Xenon Codex

[Amphetamine Embalmer]

I have everything by the punk Grisham/Morgon/Delauge/Greggors (same dude!) TSOL and am looking forward to the Joe Wood led band, "Change Today?" and "Strange Love" for instance, ordered from a very cool guy at Surf City in California... tell Robb Christian sent you if you order any stuff there!!! I  first heard "Dance With Me" in 1992 when I was living in NJ and thought "wow! this is what the USA sound like when they are punks" - i thought the closest thing to punk in USA at the time was G'n'R, FNM, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Nirvana....  I was only familiar with Sex Pistols/Clash/Damned etc. - the "classic" UK punk.. Though I was a HUGE Dead Kennedys fan, sister band of TSOL (same producer Thom Wilson)... and THE HAWKS. And every American "kid" liked RUSH or  GRATEFUL DEAD in the 90's ;)

Christian
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----- Original Message ----
From: gary shindler <bewlay68 at YAHOO.COM>
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
Sent: Tuesday, 7 November, 2006 3:52:51 PM
Subject: Re: Xenon Codex

I liked early TSOL when they were in "Suburbia" but after that they tried to be some biker/metal band and it just seemed like second rate Crue or GNR. 

Amphetamine Embalmer <superskrull666 at YAHOO.CO.UK> wrote:  Yes! Excactly 100% METAL. Back when Hawkwind were some of the roughest chaos rockers I became a fan
when they also were so contemporary too. Like Guns N Roses or TSOL Hawkwind were HEAVY in the 80's:)
I was in awe because I had never heard heavy metal like that with synthesizers and such lush mythology
built around it. Made me a fan forever. I think Ron Tree was one of the strangest and coolest things to 
happen to Hawkwind. I miss Ron! Stuff like Alchemy and Reptoid Vision... ah, it was glorious...

Christian

np: Tiamat

----- Original Message ----
From: John Majka 
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
Sent: Monday, 6 November, 2006 7:07:43 PM
Subject: Re: Xenon Codex

Curiously, Chronicle of the Black Sword was also my first taste of Hawkwind. 
Although the opening track struck me as a bit more metal than the band 
really is, I couldn't stop listening to that record and I had to explore 
further... And now hundreds of CDs, albums, singles, posters, programs, 
shirts, and concerts later, I'm still just as interested!

I think that Xenon Codex is one of the most underrated albums in their vast 
catalog. After listening to it for the first time I remember being in awe, 
thinking, how can Hawkwind of all bands go on making great albums when they 
are supposedly well past their "expiration date." I thought it a remarkably 
solid album, especially for a band who had been at it as long as they had at 
the time. Hawkwind always manage to somehow coax some additional energy 
from the fuel rods for another journey....

John Majka


Xenon Codex has to be my favorite Hawkwind album, and it was the second 
album by the band I got when it came out
right after buying my first Hawkwind CD in 1988 (Chronicle of The Black 
Sword) SHARP033
... Stuff like Neon Skyline and Sword of The East are just awesome still...

Guy Bidmead is in fact producing Uli Roth of The Scorpions these days...

a fan,
Christian

NP: Carpathian Forest - We Are Going To Hell For This



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