So long and thanks for all the hawks

[Bill & Cynthia]

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Apold <mordru at FLITE.NET>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: So long and thanks for all the hawks


> At 09:46 PM 8/22/00 +0100, linuxchaos wrote:
> >hear hear!!
> >
> >I suppose that the connection was Moorcock's contribution to BOC (which I
> still
> >have not heard!).
>
> The real reason was Steve Swann, he liked both bands so he started the
list
> dedicated to the bands he liked.  In the early days there was probably
more
> BÖC content than Hawkwind content.  I'm not sure if archives for the list
> exist but there were just volumes of serious BÖC discussions here in the
past.
>
> Also, a significant percentage of the BÖC only fans have moved over to
various
> BÖC soley dedicated lists...  on some of which they are vehemently
> anti-Hawkwind
> because they got upset on this list at some point in the past.  Not sure,
> but you
> can probably count Bolle Gregmar amongst these... he once related a
> "horror" story
> about a Hawkwind concert only to have most Hawkwind fans feel he was
> describing
> an ideal Hawkwind concert.  And then there was Susi Wagner...
>
> Well, anyways.  There's a certain community to this list, it won't be the
> same without both.  I mean, the mystery tape that Theo was supposed to
send
> to someone, reports from Roswell alien conventions in New Mexico, these
things
> go hand in hand with reports from Australian Hawkfans...   for sentimental
> reasons,
> I am against changing the name.

I've been here for a few months and read the posts about both bands. I'm
with you - don't change the name.

Bill
>
> >Isnt BOC a chemical manufacturer? Yes, when I worked on the railways
there
> were
> >numerous oil tankers with BOC painted on them, Guy?
>
> Yes, you can still go to boc.com I believe.
>
>
> =============================
> "To dwell within Samsara, however, is to
>  be subject to the works of those mighty
>  among dreamers."
>
>  - Mahasamatman, in Zelazny's "Lord of Light"
>
> Andrew Apold
>