HW: Father and son

[iain ferguson]

Sorry Jon

Got to disagree, I thought Danny wa always the lamest hamfisted drummer hawkwind
ever had,  the night of the hawks track is unlistenable to me because of the
aweful drums.
But Martin Griffin to me was a very good drummer, better than a lot of the
drummers hawkwind have had over the past 20 years.
Sonic attack is a great album, made all the better from Martin's great drumming.

But then Choose your masks is an abomination of an album, the drums are gated ,
metronomically perfect and without any movemnet to allow for fills etc, and may as
well have been a drum machine.

I really wished martin had played the drums instead of Danny at the hawkestra,
Danny's drums we just to much boom boom boom for me, and no finesse

best regards
Iain

Jon Jarrett wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, colm mcwilliams wrote:
>
> > I have never been that impressed with danny thompsons style of drumming when
> > he was in hawkwind. Strangley though when i saw him drum at the hawkestra
> > gig for both hawkwind and bedouin i thought he was pretty good!
>
>         I think there are two things going on here, the first being that
> he has just got a lot better (and got a better kit maybe? He does need one
> built to his size really... ) over the years, and the second that Bedouin
> just goes faster. Danny's variation isn't huge but when you're going at
> that speed what he does do by way of it comes across much more effectively
> because the attack of it is that much greater. That's how it seems to me
> anyway. He's still not as bad as Martin Griffin for lack of inspiration
> though; okay his drumming on _Xenon Codex_ is nothing special but then the
> production of it makes it so flat that one wouldn't care even if it
> were. But compare it to Martin on _Choose Your Masques_, and... well, come
> back Danny all is forgiven, you know? Yours,
>                                              Jon
>
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