HW: Mr. Dibs

[mike coleman]

and in my typical darkness, however possibly incorrect, was he or was not
he, another hep-c victim??? I seem to recall that was at least a slowdown
for Rustic Rod....
BTW-Shaw holds his own solo if I were asked, and further, Lemmy can never be
replaced...I can almost do the face, but lack the lean stature and nice
legs.....hehehe


On 8/26/07, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:17:54AM -0400, Ted Jackson typed out:
> > Hey, didn't Ade Shaw play in Hawkwind for a
> > while?  I saw him in Bevis Frond, and from
> > what I heard he stands pretty tall as a bassist.
> > Easily as good a player as Lemmy...
>
>        Ade Shaw's a lovely guy and an excellent bassist, though a very
> understated style compared to Alan or indeed Mr Dibs. Most importantly
> though he appears to be unwilling to work with the Captain these days:
>
> http://www.starfarer.net/ashawint.html
>
>        And I think if he were to be asked to throw himself back into a
> band with a live schedule even as active as Hawkwind's he'd need the
> kind of reassurances that he doesn't seem to have found it possible to
> get in that interview. Just my opinion though, because as you can tell
> from that interview it's impossible to coax more than a slightly
> regretful word out of Adrian for even rock's worst personalities. One of
> the music world's true gentlemen. Yours,
>                                         Jon
>
> --
> "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
>