Hawkwind Brew

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 12 Apr 2010, at 22:45 , MARYANN SULLIVAN wrote:
> If you were buzzing on beer, the music still sounded fine at the recording
> sessions.  


Well, I think we were pretty sober when we went to the recording sessions!  (Perhaps too sober!  I remember the band's collective nerves contributing to lots and lots of takes and re-takes!  Maybe we should have been more laissez-faire .... :))


> I'd like to get a copy of Ossian's Ride at some point, if
> possible, it would bring back some really fond memories.


Well, I've still got the CD!  I've never put the material online because I haven't ever gotten permission from all the band members -- or, basically, I've never been able to usefully get in contact with "Tox" (who is nominally a Facebook friend, but who seems basically inactive there, and not terribly responsive to email, though I'm told his days of "toxicity" are behind him).

A couple of years ago, I did start re-recording one of the band's songs that I had liked best, "Words to the Wind", and the re-recording (rather faster and more Hawkwindy than the original Ossian's Ride version, though equally more as I originally imagined it) is online here: <http://www.carlaz.com/music/Words_to_the_Wind.mp3>.  

Actually, I was listening to that again the other day, and I think I'm going to start the re-recording process over, dropping the tuning another half step.  Though I can hit some of those notes on a good day, with a following wind, I certainly can't do so reliably, and I think it would make sense to slacken the pressure there a bit.  Of course, what with new small babies underfoot, it's rather hard to say how long that re-recording will take!  Though, when I do get around to it, I'll try to hit up Scott Heller to contribute some synths. :)

However, as for the original OR recordings, I _do_ have them, and could either email you sufficiently small MP3s, or put the lossless files online in some accessible but not terribly public way.  (Or I could just say the heck with trying to pry nominal permission out of Tox and just stick them up there! ;) Tempting, really. :))


> I'm also going to a Phish concert, (my first), should
> be a fun time, next month.  I don't really know their music, what I've heard
> sounds interesting.

Well, I'm a long time Phish fan, though I haven't been to a gig since about 1993 when they first started to get really big!  I really enjoyed seeing them in small venues back in the day -- I thought they were really fun and very tight.  My sense is that they are much looser now, though that may be the size of the venue .... Hopefully, they are still fun, though! :)

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
http://www.carlaz.com/