Hawkwind's Theta Orionis on e-bay

[M Holmes]

mike coleman writes:

> On 3/18/08, M Holmes <fofp at holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> > Steve Freight writes:

> > > This is probably the rarest bootleg CD of them all.

> > > 500 made - 150 shipped and then the bootlegger got nicked and jailed and
> > 350 destroyed.

> > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hawkwind-Theta-Orionis-10-track-picture-CD_W0QQitemZ300205203440QQihZ020QQcategoryZ1049QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

> > Speaking of early boots. I think I spotted a spare "Quark Night in
> > Paris" if anyone is looking for one...

> which boot had that silver machine from the BBC where the asshole had the
> level way too low
> was that the first Dawn of HW with the ripped MacBeth art (actually which
> came first, the egg, or the chicken?) or the Theta one???
> I've been lookin' to put cap in that guy's ass ever since LOL LOL

I'm guessing from context that you don't know which particular asshole
it was?

The story there was I have the BBC disk. I was in talks with Doug Smith
to get an official release. I'd made one cassette of it for someone I
trusted and on specific instructions it go to nobody else. He made one
cassette for one other person, as he later admitted and that person had
Dawn of Hawkwind released from his dodgy second generation cassette
copy.

This caused a very great deal of grief for me from Doug Smith (he never
spoke to me again afterwards) and obviously the spiking of any
possibility of an official release.

Yes. I know who you are. Feel free to confess to the brothers...

FoFP