HW: 80s and beyond (was Re: Croydon)

[Douglas Pearson]

That's a great song!  One of the things I like most about the 77/78 lineup
is the superb sense of melodicism that Simon House and Adrian Shaw (co-
authors of "Jack of Shadows" IIRC) brought to the band.  Very evident in
Simon's compositions ("High Rise", "Damnation Alley" midsection, and the
various instrumentals).  And Adrian Shaw's bass playing is as diametrically
opposed to the Lemmy/Davey model as you could possibly imagine.  Yet, he
fit in with Hawkwind perfectly.  Just another example of the band being
willing to re-invent themselves and not stay stuck in the same old rut ...

    -Doug
     ceres at sirius.com

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:33:10 -0000, mark cotton <markcotton22 at HOTMAIL.COM>
wrote:
>70's and earlier good, eh? What about that pop song 'Jack of Shadows' -
>with a boppy chorus for Christ's sake!