Obscure question bugging me badly

[William Duffy]

I think The Iron Dream was also a reworking of an old classical piece.
Another rock version of the same tune turned up in an episode of a Japanese
SF puppet show called Star Fleet.

William


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Youles" <youless at LVCM.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: Obscure question bugging me badly


> It is Hawkwind.  It's the Iron Dream riff, or more precisely, an excerpt
> from "The Martian Disco Stomp" which features on the DVD.  This is
assuming
> that my DVD is the same as yours....
>
> A similar question: one track on the 1992 Faith No More album "Angel Dust"
> has a three-note bass riff (A - G - E or similar, repeated over and over)
> which reminds me of something or other HW have done, but I can't think
> what.  I don't have the Faith No More album here in a playable format so I
> can't be more specific about which track it is, but it might be the 1st
> track on the album.  Anyone know this riff and where it might appear in
the
> Hawks' oeuvre?
>
> Steve
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 23:57:00 +0000, Chris <chris at HAWKLORD.UKLINUX.NET>
> wrote:
>
> >Yo,
> >
> >There is a bass rifflet that is bugging me.  Where the hell does it come
> >from originally?
> >
> >If you got the Night Of the Hawks DVD then when you start the dvd there
> >is a bass rifflet playing during the menu, I always assumed it was
> >Hawkwinds.  Now I think it cant be because the same rifflet is played
> >for about two bars on "Dazed And Confused Concludes" from Led Zepplin's
> >film Song Remains The Same.  Now near that Jimmy plays a bit of Hendrix
> >(purple Haze from memory for a few bars) so I'm thinking Jimmy is
> >throwing in something from someone else.
> >
> >Who is the someone else?  Where does this come from?
> >
> >Chris
>