(HW) BOTE (my review)

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 01 Apr 2011, at 04:23 , Jonathan Jarrett wrote:
>> Like the works of any artist, Hawkwind wont be remembered for BOTE.
> 
> 	That's not so much that it's bad, though, as much as it's that they've been going for forty years and most people tuned out after ten. If, by some chance that I agree is unlikely, they produced a new _Doremi_ next year, they still wouldn't be remembered for it because only a fraction of their `fanbase' would ever hear it.


Although I would bet that at least that fraction would be less ambivalent about an album that had Doremi's vibe.


>> It is off course nice for fans that we have another Hawkwind album, but I
>> would like to remember everyone that since Dave Brock trademarked the name
>> Hawkwind he can basically release anything under that name. But is it really
>> Hawkwind, that is the question?
> 
> 	Well, what is? Have they ever managed more than three albums in a row (SA, CoH, CYM? No, even there, because Nik is on a tiny tiny part of CYM. ET, IItBotFtBD, BT, I suppose) where `Hawkwind' was the same as it had last been? So how on earth does one decide what is and isn't Hawkwind except by setting one's own preferences to the fore?


Whether it is "really Hawkwind" or not doesn't concern me so much as whether it's really any good.

Cheers,
Carl

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