Hawkwind Brooklyn

[tim elliott]

Great photos Mike, and a new career too!! What more could
you ask for - LOL
tim
8>)...


On 6/26/07, Mike Montfort <mike.montfort at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey All
>
> GREAT show on Monday,  The band was just blistering hot and loud.  They
> had a fantastic PA system in the small venue and the boys did a great
> job of mixing it up from the setlists on Saturday and Sunday.  No new
> surprises from the Allentown show setlist, just some differing order of
> the songs.  I think last two songs (the Encores) from Allentown were not
> played at Brooklyn, but Im very bad with setlists.  The Encore in
> Brooklyn was a rousing Brainstorm.
>
> I also had the opportunity to get to the venue around 3pm when Keef and
> co were setting up, and was just coming back from lunch when the band
> showed up.  I had a unique opportunity to chat with Dave Brock about all
> sorts of history of the band and his thoughts other things as well.  The
> most chatting I did was with Kris however, such a wonderful person.  I
> probably spent at lest a half hour with Dave one on one and much more
> time with Kris.
>
> I spied the box of Tshirts sitting in the middle of the floor after
> setup so I asked Kris if I could get that organized for them. This
> morphed into me selling Merchandise for the show.  It was tons of fun
> meeting the US fans, many many many of whom seem to have no idea of our
> list lol.  Some do post to the HW forum.  Alas by the time things got
> rolling things in the Tshirt dept were down to any color you wanted as
> long as it was a White XL...  But we did sell quite a few T's and
> Season's Greetings CD's.
>
> I stayed around after the show to sell a few more and then thank the
> band individually for a wonderful weekend.  For me, without sounding
> like a total fanboy, it was a dream come true, to be able to help out
> the Mothership, have a real conversation with the man who is responsible
> for so much musical pleasure in my life and to meet Kris who is truly a
> star.
>
> So now I'm deaf today, and have to return to reality, which is not easy.
>
> I posted my pictures to this show at my PhotoBucket site under the
> subfolder Hawkwind Brooklyn
> <http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m220/MikeMontfort/Hawkwind%20Brooklyn/
> >
>
> http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m220/MikeMontfort/Hawkwind%20Brooklyn/
>
> If that wraps use the link below in my sig file to navigate to the
> folder.  Also don't forget there are HW pics in the NF Saturday folder
> as well.
>
> If anyone from the list that was at the show and I didn't meet sorry for
> that.  It was quite crazy selling Merch.
>
> --
>
>
> 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
>



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