Official Post From Hawkwind

[Bob Lennon]

Nick, Nick,
yes, you made my point. That gig was in the 70's. If someone was allowed to
tape properly we wouldn't have that. We would have a properly recorded show,
possibly good enough to release officially like the 1999 Party or the 1976
show was recently.
Would you have prefered that the only recordings of those two shows were on
the same level as the Yuri tapes?
exactly, everyone is shaking their heads in a NO gesture.

and would I buy them if they were inferior quality...YES...of course.

Once again the band has a right to promote any policies they want, will it
stop the tapers....come on everyone - shake your heads....NO
will the quality of these recordings be good.....don't know.
what will surface as this year's bootleg, we'll see.

The NEo Quark people (as with many tape trading group) has the right idea,
get the good stuff into the hands of the fans, and they'll be less likely to
buy inferior bootleg cd's. Works for me.

remember, a tape of a show is not a bootleg, it is just a tape. what someone
does with it after they leave is where we get into problems. Is the tape
intended for commercial distribution or freely shared with other fans.

whatever the case I hope these decisions help the band not hurt. even though
it is the fans that pay artists salaries, the music still belongs to the
artists.
bob

In a message dated 12/12/2002 11:32:58 AM Eastern Standard Time,
nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK writes:
>
>
> >Not fanciful at all, I believe the part of my post snipped out said
> wouldn't
> >it be nice to have a clean recording of that gig?
> >If taping was allowed, the chances of that happening would be seriously
> >increased.
>
> How? That gig was in 1973! Whatever decision HW take now isn't going to
> affect it. Unless a better quality bootleg recording of the gig was to
> mysteriously surface after all these years, which has to be vanishing
> unlikely. Even if that did happen, diehard collectors and the naive would
> still be buying the Yuri albums, just as they are now, I would've thought.
>
> But, OK, if there was a similar situation with, say, one of the gigs on the
> current tour, where a bootlegger was releasing a poor-quality recording,
> then you might be right. But it seems that HW are trying to avert exactly
> that kind of situation. How successful such a policy can be is a different
> matter I guess. Maybe it *can* end up having the opposite effect... we'll
> see. I still hope that this is leading up to some sort of arrangement where
> the band themselves manage the distribution of these recordings.
>
> Nick
>
> Nick