HW:Recent v Old/Poll (ASAM and Hawklords)

[Doug Pearson]

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999 01:23:10 -0000, david hall
<dave at PARMA29.FREESERVE.CO.UK> wrote:
>Ta I had forgotten about Eno.
>Lemmy's comments? My copy doesn't have any - no inner bag. Could you
>enlighten me.

In the lengthy "thanks" section, immediately after the Pink Fairies' road
manager & rhythm section, Lemmy adds "The Hawkpersons (good one Adrian)".
Pretty cool IMO for the man to tip his hat to his most worthy successor (at
least until Alan, but after having seen Adrian Shaw play with Bevis Frond a
few times, I gotta say that he's my second-favorite Hawkwind bass player
with Alan a very close third).

        -Doug
         ceres at sirius.com

>Dave
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Doug Pearson <ceres at SIRIUS.COM>
>To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
>Date: 03 December 1999 00:59
>Subject: Re: HW:Recent v Old/Poll (ASAM and Hawklords)
>
>On Fri, 3 Dec 1999 00:22:15 -0000, david hall
<dave at PARMA29.FREESERVE.CO.UK> mentioned:
>>what happened to Paul Rudolph in the period between leaving the Pink
>>Fairies and joining HW is a mystery
>
>Not really ... Brian Eno and Robert Calvert (w/Eno playing synth on the
>first and producing the second) solo albums.  Great stuff (duh!), even if
>it probably is Robert Fripp, and not Rudolph, playing that blistering
>guitar solo on "Baby's On Fire" (probably one of my all-time-favorite
>guitar solos).  Isn't Simon King on one of those Eno albums, too?  (but
>then again, so is Phil Collins - I'm pretty certain that he and Rudolph
>even play on the same track(s), which makes great fodder for those
>connect-the-bands-by-their-members game)
>
>After Hawkwind, there was the Deviants' 'Screwed Up' EP, another Eno album
>or two, and Kicks w/Al Powell (who I've heard were awful, but I never had
>the chance to hear them).  I think that's about it.  I find it odd that
>such a great guitarist (it's truly a public service that the Glastonbury
>Fayre version of "Uncle Harry's Last Freakout" has been reissued on several
>albums in the last year or two) wound up being such a mediocre bassist
>(compare Lemmy's comments on him, which I think can be found in one of
>those article reprints on http://www.hawkwind.com - 'the trials of Lemmy'
>perhaps, to Lemmy's opinion of Ade Shaw, which can be found on the inner
>sleeve of the Motörhead album on Chiswick)