HW: Other groups, etc.

[Tom Byrne]

Hi Chuck

Nice to see you back, and thanks for putting "The Last Druids" in your top
10 of 2002 (even if it was 1 behind "Dogon Dance" by that young
whippersnapper Michael Blackman)!

Michael and I joined forces for Hawkfest (which was brilliant both musically
and weatherwise) to do an Alien Dream live set. You can see the pictures at
www.hawkwind.com

Drop me an email with your address and I'll send you a copy of "The Eye of
the Cyclone" for possible plugging in a future radio show!

Best regards

Tom


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>Date:    Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:52:48 -0500
>From:    Chuck Rosenberg <Chuckrecs at AOL.COM>
>Subject: HW: Other groups, etc.
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>Hi, it's Chuck, I re-subscribed again. thought i should try "reaching out".
>I live in San Luis Obispo, Ca, which is kind of a drag. (Steve Youles, when
>ya comin??) ah, but i did come to LA last weekend for family business and
>also managed to catch day 2 of All Tomorrow's Parties. I know this is
>originally a UK festival, I don't recall folks discussing it here. anyway,
>i think I saw a note on the web-site that the Boredoms may play the next
>one...if so, don't miss it! I picked up "Vision Creation New Sun" recently,
>and it is MIND-fucking-blowing space/kraut-rock, with some serious HW
>moments. anyway, missing day one, I missed the Magic Band, which is my main
>regret. Marc Groening (Simpsons) "curated" the festival this year, and the
>MB is his favorite. anyway, the best group I saw Sunday was Jackie
>O'Motherfucker: motherfuck yeah! I picked up the "Wow/Magick Fire Music"
>disc, too, which is wonderful. Bardo Pond were good. American Analog Set
>were disappointing. Mars Volta were!
>   cool...uhh...the headliners were Iggy and the Stooges, whose originals
>I've hear little of...they sounded pretty good, but I was too cold and
>drunk by then to come out from under the blanket, didn't have my jacker.
>You Brits w/yer muddy fields and what-not certainly must chuckle at such
>California naievete. Terry Riley was the "elder statesman" of Sun, he
>played a little keyboard set, with his white beard all the way down to his
>waist or so. that's all that's coming back to me at the moment. i know
>there was at least one more band i wanted to comment on.
>uh...i hope to be doing radio again by jan...maybe w/some luck i'll even
>have a regular slot again by April. Turns out the program manager at KCPR
>(Cal Poly SLO) grew up listening to KUCR and the DJ who inspired him the
>most was his high-school english teacher Ron McCafferty...whom i just
>happened to be back-to-back w/on sat nights for two years...
>uhh...I sold 2/3 of my collection when i moved up to this stupid town, but
>i recently repurchased a coupla items: Mushroom's "Compared to What" and
>Salaryman's self-titled...goddamn, they're both great, I own the latter due
>to one of Keith Henderson's CD-R mixes. I'm really into Barry Adamson. He
>used to be in Magazine and Nick Cave/BS, then went solo. "Oedipus
>Schmoedipus" and "As Above So Below" are discs I'm listening to alot. This
>guy rules, he's so diverse. caught on to him via the "Lost Highway"
>sound-track. Speaking of which, I also listen to Lynch/Badalamenti
>soundtracks compulsively.A picked up a Sh'Mantra double-CD which has some
>GREAT songs on it. Bought the first album by Comets on Fire...it's good,
>sometimes great, but i didn't get as excited over it as I'd expected from
>reviews I read. Came across an album by Heru Avenger, it's really long
>spacey jazz-fusion instrumentals, definitely been growing on me lately,
>though apparently not nearly as good as their previ!
>  ous one, which Jerry and Keith raved about back in AI number whatever.The
>only really good show here in San Luis since I arrived back in Feb was
>Mogwai, who played the Univ. There were some incredible, jaw-dropping jams
>in the set (incredibly loud, too). anyway, I finally picked up an album,
>"Rock Action", it's just...blah. what happened?? where's the fucking
>power?!
>Picked up another Flowchart record, lovely stuff once again. Another album
>by Red Temple Spirits, "If the Train were leaving for Lhasa..." Anyone here
>into these guys? Back when I picked up another of theirs, I mentioned it
>here, wondering if anyone knew more about 'em...they're still kinda
>mysterious to me, though it's obvious they were british and active in the
>'80s. oh, and there's the actual music, depressing apoco-rock
>(ragna-rock?), which is at times boring, at times really really
>moving.hmm...same trip I finally picked up a Here and Now
>album...definitely sounds Hillagey...it's either just kinda average to my
>ears or I need to listen to it more. New F/i reissues are out on Lexicon
>Devil!!! "The Past Darkly/The Future Lightly" box-set ('83-'89
>retrospective) on a 2-disc CD for the first time and "Why Not
>Now?...Allan!" from '87. They were at Amoeba, i'd had no idea, and I gave a
>great cry. The new Census of Hallucinations "8th Dwarf" is great, their
>best since their 4t!
>  h (which wasn't really that long ago). The new Rollerball, Twin Atlas and
>Primordial Undermind albums are all fine, too, discs that i recently
>reviewed for AI.
>oh, yeah, HW! well, I picked up Weird #3...I think that's it, the one with
>the '75 and '77 free festivals...man these buggers is pricey, that shows ya
>how much I couldn't resist hearing some of these tracks again. I used to
>have a cassette, but I'd lost it and was trying to remember "Circles" and
>such...
>BOC? All I can say is that last weekend my sister made me watch an SNL
>video, which included a skit of the group rehearsing DFtR in the
>studio...the funny bit was that the guy playing Bloom (can't remember the
>actor's name, but the video was the Best of Him) was just jumping around,
>no guit, banging on the cow-bell. what's actually playing is the studio
>recording of Reaper, but then the Bloom figure starts banging obnoxiously
>on live, way up-front underproduced cowbell. The manager/agent guy, played
>by Christopher Walken and certainly not meant to have anything to do
>w/Pearlman, keeps telling him "less cowbell"... that's it!
>i've talked too much!chuck
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