HW: top five hawk albums(err,,,)

[Chuck Rosenberg]

In a message dated 3/19/01 3:43:07 PM Pacific Standard Time,
nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK writes:

> >
>  >> I picked up the Friday Rock Show/Reading CD fairly recently and although
>  >>  it's one of my least-fave Hawkwind albums (the excellent bass playing
>  >>  doesn't make up for the plodding drumming, unfocused lead guitar,
>  >>  simplistic keyboards & not enough rhythm guitar ... IMHO), the version
>  >>  of "Dream Worker" DOES make it entirely worthwhile for me.  I like
Huw's
>  >>  playing (which I'm ordinarily not a big fan of) quite a bit when he
does
>  >>  that kind of stuff ...
>  >>
>  >>      -Doug
>  >
>  >totally agreed, though perhaps the "You've got to be there...or BE SQUARE"
>  >line taints it a bit, but that's Harvey for ya... Chuck
>
>  Sounds like I need to get this- I LOVE the version on Zones with the
>  ghostly guitar sound and Nik's eerie, robotic delivery... is this in a
> similar
>  vein?
>  --

Nah, this is more of a song-like version, sung awesomely by Harvey...
Just listened to Zones again for the first time in a while...still not too
impressed, except for "The Island".

>  Nick Medford
>