HW: Alan Davey Website Ho Ho Ho

Wed Sep 30 23:29:31 EDT 2009

You caught the Sonic Attack tour, please don't look, I'm turning green
around the edges with envy.  Actually, I'm very happy with the way my
history with Hawkwind developed.  Too bad you had to resort to cupping your
hands around your ears, but if it worked, I'd do it too.  

Mary

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Subject: Re: HW: Alan Davey Website Ho Ho Ho

Why do you call Mr Dibs an Incumbent? That is how you described Alan. After
all you said about Alan, do you, if you delve deep back to the 70's, want
Lemmy back or are you prepared to accept the band in their latest
incarnation? ?

I first saw Hawkwind on the Sonic Attack tour in 1981 at Preston's
Guildhall. ?Since then I have never looked back. ?

Now I live and breathe Hawkwind.

Then band are moving onward, ever onward. ?The Porchester gigs were
incredible. ?The band were superb, the sound was not. ?There was a
SCREEEEEE.

Yes, it was me that suggested cupping the hands behind the ears.

It worked.

See you at Wolves and Manchester.

Steve.

(PS - Chris - I'll not be going to Monster Magnet - I'll be in Manchester.
So I'll see you for a pint or 2 at Wolves.)

I have been to gigs on every tour from the late 70s (Hawkwind were the first

band I saw), festivals, Stonehenge, Hawkestra, Hawkcon, Donnington and I
have to 
say the band have been so great recently I can't wait to the next one. 

Dave
PS Jury is still out on the present bass incumbent 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Hall <david.hall6800 at NTLWORLD.COM>
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Sent: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:40
Subject: HW: Alan Davey Website Ho Ho Ho

Hi

Just been onto the site. Give me a break - frontman, is he jesting? I
remember 
seeing Alan at his first gig at Stonehenge and it was great. However a bit
odd 
because that year the big rumour was that Lemmy was coming out on the tour -
so 
what we got was a clone. The following year was great - Black Sword, the
biz. 
After this Alan seemed to descend into becoming even more of a Lemmy clone
to 
the extent of copying his vocal style and the positioning of the mic - this
was 
a bit of a bore really. To be honest a lot of the guys who came to the gigs
with 
me complained there was nothing new and the band had become there own 70s 
tribute act - they stopped coming because of that. The trio years were crap
- 
endless recycles and programmed synths - no soul, no spirit. Julian Cope 
described it well, they had gone into stasis. The high points over the years
- 
the return of Simon House, Ron Tree and the Alien tour [Alan bounced him out
the 
band I believe] - now Ron was a frontman. All the duff stuff can't be laid
at 
Alan but as he was a prime driver he has to take some of the blame. What I
can't 
take is the slavish devotion and copying of Lemmy, talk about stifling 
creativity and originality - 25 years of copying someone else is a bit sad.
The 
last two gigs have been amongst the best I ever seen - what's more all me
old 
mates have returned! 
So all in all, Alan yes you helped keep the band alive but on the negative
side 
for some periods you relegated them to being almost a tribute act.
Creativity 
was stifled and the band did not grow. Proof of the pudding time for Dave
Brock, 
is the next album going to be any good?
I have been to gigs on every tour from the late 70s (Hawkwind were the first

band I saw), festivals, Stonehenge, Hawkestra, Hawkcon, Donnington and I
have to 
say the band have been so great recently I can't wait to the next one. 

Dave
PS Jury is still out on the present bass incumbent 
---- Colin Allen <colinjallen at YAHOO.CO.UK> wrote: 
> If Hawkwind had a front man for most of that time, it probably was 
> Alan.
> 
> --- On Tue, 29/9/09, iainferguson at AOL.COM <iainferguson at AOL.COM> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: iainferguson at AOL.COM <iainferguson at AOL.COM>
> Subject: Re: HW: Alan Davey Website
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> Date: Tuesday, 29 September, 2009, 4:32 PM
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Please can we try not not get all hot under the collar over this, it's 
> been
rather pleasant here for a while, with no bitching between the two teams,
none 
of the musicians are making any comments and it's just fans doing it all.
> 
> To be fair to Ian, he was just pointing out Alan's new website,? and 
> to be
honest, Alan was the nearest thing to a front man the band had when Rizz , 
Bridget , and Ron wern't in the band..
> 
> regards
> iain
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Abrahams <ianabrahams1 at YAHOO.CO.UK>
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> Sent: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 4:23 pm
> Subject: Re: HW: Alan Davey Website
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> Why tell me??? I only passed on the link!
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> ________________________________
> From: gary shindler <bewlay68 at YAHOO.COM>
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 4:11:02 PM
> Subject: Re: HW: Alan Davey Website
> 
> Alan was the Bass player/Synth, vocalist and front man(?) for Hawkwind 
> for 22
> years. That seems a bit of a stretch, Ian. I know he didn't get paid and
all 
> that but...
> 
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> ________________________________
> From: Ian Abrahams <ianabrahams1 at YAHOO.CO.UK>
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:51:18 AM
> Subject: HW: Alan Davey Website
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Just to let you know, there's a new website just launched for Alan 
> Davey:
> www.alandaveymusic.com and a special offer on the 1st 50 orders through
the 
new 
> site, so worth getting along and registering there (find the register 
> link at
> the bottom of the home page). You can order the new AD solo album,
Eclectic 
> Devils, there. 
> 
> Eclectic Devils has been getting some very strong reviews, including a
> three-star review in Record Collector and a fantastic four-star review
from Oz 

> Hardwick in the latest R2 (Rock N Reel) (where I can also be found 
> singing the

> praises of Hall & Oates' 'Along the Red Ledge' LP, but I'm off-topic 
> now!!).
> 
> Ian