HW: Changes

[Scott Heller]

Hej,

        I have been listening to a lot of different HW cd's from the
various eras of the band and it is amazing just how many style changes the
band has been through over the years.  The very early daze characterized by
really spacey free form jams based around synths.  When Lemmy joins, the
bottom end really fills in and the songs become heavier. By the time of
Hall of the mountain Grill, Simon House brings in an almost orchestral
aspect to the band and the work with Michael Moorcock on Warrior creates a
spacey sci fi adventure.  Then things really change a Calvert seems to have
a huge influence to create some more real songs but the music is still
quite adventurous.  When Huw comes back the guitar sound gets a more heavy
(metal?) edge and this is translated thru a lot of the early 80's releases
but the band still use a lot of synths and create some good
instrumentals... etc........ sorry I went on so long but my point is can
any band compare to these very different style changes. The Rolling Stones
are still doing basically the same thing, the Kinks and Status Quo never
really altered their great song writing styles, the DEAD were, just the
DEAD, you either loved it our you could never understand what everyone was
into, Santana, etc... all these long lived bands who are still around never
quite changed as much as HW. I guess Tangerine Dream really was quite
different in the beginning but you have to think that they really have not
changed that radically in the last 20 years, except to get more mellow..


Wow.... it was so quiet on the list I just had to say something..

SCott

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R. Scott Heller PhD
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