German Hawkfan gathering

[SHLL (Scott Heller)]

        Hej,

        The German Hawkfan Gathering in Hamburg was great, once again.... I
traveled down with the swedish band Psuedo Sun as well as Santtu from Dark
Sun.  The weather was cold and the beer cheap and the people very friendly.
We had great hospitality from all.  As for the music, it was cool. Tower of
Electric Onions started things off with a 90m set of space rock with a
little funk and jazz.. Nik joined them for the last 30 minutes. Sloterdyk
played a cool 1 hour set of solo space rock.. Liquid Visions replaced the
now broken up Lord Brain and really rocked the place. Nik joined them for
the last 20 minutes of the 80m set.  The Psuedo Sun played at 1 for the rest
of the drunk folks and rocked for 86 minutes. Santtu and myself played
synths with the band.. It was a lot of fun.

        Saturday, the music started with Liquid Zoo, who were more
garage.psych rock... Ok band.. Das Weeth experience was next and played a
sort of dreamy.neil young type music with the guitar player using feedback
and effects in an interesting way.. pretty cool... Harvey Bainbridge played
a 40m set with nik and Mr.Dibs helping out on bass, flute, sax and synths..
This was really spaced out and excellent! Then the SPacehead band joined and
most of their original material was really pretty cool, especially the slow
numbers. They have too many Bedoiuin-Motorhead like numbers that sound to
similar... Harvey and Nik played the whole set.. They did some HW numbers
like Green Finned Demon, Golden Void, Brainstorm, Masters of the Universe,
the worst version ever of Silver Machine..... They had a very inexperienced
young drummer who was quite bad,.. changing time all the time and loosing
track of where he was.. The guitar player for spacehead also had a horrible
guitar sound.. way too much treble... the crowd really dug these guys and
they were really good for the first 80 or 90 minutes and then it went down
hill. Trev Thoms joined them on acoustic guitar and was quite out of it
having trouble even tuning the damn thing.. Added a very strange element to
the HW tunes..  They played 2.5 hours!

        It was a tough weekend but well worth it and nice to see Thomas (the
organizer), bernhard from the list, Andreas Stüwe and his wife, and several
other friends.. Nik and Harvey were very approachable but very stoned most
of the time..

        Fun time.. I recorded it all.


        scott