HW: cat among pigeons

[Tim Gadd]

At 08:23 AM 6/13/00 -0500, Tom Clark wrote:
>Too bad Bob felt that way, though he pretty much defined the HW sound through
>the Charisma years - but not before or after.

Well, I dunno about that. He did coceive the Spce Ritual, and his importance
to In Search of Space is much greater than you'd glean from just reading the
album credits. I think he had as much to do with the definitive HW 'spirit'
(as opposed to 'sound') as anyone did.

As for his comments, I think perhaps with this much water under the bridge,
the subject is less topical tha it was, since thereis almost no stigma at
all attched to being a 70's cabaret act nowadays (not saying that's what HW
are, but if they were, they would get away with it). But FWIW, I do agree
with him in that to my mind, the real Hawkwind were a 70's group, and I'd
even cite their last essential LP as 'Quark', and their desmise as the
breakup on the 78 US tour, rather than the Hawklords album, which is kind of
a last death spasm, albeit with some memorable moments.

That's not to say I haven't enjoyed 80's and 90's Hawkwind, but I just don't
regard them in the same way somehow...
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Tim Gadd
Hobart, Tasmania