HW 40th Anniversary Show - Huw

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

And I can't even play what I've just played! :)

Cheers,
Carl

On 17 Apr 2009, at 11:33, mike coleman wrote:
> And Huw can even write down what he's just played!!!!  imagine that! 
> ~!!
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> On 4/17/09, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:
>>
>> Despite years of pretending to be a musician, my technical  
>> knowledge of
>> music is virtually nonexistent :) so I will bow to those with a  
>> deeper
>> knowledge of Huw's forays across jazz modes!  Still, there is  
>> definitely
>> something about Huw that makes him sound like Huw, traversing  
>> across the
>> face of the song like some crazed sonic rock climber on a string.   
>> In the
>> last weeks, I'm been going back and trying to revisit the bits of  
>> "Huwwind"
>> that I have, and even though it _still_ sounds to me like a  
>> remarkably
>> distinctive and creative bunch of covers with Huw on board, rather  
>> than what
>> is burned in my mind as classic Hawkwind, I have to say that I do  
>> appreciate
>> his work with the band!  I mean, I can scarecely imagine "Shot  
>> Down in the
>> Night" being played without Huw, and my favorite version of "Psy  
>> Power" is
>> that rocked up Huw-fueled one (always wanted to cover that, too).
>>
>> And, you're right -- Jerry, for all his evident merits, didn't  
>> really seem
>> to bring such a distinctive voice to the proceedings.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Carl
>>
>> On 17 Apr 2009, at 08:01, Jonathan Jarrett wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Carl Edlund Anderson
>> http://www.carlaz.com/
>>
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Carl Edlund Anderson
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