HW: Conversion to the Church

[Tim]

1)`the vultures fly high..." way too cool (annie haslam-what a babe)
2)`hashish...hashish...hashish...hashishin...'...how can you hear that and not love the hawks???
tim
Stephan Forstner wrote:
 >
 > Back in the early 80's my friends and I would get together on weekends and
 > listen to all sorts of stuff - from Renaissance, Kate Bush, and Steeleye
 > Span, to Battlefield Band, Horslips, and Jethro Tull, to Genesis, Peter
 > Gabriel, and Gentle Giant, to BOC, Motorhead, and Saxon, to Venom, Mercyful
 > Fate, and Slayer, to Bad Brains, Minor Threat, and the FUs, to you get the
 > picture. Of course not everyone liked everything, and we had some pretty
 > lively discussuions regarding the musical merits of various artists and
 > albums. We listened to quite a bit of punk/hardcore where being 'authentic'
 > was a virtue, and occasionally someone would score a bootleg, so poor sound
 > was never a problem for me as long as something good and/or interesting was
 > to be heard - that's why I like Text of Festival for example (at least the
 > second part). When I got bit by the Hawkwind bug I naturally tried to get
 > the others into it, with varying degrees of success. One friend in
 > particular I tried to convince - our musical tastes  overlapped quite a bit
 > and even where they didn't we could usually see where the other guy was
 > coming from - he also happened to be the person who first got me into BOC,
 > though that didn't figure at the time - but he remained indifferent. I threw
 > everything I had at him, but even though he liked prog-rock and Sabbath not
 > even Warrior and Space Ritual were working - I was stymied. Then one day we
 > were lounging around and I put on Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin, and as
 > Bob was howling "Ur-beh-he-he-he-he'an" during Urban Guerrila my friend
 > turned to me and said "Yeah, they actually are pretty cool". Just goes to
 > show you ... I'm not sure WHAT it shows you, but it must show something ...
 > Stephan