A suggestion :was: From Hawkwind

[Michael Blackman]

I like the idea of the 5.1 mix.  That should be awesome for the Hawkwind
sound.

However I think cd's are great.  Better than lp's and cassettes I like even
less.

----- Original Message -----
From: <chris at HAWKLORD.UKLINUX.NET>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 3:57 PM
Subject: A suggestion :was: From Hawkwind


> Hi ya,
>
> Like others I'm very interested in these CD's but want to know much more
> of what is planned.
>
> I get the impression they will all be soundboard recordings from the
> current tour.  Personally if thats the deal I'd want maybe the best one
> and another one but hard to justify getting all.
>
> If they cover a span of Hawkwind its a different matter.
>
> But I thought about this, what is the best thing for Hawkwind and best
> for us?
>
> Small aside:-
>   I don't like CD I never have liked CD.  I've had a DVD for 2 years.
> In my life I have bought exactly as many music DVD as I have commercial
> CD.  I have 6 music DVD (last of big spenders!!!) I like vynal cause it
> sounds good.  My ears ain't great, but DVD is OK.   CD sucks.  (I never
> fell for the you can hear the birds in the street trick CD salesmen
> tried - since when can you hear birds in the street when your in a sound
> proof recording studio - duh!!!)
>
> I don't think I'm alone in my prejudice, even dvd sales suggest I'm not.
>   So if like 500 of us said "don't give us music cd - give us 48k shn or
> 48k mp2 instead"  Its not putting Hawkwind to any extra trouble and we
> get something better, like in the sense of value thats worth paying for.
>
> But why not take it a step further, spend a day doing a simple 5.1 mix,
> and like give us 5.1 ac3 on a cd.   Production cost of cd is exactly the
> same, Hawkwind is going to sound great in 5.1 without too much effort.
> Hawkwind get credit for doing hi-tech hi-quality ground breaking
> marketing.   We get stuff that sounds cool:-)
>
> I have a feeling if something were done that way there would be _much_
> greater interest than there already is.   Its a 'turn on' not a 'turn
> off' to go away from music cd standard and try something better, which
> should also have a pay off with more official releases.
>
> The audio CD is going to die soon.  Already there is an unofficial DVD
> standard used (only???) for classical music that is 96k audio and gives
> 1 frame of video (ie a title) for each track (anyone with details of
> standard please contact me).
>
> So Hawkwind fans could be used as guinea pigs to try out different ways
> of marketing music.
>
> If it turns out production costs of limited edition dvd is about the
> same as for cd then why not give us 96k multichannel dreamscape void to
> hallucinate in?
>
> Chris