Alan Davey

[David Kuznick]

Yeah, I thought he did a fine job at NEARFest.  If only the sound problems could
have been resolved...  BTW, that was me who yelled to Dave that we couldn't hear
his guitar :-).

Quoting Mike Montfort <mike.montfort at gmail.com>:

> Well in the US the band did fantastic.
>
> Most of the people I talked to at NF and Brooklyn didn't know who Dibsy
> was but thought his voice fitted very well for Hawkwind.
>
> So maybe he was just off for Hawkfest.
>
> Mike
> http://corwyn.blogspot.com
> the blog
> http://www.mikemontfort.com
> the pics
> http://www.myspace.com/mikemontfort
> the myspace
> http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m220/MikeMontfort/
> the photobucket
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/corwyn/
> the flickr site
>
>
>
> Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
> > On 18/06/2007 09:24, Martin Hutchby wrote:
> >> Sorry, but Dibsy was bloody awful...........that dreadful monotone
> >> voice  that completely fell apart for Assassins. Poor gig. The only
> >> time I haven't  stayed for an encore. The fact Alan wasn't there had
> >> a huge impact. Can't fault  Dibsy for trying, but I'm afraid he's
> >> way, way off. Might make a difference if  he doesn't try to sing though.
> >> Don't wish to be so negative but that really was a band struggling
> >> (IMHO of course)
> >> Angry backlash to the usual addresss please......................
> >
> > No angry backlash from me -- I wasn't there, but I can easily imagine
> > the band struggling pretty terribly without Alan.  They didn't usually
> > do that well without him when he was on hiatus in the '90s, and that
> > was with plenty of warning ....  I wonder what's up.  A decade
> > further, is Alan off for another "time-out" again?  It'd be a shame,
> > 'cause I thought they were playing really well in the last year or so,
> > and Alan is pretty fundamental to the 'cause IMO.  When the
> > Brock/Davey/Chadwick core have it together, they cook as hot as any
> > line-up and better than many.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Carl
> >
>


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