HW: Hawkwind: UFO scavenging cro-mags! I was right!

Dave Berry daveb at HARLEQUIN.CO.UK
Wed Nov 5 13:25:00 EST 1997


I saw an interview with Michael Moorcock in seventies sometime, where
he said he liked HW because where bands like Pink Floyd and Yes were
self-conscious about their use of synthesisers, HW treated them like
barbarians would.  So maybe Dave was influenced by that remark (or
the other way around).

Dave.

as another sort of noise
On 04 Nov 19:02, christian wrote:
> Once upon a time I posted to BOC-L:
>
> "Like so many german bands did, they picked up on the
> technological advances yet threw convention out the window, just keeping
> the ur-spinal throbbe... Hawkwind may be what cro-mags discovering
> a crashlanded UFO might have sounded like had they started making
> instruments of the wreckage."
>
> then I read an interview with uncle Dave, and he sez:
>
> " You can do all these things...Here at home, I actually plug in all my
> stuff and play by myself with a drum machine. I can write bass lines into a
> sequencer and the same thing with the keyboards. It's just a matter of
> practice, what you are doing is playing with the machines, really. With all
> this electronic music, you have to treat it as a barbarian would, you know?
> I don't read music, I read a few of the manuals and I think, "fucking hell,
> this is so confusing" and I would rather plug in and play the thing, off we
> go! Yeah, I treat it as a barbarian would."
>
> Hmmmmm.........?
>
> BTW, any brits up for picking me up the LiS CDEP and the new album???
> Will trade or caugh up some dough.
>
> and Bob's yer uncle!
>
> Christian
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