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

[david hall]

Dave Brock used to cite Steve Miller and the Doors as being early US
influences.
As for the KLF remix of Silver Machine, a bit of a let down. Whatever
happened to the Orb (Alex Paterson) remix. Was it made, or is that another
fable.

Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: DASLUD at AOL.COM <DASLUD at AOL.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Date: 21 November 1999 17:52
Subject: Re: HW: Epoch Eclipse Review....i couldnt hit it sideways...


>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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