how we got into hawkwind (and other stuff)

[Sebastian Welton]

I can't quite remember first hearing or seeing Hawkwind but the first
time was probably sometime in '77 at the Roundhouse in London when a
bunch of old hippie friends took me along for a laugh. I only really got
to know them better a few years later and even got to play in a band
with Terry Ollis (only the once mind you, because I was crap as a singer
for a Progressive/Hippy rock band and the punk band I played in were
starting to go places.)

Absinthe, lovely stuff. I picked up a couple of bottles of it last time
I was in the UK and we knocked back one the other night in the pub along
with a rather strange coloured and flavoured bottle of Polish vodka ( a
decent pub as well as the barman will, attempt to, play anything I take
in so we get the occasional HW.) But to beat Absinthe for the "I'm never
going to drink again" effect is the home brewed schnapps I picked up in
Zagreb the other day (at the Scotland vs. Croatia football game.) This
stuff has got to just sniffed let alone be drunk!

Drugs, take 'em or leave 'em nowadays.

Popped in a local record shop here the other day (www.ulismusic.de) to
pick up the two Gnidrolog albums (and have a beer) that have,
eventually, come out on CD only to find out they had sold out. Ended up
ordering the Sam Gopal - Escalator CD instead although he tried to sell
me the 180oz vinyl version.

Coming soon, due to a favour done for one of the blokes who works in
said record shop, 2 cassettes recorded on a little mono cassette
recorder of the Hawkwind gig performed here in Darmstadt on 4/6/1971
which I shall attempt to put, some of it, into an Internet friendly
format and onto my website (if no-one objects.)

Catch you all later, cheers,

Seb.

p.s. whatever happened to the Hawkwind Codex and ObCD?

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Sebastian Welton
sebastian at welton.de
www.welton.de
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