HW: Epoch Eclipse review in Time Out

[Sen. Volstead]

Andy Gilham wrote:

> > Hawkwinds One of johnny rottens fav bands eh?
>
> I've heard this one a few times - sometimes it's claimed he was a Hawkwind
> roadie, but I don't think that's true.  Mind you, knowing Rotten, he might
> just say he likes HW to piss people off.
>
> >
> > I didn't read that in his autobiography. Why is it that no one famous
> > ever acknoledges hawkwind as a fav band or an infulence on there own
> > material(even though its obvious that they are) in interviews. Take for
> > example Primal Scream they covered Motorhead on ther last album it
> > resembled the hawkwind one not motorheads version but i can't remmeber
> > any interview with the band acknowledging hawkind.I always thought
> > there was some kind of stigma surrounding liking hawkwind.
> >
> > colm
>
> That's for sure!
>
> The line in the Time Out review about HW being the "bridge between
> psychedelia and punk" was spot on, and got me thinking.  It's sort of
> against received wisdom that such a thing could even be; in the
> user-friendly blister-packaged Rock Circus-style history of popular music,
> punk didn't even exist before Johnny said "shit" to Bill Grundy.  But it
> ain't so - for instance, in the press clippings on hawkwind.com, you'll find
> in an item from February 1975: "Their music sounds like good, solid punk
> rock to me."

That's really amazing. Does anyone recall any earlier appearances of the term
"punk rock"?

On the Johnny rotten thing:

A friend of mine who's a big Sex Pistols fan once showed me a picture of Johhny
Rotten in some biographical book of hers, where he had long hair, and the
caption below said something like "back in the Hawkwind days".
I'll find out more about this (the title of the book and if there's anything
else on the subject that she knows about)