HW) new version of Green Finned Demon for download

[Steve Youles]

All right, I'll have a go.

The opening ASDIC (Sonar) pulse and wave effects are from the original, and 
then a keening synth voice comes in rides over layers of synth -breathy 
female voice, and a rising/falling chordal wash- with the vocals kicking off 
maybe eight bars into it.  These are multitracked Brock.  The pace is perhaps 
a touch slower than the (IMHO) definitive version, from Earth Ritual.  The 
drums are better recorded, arranged and perfectly placed in the mix; plus we 
have lashings of lead guitar which also seem to be Brock's, sometimes 
underpinning the vocals and between them, soloing languidly and soulfully.  

The bass sounds like what used to be described as "bass pedals", i.e. 
keyboard-originated.  There doesn't seem to be any rhythm guitar going on, 
and the sonar blip with accompanying original effects are mixed lower than 
before.  The overall effect is a more mellow rendition, maybe losing something 
of the plaintive, yearning quality of the original.  (By which I mean the Earth 
Ritual version, though it wasn't actually the original, was it.)  

The ending is discordant but not completely chaotic...what would be more in 
keeping with the mellow character of the track is that it should fade out on a 
wash of synths with the guitar doing seagull impressions.  But Hawkwind 
always like to chuck in a bit of the dark side.

Cheers

Steve

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On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:12:39 +0100, Jonathan Jarrett 
<jjarrett at CORIOLIS.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote:

>On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, mike coleman wrote:
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> 	      Jon