HW/OFF: oh how cool-Hawkwind/Captain Beyond

[mike coleman]

*Jon is it "stoned crazy" you need???*
further I am about to mail you soon
Bobby Caldwell= righteous...even looked like Simon King
those vids on YOUTUBE I announced were too good, they removed them


On 12/20/07, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 11:40:03AM -0600, Mike Coleman typed out:
> > OMG
> > never noticed before
> > "as the moon speaks to the sea" clearly has "you know you're only
> dreaming"
> > in it
> > has to be a direct influence
> > right??
> > also,  proud to think the drummer was from Johnny Winter and he sure
> does
> > sound awfully great to my un-drum-trained ear
>
>        I can't help thinking that that chord sequence is easy for
> someone else to find by mistake. It would have to be a very fresh
> influence if that's what it was, but I guess XISoS could easily have
> been on their collective turntables ("because the groups all live
> together") by the time they were writing. I'm not sure I pick up very
> much similarity of approach though, even if I'd love to think it was HW
> that helped make that first album as it's one of my absolute
> favourites.
>
>        The drummer, OK my ear isn't trained either but I like to think
> it has some discernment, the drummer's name is Bobby Caldwell and he was
> effing fantastic. Attacking from all quarters of the kit and time
> signature at once kind of excellent, never know where he's going to be
> next excellent, gives that album the pace and flexibility that makes it
> such a classic. All that is kind of lacking, for me, on _Sufficiently
> Breathless_, which is basically hard AOR if such a thing's possible.
> Caldwell wasn't there, and I think that's all the explanation that's
> required. He came back for a third album, _Dawn Explosion_, but unlike
> the others (which are hard enough to get hold of) I've not managed to
> get that one, because it's exceedingly rare and currently Amazon won't
> sell me one for less than £45.00... It's got to be worth a go some time,
> but at that kind of price it's competing for my madness with the first
> Outskirts of Infinity album and the Bevis Frond I don't have. Some day I
> guess. Yours,
>                Jon
>
> ObHW: they were good last night and did at least a stanza of `Dreaming';
> proper review will follow.
> --
> "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
>