The true sprit of Hawkwind

[Paul Mather]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 14:32 +0000, nick.lee2 at virgin.net wrote:

> No, I think the difference was that it was the anticipation of seeing Dave,
> Lemmy and Nik (plus Simon, Del, Dik Mik maybe even Simon King - until close
> to the time we didn't really know who was going to show at the Hawkestra)
> playing these oldies as opposed to to Nik and a bunch of guys who's stay
> in the band was fairly fleeting and who didn't write all these classics*.
>
> Nick
>
> * Crimble and Anderson's claims in recent biographies not withstanding ;-)

Well, you know, when it comes down purely to longevity in the band and
songs written, Lemmy doesn't score very well himself.  So I guess it
must be more a case of "iconic status" at play here than numbers of
hours logged or classics penned.

Cheers,

Paul.
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