HW - The album, the whole album and nothing but the album

[M Holmes]

ANDREW GARIBALDI writes:

[Text of Festival...]

> Well, ignoring the fact that it has now become painfully obvious that
> the reason I hated the 'G'bury '90 so much is because I don't have
> living room full of equipment, that equates more to NASA HQ than a
> living room, in order to process ny CD's, let me just explain for anyone
> that doesn't know, that Dave Anderson never realised that the original
> release of 'Text' on CD, did not have the final side of the vinyl on it.
> Much later, coming to last year, he re-licensed the album to a label
> called Dressed To Kill, who were supposed to release a five-album box
> set of the Demi-Monde material with 'Text' taking up two CD's, restoring
> the missing stuff. But, surprise, surprise, it came out as a 4-CD set
> (forgotten the title) with 'Text' as a single CD. I called Dave
> (Anderson) to see why this was and he was dead annoyed 'coz it should
> have been the full thing and it turns out that the guys at Magnum, who
> distribute and have a lot to do with the Demi-Monde stuff, never knew
> what was missing in the first place, and just carried on with the
> original master. So, Dave came up with the idea  of doing an EP just of
> the missing stuff, changed his mind, and decided to get Magnum/DTK to
> redo the 5 CD set. So, guess what came out - yep, another 4 CD set (in
> fact the same one) now retitled and repackaged and called 'Entire and
> Infinite History of Hawkwind' or something like that, but still without
> the missing stuff.

Time to phone and shout "PUT DOWN THE CRACK PIPE NOW!!!!"

> I gave up.

An alternative strategy.

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