HW: New Releases

[Adrian Parr]

Hi Folks
About the Greasy Truckers.
Although officially Terry Ollis had left by the Roundhouse gig, he was still
around.
Infact, Terry had sort of left the band before the infamous Goldsmith
College gig, prior to the Gresy Truckers Party, but had gone along to the
college gig not thinking he'd be playing, as Hawkwind had by then recruited
Si King.
Terry remembers this era of Hawkwind fairly well, and to use his words
"found himself on the drum stool well out of it", from which
he later fell off.
I'll have a listen to the recordings later, but I've always reckoned it was
Si King from the Roundhouse, although i may well be wrong. He was using
Terry's drums on joining the band, as Si King didn't have a full kit at that
time. These were the drums later stolen under mysterious circumstances. Ah
Ah!!

All in all, this was still at a time when Hawkwind were dabbling in vast
amounts of you know what, still at a time when people didn't show, or were
too out of it to play the gigs, and still at a time when people who had left
the band were still hanging about and filling in for the occasional gig.
Confused?????

Regarding Make Wat You Can, wasn't this recorded in the studio in California
during Hawkwind's first US tour at the end of 1973. Apparently, it was
inspired by Tim Leary.
And, yeah, does anyone know what is on the forthcoming Greasy Truckers CD. I
heard in was about an hour from Hawkwind's set, which includes the tracks
from the vinyl and Glastonbury Fayre album.

All the best
Age

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