HW: Mr. Dibs

[John Majka]

Yeah, Adrian Shaw managed to survive hepatitis C.
john majka

> 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
>>