HW: Hawkwind Onward

[Keith Henderson]

FoFP iterated...

> Open the whole of the 80's up for a poll of tracks to see
> which ones the fans would love to see done over. It'd be
> fairly easy to run via the interweb (hell, we did this sort
> of thing ourselves 20 years ago when software was a lot less
> sophisticated - so I suspect we could organise it fairly
> straightforwardly).

I agree with Carl on this...new albums should primarily be for the debut of truly new material.  Do the voting thing for the next tour.  You know, like Dave Law (?) did five yrs. ago or so, when we voted for those four tracks to hear on the next tour.  And then they went and played all four instead of just one!  Which was awesome, esp. since I was there to see a couple of those gigs.  Let's do that again!

If they redo a bunch of tracks, might as well do it like the Scorpions' Comeblack thingy, do the WHOLE album of old tracks/covers, so that fans can decide if they really want that at all, or just want new mat'l.  Constantly 'patching' albums short on new songs with remakes might eventually cause lots of borderline fans to tune out.  Although it's been going on so long now, hard to imagine that wouldn't have already reached equilibrium at this point.

Anyway, what about a vote to determine what *other* artists' songs that Hawkwind could cover?  You know, the band has done *very* few covers at all over the many decades.  Let's see, Cymballine, Interstellar OD, Gimme Shelter, and that's just about it really.  OK, playing Arthur's tunes doesn't really count, nor Swindells' track (SDITN) nor LH & New Jerusalem.  I mean, "true" covers from outside the band.  Oh, wait, they used to play Velvet Underground (I'm Waiting for the Man) in the late 70s, didn't they?  I think it was a song that either Magic Muscle or High Tide used to play in their set (can't remember which), and then either Simon or Ade brought that along, right?

Regardless, it's the "thing" these days to do ridiculous numbers of tribute albums (*cough* Brian Pererra *cough*) to pad one's label's profile, so why not HW/Voiceprint get in on the action?

So here's my vote, and it has a Hawkwind connection natch.  (I think I've made this argument before years ago):

Pretty Things - Old Man Going
and get Dick Taylor to guest on it.

I think HW could do great things with this track.

(Has anybody heard the version on "Sorrow's Children," the tribute to SF Sorrow that has already been done?  Worth a listen?)

Anybody else have an idea?  Maybe a BOC song?  (Not Black Blade, too bloody obvious.)

Keith

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