German Hawkfan gathering

[michael blackman]

I believe I am residing in the wrong country.... I think i'll move

8-)
----- Original Message -----
From: SHLL (Scott Heller) <SHLL at NOVO.DK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 7:26 PM
Subject: German Hawkfan gathering


>         Hej,
>
>         The German Hawkfan Gathering in Hamburg was great, once again....
I
> traveled down with the swedish band Psuedo Sun as well as Santtu from Dark
> Sun.  The weather was cold and the beer cheap and the people very
friendly.
> We had great hospitality from all.  As for the music, it was cool. Tower
of
> Electric Onions started things off with a 90m set of space rock with a
> little funk and jazz.. Nik joined them for the last 30 minutes. Sloterdyk
> played a cool 1 hour set of solo space rock.. Liquid Visions replaced the
> now broken up Lord Brain and really rocked the place. Nik joined them for
> the last 20 minutes of the 80m set.  The Psuedo Sun played at 1 for the
rest
> of the drunk folks and rocked for 86 minutes. Santtu and myself played
> synths with the band.. It was a lot of fun.
>
>         Saturday, the music started with Liquid Zoo, who were more
> garage.psych rock... Ok band.. Das Weeth experience was next and played a
> sort of dreamy.neil young type music with the guitar player using feedback
> and effects in an interesting way.. pretty cool... Harvey Bainbridge
played
> a 40m set with nik and Mr.Dibs helping out on bass, flute, sax and
synths..
> This was really spaced out and excellent! Then the SPacehead band joined
and
> most of their original material was really pretty cool, especially the
slow
> numbers. They have too many Bedoiuin-Motorhead like numbers that sound to
> similar... Harvey and Nik played the whole set.. They did some HW numbers
> like Green Finned Demon, Golden Void, Brainstorm, Masters of the Universe,
> the worst version ever of Silver Machine..... They had a very
inexperienced
> young drummer who was quite bad,.. changing time all the time and loosing
> track of where he was.. The guitar player for spacehead also had a
horrible
> guitar sound.. way too much treble... the crowd really dug these guys and
> they were really good for the first 80 or 90 minutes and then it went down
> hill. Trev Thoms joined them on acoustic guitar and was quite out of it
> having trouble even tuning the damn thing.. Added a very strange element
to
> the HW tunes..  They played 2.5 hours!
>
>         It was a tough weekend but well worth it and nice to see Thomas
(the
> organizer), bernhard from the list, Andreas Stüwe and his wife, and
several
> other friends.. Nik and Harvey were very approachable but very stoned most
> of the time..
>
>         Fun time.. I recorded it all.
>
>
>         scott
>