sean has been in touch with a correction:
"
"It goes out of human hearing both ways, right - if it goes out upwards then your inner ear fails...and you fall on the floor and throw up and if it goes below human hearing that way it loosens your sphincter muscles and you shit yourself....we used to have a lot of fun with audiences...." - Lemmy, beeb4 Hawkwind film
This clearly indicates familiarity with the works of William Burroughs, so my comments about Lemmy and Nova Express were mistaken (mea culpa). Maybe Moorcock was wrong too...for all we know Lemmy could also have been up on Stockhausen, not to mention au fait with the latest developments in lettrist sound poetry, twelve tone serialism, free-improv (highly likely, given the plans for Peter Brotzmann to play with Motorhead) and post-fluxus minimalism....
While its tempting to go on and discuss the post-Astounding Sounds Amazing Show Trials purges - the 57 varities of Hawkwind - and the parallels with the crisis of late 70s Maoism when Cornelius Cardew broke with the Chinese line in favour of Enver Hoxha's glorious workers paradise of Albania (you couldn't make it up!) and the restructuring of the British state around an even more bonkers blend of pseudo-free market economic "theory" and police-state surveillance (we wonder how many of those 1973 Windsor festival heads voted Tory in 79) I'll have to give it a miss as this subject is now closed (the link between the second hit and run driver on the Leytonstone grassy knoll and Robert Calvert's "heart attack" will just have to remain a secret)
Footnote: I see waltham forest council have included Cornelius Cardew in their list of local celebs - in with a bullet at number ten below David Beckham, East 17, a bloke from Iron Maiden, Baldrick from time team .... "
No comments:
Post a Comment