Astoria last night

[Steve Freight]

Steve and Guy,

Downstairs by the bar there was dope smoke and the next thing 2 guys getting
hauled out by the bouncers.

Steve


On 12/20/07, Steve Bishop <steve.bishop at db.com> wrote:
>
> LOL, cheers Guy - but I'd changed outta the suit and into Doremi t-shirt n
> leather jacket n jeans so as not to be too ridiculed ! But hey, guess I AM
> one
> of the more 'unusual' and most 'unlikely' HW fans though I've been seein
> 'em
> since the 1980 Ginger Baker tour ........ guess HW appeal to all genres of
> the
> populace !! And I even played bass in a 'space-rock' band from school
> doing
> covers of Motorward City and Master along with our own stuff ............
>
> Lack of dope-smoke ? Yup, it just wasn't the same without it though there
> were
> definitely a few crafty spliffs doin the rounds .........
>
> Great gig, thought for a mo we may get TWO encores cos the lights didn't
> come
> up but sadly it wasn't to be ..............
>
>
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> Hi Steve,
>
> Yup - great show last night! I was looking forward to Fable OAFR but had
> to
> settle for lighthouse - never liked it that much in days of old, but Dave
> did
> a
> good job on vox.
>
> Tim's work on the Theramin was brilliant - he's a real genius!
>
> Dibs was a real surprise - vocals good - brillaint in the role of Bob
> Calvert,
> bass
> was on a par with Alan/Lemmy, with a real fat (non-Rickenbacker!!) sound.
> The bass interlude on MOTU was great.
>
> Wonder if Dibs get chance to get some of his own material into the set
> ever?
> It's well known that I'm Krel Fan #1, and that Dibs work in Krel was IMO
> better
> than Spacehead (probably why he kept on playing Krel tracks in his
> Spacehead
> days). The track Space Trip from the last Krel CD (recorded live on the
> 1992
> Teepee tour, released in 2005) would be brilliant in a HW set.
>
> I haven't seen the band for a couple of years, and I've just worked out
> what
> was wrong - there was no dope smoke in the air! Our wonderful government
> have made us all more terrified of general smoking indoors, than puffing
> on
> the
> weed - oh well!  Looking round, there seemed to be loads of geezers in
> short
> hair (I even saw a couple of suits!) obviously fresh from the city! (Hi
> Steve!).
> and more general HW rockers of say 70s/80s era with very few grungers!
> We've all grown up!
>
> Guy
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