HW: New album...

[Stephe Lindas]

Hi Keith, How ya doing? I'm not going review the new one. How can it be done from samples? I'm sure most of us will buy it regardless.
 The HW yahoo group is crap anymore. Far too many off posts. This group is much better.
 Sun Machine were amazing. Shame they aren't around anymore. The Band backing NIK at the Beachland were pretty bad. I didn't think Ass of Silence were very good. They had that skank girl dancing that looked like she needed some food. I probably wouldn't see them if they came here.
 Remember Nucleon? They haven't done much in awhile. I ran into Paul Reznik. He said they are getting it together and should be releasing a new cd by dec. Could be a classic. Cheers Stephe
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> From: Henderson Keith <keith.henderson at PSI.CH>
> Date: 2004/10/11 Mon PM 01:11:14 EDT
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> Subject: HW: New album...
>
> 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.
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