HW Greasy Truckers and Silver Machine (was HW:Acid Daze volume 1)

Filip Vanhuyse Filip.Vanhuyse at PANDORA.BE
Wed Feb 18 21:33:24 EST 2004


The "Silver Machine"-track on "Glastonbury"(you're right it's from the same
concert) is Robert Calvert.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ketil Svendsen" <ketil.svendsen at FISKAREN.NHST.NO>
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Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:35 AM
Subject: HW Greasy Truckers and Silver Machine (was HW:Acid Daze volume 1)


> I'm _pretty_ sure it's Nik Turner's vocals that can be heared - i
definately
> sounds like him to my ears. Apart from that, they both sound 'stoned out
of
> this world'.
> Pretty amazing they managed to overdub and clean it up for single release
....
> or is there more to the story ...?
> Are we talking "Greasy Trucker's..." or "Glastonbury Fayre"?  ....I got
both
> LPs, and the Silver Machine track is on the latter... Same concert,
though.
>
> Ketil Svendsen,
> Norway
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:02:31 +0000, pauleatonjones
> <paul at IMRRYR.KAROO.CO.UK> wrote:
>
> >Hello people. In reply to who's voice we hear in the background of the
> >Trucker's version of Silver Machine, I was told at the time that it was
> >Dikmik. I'm also sure that it's his voice we hear right at the end of
> >the 'tidied up' version. Y'know someone screaming, " Silver Machine,
> >Silver Machine".
>
> This has come up here before- I always thought it was Dave Brock's voice
at
> the end of the hit single version. Somewhere on the web there was an
> interview with Nik Turner and Simon House from about '99 (when Nik was
> briefly back in the live line-up) where the DJ interviewing them played
> Silver Machine and specifically asked "who's that doing the high-pitched
> backing vocals at the end?"- Nik immediately replying "Dave Brock". Of
> course, Nik's take on Hawkwind history is known to be a little
> idiosyncratic (shall we say) at times :-)
>
> Nick
>
>



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