Man 1999 Party

[Stephen Barstow]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Henderson [SMTP:henderson.120 at OSU.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 1998 3:56 AM
> Subject:      HW:/OFF: Man 1999 Party
>
> Hi Folks...
>
> I just picked up a live Man CD from the 1999 Party Tour with HW.  My
> feeling
> is that this is recorded at the same gig as last year's HW 1999 Party
> release...i.e., the Chicago Auditorium on March 21, 1974.
>
        > Yes, you're right...

> And that seems to
> be confirmed by the liner notes in the booklet.  But then it says
> 'Live in
> Chicago, April 1974' on the cover.  And on the back cover of the
> booklet,
> there's a picture of a backstage pass that says, 'Hawkwind & Man'
> April 8,
> 1974 Orpheum.
>
> So what's the deal on that??  I can't see them doing two shows in the
> same
> city just three weeks apart.  Perhaps this was the originally
> scheduled date
> (?) and so they had things like backstage passes made up with this
> other
> date.  But of course, that would have meant that they actually did the
> tour
> *earlier* than was originally intended, and that just can't be!  :)
> The
> other alternative (perhaps more likely) is that the Orpheum is a
> theatre in
> a different city and these people who did the cover were just
> confused.
>
        > Yeppp! They played the Orpheum Theatre in Boston on April 8th
1974 (at the end of
        > of the same tour (Source - the Man "bible" Mannerisms put out
by Martin
        > Mycock - 140pp. packed with facts about Man and offshoots
including the
        > dates for the 1999 Party Tour;  Martin can be reached at
        > MartinMy at compuserve.com )


> Anyway, it's pretty damn good...the sound may even be better than the
> HW
> set.  Very clean.  There's five tracks (7171-551, Romain, It's a hard
> way to
> live, C'mon, and Spunk Rock) totalling 60 minutes, the highlight (for
> me)
> being the 24 minute psychedelic jam that is 'C'mon'.  It's on Point
> records
> (1997) somewhere in Europe.  Never heard of them before.
>
        > Yeah, a great recording - I actually listened to it last night
for the first
        > time in ages. That was the line-up with Micky, Deke and Terry
together
        > with Malcolm Morley and Ken Whaley from the much missed Help
Yourself.......
        > I also have a recording of the Helps' American Mother from the
same tour -
        > one of the few times Man played that Malcolm Morley song.
        > A shame that that and another Morley song Blown Away, which
was also
        > played on that tour, weren't also included - that would have
made it perfect.


> That's all...Keith H. (FAA)
>
> P.S.  I think it's obligatory to listen to the respective Man and HW
> 1999
> Party CDs back to back (in that order), with perhaps an hour break in
> between, during which you sit in a smoke-filled room with an empty
> gaze and
> spill beer on the floor.
>
> ObCD:  Berg Herzburg comp. (1998) - more excellent Man (as well as
> Love in
> Space and other goodies)
>
        >Steve B.