HW Space Ritual

[mike coleman]

yes, because Kev can no longer stay standing and he's met his stomach
match...it's very devious really because in a very short time Trev will be
collapsing too and since I can actually play some guiter the sky is the
limit.......Nik will come jam with me no problem
you know ,I can't claim this idea as unique, as some dancer treid this with
Hawkwind on a radio interview and Dave quickly told the guy he'd have to
pull his belly up to chest height but it's RnR babe....
On 1/21/09, mary <maryann.sullivan1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Good idea, are you going to front?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET]On Behalf Of mike coleman
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:36 PM
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> Subject: Re: HW Space Ritual
>
>
> Just put me in the band, I'm the biggest beer belly in the
> world......they'll come from miles away.....
> I'll just stand up front manhandling it like a it's a pair of boobs
> this could be the birth of beer-belly envy
> I knew there was a reason I still have it
>
> On 1/21/09, trev <judge48 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yea, but that was Kev's fault...he's the one who collapsed...
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "Colin Allen" <colinjallen at YAHOO.CO.UK>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:42 PM
> > To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
> > Subject: Re: HW Space Ritual
> >
> > They may be the best band on the road; it is just a shame that it all
> falls
> >> apart when they get on stage.
> >>
> >> --- On Tue, 20/1/09, trev <judge48 at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >> From: trev <judge48 at HOTMAIL.COM>
> >> Subject: Re: HW Space Ritual
> >> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> >> Date: Tuesday, 20 January, 2009, 7:20 PM
> >>
> >> Yea, I recon Trev and Kev are the best band on the road in the UK at the
> >> moment.
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------
> >> From: "Jonathan Jarrett" <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:26 PM
> >> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
> >> Subject: Re: HW Space Ritual
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 07:40:42AM -0800, Steve Swann typed out:
> >>>
> >>>> I have to wonder what happened when I saw Nikwind (when he was backed
> >>>> the Pressurehead guys) in NY years ago.  The band gave a great
> >>>> performance and Nik was downright gentlemanly.  He freaking bowed to
> >>>> the audience at the end, and in a very formal voice thanked us all for
> >>>> attending!  It was a great show I wouldn't have thought twice
> >>>>
> >>> about
> >>
> >>> going back to see them again.  And my wife saw Nikwind twice and she
> >>>> said the show I missed was even better.
> >>>>
> >>>> And yet I always hear these stories about him being a loose cannon.
> >>>> Did I just get lucky seeing that show??
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I think the explanation here is that Nik in the USA is a very
> >>> different thing from Nik in the UK. To tour the USA Nik needs someone
> >>> else to do the bulk of the work, and he tends to tour with bands who
> are
> >>> bands in and of themselves, Pressurehed/Farflung, 5:15, Spaceseed and
> so
> >>> on. They're all rehearsed and in practice before he arrives, the
> >>> bookings are made and the dates known well in advance and so it unrolls
> >>> professionally. And then in the UK he seems to gather a bunch of mates,
> >>> many of whom should no longer be allowed on a stage for a paying
> public,
> >>> together at the last minute, there is no rehearsal and either he and
> THE
> >>> MIGHTY JUDGE TREV save the day or they can't (if, e. g. Trev isn't
> >>> there). But people always come. So he can get away with much less
> effort
> >>> (and works with some people for whom organisation and professional
> >>> musiciansip is less of a concern than it is for Grenas and del Rio who
> >>> both make their living at it) and so he doesn't try harder. Nik
> >>>
> >> himself
> >>
> >>> has always been when I've seen him a gentleman, friendly, and a
> >>>
> >> quality
> >>
> >>> frontman, often even playing well, especially when All Stars members
> >>> were involved. But his bands in the UK are shambles and in the USA
> >>> they're well-drilled units and that's the difference you're
> >>>
> >> seeing.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Somehow Space Ritual have never managed to climb above this
> >>> problem despite being a band in and of themselves. Which is not to say
> >>> that the new album isn't very good, because it is, but it's also a
> >>>
> >> fine
> >>
> >>> example of the miracle of what a good studio and producer can do for a
> >>> ropey live outfit. 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
>