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

[mike coleman]

"we  don't get fooled again"

On 12/20/07, mike coleman <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> my favorite BY FAR, is Lord Of The Dark skies.....I remember I had the
> track (whatever and whichever LP it is) singing about "burning down" or
> whatever when they just announced the Waco complex was on fire, playing in
> my van, further, what IS the first album. I guess I need it
> and LAST
> I have intial CD's of "Incident At Pilatus" with gaps between songs that I
> will sell for A FORTUNE!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>
>
>  On 12/20/07, Amphetamine Embalmer <superskrull666 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >  No, its not SC. I NEED A COPY OF STONED CRAZY however.
> >
> > I Used to have this and played "Tales Of Brave Ulyssees" on Tarkus radio
> > in 1998......
> >
> > c.
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: mike coleman < insect.brain at GMAIL.COM>
> > To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> > Sent: Thursday, 20 December, 2007 1:55:27 PM
> > Subject: Re: HW/OFF: oh how cool-Hawkwind/Captain Beyond
> >
> > *Jon is it "stoned crazy" you need???*
> > further I am about to mail you soon
> > Bobby Caldwell= righteous...even looked like Simon King
> > those vids on YOUTUBE I announced were too good, they removed them
> >
> >
> > On 12/20/07, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > > --
> > > "When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
> > >            (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
> > > Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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