HW: Reformation

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Well Jon What can I say? I am just a human being, not Master of the
Universe. I keep trying to get thing together but quite often people around
me fail to rise up to the occasion and keep in touch with their fans. We
also have a management company who dictate to us sometimes about what we
should do and what we should not do, so I have to walk the tight rope, but
my heart is good and I try.



----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Reformation


> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, ANDREW GARIBALDI wrote:
>
> > Honestly - you all can't see the wood for the trees - has anyone
entertained
> > the idea that Dave, following a long trek to the Southern hemisphere,
just
> > wants to take the summer off to do things he wants to do (mend the
fences,
> > listen to Radio One after 6.00pm, feed the animals, enjoy himself). I
think
> > you will find the Hawkwind machine clicks in with a vengeance in the
early
> > autumn ('fall' for our USA friends) and it should be good - after all,
look
> > who Dave can call up now to join the band - fun times ahead,
methinks......
>
>         It's encouraging to hear this sort of stuff, especially from
> someone with a better right to speak as an informed source than many, but
> I still have a rather jaundiced viewpoint. Since I first started really
> following HW in '96 I've seen far more broken plans for gigs and shows and
> projects than I have successful ones, and I get sceptical. What happened
> to the Death Generator Project? That new album that was supposed to be
> coming out in time for Christmas last year and was supposedly one third
> recorded in March? I'll believe it when I see it, basically.
>
>         And while I entirely accept that Dave has a perfect right to take
> time off and so on, even if the other people who were on the tour with him
> don't seem to feel the need (and Simon and Harvey are no younger than he
> is, are they? And Nik's older, but as Andy says he's a special case :-), I
> do wish he'd say that's what he's doing rather than promising gig after
> gig and project after project that just never materialise. It makes it
> difficult to Believe.
>
>         What do _I_ want? I want a scheduled tour most of whose dates are
> kept, not now, but in the autumn maybe, one that happens, and I want some
> more product. I was thinking last year that with all the guests and old
> members around the place maybe the best way to do the "reunion" would be
> on CD, with the Death Generator thing blown up into a concept project with
> various people guesting on individual tracks and so on. I think the last
> "tour" showed that for some of the modern Hawkwind tracks it's easy to
> have too many people on stage, so not everyone on everything, but the
> potential's clearly there especially since the whole Death Generator story
> involves a reunion of sorts anyway. But that's a pipe-dream, I accept
> that. What I'd like is just some indication that Hawkwind as a band is
> functional, to the extent of being able to mount a tour with a
> double-figure number of dates or some recorded project, you know, like
> working bands do.
>
>         Forgive my cynicism, by the way, I was going to see Man
> tonight. For those who don't know they had to cancel yesterday because
> Phil Ryan's wife is on life-support in Denmark. Can't blame anyone for
> that, so perhaps I'm blaming the Hawks too readily. Yours,
>                                                            Jon
>
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