byrds/HW pt 2

[Ted Jackson jr. 6L6]

>> From:          "Andrew A. Apold" <mordru at MAGG.NET>
>  Maybe
> >> > you could inquire of that list something I've always wondered about
> >> > which is why Dave Brock gets a "thank you" on the credits for BEAT THE
> >> > RETREAT the RT tribute album.  I have visions of some unreleased
> >> > Brockwind cover of an RT song.  Legend has it that RT opened for
> >> > Hawkwind once in Holland and the audience utterly failed to respond in
> >> > any way.
> >>
> >Does anyone know the answer to Dan's questions?
>
> Wasn't it put on this list awhile back that it was for
> giving Danny Thompson a job as HW's drummer?  I'm assuming
> that this is the same RT... though someone else mentioned that
> DT was not necessarily the son of that RT but some other RT
> affiliated with that RT.  or something like that.
>
Howls!  Of course I should have interjected that he was talking about
Brit. folkie/rocker [of sorts] Richard Thompson, who sometimes tours
with a guy named Danny Thomson [no kin] on BASS.  BTW, RT's son,
ahem, Teddy does occasionally hit the road with the old man as a
backup gtrst/vocalist...
theo