HW 40th Anniversary Show

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 17 Mar 2009, at 08:24, Steve Swann wrote:
> Oh man, if Dave got together a lineup with Tim and Huw I'd be  
> camped outside the venue already.  I've been listening to Live  
> Chronicles a lot lately and I gotta say, I think their "Lloyd- 
> Langton Speed Metal Era" (as one of you wiseacres dubbed it), is  
> probably my favorite post-Space Ritual Hawkwind era....


I quite like the Chronicles stuff, and some of the other 80s-ish Huw- 
era things.  "Shot Down in the Night" on _Live '79_, the "speed- 
metal" version of "Psy Power" from ... err, I forget which record or  
records, but you know what I mean, and "War I Survived" on _Xenon  
Codex_.  Still, it also almost seems like those recordings belong to  
a different band .... though I suppose one could argue that almost  
_every_ Hawkwind "era" sounds like it belongs to a different band.   
Maybe it's that two guitars in Hawkwind sound not quite "right" to me  
-- for all that Huw was basically a founding member and a key member  
at other times.  That may be why I really warm to the _Palace Spring_  
macro-lineup more than the Chronicles-type lineup.

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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