Hawkwind at Warrington (was: Re: motherland, fatherland, homeland- alien pan transcendental human labor force)

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Sat, 7 Mar 2015, Abra Cadabra wrote:
> Jan Akkerman, they are dutch. One of those bands that went under my
> radar, jazz rock as much as i like Colosseum, Kraan or Soft Machine or
> Gong i think they must be a bit twee in comparison, Old hat? 70s
> rejects?

 	I got their live LP _Live at the Rainbow_, from 1975, years ago 
because it had a cool gatefold and what was apparently ten minutes of 
`Hocus Pocus', which sounded as if it was worth a couple of quid just to 
find out how they did it. That is indeed there, with about fifteen 
different approaches to the point where they actually have to break into 
the refrain, but the rest is much more elaborate, suites with numbered 
parts and titles like `Question? Answer!' and `Answer? Question!'. And 
blimey, it doesn't half wander. I'd say their aspirations were more 
classical than jazz-directed, but they may have mellowed as they got over 
what was evidently some conflict about playing to an audience who were 
mainly there for yodelling and guitar heroics... Yours,
 							Jon

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