Astoria last night

[Guy Thomas]

Forgot to mention, in my comments - Richard's singing was truly brilliant - 
Silver Machine was possibly the closest that I've heard yet to the original 
Lemmy 72 version. Even Lemmy at Reading in 86 wasn't as good!

Guy


On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:17:10 +0000, Steve Freight 
<stevefreight at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>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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