HW: Mr. Dibs

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:17:54AM -0400, Ted Jackson typed out:
> Hey, didn't Ade Shaw play in Hawkwind for a
> while?  I saw him in Bevis Frond, and from
> what I heard he stands pretty tall as a bassist.
> Easily as good a player as Lemmy...

	Ade Shaw's a lovely guy and an excellent bassist, though a very 
understated style compared to Alan or indeed Mr Dibs. Most importantly 
though he appears to be unwilling to work with the Captain these days:

http://www.starfarer.net/ashawint.html

	And I think if he were to be asked to throw himself back into a 
band with a live schedule even as active as Hawkwind's he'd need the 
kind of reassurances that he doesn't seem to have found it possible to 
get in that interview. Just my opinion though, because as you can tell 
from that interview it's impossible to coax more than a slightly 
regretful word out of Adrian for even rock's worst personalities. One of 
the music world's true gentlemen. Yours,
					 Jon

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 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk