HW In Your Area: Impressions

[Nick Lee]

I'm told that the "real" DH resides on shelf in HW's studio.  Could be a
slightly apocryphal tale, but it comes from a reliable source.  Me? I rather
liked "phetamine Street" as it sound too...
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Edlund Anderson <cea20 at CUS.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Date: 27 January 1999 00:06
Subject: Re: HW In Your Area: Impressions


>On tis 26 jan 1999 19.23 +0000 "Nick Lee" <nick.lee2 at VIRGIN.NET> wrote:
>> Good reason for this, the version of DH that was released was only a
rough
>> mix demo sent to Doug by the band to show how the album was progressing.
>> Next thing you know the bugger's gone and released it, complete with
>> knocked-together-in-a-minute grey cover!  Some of the tracks were
probably
>> completely finished, others such as Phetamine Street were still in the
>rough
>> stages.  This also explains the track indexing error at the end.
>
>     Well shee-it.  That explains a lot.   The cover art was incredibly
>poor.  I could have made a better cover than that in less time, I have
>no doubt! But even if it was "in the rough stages", "Phetamine Street"
>*was* IMO one of the better tracks on the album :)  There was a _lot_
>of random electronic dossing about.
>
>     So can we return to the old list tradition of blaming Doug Smith
>(and Steve Swann) for everything? :)
>
>Cheers,
>Carl
>
>--
>Carl Edlund Anderson
>Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
>St. John's College, University of Cambridge
>mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
>http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/