NIK (was HW: Do Not Panic documentary)

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 23 Apr 2007, at 19:25, David Kuznick wrote:
> Quoting Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM>:
>> No argument from me.  He was very cool, if slightly mad, the few
>> times I've met him personally.  'Course, I've never tried to _work_
>> with him! (We talked about him putting some sax on some of my
>> Scylding tracks but Chris Bruce was too strung out for us to pull
>> that off
>
> Heh, I never knew that.  What a surprise that would have been for  
> the synthfish here!

Heh, yeah, it woulda been, no? :)

Yeah, Chris Bruce introduced us briefly at the Boston show on the  
second Nikwind tour ('95?) and Nik was very cool and chatted to me  
about stuff even though I was basically just there as a fan who  
wanted to meet him :)  Chris said I was recording some stuff at  
Chris's studio, and Nik was totally amenable (at least in that  
moment!) to coming over and doing something (and, yeah, it totally  
would have been on the "Ossian's Ride" track you also played on,  
David -- that was my big Hawkwind-pastiche extravaganza  
piece! :) .... But, of course, you know that it just wasn't going to  
work out to get all the pieces in place before Nikwind rolled out of  
town.

Would have been OK if Nik _had_ played Silver Machine for half an  
hour, actually, since the main riff in "Ossian's Way" was basically  
the Silver Machine chords with the rhythm from Monster Magnet's  
"Dinosaur Vacuum" (another band not adverse to lifting from the  
masters :)

Then we wouldn't have had to claim the recordings had "only one less  
original member of Hawkwind than the current Hawkwind lineup" ;) and  
it probably wouldn't have been as shambolic as some of Nik's more  
recent UK gigs! :)

Good guy, though, Nik.  In another slightly more organized world, we  
mighta pulled it off! :)

Cheers,
Carl

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