HW: Huw, Assassins of Silence

[Stephe Lindas]

Hi Jon, No Assassins do really suck. The only folks I've really seen raving about them are themselves. Cheers Stephe
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> From: Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
> Date: 2004/10/04 Mon AM 03:40:54 EDT
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> Subject: HW: Huw, Assassins of Silence
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> On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Ian Jeffcock wrote:
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> > BTW, anyone looked at Huw's site recently, there are a few MP3s up there:
> > 5 demo tracks from Huw's late 70's band Jawa, including a great version
> > of Rocky Paths for all you Huw era Hawkind fans! Definitely worth checking out!
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>         Following this up, I have to agree, those MP3s are worth checking
> out, but two questions spring to mind as a result; the first is, what on
> earth was Simon King on at the time? He's really very far from his best
> here, considering what he was doing the year before and the year
> after... The second thing is, in those files about guest appearances I in
> some sense maintain, of which the revised versions will be going public,
> ooh, any year now, I have Huw and Simon down as being in a band called
> Quasar in 1978; I'm guessing this is the same band, but does anyone know
> for sure?
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>         The other thing that's up on that website which is worth
> mentioning is a video of snippets of a fairly recent guest slot by Huw
> with the Assassins of Silence. Now, I've not seen the Assassins, but if
> that's what they're usually like I may not bother... It's like Hawkwind
> with all the life sucked out of it! Perhaps the video isn't catching the
> ambience properly, and as the site maintainer says there is a quite just
> concentration on the dancer, but still. Something about the vocals and
> pace. Ah well. Am I being unfair? Yours,
>                                          Jonathan
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>                 Jonathan Jarrett, Birkbeck College, London
>     jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk/ejarr01 at students.bbk.ac.uk
>   "As much as the vision of the blind man improves with the rising sun,
>        So too does the intelligence of the fool after good advice."
>        (Bishop Theodulf of Orleans, late-eight/early-ninth century)
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