HW: Father and son

[Alastair Lee Sumner]

I'm gonna give Martin Griffin a big 'We are the Champions' style thumbs up.
He is one of my favourite HW drummers, up there with Mr. Ollis and Mr.
King. I think Martin's metronomic style fits the electronic sound of the
RCA albums perfectly. Didn't they also use a drum machine along with the
drummer on 'Choose Your Masques'? It sounds to me like that was the idea
behind the drums on that album, a kind of pre-cursor to Trance.

Alastair (place of birth - Void City).

On Tue, 29 May 2001 10:40:09 +0100, iain ferguson <iainferguson at AOL.COM>
wrote:

>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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