HW:Nik/Farflung

[Eric Siegerman]

Ah, ok.  I wasn't at either of them; I was just going by what I
recalled reading here.  Judging by what I've read before, though,
the point still holds.

I've never seen any *bad* HW gigs myself.  I don't know whether
that means that what I said is wrong, or that I've just been lucky.

Or maybe, when it comes to HW, I'm simply an uncritical listener
:-)  There are a couple I might have classed as mediocre if I'd
had some more "critical distance" (e.g. St. Catharines, 1991) but
at that point I hadn't seen them often enough to be anything less
than ecstatic about their mere presence (especially in my
unremarkable little home town :-)

Also the Hawkestra.  But as I've written before, a lot of that
was my own crappy mood on the day, and nothing to do with the
band.  Some people seem to agree that it wasn't so great a show,
but then others think it was awesome, so that one's a wash, I
guess.

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 04:08:41PM -0700, KevinSommers wrote:
> I have to disagree with the example here....Hastings was a great show (not
> quite as good as the Hawkfest, but....), it just sounded horrible; the band
> was up but the sound engineer was the down-ness.
>
>
> KevinSommers
> "Craziness, down through history, has performed impressively"
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> > Subject: Re: HW:Nik/Farflung
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:56:50AM -0000, Sara Zaza wrote:
> > > [...] I've seen Nik many times when he was great, in good voice,
> > > playing well, etc. but I've also seen him pretty untogether,
> > out of tune,
> > > forgetting lyrics, getting out of time with the band, and other antics.
> >
> > The same is true of HW, for that matter.  Not the details of what
> > makes bad gigs bad, but the general up-and-down-ness.  Consider
> > the recent Hastings and Hawkfest shows.
> >
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> > |-_|/  >   Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.        erics at telepres.com
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