HW: hawks/fantasy

[Douglas Pearson]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:22:55 -0400, ejobson <ejobson at THRUPOINT.NET> wrote:
>Come to think of it weren't there to Keith Hayles/Hales?

Paul Hayles and Keith Hale.  Yes, there is much confusion over Hawkwind
keyboard players of this era ...

>The one I didn't rate was the 1980 fill in for Tim Blake with dodgy
>Dangerous Visons. I thought the one in Sonic Assasins '77 was okay unless
>it was the same one? Bernhard help? Don't know how much of that synth
>stuff from SA Over the Top was Dave though?

Paul Hayles was the keyboard player with the Sonic Assassins, and also
played on the latter part of the '78 US tour, after Simon House left for
Bowie's band.  He plays mostly electric piano on the Sonic Assassins set;
the synth work is Dave.

The 1980 mid-tour "fill-in" for Tim Blake was one Twink, who is NOT the
same Twink who played drums in the Pretty Things, Tomorrow, Pink Fairies,
Pinkwind, etc.

Keith Hale was Tim Blake's "official" replacement, who plays on 'Zones'
(side one) and 'Do Not Panic' (first LP), and wrote "Dangerous Visions".
Before Hawkwind, he played on the second album by a acid/psychedelic-
pagan/folk band called Comus.  The first Comus, 'First Utterance',
absolutely rules and is highly recommended - creepy as hell (and not far
off from the sound of the Third Ear Band's 'MacBeth' soundtrack that Simon
House played on).  I'm told that the second one (w/Keith Hale) truly sucks,
however.

And yes, I rate Keith Hale as a less-talented keyboard player than Harvey
Bainbridge; it's just as well that he went off with Ginger Baker ...

    -Doug
     ceres at sirius.com