HW: "Watching the Grass Grow" versions

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 24/07/2007 21:53, Jonathan Jarrett wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:09:35AM +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson typed out:
>> Yup, it would make sense that it's from _This is Hawkwind, Do Not  
>> Panic_, since I definitely have a CD of that (albeit in the US right  
>> now), and probably would have scooped a few tracks off it.  I just  
>> didn't remember the spoken intro that came before Nik's "We are the  
>> survivors ...", which made me wonder if it was a different source or  
>> something .... But I guess not!
> 
> If I remember my trivia correctly the spoken intro is by Roy 
> Harper, and it's the same Stonehenge as `Stonehenge Decoded' but not the 
> same night and therefore not the same line-up becaue on the `Watching 
> the Grass Grow' night Huw was ill? 

I have since come to have it vaguely in mind (probably from one of 
Bernhard's posts in the archives) that "Watching the Grass Grow" is from 
20 June 1984 and is +Huw, while "Stonehenge Decoded" is 21 June 1984 and 
is -Huw.  But either way, the recording of "Watching the Grass Grow" I 
have must just be the usual one from _This Is Hawkwind/Do Not Panic_. I 
have a dim memory of copying something from my CD of it when I was in 
the States a time or two ago, and this must be what it was :)

(Anyway, according to the mighty HW Codex, the only versions of WtGG are 
from _This Is Hawkwind/Do Not Panic_ and _Undisclosed Files_ -- both of 
which I have somewhere, though if I'd only copied one, it would have 
been the TIHDNP version.)

And, yes, I believe Roy Harper is in there on the intro.  Hats off to 
'im! ;)


> Mind you my famous `in this order' file insists that Jenny 
> Chapman should have been singing with the Hawks at that point and I 
> can't hear her, mind you this might not be the best pair of numbers to 
> register a backing singer...

That, I couldn't say!  Can't hear her, though (or anyone else who sounds 
like they might own a name like "Jenny").

Cheers,
Carl

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