Hawkwind next CD

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 12:49:47PM +0100, SHLL (Scott Heller) typed out:
> 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.

	I think that they possibly could have made a great record in 
2001. With Simon on board, the last gasps of the Death Generator concept 
maybe and some general conceptual glue from a briefly friendly Moorcock 
(or Robert Morley--there's another name that just dropped off the list, 
hey) I reckon something pretty good could have resulted. Now, I'm not so 
sure. I mean, I quite like _Take Me To Your Leader_, I think it is a 
much better record than one could have expected even if not as great as 
we possibly hoped. Whether they could even equal that at the moment, I 
don't know; Dibs may be enough of a writer to push out some stuff that 
could finish up like _Electric Tepee_ at least, but whether you think 
that's a great record or not, well...

	That all said. I maintain, I maintained in 2001 and I still 
maintain it, *that*, if Dave could just stand to have the whole band, or 
even an expanded band, down for a weekend of *jamming*, and then edited 
down the resulting recordings with someone else to give him feedback, 
until they had an hour-long record of distilled Hawkness, that would 
quite likely be the favourite Hawkwind record of most of us for ten of 
fifteen years, maybe more. I don't suppose they ever will but it would 
be so quick to do that I really wish they would.

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

	On that subject, without having chanced it myself, I've been 
wondering if some of the incredible disparity of opinions we've been 
seeing could be down to people listening to what I guess is a 5.1 
recording on non-5.1 equipment? However top-of-the-range one's stereo 
is, if the sound's not in that channel... but you're probably all wise 
to this and I should go suck eggs. Yours,
					  Jon (apparently channelling 
Mike C., so who's Mike being?)

-- 
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	    (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk