HW: Live Legends gig

[Tim Gadd]

At 07:12 PM 3/16/00 +0100, Bernhard Pospiech wrote:
>Hi
>
>At 13:03 16.3.2000 -0500, you wrote:
>>I hope there's more on the audio tape than was on the video.  Or >did they
>only play about an hour that time in Nottingham?
>
>The played longer. Here is the track list:

>damnation alley / hassan i sahba /

Hassan, with Simon House, and they _left it off?_ In favour of what? Ggrrrr!!!
I'd love to hear a really good live recording of that track, with House on
violin. I have a tape somewhere which Ande Cameron made for me in 1980, from
a supposed bootleg recorded at The New York Academy of Music 1977 (which is
obviously a mistake), which opens with an incredible version of that track.
The most searing, astonishing violin solo I've ever heard by House, then
sledgehammer riffing by Brock in the 'It is Written' section, mixed right up
front, and then the violin soloing over that. It's always been one of my
all-time favourite pieces of Hawkwind, official, semi-official, bootleg,
whatever, and makes the version on Quark sound positively soporific by
comparison. And this was the tour Paul Kantner said the band were 'like and
empty shell?' He must definately have missed that gig.

(I _think_ this concert eventually turned up as a vinyl bootleg in around
1983, allegedly recorded at the Bottom Line NYC in 1978, but I don't
remember the sound being anywhere near as good as that tape.)
--
Tim Gadd
Hobart, Tasmania