HW: Recent v Old (revisited) A Howl of Derision

[Captain Bl@ck]

Horses for courses. I mean, Eno produced Lucky Leif and look how laid back
that sounds.

Someone (may have been you, Doug?) posted that Rudolph got an EMS Synthi and
disappeared into his room prior to leaving the Fairies - I'd never heard
this before, any evidence to substantiate it?

I have a great photo of him playing bass with the Hawks dressed in
sportsgear - if and when I get a scanner I'll post this one up.

And how come Rudolph did the late '76 tour even though Powell and Turner had
gone? Had they nobody to replace him at that point?

Captain Bl at ck.



----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Pearson <ceres at SIRIUS.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: HW: Recent v Old (revisited) A Howl of Derision


> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:33:19 +0100, Captain Bl at ck <starfield at SUPANET.COM>
> wrote:
> >Thank you Mike. Astounding ISN'T a bad album at all, BUT the point I was
> >making here was if they'd used Time For Sale, Uncle Sam, Back on the
> >Streets, Assassins etc on the same album as Steppenwolf, Reefer Madness
> >and, yes, all the cool instrumentals............
>
> Would it be more accurate to say a "second album by the Rudolph/Powell
> lineup" rather than "ASAM as a double LP"?  (Since clearly some of those
> songs hadn't been written yet when ASAM was recorded - 'Atomhenge 76'
makes
> it clear that the lyrics to "Hassan i Sahba" weren't written until after
> that tour.)  I wholeheartedly agree that those four songs should have been
> on a studio album together; heck, that probably edges out 'Earth Ritual'
as
> my favorite never-recorded-but-might-have-been/almost-was Hawkwind album.
>
> >The production lacks balls - the band certainly didn't as the live
material
> >will testify. Maybe that was Rudolph doing his Eno-esque mixes. Armchair
> >Hawkwind, anybody?
>
> At least it's not as laid-back as the Hawklords album. (the one which I
> generally referred to as "armchair"; and the live recordings by *that*
band
> kick ass, too)  Now, if Paul Rudolph could have actually gotten Eno to
> *produce* it - wow!  That could have really been something!
>
> I think that the main problem with ASAM is not that it's at all a bad
album
> ("Steppenwolf" is one of Calvert's best characterizations, "Kadu Flyer" is
> one of Nik's best, "City of Lagoons" perfectly captures the lazy, swampy,
> overbearingly-tropical mood of Ballard's 'The Drowned World' [quite
> obviously the inspiration for the piece], etc.), but rather that it falls
> between two of the best albums in Hawkwind's career ... in much the same
> way that Rudolph's bass playing is underrated since he fell between the
two
> best bassists in Hawkwind's career (and also because, as good as his bass
> playing is, it doesn't come CLOSE to his six-string work with the Pink
> Fairies on stuff like "Uncle Harry's Last Freakout").  The diversity of
> bass playing on 'Atomhenge 76' is unquestionably impressive, but never
> quite matches either Lemmy's propulsive overdrive or Adrian Shaw's warmly
> melodic feel that fit so well with Simon House's keyboards.
>
>     -Doug
>      ceres at sirius.com
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: The Devil <deltawave at METRONET.COM>
> >To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
> >Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 2:27 PM
> >Subject: Re: HW: Recent v Old (revisited) A Howl of Derision
> >
> >
> >>    Capt. Black said:
> >>
> >> "If only Astounding Sounds had been a well produced studio double
> >> album, think what a classic that would have been."