HW: The Elf & the Hawk

[Keith Henderson]

Marshall said...

>Anyway, the _Elf & the Hawk_ contains almost all of Hawkfan 12.  A track
called >"The Competition" is omitted.  Anyone familiar with it?  (Dumb
question.)  Am I >missing something remarkable?

Well, no, not really.  It's not really a 'track' though it includes some
live Hawkwind music.  It was Brian Tawn's audio competition (as the name
implies) for that particular issue, with prize(s) awarded.  (Just like the
Xword puzzle to win prizes in the last issue of AI, of which you (Marshall)
were one of the winners.) There were four of five snippets of 'linking'
music from Hawkwind concerts, and the entrants were to determine what song
the band eventually segued into.  I didn't get my cassette copy of HF12
until a few years later, so I never entered. Not that I knew what they all
were.  Of course, the disadvantage of not seeing them play live at this time
meant that it was extremely difficult anyhoo.

Just for trivial sake, what were they now?

>Incidentally, I got this from New Sonic Architecture
(http://www.sonarc.net) for >US$17.  Best price I could find.
>
>NP: _Made in Germany_ - Amon Duul II

Cool...Phallus Dei was the first ADII LP I bought, but it was really MiG
that led to my eventual pedestallization of this band.  (Wolf City is the
best, though IMHO.)  Of course, that was the old single disc MiG version.
So, one question...do you have the Repertoire double CD version?  If not,
get it....some of the best stuff from this album was left off the crappy
single CD/LP version.  Tragic mistake.