HW: New album...

[Henderson Keith]

Hey Folks...

I had gone lax in checking the yahoo list for other HW news and views, but
just browsed by there now.  And they've had a fast and furious discussion
about the new album (TMTYL), based on the track samples now posted online.
I hate yahoo webgroup browsing (takes forever), and so I just thought that I
might persuade one of you fine folks who has been taking part/following the
discussion to clue us clueless people in as to what the general consensus
it.  (Yeah, I know, I know, half the people hate it, and half the people
love it, right?)

Anyway, even though I know pretty well Sunray, Angela Android and Out Here,
We Are, it would be nice to hear what the whole thing sounds like, esp. the
studio versions.  And did anyone find out if there's a release date set
yet?!  Hello, is this thing working?!

I know I had another five things I wanted to post to the group over the last
several weeks, but I have no idea anymore what any of them were.  So I guess
they weren't that important after all.

Oh, BTW, I've already decided to come for the Cambridge & London shows.  Are
tickets already on sale?  I suppose hawkwind.com would tell me the answer to
that, but...

Grakkl (FFA)

P.S.  Thanks to Eli for the nice NikSeed review.

P.P.S.  Oh, yeah, about the Assassins of Silence...or whatever they were
called.  They played in the barn at HF'03, right?  Yeah, well, I was happy
to watch them play, as they were doing their best to re-create the Space
Ritual-style show as best they could.  But given the venue (a
Hawkwind-themed event!), they were up against a higher standard.  If they'd
been playing at a bar in my hometown, it would have been downright cool.
And they were better than the Nik backing band at the final (indoor) Strange
Daze, and I even 'liked' that show.  Mainly for the fun/celebration factor,
not so much for the performance.  Of course, the best Hawkwind cover entity
IMHO was the Sun Machine band with the two Steves (and a rotating cast of
others, which meant that they were better on some days than others).  The
Time Brothers I never saw, but while they did a few nice versions of a
couple HW tracks (esp. the two I put on the HWCoversAll CD-Rs), some of them
were also not quite 'on target' IMHO...and they had a drummer who was
absolutely the wrong style.  Kind of the alternate universe where Simon King
was replaced by Billy Cobham or something.