HW: Alan Davey interview

[Steve Swann]

You know, I have all the songs on other releases too and yet to me Hawkwind songs almost always find their ultimate expression through live performance.  

Unlike most rock bands (including many that I really like) where their live performances are just sloppier renditions of their studio work, Hawkwind's music really does come alive in concert.  So to me, the best concert recordings from each era will always be the "most essential" HW albums... 

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Mumford <royalistradio at HOTMAIL.COM>
Date: Thursday, Apr 16, 2009 11:12 am
Subject: Re: HW: Alan Davey interview
To: Reply-    BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET

> I still have a soft spot for those old One Way releases.  By that time I had begun to despair of ever seeing those early 70s Hawkwind releases on CD - so actually getting my paws on that first Space Ritual CD set was a freaking religious experience for me...
> 
> (Heck, it still is.)  :)
> 
> Steve


I didn't get SR until ca. 1993 and it DIDN't strike me as an essential release (Sacrelige!) - I thought i had heard all the songs on it on all the other releases, I have a soft spot for One Way HotMG though.... and the "Stasis" comp! (if we are talking olden days CD releases of early HW). 

Christian













> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Mumford <royalistradio at HOTMAIL.COM>
> Date: Thursday, Apr 16, 2009 10:08 am
> Subject: Re: HW: Alan Davey interview
> To: Reply-    BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> 
> I liked XISOS alot. It was one of the first HW ones I had and I thought it was real spooky and strange, real "doom and gloom, eerie like. Stuff like "Children Of The Sun" is like ... were these guys burned or what?? Of course when acid happened to me in 1992 I always played that and "Electric Tepee" when with my pals tripping. I think Hawkwind were the ultimate drug music. Of course I also had the shitty One Way issues which I traded off to Hawkjoe in 1996 when I found the EMI remasters in a store and bought all of them: IMMEDIATELY!
> 
> Christian
> 
> NP: Bland Bladen "I Grevens Tid"
> 
> > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:15:48 -0500
> > From: cea at CARLAZ.COM
> > Subject: Re: HW: Alan Davey interview
> > To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> > 
> > On 15 Apr 2009, at 12:45, Christian Mumford wrote:
> > > I think I had XISOS, which I thought was much more "old hippy  
> > > gloom" though it didn't bother me as I tasted the likes of Tull and  
> > > Marillion before the whole "indie" thing ca. 1990.
> > 
> > 
> > I was already a raging Tull fan when I got into Hawkwind, though I  
> > never really got into Marillion and the rest of the classic "prog"  
> > scene.  Yeah, there is an "old hippy gloom" vibe to XISOS, though --  
> > I always thought most of what's on it was later improved through the  
> > arrival of Lemmy (and Simon King) making everything faster and louder  
> > and heavier. :)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Carl
> > 
> > --
> > Carl Edlund Anderson
> > http://www.carlaz.com/
> 
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