HW: Epoch Eclipse Review....i couldnt hit it sideways...

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In a message dated 11/21/99 12:16:42 PM, DASLUD writes:

<<  Hawkwind cited the Velvets' "Sister Ray" and
Michael Moorcock as influences, and this boxed
set finally achieves what a hundred previous
compilations have failed to do.  It samples every era
of the band from 1970's "Hurry on Sundown" to the
astonishing 1999 KLF remix of "Silver Machine" which,
one hopes, will finally re-establish the credentials of
the only truly space rock band.
Peter Huxley.

 >>

boy i'd =really= like to know from whence huxley got the reference to VU and
"sister ray". betcha cash right now it wasnt mr. brock. i might even betcha
that huxley took it from something else he read/someone else's conjecture.
how much more obvious would it have to be to insert "interstellar overdrive"
in place of "sister ray"? jeez louise...
a few years back i volleyed this specific issue back and forth with one chris
stigliano of the zine BLACK TO COMM. it came down to the question of "the
origin of the stacatto pulse"...
now mr turner, sure i can see him being familiar with the velvets, stooges,
mc5...
in fact i think there's a relationship twixt the stooges' 'tv eye' and
'brainstorm' (....which carries over to the damned's 'neat neat neat'). mr.
calvert too. and let's assume it was calvert's notion to cover 'waiting for
the man', not brock's.

in '91 i asked mr brock outright if the velvets and stooges were any
influence on him. he said "dunno really*, i'd have to go think about that
period of time..."
(* "dunno really" is the classic brock reply).

hey, if a 5-star rating gets new listeners into the fold and makes money,
well groovy. but early floyd has a hell of a lot more to do with early HW
than the velvets.
who i like a great deal, more than floyd actually. but tossing in "sister
ray" is lame and inappropriate, if'n yer askin' me.


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