HW: Lucky Lief

[Tim Gadd]

At 06:20 PM 4/26/00 -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 07:21:22AM +1000, Tim Gadd wrote:
>> I also couldn't help thinking that when RC recorded Lucky Lief, he pretty
>> much re-defined the term 'quirky'.
>
>Uh huh.  I like Calvert's stuff, a lot ... except for this one.
>I searched for it for *years* on vinyl, and I think I only
>listened to it once.

Just to clarify, I didn't mean 'quirky', or any of the other things I said
about this album, in a negative sense. I love this album. I just happen to
think that it's the bentest thing he ever did (on vinyl anyway - and being
more bent than Capt Lockheed is no mean feat), but AFAIC that's a plus.
Besides which, I'm just impressed at someone who was considered, for all
intents and purposes, to be a non-musician, writing so effortlessly and so
commandingly in so many totally different musical genres.

I've also noticed that if you play this album and Capt Lockheed to anyone
with a good, wide rock music 'education', but who doesn't happen to be a
Hawkwind fan, they almost invariably prefer Lucky Leif. I'm not sure that I
prefer one to the other, but then my favourite musical parts of Capt
Lockheed are the Songs of the Gremlin (part 2 of which just sends shivers
down my spine), and Hero with a Wing, which are rather unlike the heavy rock
style of most of the rest of it.

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Tim Gadd
Hobart, Tasmania