HW:BBC release

[mike coleman]

3 copies-
I was trying to get the cleanest copy in the world which I may have already
had (or close enough) with the first-
I didn't spot any differences and despite losing almost my entire collection
I was smart enough to get away with the 2 I had left, and now I have 1.....
Anyway, it's too early for this stuff in Texas but here I am and so is this
version not from a master tape source or is it still lifted from vinyl??
Meanwhile I will read through again and Scott if you do not have the
Matthews tracks I would think the whole affair would be worthy just for
that.
Also Mike, the 10" boot only contains Silver Machine, not Brianstorm!

On 3/18/10, M Holmes <fofp at holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Scott Heller writes:
>
> > Hello
>
> > SO am I reading this correct, that we have all been duped again and
> > this is just the same as the stereo version that has circulated and
> > the press release was a fucking lie, again???? Nothing new at all??
>
> Not quite. It has the BBC Windsong disc which is mono. It has the stereo
> recording of the same concert (without a few edits which appear on the
> Windsong disc) previously released by Genschman as the bootleg CD "Space
> Rock From London" (though in fact it was from Paris). The Genschman
> recording was from the standard BC Transcription Disc of which there are
> a few known copies (I have one, Trev Hughes has one and Mike Coleman has
> had at least two that I know of - most likely one had a green hair on
> the packaging or whatever and he had to get another one).
>
> It also has "Silver Machine" and "Brainstorm" from a (the other) BBC
> Transcription Disc.  I found a copy (possibly the only copy?) of this
> back in 1992 or thereabouts.  One of our own here got a tape of this
> without my knowledge (someone I trusted not to pass it on did in fact
> pass it on to the bootlegger) and bootlegged it on the first "Dawn of
> Hawkwind" CD (not to be confused with the official "Dawn of Hawkwind"
> CD).  This was unfortunate because it scuppered a deal I was putting
> together to get it officially released and Doug Smith was extremely
> pissed off at me.
>
> Those two tracks are from the Brian Matthews Show in 1972 (strangely
> listed on the CD cover as Johnny Walker) and this would be their first
> official release (there's also a bootleg 10 inch with these tracks).
>
> What will be interesting to see is if the latest copies are from the
> bootleg
> (in which case they're from a copy of a metal tape cassette copy of the
> LP I sent to Gavin Wilson) and thus at least third generation, or
> whether the BBC do still have 1972 recordings (they've previously claimed
> that all of 1972 burned down in a warehouse fire).
>
> Possibly comparing the quality of the CD with the LP will establish
> this.
>
> FoFP
>
> P.S: Jeese. Just reading the above makes my head hurt. No wonder
> Hawkwind kollecting is a passion reserved only for the truly insane.
>
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