HW: Do Not Panic documentary

[Cyberkrel]

One bizarre thing from the "Space Ritual" period that remains unresolved to
this day is the official release of the BBC Radio 1 In Concert CD in
stereo - I bet there are some of you who have this off the recent radio
re-broadcasts (I'm not one of them - I'm never in at night to hear the
radio!!) but it's odd that this is another anomaly yet to be sorted. There
was a bootleg CD if I remember rightly that was in stereo only that was even
more bizarre having the most odd mix known to man!
Andy G.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
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Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Do Not Panic documentary


> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:17:32PM -0400, Stephen Swann typed out:
> > I love Nik's mad squawking/honking sax in Space Ritual.  Wouln't
> > have traded it for 20 dozen people who "play properly".
>
> I think _Space Ritual_ is one of the few places where you can
> really hear what nik contributed to that sound, back then. On the
> Castle _Best of_, and presumably elsewhere (it must be from SRII
> originally I guess?) there's a variant mix of `Space is Deep', which has
> Nik much more obvious in the recording, and the parts he's playing are a
> constant and musical, if rather unschooled, contribution, which gels
> marvellously with Del's offhand wanderings and is really a fully-
> functional *part*. I don't know if on other things, like _1999 Party_,
> he was just wandering round too far from the mike, or if Dave mixed him
> out, and if the latter whether his playing had got worse and merited it,
> but that recording alone shows that Nik did actually *do* something for
> early HW. The trouble is that that doesn't excuse the eighties. But then
> very little will... Yours,
>    Jon
>
> ObCD: Led Zeppelin - _Presence_
> --
> "When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
>     (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
>  Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk