HW: Hawkwind_Moorock Moments

[Eric Siegerman]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:47:34PM -0500, K Henderson wrote:
> DoPe says...
>
> >My favorite Hawkwind/Moorcock moment is when Jerry Cornelius & co. show up
> >at the Mountain Grill and find that half of the restaurant is occupied by
> >members of Hawkwind and their friends.

Jerry sitting on the bank of the Thames, with the ruins of London
all around, listening to HW on his Walkman (well, not by that
name; it was written years before the tech got good enough to
build such a thing).

And of course The Black Corridor (Space Ritual excerpt, that is),
which counts for purposes of this thread because it also appeared
in the novel :-)

> Hmmm...didn't seem to me that you'd need much more than c. 1973 Hawkwind
> themselves to fill up half of the Mtn Grill, or at least George's Fish Bar
> (as it was in 1986).

We did a fair job ourselves, the morning after the Astoria gig a
year ago :-)  No band members, alas...

Now it's The Famous Mountain Grill or some such.  Guess a lot of
people've been asking about it over the years.  The question is,
is it famous to anyone else, or are there enough HW fans to have
convinced George and Maria to change the name back?

> I remember strolling around the
> Portobello Rd. area [...]  At least I walked
> under the infamous overpass.

And if you saw, on the hoarding under it, a graffito of the line
"what is lost is never gained again", misattributed to Calvert,
that'd be my doing :-)

Under there is now a little upscale shopping mall.  The wonders
of gentrification.

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