boc-l decennary Re: First post (well, not really, been here before...)

[Stephen Swann]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:02:05PM -0700, Space Wreck wrote:
> 45, wow, Craig, you're an even older phart than I realized!  :)  Welcome
> back!

Ow, that means I'm now as old as Craig was when we all used
to rag on him for being so old!  Argh!  ;-)

> I remember that intriguing sig, too - long before I had
> ever heard Hawkwind.  That, plus some comments on
> alt.music.progressive from a guy who had a train drawn
> in ASCII art in his sig (Bob Netherton, or something close
> to that?), led me to try out Hawkwind.  Mike Borella sent
> me a tape.  I bought a bunch of Ken Alexander's old HW CDs
> when he was cleaning house.  Ken turned me onto BOC-L,
> and told me that it was all Steve Swann's fault.  Ken
> reviewed all the HW CDs that Ranjit Padmanabhan had in
> his Progtron catalog.  I still have all the Progtron
> email catalogs.

Heh, heh, heh.  Ken was one of the people who used to grouse
at me about him spending all his paycheck playing the
Hawkwind catchup game (the game that no one can win).  It's
not my fault!  I just said they were cool, I didn't say
everyone had to own 300 albums by them...  ;-)

Steve