HW: Father and son

[Alasdair Macdonald]

I thought the benefit of Andy Anderson, who immediately followed
on from Martin Griffin, was in his infinitely better "metronomic"
drumming. IMO he was not surpassed until the brilliant Richard
Chadwick.

Alasdair

On 29 May 01, at 18:14, Alastair Lee Sumner wrote:

> 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,