Old masters

[pauleatonjones]

  On the subject of ownership of master tapes I understand that EMI have
offered a huge amount of money to Dave, principally, for the rights to
all the Hawkwind back catalogue and all it will need is for Dave, Nik
and Douglas to sit down and sign the agreement. Who will blame any of
the major players if they do this? Dave has been 'on the road' for a
very long time: he, Nik et al have been involved with the band for 34
years so surely they deserve their reward. They aren't selling out.
After all they've been ripped-off massively over the years. Does anyone
else feel that they appear to have run out of steam, energy and, please
forgive me on this, ideas?? I'm quite happy fro them to take the
money/rewards just as long as EMI do the right thing by the fans, that
is release the back catalogue in FULL, remastered form. I have to say
that I don't want them to quit but I'd like to see an injection
of....something. They need re-energising. Shoot me down in flames if
you like but I'd love to hear people's thoughts.
               regards, Paul.
On Saturday, January 24, 2004, at 02:30  am, Eric Siegerman wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:12:17PM +0000, pauleatonjones wrote:
>>       Good grief. Am I the only one  respondent, so far, who thinks
>> that
>> Doremi Fasol Latido is one of the finest albums of all time let alone
>> one of Hawkwind's  greatest?
>
> Only 'cause I haven't responded yet :-)
>
> Doremi's production bites, but everything else about the album is
> pretty much the quintessence of why I'm a HW fan.  The only other
> thing wrong with it is there's not enough of it -- which this...
>
>>>> Now wouldn't it be wonderful to have those
>>>> unedited versions released to the hard-core fans?
>
> ...would fix admirably!
>
> --
>
> |  | /\
> |-_|/  >   Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.        erics at telepres.com
> |  |  /
> It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer
> wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the
> drum kit around during songs.
>         - Patrick Lenneau
>