Greasy Truckers 2001

[Dan Witt]

Well he wrote or co-wrote a lot of what he plays.  If he's going to play
live, he's gonna do his hits so to speak.  When Nik came through the US with
Helios Creed on guitar it was the best versions I've ever seen of the space
ritual songs, and I certainly didn't think of him as just a cover band.

Arguably the biggest and best space anthems HW ever did had Nik involved.

I'm quite thankful to have Nik around performing, I think he's played four
times the number of gigs HW has in the US since 95.  And when I go to one I
want to hear the HW hits.  But I'll listen to whatever he does.

I would like to see him write new material as well though, I think it would
be good stuff.


----- Original Message -----
From: "david hall" <dave at PARMA29.FREESERVE.CO.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: Greasy Truckers 2001


> I take it Dave Brock is not involved in this. Is this another Nik-wind aka
> Pinkwind or "we're all pissed off that we're not in Hawkwind"-wind?
Although
> I'd be interested to see this lot in action - going to the gig would have
> the feel of going to see a covers band . No Dave Brock - no Hawkwind: end
of
> story. I'd like to see Nik put out a solo LP, or band LP, that didn't
> consist primarily of Hawkwind covers. Apart from ICU(even Passout had
> renditions of Brainstorm and MotU) I don't think he's done this since the
> excellent Xitintoday.