HW: why was Roadhawks never released on CD?

[eddie jobson]

I remember Dave Brock praising that album (after condeming a lot of the
others that had been re-released), as he said in an interview he slept on
the floor in the studio in his sleeping bag to mix it!

>From: Doug Pearson <jasret at MINDSPRING.COM>
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>Subject: Re: HW: why was Roadhawks never released on CD?
>Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:23:37 -0400
>
>On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:32:24 +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
>wrote:
>
> >Surely every track that was on Roadhawks has since been released on CD
> >in one way or another?  You could always "roll yer own" :)
>
>I've actually considered re-creating the Space Is Deep / Wind Of Change /
>Golden Void medley from that album by splicing the tracks together on the
>computer.  It's very cool the way they made those work together.
>
>But yeah, given that all the tracks are on other CDs, I can certainly see
>why EMI would consider its release redundant.  I wouldn't bother to shell
>out the cash for it if it was released.
>
>(Roadhawks was also one of the first three HW albums I bought, the others
>being Space Ritual and Live 79, all on the same day.  I was very happy with
>that purchase!)
>
>     -Doug
>      jasret at mindspring.com