HW: What's Happenin' Where is everyone?

[Michael Crook]

I would really like to hear Captain Black on some HW
studio material - any chance in the future.
Heh - any chance of hearing ANY new HW studio material
in the future?? :)
I agree he is perfect for HW, but its a shame he only
guests - his contribution really fills out





 --- Colin J Allen <colin at CALLEN18.FREESERVE.CO.UK>
wrote:
> I am amazed that we have got so far through a
> discussion of the quality of
> Hawkwind synth wizards before getting to Captain
> Black.  He is up there with
> Harvey and, in many ways, more suited to the
> traditional Hawkwind sound.
>
> Colin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Pearson" <jasret at MINDSPRING.COM>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 7:51 PM
> Subject: Re: HW: What's Happenin' Where is everyone?
>
>
> > On the other hand, I really like Harvey's vocal
> rants! :^)  I think he
> > does that more effectively than any HW member has
> except, of course, Bob.
> > (And he's a pretty good backup singer, although I
> seem to recall someone
> > mentioning that the excellent backup vocals on
> 'Live 79' are studio
> > overdubs.)
> >
> > Tim's style these days (judging from the 'Out of
> the Shadows' DVD) seems
> > to be over-reliant on the sort of
> "auto-arpegiation" (who would've thought
> > that Duran Duran would be so musically
> influential!) that seems to be real
> > popular in today's techno/dance/remix music (at
> least the producer in the
> > studio next door is always doing stuff like that);
> I think one person on
> > the list referred to it as "virtual guitar" since
> it almost sounds like
> > picking out the notes of a guitar chord.  It can
> be an effective technique
> > (to some extent, HW pioneered it, or something
> similar, with stuff
> > like "Forge of Vulcan"), but on every song, it
> gets tiresome to my ears
> > (and gives validation to accusations of
> "inteptness" since it really is a
> > one-finger playing technique, but some of my
> favorite bands/musicians have
> > been utterly inept.  Darryl Hooper was one rockin'
> keyboardist!).
> >
> > Harvey's keyboard technique, like Dave's guitar
> playing, is hardly
> > advanced, but also like Dave's guitar playing,
> seems to always work
> > perfectly with Hawkwind-style songs.  And he's
> talented at nagivating both
> > the notes/chords and the swooooosh (the ideal
> spacerock synth player will
> > do one with each hand, simultaneously), the latter
> of which seems to have
> > been not so evident from Tim recently (maybe
> that's just because the
> > sequencers are doing all the work ... these days
> that job would be best
> > suited to capt. Bl at ck, anyway).
> >
> >     -Doug
> >      jasret at mindspring.com
> >
> > On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 19:50:42 -0500, John Majka
> <jmajk at INDY.RR.COM> wrote:
> >
> > >I'd have to agree that Harvey's playing was an
> absolutely amazing thing
> > >during his last few years with Hawkwind.  He
> makes Tim Blake seem
> > >completely inept by comparison.  In my fantasy
> line-up, Harvey would
> > >be on keyboards and Huw would be on lead guitar,
> in addition to the
> > >trio of Brock, Davey, and Chadwick.
> > >John Majka
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> Harvey should have a website (or have someone
> set one
> > >> up for him)so he could maybe sell some of his
> CDs. I
> > >> bet he's got loads of material unreleased.
> > >>  I thought his keyboard playing with HW just
> prior to
> > >> leaving was amazing (Not crazy about his vocal
> rants
> > >> though)
> > >>
> > >> Mick
> > >>
>





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