HW: Hawkwind press release

[Doug Pearson]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:17:10 +0100, M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK> wrote:
>Doug Pearson writes:
>> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:10:02 +0100, bedroom trancer
>> <colm1 at MINISTRYOFSOUND.NET> wrote:
>> >glad to see simon house is down to play keyboards aswell
>>
>> I certainly hope this is the case, since he's a far better keyboard player
>> than Swindells, Bainbridge, Blake or Brock
>                              ^^^^^
>
>Stone the Blasphemer!!

This is where the distinction between "keyboard" player and "synthesizer"
player comes in.  No one who has ever played KEYBOARDS with Hawkwind can
touch Simon House's talent (Steve Swindells & Fred Reeves coming closest
IMO), and no one who has ever played SYNTHESIZER with Hawkwind, except for
Del Dettmar (and Brian Eno, if you count 'Captain Lockheed' as a "Hawkwind"
album), comes close to Tim's talent.

And while we're on the subject, the guy playing keyboards & synths with
Gong on the current tour did a very good job of replicating Tim's synth
parts, and was a pretty keyboard player too, although the keyboard parts he
played made the band sound a bit too much like post-Dave Mason Traffic for
my ears ...

        -Doug
         ceres at sirius.com