HW 40th Anniversary Show

[Steve Swann]

Oh man, if Dave got together a lineup with Tim and Huw I'd be camped outside the venue already.  I've been listening to Live Chronicles a lot lately and I gotta say, I think their "Lloyd-Langton Speed Metal Era" (as one of you wiseacres dubbed it), is probably my favorite post-Space Ritual Hawkwind era.... 

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: "SHLL (Scott Heller)" <shll at HAGEDORN.DK>
Date: Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 6:22 am
Subject: Re: HW 40th Anniversary Show
To: Reply-    BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET

Hello

Interesting input Jon. Pity I won't meet you at Roadburn this year... 

Anyway, I am very much looking forward to the HW 40th Anniversary show. I have no pre-expectations but I don't expect a lot of folks from any of the classic line up's of Hawkwind. I think the best Dave could try to pull together would be the live 79 like line up and get Tim, Huw, Dave,...but harvey is not playing bass anymore and probably will not join anyway.

This line up you wrote below:

The regular line-up plus :Huw, Martin Griffin, Keith Hale, Bridget, Crum, Rizz and Matthew Wright as likelies, which starts to look like a dual-drummer _Choose Your Masques_ sort of line-up with guest vocalists and lots of keyboard. Not exactly a 40th anniversary gig in and of itself but probably worth seeing. Then if we add possibles, guest appearances from Lemmy, if Lemmy Alan, Steve Swindells, Del, Dik Mik...

Not sure how exciting this would be... I actually think the best bet would be for the current line up to just play a great concert with like one song from every studio record and then invite distinct guests in for one or two songs and leave it at that. I think trying to get people in who have not played much leaves to a major drop in quality like what we saw at the Hawkestra, even though it was fun..

Just my thoughts...

scott





-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Jarrett [mailto:jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK] 
Sent: 16. marts 2009 11:04
Subject: Re: HW 40th Anniversary Show

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:08:23AM +0100, SHLL (Scott Heller) typed out:
> I have been tossing some mails back and forth with a few about the 
> Portchester Hall gigs in August and I now, really curious what 
> ex-hawkwind members could actually show up and play. I wonder if they 
> have announced this without actually signing anyone on board. If we 
> make a list of the ex-members, besides Huw Lloyd Langton (who I am not 
> really sure can play electric space rock anymore as he was a disaster 
> the last two times I saw him), who else is there:
> 
> These people will not play with Dave and Co (at least I don't think):
> 
> Nik, dave anderson, simon house, alan davey, lemmy, jerry richards, 
> ron tree, terry ollis, Thomas Crimble, michael moorcock (probably too 
> ill), adrian shaw, Mick Slattery, Steve Swindells, Harvey Bainbridge, 
> Bridget Wishart, Danny Thompson..

	This looks like a ga