HW: Live 79 (An invitation to a 1 minute hate)

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In a message dated 3/20/99 1:37:07 PM, swann at PLUTONIA.COM writes:

<<> IMO Live 79 sticks out at as a step sideways and backwards into mere metal
> mediocrity.
>>

wasnt quite finished actually

not sure i'd call "live 79" a step sideways in the sense that most recently
they had been non-existent...they crashed in the states touring w/ the "quark"
lp..."pxr5" is a leftovers lp more or less in tandem w/"quark"...the whole
HAWKLORDS thang was short-lived...brock did that one hw gig in 9/79 w/turner
as a guest...then the tour at the end of 79 from which "live 79" came. so
actually there hadnt been a functional touring HAWKWIND for almost two
years...such as they had become>>

i must agree w/ the "backwards into metal mediocrity" part, though...i was
very disappointed by langdon taking over lead guitar (again) , fractionally
qualified by saying he was more inspired in 79-81 than later...but i basically
avoided hw in the '80s because of him.

when i started playing in bands myself in the mid-70s i learned about
"repetition" , ha ha...  i had no idea the hw songs, in technical terms, were
so SIMPLE....kinda had a crisis for awhile..."do they KNOW they keep doing the
same thing over and over?"
they werent the only one-riff band from the time period they came from, but
they took things the FARTHEST....

yer durn tootin they done did
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