HW: Father and son

[Denis Regenbrecht]

Hi,

At 19:46 09.09.2001, Jon Jarrett wrote:

> > BTW, a weird coincidence IMO is, that both Portishead (where Clive Deamer
> > plays nowadays) and Hawkwind have songs that are very similar/derived
> > to/from Gustav Holst's "Mars, bringer of War" of his Planets Suite.
>
>         Okay, it may just be that I always have something else on when I
>come to consider this question but I can't work out which HW song you
>mean. I know the Holst well enough, maybe too well and I can't bend it
>sufficiently? Which do you mean?

"The Iron Dream"
I don't know if it's in 5/4 like "Mars" at the moment (I doubt it, but I
don't have the Quark CD here) but the basic melody is definitely the same.
And I think it's not a coincidence that TID was always played together with
"Uncle Sam" at gigs.

(c)IAO

                         D+R
np: Skinny Puppy, "Doomsday - live in Dresden"