OFF/HW: double bass...who's on first? what's on second?

[Mark Edmonds]

Not sure I subscribe to that myself. I agree about the common chord
sequences used in a lot of songs but narrow tonal intervals ? I'll bet the
Hawks would have got a muted response if they had played Silver Machine in a
quarter tone scale - interesting thought though! Anyway, fact is that unless
you want to reinvent the electric guitar, you're stuck with semi-tones and
surely the obvious harmonic root of all Hawkwind is "blues", not Eastern? -
just think of Dave's busking songs.

Mark

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> Subject: Re: OFF/HW: double bass...who's on first? what's on second?

> It's been said before, by whom I know not, that one aspect of Hawkwind is
> an attempt to produce the narrow tonal intervals of eastern
> (arabic?) music
> in a western style.  If I recall the thesis correctly, this is
> best seen in
> the 3-chord run that Dave Brock uses a lot.  The one that forms the basis
> of Magnu, Levitation, and Robot....
>