HW: Father and son

[Doug Pearson]

On Tue, 29 May 2001 21:52:45 +0800, William Duffy <xl5 at IINET.NET.AU> wrote:
>I really like the last few tracks on the album, Sword of the East
>(one of my favourite HW tracks) & Good Evening.

I'm not a big fan of 'Xenon Codex' (Danny Thompson's drumming being one of
several reasons), but I think that "Good Evening" is one of the most
interesting HW tracks ever, and possibly the best things they did in the
80's.

... and ... iain ferguson <iainferguson at AOL.COM> wrote:
>In that case John Clark was the worst drummer hawkwind ever had <G>
>
>It sounds so much like Danny playing that i assumed it was him.

Rob Heaton (who also played on the 'Earth Ritual Preview' EP) was also an
awful drummer.  Fortunately, he only played one gig with Hawkwind
(Stonehenge '83), which has the worst drumming I've *ever* heard on a live
Hawkwind recording.  Hearing him play straight through the drop out breaks
in "Master of the Universe" had me ROTFLMAO.  He would top my list for
Hawkwind's worst-ever drummer by virtue of that show ...

>Denis Regenbrecht <denis.regenbrecht at UNIBW-MUENCHEN.DE> wrote:
>
>> Danny Thompson didn't play the drums on NotH. It was John Clark.
>
> ...
>
>I thought Gingers drums were great on Levitation,

Me, too.  Very solid, and they work well with the glassy/pristine digital
recording of the album.  Unlike 'Masques' and 'XC', where the drumming is
completely unable to overcome the god-awful 80's production techniques that
made the drums on most 80's recordings (not just HW) sound so horrible.

>I saw him at bristol on the 1980 tour and he did a drum solo !!!!!
>The booing from the audience was great but that turned to huge
>laughter when his big gong behind him fell from the stand as he hit it !!
>very very spinal tap <G>

I wish I had seen THAT!

Denis Regenbrecht <denis.regenbrecht at UNIBW-MUENCHEN.DE> wrote:
>BTW, I wonder what way HW would have gone, if Harvey had been fired and
>Jack Bruce brought in as his replacement, as mentioned in Kris' book.

Probably the same thing that happened to every band Bruce and Baker were in
together, starting with Graham Bond's, which broke up when one of them (I
*think* it was Ginger) pulled a knife on the other (Harvey got off easy!).
Would've made the worst Dave/Nik/Lemmy/Bob rows (or even the infamous
Moorcock/Calvert backstage punchup) look like old ladies arguing over
proper flatware arrangements at tea-time.

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com