HW:OPEN FORUM WITH DAVE 2

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----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Gadd <lupercal at GEOCITIES.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: HW:OPEN FORUM WITH DAVE 2


> At 07:29 AM 6/15/00 EDT, DASLUD at AOL.COM wrote:
> >In a message dated 6/15/00 6:14:51 AM, lupercal at GEOCITIES.COM writes:
> >
> ><<  but back in the 70's and
> >80's, HW were just an almost purely English/European phenomenon. >>
> >=====
> >um.....not _entirely_.
> >elstwise i wouldnt've heard of them.
> >heh.
> >
> >i believe, 'cept for 'astounding sounds' [?], everything thru 'pxr 5' was
> >released in the states. and 'mtn. grill' climbed all the way up to #133
on
> >the BILLBOARD 'top 200'.
>
> Well, true ('fact my LP of HOTMG is American), but it did much better than
> #133 in the UK. Plus, selling x number of units in the US doesn't require
> you to be as popular as selling the same number in the UK, so an album can
> be released in the US even if only a much smaller % of the population is
> going to buy it (atleast that makes sense to me. I have no idea if it
> actually is/was the way things work/ed)
>
> Bob also says on that '81 tape that, in terms of commercial success
Hawkwind
> were successful 'not at all, to any great extent, in the USA, except for
> sort of major industrial towns like Detroit'
>
> But hey, you live there :)
>
> >i'd assume the couple three previous had done better; i just happened to
> >follow that lp in BILLBOARD.
> >
> >and i used to own a mono/stereo US promo single of 'urban guerrilla'.
dont
> >recall ever hearing it on the radio [yeah right] but CREEM had mentioned
its
> >withdrawal from the UK charts in '73.
>
> Well I've got an Australian single of 'Kings of Speed', but it wasn't
> exactly a smash hit, y'know... ;)
>
>
> >fellow yanks, feel free to contend that the early '80s lp's _were_
released
> >in the states, but i dont remember 'em...
> >'levitation', maybe?
>
> For the record, everything, including the compilations, was released in
> Australia, up to and including Levitation (except 'Repeat Performance' was
> called 'Rock Legends') After that, there was a gap till 'Xenon Codex', and
I
> don't know of any since, though my knowledge of 90's HW releases is not
strong.
> --
> Tim Gadd
> Hobart, Tasmania
>

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