HW: a couple more song charts

[Kevin Perry]

I've played it too many times!

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Kevin Perry
Sonic Energy Authority
http://www.mountaingrill.co.uk/

"It is the business of the future to be dangerous;
and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its
duties."

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Pearson <ceres at SIRIUS.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: HW: a couple more song charts


> Hi Kevin,
>
> Thanks for the corrections!
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:51:04 +0100, Kevin Perry <kevin.perry at VIRGIN.NET>
> wrote:
> >> DAMNATION ALLEY
> >> ( - Brock - Calvert - House - )
> >> A                                   E    D
> >> I've got the serum and I'm going to take it
> >
> >Not quite - there's a strange A5 instead of the E (-022555 in bad tab)
and
> >the D is --4232.
> >
> >>"radiation wasteland" part:
> >>A / / / C C / /
> >
> >A/A6 (-02220 / -04220)
>
> There could easily be some other mistakes, since I was working that one
out
> on bass (I'm a crap guitarist) and did not verify chords on a keyboard.
> I'll have to listen again to the actual recordings, but I seem to recall
> the main riff to "Damnation Alley" sounding slightly different on the
> 'Palace Springs' version, so that might be where I got the A-E-D instead
of
> A-A5-D.
>
> Also, in the course of this project, I verified that the original studio
> versions of both "Master of the Universe" and "Urban Guerilla" are among
> those songs recorded a half-step lower than later live versions (CYM '82
> and Hawklords '78 versions, respectively).  I believe someone already
> mentioned the saxophone theory?  Since Eb is a standard key for
saxophones,
> that would explain why most of the UA (Nik era) material was done a
> half-step down.  It might also explain, since in '82 Hawkwind were playing
> the songs in a "standard" guitar/bass key signature (E/A/etc.), why Nik's
> sax playing frequently didn't "gel" with the rest of the band at that time
> - because they were playing out-of-tune relative to his instrument!
>
> Perhaps I should ask about this in the Open Forum with Dave?
>
>         -Doug
>          ceres at sirius.com