40th anniversary Gig

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 30 Aug 2009, at 05:14, SHLL (Scott Heller) wrote:
> Anyway, the Roadburn DVD will be out in time for the winter tour  
> they said.


Is that the Roadburn performance from some years back with the Brock/ 
Davey/Chadwick/keys-guy-whose-name-I've-forgotten lineup (which  
everyone on-list raved about at the time) or is it a more recent  
Roadburn set?


> They are considering working with a company to provide instant live  
> CDs of their shows. We will see.


Not holding my breath -- still, it's a step in the right direction  
that they're even talking about it.  ('Course, they'll have to be  
kicking out good shows to sell more than just souveniers to those who  
happened to be there on the night ....)


> 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) [...]
> Hawkwind can still deliver a blinding spaced out set..... Great...


Good to know!  I've not really heard much from the band since Alan's  
departure, and honestly I've not had a _lot_ of expectations ... but  
Hawkwind has proved everyone wrong before -- sometimes for better,  
sometimes for worse -- and I'd be happy to be proved wrong in the  
former way!


> 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.....



Again, not holding my breath!  It often seems like there are people  
who were involved with the band in the '70s who simply have not got  
their mierda sufficiently together to be in any kind of regular band  
anymore, and then there are others who have at least some of the  
mierda together, but won't go near Dave  on account of bad vibes of  
on someone or another's part, or are just otherwise satisfied to do  
their own thing in their own way.

After all, with the (first) departure of Nik in the mid-70s, HW were  
already basically devoid of all original members but Dave, no?  HW is  
and does what Dave says it is and does, so I guess we've just gotta  
go with that!

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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