Tim Blake - opinions please

[J Strobridge]

John Majka writes:

> I realize I'm certainly in the minority, but I always HATED "Lighthouse"
> from Live79, and I wasn't that much interested in Blake's playing in
> general.  I tried his solo albums as well and cared for them even less than
> what I heard in Hawkwind...

Interesting.   I have to admit that I preferred his solo albums over
the performance of Lighthouse on Live 79 - which was disappointing on
the recording.   I understand that he was terrific to hear on stage
but I never managed to catch a live show.  I think that New Jerusalem
was also performed on that tour?   But for some reason that track wasn't
used on the Live album.

I feel that his keyboards/synth added exactly the kind of extra sound
in the same way that Simon House's violin or Nik Turner's flute/sax
did that Hawkwind tend to lack sometimes when they haven't got a lead
guitarist or they are short of a keyboard player or something.   It's
the top layer of sound that you hook on to above the underlying bass.
I love that!   But it's probably not to everyone's taste - just my
particular favourite incarnation of Hawkwind I guess!

jill
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