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

[Abra Cadabra]

After Mary told me about the original LP mix of Grateful Dead's
"AoxomoxoA" i seriously need to hear it, as its my fave GD record...

...and i broke them all......

NP: Bathory - "Bathory"

2015-03-08 15:46 GMT+01:00 Steve Freight <stevefreight at gmail.com>:
> 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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