Nik wants into all your wallets NOW :)

[mike c]

I'd be _SO_, _SO_, amused if Alan switched to flute and started
billing himself as "the conscious of Hawkwind"  :) :)

spraying air freshner



On 8/26/13, Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan's web site/ store has gone. I suppose it will be back sometime soon.
>
> In the  meantime, there is this: https://myspace.com/alandaveymusic
>
>
> On 26 August 2013 23:17, mike c <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> thanks Jonathon, I did quickly go look at wiki but it's too early and
>> I seem to get less and less sleep so I must take it back up later.
>>
>> Just for the record I do have a couple of Beduin CDs and a couple of
>> Alan Davey CD's which are all basically great IMO, I am simply missing
>> a ton of his material now.
>> thanks for the Cybertip
>> NOTED!!
>>
>> On 8/26/13, Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > You have to be in the mood for Viv Stanshall, but he was a genius.
>> > Everything he  recorded  is  available  through
>> >
>> > http://www.vivarchive.org.uk/
>> >
>> > or was at one time. I have a couple of DVDs full of his unique humour.
>> >
>> > *Captured  Rotation *is very good, but the sound (not the music) is a
>> > little off somehow. *Cyber Tooth* is excellent but I can't see him
>> touring
>> > with it.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 26 August 2013 22:53, mike c <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'd appreciate anything about Viv Stanshall.
>> >> I inherited a copy of Tubular Bells recently, and got to hear that
>> >> after decades of hearing about it.
>> >> I basically hate it but it certainly isn't Viv's fault :) :)
>> >>
>> >> and
>> >>
>> >> I can't remember if I asked here before, but Alan's "Captured
>> >> Rotation" is a somewhat cherished recording to me, but the original CD
>> >> seems like it suffers dramatically in mastering, whatever it is that
>> >> makes the sound "thin".
>> >> has that been repaired and I bet an LP could do wonders
>> >>
>> >> On 8/26/13, Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > At least you can  actually  buy  obscure  spacer rock psychedelia
>> >> > now
>> >> > and
>> >> > Cds are cheap to produce.
>> >> >
>> >> > Capt Lockheed was unique-- a huge cast of characters and famous
>> people.
>> >> Bob
>> >> > Calvert didn't manage to tour with it, for whatever reasons. Bob
>> >> > Calvert
>> >> is
>> >> > impossible to really imitate (although Ron Tree did his vocals
>> >> > pretty
>> >> > well), but all  comedy  sketches.... Nobody can even remotely sound
>> >> > like
>> >> > Viv Stanshall, and I doubt Arthur Brown will turn up. Do we need
>> >> > more
>> >> > covers of the The Right Stuff with the inevitable sample of Viv
>> >> Stanshall?
>> >> > It might be OK live, however.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On 26 August 2013 22:04, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On 26 Aug 2013, at 08:09 , Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I tend to agree. Most of his projects tend to have a couple of
>> >> >> > really
>> >> >> good
>> >> >> > tracks, but admittedly no real classic album. I would go and see
>> him
>> >> >> > play
>> >> >> > covers if he played near where i live but that will never happen
>> >> >> obviously.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> +1, here!
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > I remember seeing Bob Calvert with Krankschaft. The audience was
>> >> >> > small
>> >> >> even
>> >> >> > in London yet Alan seems to be confident that he can tour with
>> >> >> > Capt
>> >> >> > Lockheed. Space is slightly more popular than those days...
>> >> >>
>> >> >> That may be -- I think the ongoing growth of the Internet and
>> >> >> social
>> >> >> media
>> >> >> have helped re-kindle interest in fans that might otherwise have
>> >> >> lost
>> >> it,
>> >> >> as well as helped the genre reach new fans. I don't think we're
>> >> >> looking
>> >> >> at
>> >> >> space-rock bands about to produce Top 10 singles ;) but ....
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Still, touring the Captain Lockheed album ... I think it would be
>> cool
>> >> if
>> >> >> they reproduced on the theatrical bits on stage :) but basically
>> >> >> this
>> >> >> is
>> >> >> going to revolve around playing "The Right Stuff", "Aerospaceage
>> >> >> Inferno",
>> >> >> and "Ejection", no?  Not that there's anything at all, wrong with
>> >> >> that,
>> >> >> but
>> >> >> ....
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Cheers,
>> >> >> Carl
>> >> >>
>> >> >> --
>> >> >> Carl Edlund Anderson
>> >> >> http://www.carlaz.com/
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>>
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