TMTYL

Steve Swann swann1066 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jun 20 18:17:08 EDT 2008


I might be wrong to call it the Palace Springs tour.  As I recall they were displaying the cover of it but the album wasn't actually out yet.  I saw them at the Hideaway club in Ontario.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: mike coleman <insect.brain at GMAIL.COM>
Date: Friday, Jun 20, 2008 5:09 pm
Subject: Re: TMTYL
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the palace springs tour a 3-piece??  where really?? I was actually at the palace springs show, but it had Harvey, Richard, Dave, Alan.....4........are you maybe referring to the next tour??
>axe (literally) hahaha.
>regarding Mick's comments...yeah it sounded like the band were telling us they were gearing up to rock out a bit more
>I love the unique song on Zones myself "Dangerous Vision"....and they gave us a sweet LP jacket though didn't they!!
>oh yeah Running Through the Back Brain too
>
>
>On 6/20/08, Steve Swann <swann1066 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Carl says:
> >there is very little in the mix to distract you from the fact that
> >they are a very loud 3-piece rock'n'roll band.  And, as I believe the
> >Lemmster has pointed out, so are (or should be) Hawkwind, just with
> >some extra Dr. Who noises tacked on top of it all.  Listening to
> >recent HW studio output, however, one could be forgiven for missing
> >this basic functional similarity.
>
>> I remember seeing them as a 3 piece on the Palace Springs tour and how
> surprised I was at the time to hear what they sounded like without the
> "icing", whether it be lead guitar, synth*, axe (literally), honking sax, or
> what have you...  Bottom line - pretty damn good!  Some songs were affected
> more than others of course.  Levitation really sounded stripped down, Hassan
> I Sabha was hardly affected at all.  :)
>
>> Steve
>
>> * they weren't entirely without synths - they either played or sequenced
> Golden Void for example...
>
>



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