ACTION MAN Hawkwind connection?

[Allen Shaw]

Perhaps Calvert.
Maybe Bishop.
reminds me of parts of Night of the Hawks.
Doesn't sound like Dave at all.

--- Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2001, K Henderson wrote:
>
> > Roger Neville-Neil (aka Nostra-Rogus) you're
> talking about, eh?  Yeah, he
> > wrote the lyrics for "Heads" ("In glass booths
> they're wired" really?  I
> > never woulda guessed that that's what he was
> saying!).  And to connect up
> > with the Farflung thread, he wrote the lyrics also
> to "The Raven Ate the
> > Moon."  In fact, he was at Strange Daze '99 when
> Farflung played.  For those
> > of you there that didn't know, he was the odd chap
> in the Secret Agent garb
> > (trenchcoat and hat), which made me think that he
> wrote that one as well.
> > (I'm not sure, but I don't think so.)  He's a
> really nice guy, as we shared
> > a table at the Sunday night indoor show at the
> Symposium.  He lives in
> > Portland, OR and walks great distances at times to
> see shows, as he doesn't
> > own a car (or at least didn't back in '99).  (I
> know we had a thread about
> > that awhile back also.)  He's the one that turned
> us at AI onto King Black
> > Acid (from Portland also).  Roger is also a
> photography buff who I'm sure
> > has a lot of tasty photos of many cool groups.  In
> fact, I think he shot
> > some for SD'99 (check our review page).
>
>         Keith, I think Roger is not entitled to any
> claim on `Secret
> Agent'. The person who might be is Bob Calvert,
> whose `On The Case' from
> the musical _The Kid from Silicon Gulch_ has some of
> the same phrases,
> including the `tight spot' bit as a throwaway; but
> even there there's not
> so much resemblance. However, the use of that song
> does suggest to me that
> Dave had all the source he needed for those words
> already. Yours,
>
>              Jon
>
> P.S. that musical was supposed to be getting a
> revival some time last
> year, wasn't it? I never heard anything about it, I
> assume it never
> happened?
> --
>        Jon Jarrett (01223 514989)
> jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
>
>

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