HW: New plans or not

[mark cotton]

Anybody who's ever seen Bedouin close up especially in their early daze
(Harrogate, York), will have seen how much effort Alan puts into Sputnik
Stan. It's his song whether he's within Hawkwind or without!

Cheers,

Ike



>From: Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
>Reply-To: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
>Subject: Re: HW: New plans or not
>Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:38:51 +0000
>
>On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Douglas Pearson wrote:
>
> > >There weren't that many good songs on _Alien4_ after all.
> >
> > And once again, too many remakes ("Death Trap" - although Ron's
>performance
> > makes its inclusion a non-waste, "Are You Losing Your Mind" = "Iron
> > Dream", "Blue Skin" = "Eye That Looks Within" [from the Griffin box set]
>-
> > I get the impression that perhaps Ron's "audition" for HW was to be
>given
> > the original track and told to come up with lyrics/vocals for
> > it).  "Sputnik Stan" was good, but that's now a Bedouin song.  That
>pretty
> > much leaves only the title track, which IS a great one ...
>
>         I don't know, I think `Sputnik Stan' has two incarnations. The
>Hawkwind version is *made* by the massive floaty synth bridge. The Bedouin
>versions obviously don't have that, and when Sean was in the band I saw
>Alan put a whole new bass solo in there which eventually turned into the
>end of the Hawkwind bridge where the bass takes over. It was a pretty
>impressive piece on its own, with a kind of descending four-chord pattern
>quadruplet motif which only just sat on the song. I reckon that the bulk
>of both Hawkwind and Bedouin versions back then was the bridge, which
>makes the majority of each song different :-) But Bedouin played a much
>shorter `Sputnik Stan' last time I saw them (which must have been
>Hawkestra - but they didn't do it there did they? I'm confused. I'm sure
>I've seen this played though.) so now more of the two versions is the
>same. Hawkwind have played it of late though and I think it's still
>possible to separate a Hawkwind version and a Bedouin one. I'm no longer
>convinced now I've got to the end of that explanation that it matters very
>much but the D key is easy to reach :-) Yours,
>                                                 Jon
>
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