TMTYL

[iain ferguson]

Tis your opinion and no one can take it away from you.

I like rather a lot of it, but like yourself find some too Digital - 
maybe because this was recorded on a MAC using Logic I believe, which
the band had to learn how to use, and have commented on the whole process.

working in the analog world you add Dirt and warmth throughout the 
recording, mastering and pressing  proccesses, giving you a warmer 
sound, recording in the digital world you have to add that dirt back in 
or it sounds clinical, harshly bright etc, maybe what you hear in parts 
is where not enough dirt was added back in.

Then again , I could be talking old trousers cos i'm a drummer and 
therefore not a musician :-)

Cheers Loike

Iain

creature struggling on earth wrote:
> ok, I put in TMTYL tonight, since i too, was not particularily uplifted by
> it
> for me, for years, Hawkwind music has been a swish of medicine, and this
> still provides it for me, however, my own critical eye would proclaim thus:
> 1) the letter to robert is a bit too silly.......while Arthur Brown is
> awesome, IMHO he is not doing for us here what he once did on Calvert's
> record
> 2) amusingly to me, Brock seems to contradict Richard regarding android
> sex......
> 3) most important to me....since I am not a musician pardon my attempt to
> describe here, ....the entire recording to me seems a bit "digitally
> bright", almost muffled.....
> I think I might like to see Hawkwind enter a different studio.....
> 4) we want Dave Brock to not hold back and kill us..............he's still
> got it......
> 5) less percussiveness, more Simon King pounding........(although my friend
> Mary Bruce would disagree here, she is put into trance by the drum click
> tracks or whatever they are...)
> now, playing TMTYF.....on random.....first up is Lemmy on Silver
> Machine.....how cool is that????
> do I still get to keep on struggling trying to incorporate into humanity or
> is this where I am beheaded???
> mc
>