HW: A new project for the List?

[mike coleman]

Keith I've found a Mick Smith drumming on Valium 10.....



On 9/17/10, Keith Henderson <khenders64 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> FOFP said...
>>
>> Anyway, we thought it'd be fun to put together a set based
>> on the
>> Hawkwind Family Tree. All we need to do is put together an
>> agreed set of
>> 54 pictures and upload them to the website.
>>
>> We'd need to collect good pictures from fan collections so
>> as to prevent
>> any copyright disputes. So perhaps some here might
>> volunteer their good piccies.
>
> Well, nobody else seems to think so perhaps, but I think this is a great
> idea.  I always liked when we did list projects (anybody want to continue
> the HW Covers All series?  There´s been a lot of new stuff since I did the
> Vols. 5-8)...plus the old tapes 1-4 need to be digitized to CD/MP3...perhaps
> I can do that this fall myself).  Too bad that people just aren´t as
> energized as in the old days of the list.
>
> Anyway, I thought about this, and drew up a rough draft of personnel to
> include.  Ideas, comments, suggestions, errors of obmission, etc. welcome.
>
>             Era 1           Era 2          Era 3          Era 4
> Card        Hearts          Spades         Diamonds       Clubs
>
> Ace         Turner          Lemmy          Calvert        Brock
> King        Huwy            King           Davey          Chadwick
> Queen       Stacia          Sam Fox        Wishart        Kris Tait
> Jack        DAnderson       AShaw          Bainbridge     Dibs
> 10          Ollis           House          GBaker         RonTree
> 9           Dettmar         Blake          KHale          JStuart
> 8           DougSmith       MGriffin       DThompson      CRizz
> 7           Slattery        Rudolph        Dumpy          JRichards
> 6           Smeeton (LL)    Fulcher (BB)   Frenchy        Neil/Marie
> 5           DikMik          Swindells      PHayles        Kniveton
> 4           JHarrison       Powell         AAnderson      ABrown
> 3           DTaylor         BTawn          SBemand        Hone
> 2           Crimble         KingsleyWard   CDeamer        STaylor
>
> Jokers      MMoorcock       MWright
>
> Other possible names that haven´t been included here...
> Jez Huggett
> Tony Crerar
> Trev Hughes
> Doug Buckley
> Roger Neville-Neil
> Crum
> Jim Lascko
> Drachen Theaker (was he in HW?)
> Fred Reeves
> Chris/Mary Bruce
> Colin Allen
> Rob Heaton
> Keef Barton
> Rob Godwin (Griffin)
> Marc Sperhawk
> Rob Ayling (Voiceprint)
> Ian Abrahams
> Carol Clark
> some of the other dancers, including current F pair and the excellent M/F
> pair from c. 2004-2005 (whose names I do not know, but pictures should be
> available from both sets)
>
> Anyway, this is just a start.  I tried to group them according to era as
> indicated, and then also try to group some by instrument or role for each
> set of numbers, starting at Jack (bassists), with some obvious exceptions.
> It´s hard to do...some eras have lots of one thing, other eras lots of
> something different.  But 5s and 9s are keyboardists, 7s guitarists, 6s
> visuals/behind the scenes people.  The lower cards are just a random mix of
> people with short terms or whatever.  Perhaps some of these names would be
> changed after discussion.  The aces just seem to have to be these four
> people, and the queens I put as all women (hence, Sam Fox), and Simon King
> has to be a King natch.  Calvert doesn´t match his group´s era
> classification, but someone had to be an anomaly here.
>
> Maybe we should just abandon the idea of making each number card across the
> suits be a particular instrument/role...it´s just not working all that good,
> and some people end up too high/low in the order accordingly.  Discuss.
>
> The big problem as I see it is...how to get all good quality photos, esp. if
> you are not going to violate copyrights.  We can all contribute recent
> stuff, but where are you going to find minor role players from the 80s like
> Clive Deamer, except if you´ve been to a Portishead show in recent years?
> And what about Powell, Rudolph, BTawn, etc. etc.
>
> Plus, are you going to mix promo head shots with stage shots, B&W with
> colour, and most importantly, do all photos have to come from their days
> with HW?  I mean, it is now easy to get shots of Slattery, DAnderson,
> Crimble, and Ollis, with Space Ritual, but they are all 40 years older than
> they were when they were in the band.  (And Dick Taylor played at Hawkfest,
> but again he doesn´t look like he did in 1970...still plays pretty good
> though.)  I dunno...this project will take some work...perhaps Ian Abrahams
> has some access to some photos from the past that could be used.  Is he
> still here?
>
> Just my thoughts...didn´t want the idea to die without some stronger
> consideration...
>
> Keith H. (Karlsruhe, DE)
>
> P.S.  Was Steve Bemand the "frontman" for TOSH at Hawkfest this year?  You
> know, he´s not bad...in fact, TOSH was dangerously close to being every bit
> as good as Tim Blake´s Hawkwind the previous night. :)
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