Hawkwind/Brock ref Matt Howarth comics?
Andrew Apold
mordru at FLITE.NET
Mon Mar 27 11:51:17 EST 2000
According to the index on the Post Brother's website
http://empire.urcompco.com/bugtownmall/4.htm
(down the page a bit)
Hawkwind appears in Post Brothers (a comic) issue #26.
However, another index on the same website:
http://www.matthowarth.com/guestlist.html
suggests that it is in fact Savage Henry issue #26 (savage henry
is another comic by the same artist, Matt Howarth, following the
adventures and exploits of legendary (ficiticious) prog guitarist
Savage Henry, usually with many real musical guest stars such
as Conrad Schnitzler, Klaus Schulze, Richard Pinhas and Amon Duul,
for example...
Can anyone confirm which comic (Post Bros or Savage Henry) Hawkwind
appears in?
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excerpted from Matt Howarth's "Sonic Curiosity" section in the back of
his comics, where he reviews albums:
HAWKWIND: Alien 4 (CD on Emergency Broadcasting System in UK).
Okay, this is an old release from 1995... but it took me this long to find
a copy of it (and I'm a total obsessive about Hawkwind). And even then, I
had to settle for the double vinyl version. This doesn't bode well for any
interested parties.
It's a decent outing for Hawkwind. This time their sonic focus is the
Roswell Incident and the conspiracy theory regarding interbreeding humans
and aliens. The music is their usual thick space rock with lots of
brilliant guitar. And the songs are lively launches into cosmic territory.
There's an "Area S4" CD EP that features no non-LP tracks (bummer).
Meanwhile, that double vinyl version of the CD features one extra track.
HAWKWIND: BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (CD on Windsong International Records
in UK).
This live CD features a fantastic gig from 1972--a primo line-up including
Lemmy and Dik Mik. Intense renditions of now classic tunes--a killer must
for all Hawkfans everywhere.
HAWKWIND: The Business Trip (UK CD on the Emergency Broadcast System,
distributed in the USA by Griffin Records).
Although it does not contain live versions of the trancier material from
"It Is the Biz", this live CD is full of other surprises--like new
modernized versions of old Hawkwind classics "Quark, Strangeness and Charm"
and "The Right Stuff"--and a lot of new very trancy material. Hard edged
weirdness from the Lords of Space Music.
HAWKWIND: Future Reconstructions (Ritual of the Solstice) (CD on Emergency
Broadcasting System in UK).
Take some old Hawkwind classics ("Sonic Attack", "Master of the Universe",
"Damnation Alley", "Uncle Sam's on Mars", "Silver Machine") and put the
songs in the hands of a collection of trance happy crazies like:
Astralasia, Utah Saints, Zion Train, Knights of the Occasional Table, Optic
Eye, Salt Tank, Translucent, the Advent, and Doctor Jest...and you end up
with 65 minutes of truly brilliant remixes. This stuff, already thick with
surging sonic hooks, is techno-twisted into the future and ready for you in
the present. If you're ready for a quest.
Why are some of the best releases so painfully difficult to track down in
the USA?
HAWKWIND: It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous (CD on Griffin
Records in USA)
This album stands as the unchallenged all-out best Hawkwind release I've
ever heard. Taking HW's traditional space rock sound and grafting a trance
edge onto it produces the most splendid results. Savage guitars and searing
synthis lull into hypnotic riffs that uplift and inspire. The release also
has its fair share of outright rock too. The guitars wail and the synthis
gurgle and snicker and the percussion is like a runaway train.
HAWKWIND: Love in Space (double CD on Emergency Broadcasting System in UK).
Nearly 100 minutes of primo live Hawk-wind from their 1995 Alien Tour,
including recent material and die hard classics. Admittedly not a breakout
release, but certainly of major appeal to Hawkfans with its numerous guitar
solos and intensely sinuous melodies.
Another difficult to find release, while the double vinyl version of this
album (which is even more difficult to find) contains one less song than
the double CD.
HAWKWIND: Quark, Strangeness and Charm (CD EP on Emergency Broadcasting
System in UK).
This cool CD EP features 4 pieces, two of them superb Astralasia remixes,
including "Uncle Sam's On Mars". Mega cool!
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be subject to the works of those mighty
among dreamers."
- Mahasamatman, in Zelazny's "Lord of Light"
Andrew Apold
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