HW: Old masters

[Ian Abrahams]

I think its stretching it quite a lot to suggest that Nik has been involved
in the band for 34 years, to be honest, Paul! And sadly, though I'd love to
believe that EMI have a "huge" amount of money to stump-up for the Hawkwind
catalogue, as they've already successfully completed a major reissue
programme for the UA-era I can't, personally, imagine they would such make a
major investment  as you are suggesting, again. Hope I'm very wrong, though!

Heck, with a new album in the works and two new biographical appraisals due
in 2004, anything can happen!

Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: "pauleatonjones" <paul at IMRRYR.KAROO.CO.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: Old masters


>   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
> >
>
>