HW: Alan Davey interview

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 01:39:39PM -0600, mike coleman typed out:
> Yes he was simply too tall!!!!
> I'm kidding I'm kidding
> If he fingered free-fall that alone makes him awesome bass player
> maybe he should pick it back up and throw it into his act before we all get
> stretched into a black hole!!!
> On 2/14/09, Horse <horse at darkstar.uk.net> wrote:
> > Wasn't Harvey Hawkwind's bass-player when Alan joined....
> > on bass!

	There is a paradox here, isn't there, that some of Harvey's bass 
parts are really nice but I think we'd mostly have to agree that with 
the possible exception of John Harrison (and I would say John Harrison's 
timing, at least in 1970, was better) Harvey's the worst bassist 
Hawkwind have ever had. And if you listen to the 25YO version of `Free 
Fall' it sounds to me like that is a man playing at the very limit of 
his ability. But I guess quite a lot of us hear music in our heads we'll 
never be able to make; he certainly comes closer to realising it than I 
ever will. Yours,
		  Jon

P. S. Harvey is on the other hand in my opinion the best *synth* player 
Hawkwind ever had and I would respectfully ask a rejoining Simon, were 
such ever to occur, to stick to violin so that there would be space for 
Harvey too...
-- 
"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