HW: Upcoming Litmus Gigs (and a Space Ritual gig)

[trev]

the point i was trying to make about the halcyon days guff is that this is a
usual way for bands to "get into your head" - of course i had to make it
sound like a sweeping statement.

i wouldn't put god and man anywhere - it's a wierd album - insect brain -
yes - the sounds of a band searching for and finding a groove - other bands:
greltch, monty oxymoron, poly styrene (new album out), acid mothers of
course - millions of 'em

trev

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Jarrett" <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Upcoming Litmus Gigs (and a Space Ritual gig)


> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:40:14AM +0100, trev typed out:
>> the only appeal of space ritual, and hawkwind, for that matter, is to
>> remind
>> people of their halcyon days - this is one of the things that music is
>> very
>> effective at doing. space ritual are all crap musicians (apart from nik),
>> resting on fragile laurels, but lots of people like that.
>
>        I suspect Dave Anderson of not playing at full strength most of
> the time. He's clearly not the young man in 1971 Amon Duul II any more,
> but at the Nik Turner's Space Unit gig he did at least show some energy
> and speed he doesn't usually have to with Space Ritual. Nik too can
> certainly deliver a lot better than he usually does, though he's almost
> always fun to hear. Sam Ollis is I think pretty good. Terry is pretty
> solid but only, it seems, within a very limited range of sound patterns
> now. (This is very sad I think.) I don't think I'd want to defend any of
> the others from what you say here though.
>
>        The thing about Hawkwind, I don't agree with you there. For one
> thing they've had several halcyon days, depending on when people first saw
> them. I know some people (you know one of them, indeed, Melissa from
> Pyramids of SNAFU) who identify with Hawkwind in the 1980s Stonehenge era
> much more than they do with the Space Ritual one. Similarly, though I love
> _Space Ritual_ *I* never saw any band come close to it live, except maybe
> the second Hawkestra in a really unsubtle way, and to me tip-top live
> Hawkwind is Hawkwind as they were in 1996, when I first saw them, or in
> 2001 when suddenly they had all their best musicians at once, everything
> seemed to be going on and all kinds of potential swirling round them. But
> they aren't currently doing much that sounds like either, and anyone going
> out for a halcyon Hawkset is likely to be disappointed.
>
>        If that means they aren't fulfilling their function, well, um, I'd
> probably agree with you there because they seem to have mislaid the thing
> that makes their sets a coherent experience rather than a series of songs,
> which to me is definitely part of that ideal trip, but I don't know that
> many other fans would say they're not delivering the goods right now. Are
> they just seeing the old band on the stage anyway d'you think?
>
>> this is not an age of acceptance of the unusual and when unusual gems
>> appear, they are more often than not, ignored or denigrated.
>
>        I don't disagree with this, but I'd be quite interested in what
> recommendations you might make for stuff that's overlooked. Assuming we
> put _God and Man_ and _Insect Brain_ in whichever of first and second
> places you'd like :-) what else is there out there that you reckon should
> be more heard than it is? Yours,
>                                 Jon
>
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