HW: Alan Davey interview

[trev]

Well John, didn't you know that sarcasm is so passe these days. Now, 
skepticism is what the inn-crowd is into...I don't know why...
can't really see any point in any of it...don't know why anyone bothers to 
write on this list anyway for what good it does...mankind is doomed, so why 
prolong the agony...?

Yes, I must say that the Trev and Kev gig at Cosmic Puffin was a carbon copy 
of our last ill-fated engagement at the Horse and groom, as far as Kev was 
concerned. Again the fat fool crammed as much dope into his grotesque gob as 
possible before the gig. It kicked in about half-way through the set. He 
didn't collapse this time tho', because there was a chair handy. He just 
spent the time, sweating, eyes glazed with his finger stuck on a single 
undulating synth note...for twenty minutes!!!

I mean...is there any point in it all...why bother to breath...?

jt


"> One thing I am sure of,  is that Judge Trev certainly chose the wrong
> instrument...that guy should NEVER have picked up a guitar......talk about
> painful.......and you should see how fast people make excuses to leave 
> every
> time his "noise" is on my stereo.....I won't even mention when he opens 
> his
> mouth to "sing"???

Better than that Kev bloke he hangs around with, though...
Believe me I've seen it (now), yours,

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From: "Jonathan Jarrett" <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:22 AM
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Subject: Re: HW: Alan Davey interview

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 04:34:46AM -0600, mike coleman typed out:
>> Jon Jarret writes:
>> > P. S. Harvey is on the other hand in my opinion the best *synth* player
>> > Hawkwind ever had and I would respectfully ask a rejoining Simon, were
>> > such ever to occur, to stick to violin so that there would be space for
>> > Harvey too...
>> > --
>>
>> Now in a "perfect world", for me, if Simon were to plug back into 
>> whatever
>> he was using on Warrior, I would say do anything, I mean ANYTHING to keep
>> Harvey from messing anything up........
>
> Aw, I know what you mean, but Harvey's big melodic washes of
> noise and his particular brand of squiggly sounds work for me better
> than Simon's rather orchestral leanings; they're good, but they bring
> Hawkwind too close to being a dinosaur prog band, which I think was a
> failing _Warrior_ suffered from maybe a bit too much.
>
>> and before I continue, I rather see you as a personal friend Jon, and 
>> none
>> of this stuff is very serious to me, and while I almost could have been a
>> musician,  I do not have an "ear" for much besides guitar, although Simon
>> King gave me an "ear" for his drumming, (and) I never found any fault 
>> with
>> Harvey's bass-playing
>
> I don't know whether I have an ear for this stuff particularly,
> but I have some idea of what I think works and why. I find Harvey's
> bass-playing rather awkward, it doesn't flow like Alan's or Lemmy's, or
> even Ron's when Ron was/is on form. That said, as I think I did say,
> the bass-parts Harvey came up with are really fun.
>
>> I find it strange that Simon House would (for me) trump Dik Mik and Del,
>> though my connections higher up refer me to the fact Del was overseeing a
>> bunch of the instruments..........
>
> This is one of those problems with time, innit: Hawkwind Del was
> a marvel to apprehend and all kinds of complexities and textures lurked
> within his machinery, but occasional-Space-Ritual-visitor Del with the
> axe, well, is not adding as much. If you gave me a choice between 1973
> Del and 1974 Simon, then Del is the more interesting for the head, at
> least this head, but 2000s Simon easily trumps 2000s Del as someone with
> a whole musical picture of what's going on and how to add to it.
>
>> One thing I am sure of,  is that Judge Trev certainly chose the wrong
>> instrument...that guy should NEVER have picked up a guitar......talk 
>> about
>> painful.......and you should see how fast people make excuses to leave 
>> every
>> time his "noise" is on my stereo.....I won't even mention when he opens 
>> his
>> mouth to "sing"???
>
> Better than that Kev bloke he hangs around with, though...
> Believe me I've seen it (now), yours,
>       Jon
>
> -- 
> "When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
>     (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
> Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
>