HW: Hawkwind Onward

[Mike Holmes]

On 12/05/2012 05:49, Keith Henderson wrote:

> 7. The Prophecy (4:14)
> A Brock tune, a bit of a demo-y feel to the recording, although the mix is decent enough.  Sounds like he's plagiarizing his own tune "Where Are They Now?" a bit.

Very much in the vein of "Infinity" and "Where Are They Now?" I suspect 
this one will grow on me a great deal.

> Like Blood of the Earth was on 2 CDs (at least my box version...can't remember what the one CD version was like).
>
> The Scorpions just released a "new" CD that was all covers, many of which were remakes of their own songs, mostly the 80s stuff that all
> sounded like crap because of horrible 80s production.  Miserable gated drums again.  So I can understand why a band would do such a thing,
> esp. a band that is now effectively retired and won't have the chance to 'repair' that material again.  HW could do that with Black Sword
> (which I think sounds fucking terrible in 2012) - same with Xenon Codex.

Yes, I'd love to hear "The War I survived", "Lost Chronicles" and "Sword 
of The East" with Richard doing non-eighties drums. As I've mentioned 
before, transferring the "Space is Their Palestine" insert from Hassan 
to Sword of The East would go very well. Dunno about redoing Black 
Sword, though I agree the robot drums make it fairly hard to listen to 
these days. Elric The Enchanter is possibly the one I'd choose to try a 
do-over.

Still listening to Onward and too early to report my overall impressions...

FoFP

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