No he's not :-)

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 22/07/2005 16:08, Stephe wrote:
> Lemmy is gone. Alan Davey blows Lemmy away. Alan is god. Who cares about
> Lemmy. He doesn't even play Space rock anymore. Last time I saw him it was
> so loud it sounded like shit. I bet Space Ritual.net sound better than
> that.

Well, to each their own! :)  I've enjoyed every Motorhead gig I've ever
been to, and I've got my tickets for the Cambridge show on this autumn's
tour (assuming the old bastard lives that long ;)

Besides, I saw it in a movie that Lemmy is god --it must be true! ;)

That said, I'm not going to dispute Alan being a great bass player; I
was pretty blown away the first time I saw HW with him.  Though,
actually, I've never been so impressed as when I saw Alan touring with
Bedouin.  No one will ever convince me that all the sequenced synth
stuff in recent Hawkwind is a Good Thing, and I found it even easier to
appreciate Alan's playing in a more stripped down setting.  Indeed, when
Bedouin were touring, I thought they were better than HW at the time by
a long shot.

Were I God (instead of Lemmy ;) I'd force HW to ditch the sequencing;
they could keep the keys/synth player, but they would have to take on a
dedicated audio-generator/theremin dude :)  The Brock/Davey/Chadwick
lineup is a great, great core ... it's just the "ornamentation" around
it that has not always sat right with me.  Also, Dave would have to play
enormous wah-guitar solos all the time, with "Upside Down" teased or
encored at every gig ;)

Cheers,
Carl

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