HW: Father and son

[iain ferguson]

Hi Doug,

I'm pretty much 100% sure that  Rob Heaton also played Bristol Locarno with
hawkwind before or after Stonehenge. Hawkwind were advertised to play but
apartently the band knew nothing of the gig. But seeing as all the tickets were
sold the band came up to Bristol and played.

Don't think the band got paid a penny for it ( now where have a heard about
that recently MMmmm).

Suffice to say due to the happy atmosphere in the crowd we didn't notice Rob
being particularly bad or good.

regards
iain

Doug Pearson wrote:

> 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