HW: Changes

[Bernhard Pospiech]

At 12:55 10.03.98 +0200, you wrote:
>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..

What about PINK FLOYD or LED ZEPPELIN ?
Especially LZ chaged their style extremely between 1978-1980

Bernhard