HW observation

Jonathan Smith smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jan 12 19:50:25 EST 2010


A shame the record deal fell through! I didn't know MOAB still existed, but
probably not very good anymore.:) I wouldn't have guessed the drummer had
only rehearsed for two hours!

I thought there might be more MOAB racks because of the review on
Starfarer's web site:

http://www.starfarer.net/solowrks18.html

They mention *Bad, Spark in the Dark,  Negative, Positive, Drain Cleaner
Truck, Sanity, Ooh, My Heart. but they must be the live tracks.*

The hyperbole is funny but contains some truth.;) The Ron Tree
solo tracks which have appeared are not very good.

Jonathan

2010/1/12 trev <judge48 at hotmail.com>

> Ha ha...who knows what the future may bring.  There are no plans for Ron
> and myself at the moment.
> He has continued MOAB, but apart from Ron being in it, there the connection
> ends from the original band.
> We found a great session drummer a day before we recorded Insect
> Brain...John Morgan from Senser.
> His drumming really helped to bring the music together with just a two hour
> rehearsal before we went into the studio.
>
> There arn't any other tracks apart from those on Insect Brain. Maybe some
> iffy live recordings from the couple of gigs we played but I don't have
> them.
>
> We were offered a deal from Black Widow Recs but it was scuppered by the
> management, and the band fell apart.
>
> I really liked playing with Ron...we have a musical afinity.
>
> Do you like my manic use of hyperbole...lol
>
> *"tree is nothing without me...he just doesn't realize it...
>
>
> Trev
>
> .On 12/01/2010 06:32, Jonathan Smith wrote:
>
>> *"tree is nothing without me...he just doesn't realize it...listen to
>> insect
>>
>> brain...his best album outside hawkwind (some say his best album ...full
>> stop) which certainly contains his most expressive and hair-raising vocal
>> performances."*
>> **
>> *Insect Brain* really is superb. MOAB had so much potential. (*Bajina* is
>> OK
>> but not nearly as good, although the neighbours surely hate it!).
>>
>> Trev, what are the chances of MOAB every recording again? After all, MOAB
>> is
>> really you and Ron Tree. Also, what happened the other tracks from MOAB--
>> how about making them available?
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/01/2010, Colin Allen<colinjallen at yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I don't think he has any "work" as such.  He was best known for running a
>>> community (of sorts) at Clearwell castle and for adopting a Nepalese boy
>>> as
>>> his son.  He featured in the mainstream press and on TV a few years ago
>>> as
>>> there was considerable interest in the adoption and the circumstances
>>> surrounding it.  When I spoke with him, he was running a hotel in
>>> Tunbridge
>>> Wells.
>>>
>>> The community at Clearwell castle was what he described as a molecular
>>> family; it was this, and his views on society, which brought him into
>>> contact with HW.
>>>
>>> To be honest, it was all rather odd.
>>>
>>> --- On Mon, 11/1/10, Jonathan Jarrett<jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Jonathan Jarrett<jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
>>> Subject: Re: HW observation
>>> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
>>> Date: Monday, 11 January, 2010, 22:37
>>>
>>> On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Colin Allen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Richard Morley, not Robert.  I spoke with him on a couple of occasions
>>>>
>>>>
>>> when I was working with HW and got the impression that he was
>>> "disenchanted".
>>>
>>>     My mistake! Thanks for the correction. Where would one look for Mr
>>> Morley's work? There seem to be rather a lot of candidates on the
>>> Internet... Yours,
>>>            Jon
>>>
>>> ObCD: Pete Atkin - _Secret Drinker_
>>> --       Jonathan Jarrett, Cambridge    jjarrett at
>>> chiark.greenend.org.uk
>>>
>>>  =======================================================================
>>> "With Capitalism, man exploits man.  With Socialism, it is exactly
>>> opposite"
>>>                      -Robert Anton Wilson
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>



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