HW 40th Anniversary Show - Huw

[Christian Mumford]

I always thought Huw's leads crawled all over the place and had an ear
for him like with Brian May's work with Queen, though not being a
musician I don't know if the two are similar in any way, they just do
all the awesome leads.

Christian

NP: Combat 84 "Orders Of The Day"
ObCD: Queen + Paul Rodgers "The Cosmos Rocks"

> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:01:17 +0100
> From: jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK
> Subject: Re: HW 40th Anniversary Show - Huw
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> 
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:15:26PM -0400, John Majka typed out:
> > As a guitar player myself, I've always been hugely impressed with Huw.  He 
> > does indeed have a unique signature style quite unlike that of anyone else 
> > I've ever heard.  I am always completely mesmerized listening to his leads 
> > in Hawkwind and on his solo albums.  Others may speak of Simon's skills, 
> > but for me, Huw is definitely Hawkwind's most musically gifted member.  I'd 
> > love for him to join up with the rest of the hawks for another musical 
> > journey....
> 
> 	I once made an ex of mine who didn't care much for the treble 
> register listen to one of Huw's breaks, possibly the _Live '79_ 
> `Brainstorm' or maybe even live with Litmus once, and she actually paid 
> some attention and then said, "he's not even in the same key as the rest 
> of them". And I listened and thought, he's not, is he? He's cutting 
> across them in a minor key in some way that fits perfectly but sounds 
> really affecting. And since I noticed that I've found that this is, for 
> me, Huw's big trick, he's really good at playing across the band. This 
> is why Jerry Richards, despite being very good too, never really 
> replaced Huw as lead for me, because he just sounds like Brock on speed 
> and without as chunky an amp set-up. Huw sounds like no-one else (much 
> like Dave himself), but I'm not sure that it's particularly because of 
> his technical skill, which does vary somewhat in performance these days, 
> but because of his ear for the best route across the rest of the music. 
> And of course, doing that makes him stand out in a way that Jerry 
> doesn't.
> 
> 	I don't know if that actually has much musical basis, but maybe 
> someone who can speak to such things will tell me if I'm wrong. 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

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