HW: Glasto 90, the deep sigh returns

[Z E Itgeist]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats the whole freakin point.  If it had been sold as a below par boot
performance direct to hard core fans, fine.  But selling it as a full price
HW release in the mainstream stores, as a legitimate release, pisses off
me, and more importantedly, will scare off any prospective new HW fan who
reads the Guardian and pops into a regional tower to buy a HW ceedee.


>On the contrary, I really must say that Glastonbury 90 impresses me as a
>superb Hawkwind performance.  True, it is only an audience recording, but I
think we should take it for what it is--the only existing recording of a
fantastic show.  Having collected Hawkwind live tapes for years, I can say I
have at least 50 live shows with much worse sound quality (not to mention
much worse performance quality).  I think it's great that Hawkwind are
releasing their own bootlegs in an attempt to beat the "professional"
bootleggers at their own game.  I can't really say a bad thing about this
release.
John Majka
jmajka2 at home.com


> "I've never heard "Glastonbury '90" so don't know how good/bad the
> sound is, but some of the non-HW-sanctioned releases are about as cynical
> as these things get.
> --
> Nick Medford"
>
> Which was the whole bloody problem.  If you're a HW fan, you know if you
> buy 'Silver Machine Live' on some no mark budget label you're getting a
> shitty Dave A rerererererererelease.
>
> But G90 was band sanctioned, is an official release, and one of the few
non
> Dave A CDs you find in regional Towers etc.  It was, is, and will always
> be, a disgrace.