HW: Other Space Rock Outfits Of Note

[david hall]

Yeah PT are evolving nicely. Although I have to say after the benefit of
time and a serious number of plays that Stupid Dream is marginally better
IMO than Lightbulb. Glad to hear that they are dropping Radioactive Toy from
the set.
As for spacerock outfits I was more thinking of those the various festivals.

Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Date: 06 July 2000 19:26
Subject: Re: HW: Other Space Rock Outfits Of Note


>On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, david hall wrote:
>
>> I tend to avoid Hawkwind soundalikes (heard too many of them in the
>> eighties at festivals when bands were trying to be Hawkwind or Here
>> and Now). But as for other Space Rock bands my experience tends to be
>> restricted to the likes of Eloy and Nektar, as for newer ones apart
>> from Porcupine Tree (do they count) I haven't heard them. Any
>> opinions?
>
>        Porcupine Tree have been a different-sounding band every album out
>so far. I think only _Up the Downstair_ really touches the Hawkwind sound,
>although I suppose _On The Sunday Of Life..._ meets _Church_ in a few
>places. I don't think I've ever considered PT a space-rock band although
>one or two of the tracks are undeniably in the genre. But PT are self-
>proclaimedly progressive, and that's not the same effect being sought as a
>space-rock band are after. IMO. Yours,
>                                        Jon
>
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