounding Sounds.


As for Nik, I second Duane on Past Or Future--best release of the '90s perhaps. Especially for the brilliant "Opa-Loka 2000". Then get Anubian Lights--I just have the EP Jackal & Nine (which is actually about 50-55 minutes), but it's brilliant, but more techno/ambient than space-rock.
Then get Sphynx--I've never heard the original, so I can't compare, but this is very good. Then...um, that '94 release, the name of which I always forget now...some choice tunes, some ICU tunes, some HW tunes, etc.

After that, if you find yourself thinking that Nik of the '90s is just incomparable stuff, the best stuff out there, whoopin' Hawkwind '90's butt all over the floor (I don't want to start that old argument, but I feel so empassioned that I had to say this), then get Sonic Attack 2000--which is an odds comp of NT and AL, with some alternate versions/mixes of tunes.

Charlie