HW: What's Happenin' Where is everyone?

[Colin J Allen]

I am amazed that we have got so far through a discussion of the quality of
Hawkwind synth wizards before getting to Captain Black.  He is up there with
Harvey and, in many ways, more suited to the traditional Hawkwind sound.

Colin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Pearson" <jasret at MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: HW: What's Happenin' Where is everyone?


> On the other hand, I really like Harvey's vocal rants! :^)  I think he
> does that more effectively than any HW member has except, of course, Bob.
> (And he's a pretty good backup singer, although I seem to recall someone
> mentioning that the excellent backup vocals on 'Live 79' are studio
> overdubs.)
>
> Tim's style these days (judging from the 'Out of the Shadows' DVD) seems
> to be over-reliant on the sort of "auto-arpegiation" (who would've thought
> that Duran Duran would be so musically influential!) that seems to be real
> popular in today's techno/dance/remix music (at least the producer in the
> studio next door is always doing stuff like that); I think one person on
> the list referred to it as "virtual guitar" since it almost sounds like
> picking out the notes of a guitar chord.  It can be an effective technique
> (to some extent, HW pioneered it, or something similar, with stuff
> like "Forge of Vulcan"), but on every song, it gets tiresome to my ears
> (and gives validation to accusations of "inteptness" since it really is a
> one-finger playing technique, but some of my favorite bands/musicians have
> been utterly inept.  Darryl Hooper was one rockin' keyboardist!).
>
> Harvey's keyboard technique, like Dave's guitar playing, is hardly
> advanced, but also like Dave's guitar playing, seems to always work
> perfectly with Hawkwind-style songs.  And he's talented at nagivating both
> the notes/chords and the swooooosh (the ideal spacerock synth player will
> do one with each hand, simultaneously), the latter of which seems to have
> been not so evident from Tim recently (maybe that's just because the
> sequencers are doing all the work ... these days that job would be best
> suited to capt. Bl at ck, anyway).
>
>     -Doug
>      jasret at mindspring.com
>
> On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 19:50:42 -0500, John Majka <jmajk at INDY.RR.COM> wrote:
>
> >I'd have to agree that Harvey's playing was an absolutely amazing thing
> >during his last few years with Hawkwind.  He makes Tim Blake seem
> >completely inept by comparison.  In my fantasy line-up, Harvey would
> >be on keyboards and Huw would be on lead guitar, in addition to the
> >trio of Brock, Davey, and Chadwick.
> >John Majka
> >
> >
> >
> >> Harvey should have a website (or have someone set one
> >> up for him)so he could maybe sell some of his CDs. I
> >> bet he's got loads of material unreleased.
> >>  I thought his keyboard playing with HW just prior to
> >> leaving was amazing (Not crazy about his vocal rants
> >> though)
> >>
> >> Mick
> >>