OFF: how we got into hawkwind

[Doug Pearson]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:28:06 -0500, K Henderson <henderson.120 at OSU.EDU> wrote:
>My most amazing time listening to Hawkwind was in 1997 when I was camped on
>the Dasuopu glacier at 23,000 feet in the Himalayas right on the Tibet/Nepal
>border. I was alone in my tent one night, listening to a compilation HW tape

I hope that "Kadu Flyer" was on this compilation!!!

>I had brought along on the walkman (don't ask how I warmed up the batteries
>- it was probably -20 or -30)

I DEFINITELY won't ask.

>in a pretty powerful blizzard and the
>whistling sounds of the wind and blowing snow were so loud that they became
>part of the music, filtering in through the little headphones I was using.

"... the wind of time is blowing through me ..."

>The original Assault & Battery/Golden Void was how the tape started.  The
>feeling of 'smallness' in the universe was quite intense ...

Wow.

        -Doug (speechless)
         ceres at sirius.com