Hawkwind Brooklyn

[Mike Montfort]

Hey All

GREAT show on Monday,  The band was just blistering hot and loud.  They 
had a fantastic PA system in the small venue and the boys did a great 
job of mixing it up from the setlists on Saturday and Sunday.  No new 
surprises from the Allentown show setlist, just some differing order of 
the songs.  I think last two songs (the Encores) from Allentown were not 
played at Brooklyn, but Im very bad with setlists.  The Encore in 
Brooklyn was a rousing Brainstorm.

I also had the opportunity to get to the venue around 3pm when Keef and 
co were setting up, and was just coming back from lunch when the band 
showed up.  I had a unique opportunity to chat with Dave Brock about all 
sorts of history of the band and his thoughts other things as well.  The 
most chatting I did was with Kris however, such a wonderful person.  I 
probably spent at lest a half hour with Dave one on one and much more 
time with Kris.

I spied the box of Tshirts sitting in the middle of the floor after 
setup so I asked Kris if I could get that organized for them. This 
morphed into me selling Merchandise for the show.  It was tons of fun 
meeting the US fans, many many many of whom seem to have no idea of our 
list lol.  Some do post to the HW forum.  Alas by the time things got 
rolling things in the Tshirt dept were down to any color you wanted as 
long as it was a White XL...  But we did sell quite a few T's and 
Season's Greetings CD's.

I stayed around after the show to sell a few more and then thank the 
band individually for a wonderful weekend.  For me, without sounding 
like a total fanboy, it was a dream come true, to be able to help out 
the Mothership, have a real conversation with the man who is responsible 
for so much musical pleasure in my life and to meet Kris who is truly a 
star.

So now I'm deaf today, and have to return to reality, which is not easy.

I posted my pictures to this show at my PhotoBucket site under the 
subfolder Hawkwind Brooklyn 
<http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m220/MikeMontfort/Hawkwind%20Brooklyn/>

http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m220/MikeMontfort/Hawkwind%20Brooklyn/

If that wraps use the link below in my sig file to navigate to the 
folder.  Also don't forget there are HW pics in the NF Saturday folder 
as well.

If anyone from the list that was at the show and I didn't meet sorry for 
that.  It was quite crazy selling Merch.

-- 


Mike
http://corwyn.blogspot.com
the blog
http://www.mikemontfort.com
the pics
http://www.myspace.com/mikemontfort
the myspace
http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m220/MikeMontfort/
the photobucket
http://www.flickr.com/photos/corwyn/
the flickr site