HW: Thrilling HW Adventures/ NEU

[K Henderson]

Andre said...

>> >I'd known for some time that Brock was a Neu fan,
>>
>>Well, didn't he write liner notes for the UK (?) release of Neu!?  I think I
>>read that somewhere.
>
>well i asked dave once about this.
>and he confirmed that he DID NOT write those liner notes on the neu sleeve.
>in fact he didn't care about neu at all.
>
>he doesn't know who did write the sleevenotes.

but then Filip said...

>Of course Dave is a NEU fan,bought the UK pressing
>of the first album some 2 months ago and it has liner notes
>on the back from Dave.I already had the 3 NEU albums
>original from some 25 years in German pressing.
>Ron Tree asked me some 3 years ago to copy them on
>tape,because Dave told him about it.So I think he still
>likes it.

I have the boot CD's of Neu! and Neu! 75 that Germanofon made years ago, a
'label' now defunct and long OOP.  When the hell these will be officially
released is a damn good question that nobody is answering.  Ken Matsutani
re-released the two La Düsseldorf albums on CD and the spotty Neu! 4 thing
(and some other Dinger solo works), but not the 'important' ones IMHO.

>Does anyone know the solo-albums the guitar player
>Michael Rother from NEU did ? Real good stuff.

(For US'ers who don't want to shell out import prices, Cleopatra/PP released
a compilation CD of Rother's solo material 'Chronicles' I think.)

As far as the liner notes goes....OK, so which was it?!?  :)

I'm inclined to believe Filip, esp. if he's got a copy where Dave Brock is
given as the writer of said liner notes.  Perhaps Dave has simply forgotten
that he's a Neu! fan.  :)

Of course, knowing full well that things written on liner notes aren't
always entirely accurate (see Thrilling HW Adventures misinformed gig
date....but hey, all the track titles are spelled correctly!  A first!),
maybe someone was speaking in Dave's behalf.  But who, then?

Well, anyway, I was just listening to Valium 10 today (a track I never liked
much, I guess because the synth sounds too goofy) and thinking maybe that
was another tune developed after spinning Neu! somewhere in Ladbroke Grove.

Keith H. (FAA)