HW: Sonic Attack

[Iain Ferguson]

David,
How rude <G>

Must admit, to disliking the Gimmie shelter tune, its the one that
doesnt fit on the album. I was so pleased that the band finally made
what I consider to be great album after a bunch that I personally didn't
get on with. It was with great relief that the repetitious nauture of
hawkwind's sound came back on that album. With the added dimention of a
more dancey feel to the tunes.

Must admit I love the forays into the trance music that the band do on
record and particularly live, Hassan, angels, even Lighthouse at the RFH
are superb. I would infact love to see them do a whole live set like
that, break  out of the mould for a while. I'm really hoping that with
Richard moving to sequencers, drum machines and lord knows what other
rythmn equipement the band may take on a more dance feel, or at least
have the ability to go and do some shows specifically orientated towards
a new audience with some hardcore Gabba Techno Hawkwind stylee !!!

Just imagine Creamfields, Glastonbury Dance tent , or the Big Chill
 with 10,000 e'd up kiddies leaping around to Trance Hawkwind in full
effect!, with a light show too boot..  Ahh the dreams.... the dreams.....

regards
Iain


>I don't like it as it's incredibly repetitive and uninventive - tracks
>that do everything they're going to do in the first minute, and then go
>on for another 10 minutes of pointless meandering. Music to knit by.
>When it came out, I thought maybe they hadn't had enough material for an
>album so they'd just dragged everything out to extreme lengths to pad it
>out.
>
>That style has led to a strange phenomenon at every HW gig I've seen
>where they play 'Space is Their Palestine' (And on the last tour, when
>they did similar wittering in Angels of Death) - a large number of the
>audience lose interest and start talking to each other, while the band
>waffle for five minutes.
>
>I think it's the worst album they've ever done, with only one saving
>grace - Mr Brock plays some harmonica on Gimme Shelter. He's rather good
>at that, wish he'd do it more often (Next tour please, on Hurry on
>Sundown?)
>
>(Then again, I think most of their output from the 90s sucks - the only
>one I play regularly is Electric Tepee)
>
>
>
>>Rocky Paths Rules, and Living on a knife end, AND dont forget Angels of
>>Death...... ( now the projections for that were great If I  remember
>>right <G>)
>>
>>Iain
>>
>>Michaelangelo68 at AOL.COM wrote:
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>>>IITBOTFTBD is 'It Is The Business Of The Future To Be Dangerous'.
>>>Personally, I've always thought the 'Dangerous' should be replaced with
>>>'Tedious'. Seriously boring album.
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>>>
>>>Ah well, cant please everyone every time.  So do your thing and have fun doing
>>>
>>>
>>it.  and fuck the rest.
>>
>>
>>>Personally I would love to have a night of that album live tripping on some
>>>
>>>
>>good clean acid.
>>
>>
>>>yes indeed!
>>>Creativity is the food for the soul - what does your taste like?
>>>
>>>
>
>For me, the best HW album has to be Warrior.
>--
>David Blair
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