HW/OFF: oh how cool-Hawkwind/Captain Beyond

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 11:40:03AM -0600, Mike Coleman typed out:
> OMG
> never noticed before
> "as the moon speaks to the sea" clearly has "you know you're only dreaming"
> in it
> has to be a direct influence
> right??
> also,  proud to think the drummer was from Johnny Winter and he sure does
> sound awfully great to my un-drum-trained ear

	I can't help thinking that that chord sequence is easy for 
someone else to find by mistake. It would have to be a very fresh 
influence if that's what it was, but I guess XISoS could easily have 
been on their collective turntables ("because the groups all live 
together") by the time they were writing. I'm not sure I pick up very 
much similarity of approach though, even if I'd love to think it was HW 
that helped make that first album as it's one of my absolute 
favourites.

	The drummer, OK my ear isn't trained either but I like to think 
it has some discernment, the drummer's name is Bobby Caldwell and he was 
effing fantastic. Attacking from all quarters of the kit and time 
signature at once kind of excellent, never know where he's going to be 
next excellent, gives that album the pace and flexibility that makes it 
such a classic. All that is kind of lacking, for me, on _Sufficiently 
Breathless_, which is basically hard AOR if such a thing's possible. 
Caldwell wasn't there, and I think that's all the explanation that's 
required. He came back for a third album, _Dawn Explosion_, but unlike 
the others (which are hard enough to get hold of) I've not managed to 
get that one, because it's exceedingly rare and currently Amazon won't 
sell me one for less than £45.00... It's got to be worth a go some time, 
but at that kind of price it's competing for my madness with the first 
Outskirts of Infinity album and the Bevis Frond I don't have. Some day I 
guess. Yours,
		Jon

ObHW: they were good last night and did at least a stanza of `Dreaming'; 
proper review will follow.
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	    (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk