Hawkwind next CD

[mike coleman]

I agree about COTBS, and I exist in a time warp so I just cracked the shrink
wrap off a reissue of Tepee, the one where they turned the border black, and
it sounded brilliant....awesome
My complaint with Tepee and IITBOTFTBD was simply 2 green colored LP's in a
row.......but maybe there is/was a reason???
I'm pretty forgiving with Hawkwind stuff........pretty much all enjoyable to
me



On 2/12/09, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:
>
> On 08 Feb 2009, at 02:31, John Rennie wrote:
>
>> But since Levitation it's hard to point to any new
>> inspiration. Dave Brock seems to have become very interested in
>> electronic music (e.g. Church of Hawkwind) but that didn't produce any
>> real innovation.
>>
>
> Well, though I know there are those who differ, I think the Chronicle of
> the Black Sword stuff (including the live stage show) was a solid effort,
> and one that came about through the combination of a lot of diverse talent.
>  I have a vague recollection that it started as a Nik-Moorcock idea, and
> although Nik ended up not being involved, besides Moorcock and of course
> Brock, there were significant contributions from particularly Huw and also
> Alan.  Indeed, I think Alan brought a relatively fair amount to the table
> throughout the rest of his tenure in HW, though I think it's also true that
> HW has produced the most when there were more song-writers or partners in
> song-writing, giving the band enough material to regularly produce a
> relatively strong album's worth of material every year or so.  However, IMO,
> it has been a fair old while since the band has had a sufficiently stable
> _and_ well-populated lineup to generate enough good material for that sort
> of thing.  (Yeah, we are looking back almost 30 years for that, after which
> it has been occasional bright spots, IMO.)
>
> And, yes, plenty of bands dribble out after their first handful of albums
> -- though, equally, some musicians go on producing solid material for years
> (albeit with occasional mis-steps, but who doesn't have those).  I think
> it's often "operational chaos" -- when bands are losing direction at a
> personal/professional level -- that brings about periods of little activity
> or questionable product.  If the writers then get their heads together (or
> lives in order), they often start making quite solid stuff again (whether or
> not enough people then pay attention to get critics murmuring "comeback!"
> ;)).
>
> Can Hawkwind get their sh!t togetgher?  History would suggest: err, no ....
> ;)  But I suppose they (or Dave, it being his ship) _could_ if they really
> had the "political will".  I'm not exactly holding my breath, though.
>
> (I was just about holding my breath after hearing that Roadburn gig from a
> few years back, since that sounded pretty strong, like a band that had just
> about decided to do something.  But enough faffing about followed that I
> went on to exhale .... ;))
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/
>