40th anniversary Gig

[Jonathan Smith]

Thanks for that review. Great for those of us who were nowhere near the UK!
Huw has been quite ill for some time, poor bloke...

Jonathan

2009/8/31 bernhard.pospiech <bernhard.pospiech at t-online.de>

> Thanks for the great review Scott.
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> It was good to meet you and many familiar faces
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> The Hawks are still rocking !!!!!!!!!!!!
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> Bernhard
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> Behalf Of SHLL (Scott Heller)
> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 12:14 PM
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> Subject: 40th anniversary Gig
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> Hello All,
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> It was great to meet up with some of the folks from the list, Bernhard,
> Arin, chris, keith, andreas, etc... What a day it was. Some grreat stuff
> and
> some crap stuff. Oh yeah, they gave everyone a nice clotho bag with a
> special CD only for this event with Jason on it and some of the material is
> exclusive to this CD. Also a nice card with full authographs. A raffle
> ticket that as remake of a fake ticket stub from the first gig. I did nto
> win anything in the raffle but tey gave away some Motorhead crew shirts,
> LSD25 compilation cds and original huw lloyd lanngton artwork.
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> I really hope that this is the last time that Hawkwind will parade poor old
> Huw Lloyd Langton out to embarsse him. The poor guy is just a sad pathetic
> shell of what he used to be.
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> Day started off with Hawkwind with a different name, elves of silsbury
> hill?
> And that was pretty cool with dave plaing harmonica and mirror of illusion,
> green finned demon and some Tim blake tracks, etc.. They played like 45
> minjs. Sounds was pretty crap in this hall though and the sound man was
> only
> ok. He did not really watch the members so some you never heard if he did
> not get them into the mix to start with.
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> Next up was TOSH with spacehead guys belting out born to go and the sound
> was dreadful. Then huw joined them for masters of the universe and ejection
> and he was noodling away his own world and you could not heard him hardly
> at
> all until the end of the gig. Short and not good set.
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> Tartantism were excellent and real surprise. A bit like a folky Culture
> Shock.
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> The Hawkwind question and answer time was great fun. Richard was inssane
> with the talking badger. And a bit disruptive as well.  Anyway, the
> Roadburn
> DVD will be out in time for the winter tour they said. A new LP will come
> out next year. They are considering working with a company to provide
> instant live CDs of their shows. We will see.
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> Bob Keer and his Woople bnd was just fucking weird and bizzare fun. Bob was
> dave's neighbor in ladbrocke groove in the 60s and was the one who provided
> a rehearsal place for an early version of Hawkwind. He would play trumpet
> during Lighthouse at the real Hawkwind gig.
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> 20;15 Huw starts thing soff with Tim blake and plays and old blues song
> with
> Dave on harmonica. Then a strange rocky path. Huw basically can't sing at
> all anymore and then he gets confused and lost if he does and the song goes
> all wobbly until he finds himself. He is just way way past his time and it
> is pretty pathetic they parade him out like this. I know all the old people
> still love him and I used to but he is just sad now. Dave was suppose to
> come back out and do Hurry on Sundown with Huw but I guess he was just to
> embarssed as Huw was just out of it. Tim blake stayed on and played
> harmonica. Huw wanted to leave but was forced to play a few more. Sad....
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> The real Hawkwind show was a blinder with some pretty cool jamming in some
> songs. Tim blake was amazing. Great set of tracks and the only guest were
> mathew wright for silver mahcine backing vocals, capt rizz on silver
> machine
> and hassan I sahba and some guy named Daniel? Who played on one track.
> Sadly
> the new guy from Tribe of Cro, his guitar was way too low and e played the
> lead guitar on Lord of light and It's s Easy bt you could not hardly hear
> him at all. His space effects were great. Magnu, Farenheith 451 )last
> encore),
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> I have trouble with this keyboard so sorry for all the mistakes.. Great 1hr
> 45 min HW set. Good lights but not as good as Chaos Illumination used to
> do.
> Dancers were very cool.
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> Hawkwind can still deliver a blinding spaced out set..... Great...
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> It is just sad that no one from the 70s except Tim Blake is involved with
> the band anymore. Let's hope one day they can all come together in the
> spirit of the music and put all the bullshit baggae aside and just have a
> good time and play some psychedelic music in the spirit of 1970.....
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> I had a great time.
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> scott
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