Alan Davey and thoughts

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:19:19AM -0500, mike coleman typed out:

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> *I will say for myself, however, if he is doing his own thing for a bit, a
> telephone call to Ron would please the shit out of me, so long as Ron and
> Alan can work that out, if Ron is still living, can still play, and would
> leave the Suckers to their...whatever it is they do since I've not been sent
> any........*

	Ron seems to turn up often enough in tales of people I meet at 
gigs that I think I'm safe in saying that at least as of a few months 
ago he was still living, was well and clean of chemical monkeys, and 
playing bass. And he can play decent bass, not only have I seen him 
doing it and will testify, but he's on record doing it on _In Your Area_ 
and _Hawkwind 1997_ for them as have that latter. On _Distant Horizons_ 
not so obviously but let that pass. The thing is, I worry that it's like 
comedians who undergo therapy and stop being funny: I've got two 
recordings of him since he started trying to clean up his act, and I've 
seen him twice in that time, and well, he hasn't been terribly 
inspiring. There are Rontastic bits on _Insect Brain_ but they're all 
vocal; the bass is kinda dull. It frustrates me because I know he can do 
better.

	I seriously doubt that he can ever expect to step back into 
Hawkwind though; from what little I have gathered that relationship did 
not so much fail as spring apart like a frayed hawser thrashing through 
all hopes of reconciliation left right and the now-legendary centre. But 
given what I say above, I don't how much it would help even if that 
weren't so. If we're looking at ex-Hawks who could possibly step in, and 
still would, there really isn't anyone better than Mr Dibs anyway, or so 
it seems to me, and at least he wants to be up there doing it and 
probably doesn't mind if the money is slow turning up... Yours,
								Jon (who 
does wonder what Alan is up to since HW has hardly stopped his being 
solo active lately)
-- 
"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