HW:BBC release

[mike coleman]

and I've always thought the Windsong version suffered from a flu, at least
in the beginning after listening to it some months ago, and Steve is saying
this has been improved and I can tell you that the person who got the promo
was speaking about it very positively as far as the sound (I simply saw a
message between 2 people), so Steve......it's on you buddy.....awaiting...

On 3/18/10, mike coleman <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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