HW: Sabbaticals

[Jez Dacombe]

Hi Doug,
I think I must have mis-interpreted your original e-mail on this.
I thought you meant "3 stellar bassists" during Ron's period in the band.
Hence my confusion.
Apologies.
Cheers,
Jez

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Pearson <jasret at MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Sabbaticals


> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:18:29 -0000, Jez Dacombe
> <Jeremy at DACOMBE.FSNET.CO.UK> wrote:
> >Alan's mimicking of Lemmy is worse than "amusing", it's diabolical and
> >makes me cringe.
> >Playing bass ala Lemster is fine, but all this posing with downturned mic
> >and pretending to have a gruff voice is laughable.
> >He should just be himself.
>
> I completely see where you're coming from.  I don't wear the yellow
plastic
> jumpsuit and red flowerpot hat when I'm playing with bands *other* than
the
> Devo tribute (not even the band leader does that, although he DID
> officially change his name to "Loid", as in "Mongo-" ... at least Alan
> didn't change his name to "Ace"!  [as in "-of spades", of course]).
>
> >Who are these 3 stellar bassists you mention Doug?
> >I'm stuck on one.
>
> Adrian Shaw?  People forget him since he wasn't in the band for very long,
> and his style is absolutely nothing like Lemmy/Alan, but his sense of
> melody, note placement, and his ability to play *with*, rather than
> *through*, a song, sets him head and shoulders above 99% of the world's
> bassists.  Some of his parts, although deceptively-simple sounding, take a
> serious effort to learn and correctly execute.  I'm still blown away by
his
> musicianship every time I see him with the Bevis Frond.
>
> >I miss Ron for sheer lunacy & unpredictablity.
>
> I, too, prefer Hawkwind when there's someone in the band to make that
> contribution ... Nik, Bob, and (to a lesser extent) Harvey have provided
> that in the past, and from some of the show reviews I've read, it sounds
> like Arthur Brown is doing a respectable job of it.
>
>     -Doug
>      jasret at mindspring.com
>