Hawkwind Tree update

BL Young blyoung at BIGFOOT.COM
Sun Mar 18 18:41:09 EST 2001


No, this is not about Ron, but I did promise a freely available set of
Brixton Hawkestra to anyone interested back in January.  It's not forgotten,
and I think I'm just about ready to begin taking signups.

I've had some burner troubles, in which discs recorded DAO were getting very
tiny (0.01 of a second) micro-gaps between tracks.  I think I've finally
solved this by putting a laser lens cleaner through the cd burner drive.
Anyways, if not 100% it seems to be fixed about 95% of the time.

So, to begin this tree, we need the following:

1)  master branches for each continent.  These people would get discs
directly from me, and would set up trades with their leaves beneath them.
No selling please!  Freely trade, even if you have to do it for blanks, and
be prepared to question any leaf to make certain that they understand this
is not to be sold!

I believe I already have master branches for Western USA, Eastern USA,
England, and Australia, but I'd need to verify that they did not grow
impatient and that they are still willing to serve.  I still need a master
branch with a good burner and DAO capability in Europe, if I recall
correctly.

2)  Does anybody have the setlists for the Bedouin, Tim Blake, and Simon
House gigs from that evening?  I'm trying to work on some artwork and there
might be a couple songs where I'd like confirmation that I've got the right
ideas as to what was played.

3)  Speaking of artwork, I've got some "Brixton in a Box" artwork for the 3
Hawkwind discs that may work (which is awesome), but if anybody wants to
volunteer their artistic skills, please feel free to send jpg images to my
email address (limit your attachments to under 1 meg, though, please).

4)  I still need to get the final artwork posted on to a webpage, and then
I'll also try to post some samples in mp3 format.  Please remember that we
are not distributing mp3 music due to quality losses, but it will give
people an idea of the quality in case they already have another version and
would like to compare qualities.

5)  After the information begins to get posted, then the official signups
will take place.  In the future, I hope to get things going a lot faster,
but I didn't expect to have some technical details to work on, so please
forgive the delays this time.

Thanks again,

Bryan Young
Saskatchewan, Canada



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