HW: yet another great band gets compared to Hawkwind

[Doug Pearson]

>From the San Francisco Bay Guardian 'Noise' supplement, 6nov02,
http://www.sfbg.com/noise/06-02/savage.html

"I FIRST DISCOVERED Savage Republic in the late 1980s, around the time they
were breaking up," recounts Neurosis guitarist-vocalist Steve Von Till, one
of the main organizers of the "Beyond the Pale" festival. "The music was
really mind-blowing at the time. It was melodic, but there was something
primal about it. It kind of did for me what a band like Hawkwind did
musically. It just rhythmically pounded this kind of psychedelic, freedom-
inspiring sound."

I've been waiting 15 years for the opportunity to see Savage Republic (a
band who heavily influenced the Butthole Surfers and Crash Worship, among
others), so it looks like I'm going to have to miss the Legendary Pink Dots
this friday night (although the two shows are taking palce on the same
block, just a couple doors down from each other!).

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com