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

[Steve Freight]

I've always liked Focus, but feel sorry for our cousins across the sea who
had a US remix of Hocus Pocus foisted on them instead of the UK mix down
from the album cut. The US remix is truly dire in my opinion.

Album Version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAgvTsVcQgQ
US Version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq75LCE73mM


On 8 March 2015 at 14:28, Jonathan Jarrett <
jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
> ObCD: Monster Magnet - _Powertrip_
> --
>   Jonathan Jarrett       "There is scarce any tradition or popular error
> Medievalist historian    but stands also delivered by some good author."
>      Birmingham         (Sir Thomas Browne, "Pseudodoxia Epidemica", 1646)
>



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