HW: Conversion to the Church
Tim
ma-paharper at IOPENER.NET
Fri Jul 27 22:13:17 EDT 2001
1)`the vultures fly high..." way too cool (annie haslam-what a babe)
2)`hashish...hashish...hashish...hashishin...'...how can you hear that and not love the hawks???
tim
Stephan Forstner wrote:
>
> Back in the early 80's my friends and I would get together on weekends and
> listen to all sorts of stuff - from Renaissance, Kate Bush, and Steeleye
> Span, to Battlefield Band, Horslips, and Jethro Tull, to Genesis, Peter
> Gabriel, and Gentle Giant, to BOC, Motorhead, and Saxon, to Venom, Mercyful
> Fate, and Slayer, to Bad Brains, Minor Threat, and the FUs, to you get the
> picture. Of course not everyone liked everything, and we had some pretty
> lively discussuions regarding the musical merits of various artists and
> albums. We listened to quite a bit of punk/hardcore where being 'authentic'
> was a virtue, and occasionally someone would score a bootleg, so poor sound
> was never a problem for me as long as something good and/or interesting was
> to be heard - that's why I like Text of Festival for example (at least the
> second part). When I got bit by the Hawkwind bug I naturally tried to get
> the others into it, with varying degrees of success. One friend in
> particular I tried to convince - our musical tastes overlapped quite a bit
> and even where they didn't we could usually see where the other guy was
> coming from - he also happened to be the person who first got me into BOC,
> though that didn't figure at the time - but he remained indifferent. I threw
> everything I had at him, but even though he liked prog-rock and Sabbath not
> even Warrior and Space Ritual were working - I was stymied. Then one day we
> were lounging around and I put on Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin, and as
> Bob was howling "Ur-beh-he-he-he-he'an" during Urban Guerrila my friend
> turned to me and said "Yeah, they actually are pretty cool". Just goes to
> show you ... I'm not sure WHAT it shows you, but it must show something ...
> Stephan
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