HW: Great Expectations

[f. rat]

Jon Jarrett wrote:


>
>         I wasn't there (wasn't born, help, nice to find *some* forum I
> don't feel old in) but I'd have thought so. All that damn Mellotron, I
> remember someone (maybe even you, but I think actually one of our
> Marks) saying how he threw _Sonic Attack_ at the wall shouting something
> like, "Bloody Tangerine Dream wannabes", and I can't help thinking a few
> people must have got HotMG and gone, "Nooooo! Don't be King Crimson! Be
> Hawkwind! Argh!" Anyone know what I mean?
>
> --
> "I recognise that I have transgressed many of the precepts of the divine
> law, and that I am subjected by various vices and iniquities, disobedient
> to the words of the divine mystery brought unto me and a worshipper of the
> delights of this military age." Marquis Borrell of Barcelona, 955 A.D.
>
>              (Jonathan Jarrett, Birkbeck College London)

Have to say although I personally was disappointed by Sonic Attack on
first hearing I have warmed *significantly* to it over the years I have
had someone elses copy of it left amongst my prized vinyl.

I would even go so far as calling it almost a HW "classic" and don't
argue at all with its place at the entrance portal to the HW Console!!

F. Rat