OFF: Venomwind? oh spare me spare me

[Jon Jarrett]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, mike c wrote:

>  There is-  however distant, a connection.....
> Venom is included on the Canadian Griffin CD label radio promo sampler,
> along with HW, M. Moorcock, Justin Hayward, Rick Wakeman, and Dana
> Gillespie....(Called Griffin Music Sampler Vol.1, Summer 1995)(on Sony
> Import label)
>
> any further hatred or praise of this band is highly interesting to me, not
> that you care....AND

        I'm sure there must be another connection, there is for everyone
else. For example, a rapid consultation of allmusic.com reveals that
Venom's first guitar-player Jeff Dunn played bass on an album by Mutiny
called _Aftershock 2005_, which was produced by Bill Laswell, who also
produced and played on New York Gong's _About Time_ wich naturally
featured Daevid Allen, who was in Gong with Tim Blake who was and just at
this moment is in Hawkwind. I don't know how many steps you count that as
(four I think) but there it is. I have yet to find someone a connection
definitively can't be made for.

        I never personally liked Venom, not being much of a metaller by
inclination; they always seemed to me to just be milking that eevil black
Satan's servant thing too hard, you got the idea they didn't see the
joke. I wouldn't listen to them in the same way as, though I like a bit of
lard in my diet as much as the average trucker, I wouldn't consider a
block of it much of a meal. Just too much of what's a good thing in
moderation used properly. Such is me view, but the connection's worth
having I think :-) Yours,
                          Jon

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