HW:OPEN FORUM WITH DAVE 2

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Subject: Re: HW:OPEN FORUM WITH DAVE 2


> In a message dated 6/15/00 6:14:51 AM, lupercal at GEOCITIES.COM writes:
>
> <<  but back in the 70's and
> 80's, HW were just an almost purely English/European phenomenon. >>
> =====
> um.....not _entirely_.
> elstwise i wouldnt've heard of them.
> heh.
>
> i believe, 'cept for 'astounding sounds' [?], everything thru 'pxr 5' was
> released in the states. and 'mtn. grill' climbed all the way up to #133 on
> the BILLBOARD 'top 200'.
> i'd assume the couple three previous had done better; i just happened to
> follow that lp in BILLBOARD.
>
> and i used to own a mono/stereo US promo single of 'urban guerrilla'. dont
> recall ever hearing it on the radio [yeah right] but CREEM had mentioned
its
> withdrawal from the UK charts in '73.
>
> so they werent _quite_ unknown or invisible until the end of the
'70s....not
> that you'd find too many folx who'd heard of them...that was _my_
'mission'
> during the "lemmy era", earning me the nickname 'hawk' from a few friends.
> no, really!
>
> once, in '76, i saw a  kid leaving a record store, having purchased the
'space
>  ritual' lp.
> i asked him why he bought it and he said some friends told him it was like
> 'sabbath meets floyd'
> =====
> <<In 1984,
> out of about 25 HW penfriends, I knew _one_ person in the USA, and he got
> into HW because he found a HW cassette lying in the middle of the street,
> and didn't even know who it was for years. Now the majority of this list
> seems to be American. I know to a certain extent this is a reflection of
> internet demographics, but it has to be more than that. 15 or 20 years ago
I
> just never heard of HW fans in America.
> =====
> lolol, comrade, you shoulda tried "25 years ago"....[or is that "25 years
of
> social research" ago?] or, "28 years ago"...oy...
>
> but years had passed passed before the us release of 'pxr5' and the us
> release of 'live chronicles' *
>
> *i played side one and gave it away...heh...sorry, gang.
>
> fellow yanks, feel free to contend that the early '80s lp's _were_
released
> in the states, but i dont remember 'em...
> 'levitation', maybe?
> ====
> too early to be floating away, today...
> later for that.
>
> "<>"




YES!
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