HW: Service time league table

[Doug Pearson]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 03:48:30 +0100, J D <Jeremy at DACOMBE.FSNET.CO.UK> wrote:
> Has anybody ever compiled a league table of "service time in HW"?

There's the personnel list that just gives the years that certain people
were involved in the band ...

> The top spots would be relatively easy to work out but it would
> get more interesting down at the nether region!

There's actually a pretty wide span among these people ...

>> Possible candidates being:
>>
>> Dick Taylor
no gigs, played on some of the first album (possibly "Hurry On Sundown",
acoording to a recent interview with him) and produced the whole thing

>> Thomas Crimble
no studio appearence, but at least 90(!) gigs 7/70 - 3/71 (for perspective,
by my count, Ron Tree played 117 gigs with Hawkwind 4/95 - 4/01) [*]

>> Twink (the roadie)
5 gigs (10/80), no studio time

>> Rob Heaton
*1* gig (Stonehenge '83), and part of the 'Earth Ritual Preview' EP; I
think we may have a winner!

>> Steve Bemand
He should probably be treated as a guest, not a member.  Like Dumpy, Arthur
Brown, Samantha Fox, etc.

>> Clive Deamer
42 gigs (3/84-6/85), no studio time

also:
Mick Slattery - studio demo, 19 gigs (8/69-1/70)
John Harrison - first album, 58 gigs (8/69-6/70)
Dave Anderson - XiSoS (of course!), but a mere 58 gigs (4/71-8/71)
Paul Rudolph - ASAM, 80 gigs (5/75-12/76)
Adrian Shaw - Quark, PXR5, 79 gigs (2/77-3/78)
Paul Hayles - no studio, 15 gigs (3/78) plus 1 as Sonic Assassins 12/77
Steve Swindells - Hawklords, 40 gigs (1/78-11/78)
Tim Blake - Levitation, 40 gigs (9/79-10/80)
Ginger Baker - Levitation, 46 gigs (10/80-2/81)
Keith Hale - no studio, 34 gigs (10/80-2/81)
Andy Anderson - no studio, 8 gigs (2/83)
John Clark - drums on 'Earth Ritual Preview', no gigs
Fred Reeves - no studio, 38 gigs (6/83-7/84)
Rick Martinez - no studio, 17 gigs (2/84-3/84)
Paul Cobbold - studio engineer, played percussion on CotBS, no gigs
Mick Kirton - no studio, 9 gigs (8/88-10/88)
Bridget Wishart - 83(!) gigs (6/89-4/91)
Crum - 33 gigs (10/97-11/97) plus 10 gigs (Agents of Chaos) in 88/89
Rizz - 47(at most?) gigs (7/97-3/01)
Steve Taylor - no studio, 14 gigs (8/98, 2/00-3/00)

So, by number of gigs:
Thom Crimble (90)
Bridget Wishart (83)
Paul Rudolph (80)
Ade Shaw (79)
John Harrison (58)
Dave Anderson (58)
Rizz (47, possibly fewer)
Ginger Baker (46)
Clive Deamer (42)
Steve Swindells (40)
Tim Blake (40)
Dead Fred Reeves (38)
Keith Hale (34)
Crum (33 ... or 43?)
Mick Slattery (19)
Rick Martinez (17)
Paul Hayles (15 or 16)
Steve Taylor (14)
Mick Kirton (9)
Andy Anderson (8)
Twink (5)
Rob Heaton (1)
Dick Taylor & John Clark & Paul Cobbold tie for 0!

Fascinating how the bass players (Crimble, Shaw, Rudolph & Harrison,
Anderson) are grouped together (80-90 & 58 gigs), as are the keyboardists
(Swindells, Blake, Dead Fred, Keith Hale & Crum with 33-43 gigs).

I guess it's a safe bet that Dave, Nik, Huw, DikMik, Del, Lemmy, Calvert,
Simons House & King, Al Powell, Harvey, Martin Griffin, Alan, Danny,
Richard & Ron (16 different people!) each has over 100 Hawkwind gigs under
his belt (Jerry slips in at slightly under 100 if you count the Agents of
Chaos gigs, slightly over 80 if you don't) ...

Someone else can do the math for "length-of-tenure".  Obviously very
different results, since Ron Tree didn't play very many more gigs with
Hawkwind in six YEARS than Thom Crimble did with Hawkwind in six MONTHS.

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com

[*] # of gigs counted from Bernhard's(?) giglist; I may have miscounted in
places, and certain gigs (like the Hawkon) may have been counted as a "gig"
for some participants and not others, so there is a small margin of error
here.