Hawkwind next CD

[John Rennie]

I think most bands start with a finite (in some cases very small!)
pool of ideas for songwriting. Usually after three or four albums
they've exhausted this pool. The good bands manage to reinvent
themselves and find something new for a few more albums, and the
really good bands manage it a third time. Often you find the new ideas
come from personnel changes or maybe someone already in the band
getting a chance to push their ideas forward. Most of us, I'm sure,
can immediately think of a dozen examples of this.

If you look at Hawkwind, their original ideas took them through to
Doremi Fasol Latido (every time I listen to the first three albums I'm
astonished by how good they are!). Then they wandered a bit before the
Bob Calvert/Dave Brock partnership produced the Charisma albums (every
time I listen to the Charisma albums I'm astonished by how good they
are!!). But since Levitation it's hard to point to any new
inspiration. Dave Brock seems to have become very interested in
electronic music (e.g. Church of Hawkwind) but that didn't produce any
real innovation.

So as things stand it's hard to see how they'd ever rescale the
heights. Where are the ideas to come from?

Maybe this sounds a bit negative, but I don't mean it to be. All bands
suffer from the same problem, and Hawkwind have produced more great
albums than most. They still remain the band I define myself by, and I
still like all of their albums (even though some don't get played that
often).

JR

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From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List [mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET] On Behalf Of SHLL (Scott Heller)
Sent: 07 February 2009 11:50
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Subject: Hawkwind next CD

Hello,

I was wondering what people think, if Hawkwind will ever make another really great record? Do you think Dave has it in him and the right peolple surrounding him? While, I can enjoy the stuff on the last studio record, it is far from being in their top 20 records. I just wonder if they will ever make another really good one. It certainly does not help when the band probably only gets together for these small tours and lives all over england and one in France. I would love them to as I really like dave's voice and he is a great guitar player.

Just curious...and it seems I was not the only one disappointed with Knights of Space. Terrible sound mix.

Scott