HW: hawks/fantasy

ANDREW GARIBALDI andygee at DIAL.PIPEX.COM
Wed May 2 14:30:07 EDT 2001


Andy Anderson also played with the Steve Hillage Band on the tour of the UK
they did with Glenn Phillips as support for some album or other Hillage had
just released at the time (Open???)
Andy Garibaldi
----- Original Message -----
From: "ejobson" <ejobson at THRUPOINT.NET>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: HW: hawks/fantasy


> Thanks for the in depth update. A while ago I saw someone asking about
Andy
> Anderson. Did this get cleared up?
>
> I remember him being a coloured guy who did the extra Choose your Masks
gigs
> in Jan '83 and was a mate of Niks. Can't remember if he carried on after
> that or not but he was quite good from what I remember, better in my
opinion
> that Martin Griffin's rather predictable style of drumming.
>
> Eddie.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Pearson [mailto:ceres at SIRIUS.COM]
> Sent: 30 April 2001 15:24
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
> Subject: Re: HW: hawks/fantasy
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:22:55 -0400, ejobson <ejobson at THRUPOINT.NET> wrote:
> >Come to think of it weren't there to Keith Hayles/Hales?
>
> Paul Hayles and Keith Hale.  Yes, there is much confusion over Hawkwind
> keyboard players of this era ...
>
> >The one I didn't rate was the 1980 fill in for Tim Blake with dodgy
> >Dangerous Visons. I thought the one in Sonic Assasins '77 was okay unless
> >it was the same one? Bernhard help? Don't know how much of that synth
> >stuff from SA Over the Top was Dave though?
>
> Paul Hayles was the keyboard player with the Sonic Assassins, and also
> played on the latter part of the '78 US tour, after Simon House left for
> Bowie's band.  He plays mostly electric piano on the Sonic Assassins set;
> the synth work is Dave.
>
> The 1980 mid-tour "fill-in" for Tim Blake was one Twink, who is NOT the
> same Twink who played drums in the Pretty Things, Tomorrow, Pink Fairies,
> Pinkwind, etc.
>
> Keith Hale was Tim Blake's "official" replacement, who plays on 'Zones'
> (side one) and 'Do Not Panic' (first LP), and wrote "Dangerous Visions".
> Before Hawkwind, he played on the second album by a acid/psychedelic-
> pagan/folk band called Comus.  The first Comus, 'First Utterance',
> absolutely rules and is highly recommended - creepy as hell (and not far
> off from the sound of the Third Ear Band's 'MacBeth' soundtrack that Simon
> House played on).  I'm told that the second one (w/Keith Hale) truly
sucks,
> however.
>
> And yes, I rate Keith Hale as a less-talented keyboard player than Harvey
> Bainbridge; it's just as well that he went off with Ginger Baker ...
>
>     -Doug
>      ceres at sirius.com



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