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[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Steve Freight wrote:

> To me it always sounded like Magnu.

>> On 12 September 2010 08:49, Steve Freight <stevefreight at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Re
>>>> peeling back the foggy layers of memory didn't the vinyl exclude "the
>>>> cross"?
>>> Yes (question of copyright to Prince I think) but pretty sure it included
>>> OUT the Hawkwind pastiche which was not on the original release..

 	I have this. It is basically `Magnu', complete with words and 
synth sax solo,  but as with the way Mr Wilson's cover of `Hallgallo' 
turned into `Signify' halfway through it changes shape dramatically in the 
middle, with a hammering break in rising chords that Alan Davey would have 
been proud to have written and a chorus of "DOUBT! just get out of my 
head" repeated with a rising inflection to match the chords. Unlike the 
`Hallogallo' thing, however, it returns to shape for one more verse of 
`Magnu' before repeating the break and continuing up the scales into a 
chaotic finale. It's not bad, although rather constrained by the bedroom 
recording scenario--very hard to make chaos sound accidental when you're 
deliberately laying it down on four-track by yourself, I imagine. Yours,

Jon

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