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[Chris]

Hi ya,

Hey but ain't this why _a_lot_ of people like 'hawkwind'?  They don't
play stuff like it is on record, they just do what they want how they
want.  A most excellent example being Bob's "Over The Top" where nobody
really had a clue what was going on.  Bob thought he was meant to be
singing Master of the Universe and everyone else thought they were doing
something instrumental - result was pure genius. Maybe this attitude
always applied more to Nik and Bob.

And yea its always going to be more chaos than genius if they play that
way: but in the mess is genius.

As for name for Nik's mob wot about "The X Hawks" : no mention of
Hawkwind and its more than one word and it has same meaning.

Chris

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> Also a fact from my experience though (Hawkestra 2000), Nik goes into
> choruses at the wrong time, goes into verses at the wrong time, and pretty
> much screws up some great moments at gigs. Well, at least that particular gig.
> I agree that this "enemy" thing is going too far though. Woulda never have
> happened if he hadn't picked a name TOO close to Hawkwind though. And it IS
> too close... whatever people on this list may say, I know numerous people
> who thought HAWKWIND were playing gigs when it was xHawkwind (lower case
> "x", lower case "x"... it was ALWAYS gonna be lower case, if it was there
> at all by the time promoters got hold of it).
> God, why couldn't he have just gone with Space Ritual (a better name
> anyway) right from the start, and all this bullshit would never have
> happened?!
>
> Dave