[boc-l] HW: It's SpaceXmas!

[Jonathan Jarrett]

 	Dear all,
 		  yeah, I eventually splashed the consoiderable sum of 
money for the first Hawkestrel album (and it took me much too long to get 
both the senses of the name), and I was actually surprised by how 
inventive some of the good stuff on there was, as well as by the fact that 
there were two songs I already had on there and that the fourth side of 
the album is only half-full... I guess the creative tap could only be 
turned on for a short time? But the good stuff is good, and shows signs of 
influences other than Alan's on it (Paul Rudolph), which sometimes Alan's 
stuff needs. It's just a little bit more than an Alan Davey album as a 
result.

 	Some of it must have been in the can for a while, though. Quite 
apart from the slightly vampiric use of an old live recording with Lemmy 
to claim he's on the album and presumably similar use of guitar tracks by 
Huw, the stuff with Ginger Baker on sounded as if it was actually written 
with him in the process. I wonder if Alan had to wait for him to die to 
get release rights? Sorry, bad taste, but I'm curious.

 	Also, lastly, I can't agree with you Christian; Shatner gives it 
his best and there's no mistaking him for anyone else, but Brian Blessed 
just has more shock value... Yours all,
 					Jonathan

ObCD: Ship of Fools - _Let's Get This Mother Outta Here_

On Tue, 15 Jun 2021, Abra Cadabra via boc-l wrote:

> I dig the first two and Other davey stuff but the X-Mas album and shitty
> prog singles were pretty dire. Shatner was netter than Brian blessed on
> Sonic Attack.
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> man. 14. des. 2020, 19:59 skrev Andy Gilham via boc-l <
> boc-l at lists.ispnet.net>:
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>> So here it is, merry SpaceXmas, everybody’s having fun, streaming Alan’s
>> Christmas album:
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>> https://hawkestrel.bandcamp.com/album/spacexmas
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-- 
        Jonathan Jarrett, Keighley and University of Leeds
     "Says not the Wise One, `When two men cannot agree over
      the price of an onion, who shall decide what happened
     in the time of Yu?'" (Kai Lung, reported by Ernest Bramah)