HW: album slagging

[pete howe]

I read that the Record Company had completely lost touch, and Dave said that 
theyd even asked them to do a cover of Bowies" Space Oddity"(see Ian 
Abrahams book).
Personally i think the reworking of  the song S.A, and S.M(on C.Y.M.) are 
just plain horrible and you have to ask..WHY??Modernising S.O.T.A.(and 
Paradox) was far more understandable..although personally,i still prefer the 
original version of S.O.T.A.
Re Sonic Attack..Rocky paths is superb..Angels of Death WOULD be superb if 
theyd cranked up Daves guitar a bit..dont like "coded languages" (Moococks 
vocals ..ermm...)..and Streets of Fear, Daves riff sounds too much like 
Magnu.But the production sound is far superior than that on C.Y.M.,which is 
muddy with Daves guitar even lower in the mix,and only redeemed by the 
classic "arrival in Utopia"..Even on the reasonable Fahrenheit 451, the riff 
sounds like a reworking of 25 years on./silver machine type progression..it 
was  the start of the "album filler" period, i think, which went right 
through the 80s.
In the middle of those 2 albums came the interesting Church of Hawkwind,of 
course, with its great booklet artwork-"Nuclear Drive" is a hugely 
under-rated track, i think..
By the way,ive got the rare 10" x8"softback lyric book, released at that 
time,(green cover, great artwork), little bit scruffy- worn spine,couple of 
creases to cover, but pretty good condition.. if anyones interested(lots of 
wrong lyrics, though.."Flying doctor" seems to have had a politically 
correct makeover done on it!) ..and Daves message that part two will follow 
in a few years(i dont think it ever did!)..along with a rare sticker sheet 
of album covers, issued at the same time..all from Hawkfan, i believe..
     pete

>From: Iain Ferguson <iainferguson at AOL.COM>
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>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
>Subject: Re: HW: album slagging
>Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 09:26:54 +0100
>
>Hi you said,
>
>Jonathan Jarrett wrote on 06/04/2006, 22:28:
>
>  > there's a clutch of soundalike second-rate tracks, the title rework
>  > which is a bit tiring (though nothing like as bad as the CYM `Silver
>  > Machine' I grant you) and then the synth bits which are less
>  > interesting than the CM ones. However...
>  >
>Which reminded me of when Sonic Attack came out & Hawkwind went on tour
>with it, I was asked by Radio Bristol to interview the band on the Drive
>time show before the gig (I was about 14 or 15)
>
>so due time of 2:00pm arrived at the Radio station and the band walked
>in sans Mr Brock (big disapointment), we went to the infamous Green room
>and started drinking with the band.
>
>Time for the recording of the interview came and went. eventually some
>officious type arrived and dragged everyone up stairs to record.
>
>bear in mind that i have about 10 questions lined up, what did I start
>with ???
>
>"Why did you re-record Sonic attack, i hate it  hahahahahaha"
>
>I have the recording of the interview somewhere, not very enlightening
>I'm afraid, but the chat in the Green room was very colourful.
>And who'd a known that HLL smoked unbelievably thin rollups, his were
>smaller than mine & i was a school kid, and him famous & a hero...
>
>ahh the memories. and your right, Sonic attack the track was nothing
>compaired to what awaited with the whole of Choose your masks (for me
>anyway), but more especially the re-recordng of Silver Machine. (didn't
>the band do this as a joke, but the record company want it released it
>anyway ( or was that just the single).
>
>iain

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