forgotten fragments of songs

it's a greyish morning (and apparently it is going to be grey all day). ho-hum.

hold on a sec horsemouth will see if he can rustle up some coffee. (ah that's better).

horsemouth has been reading branko marcetic's yesterday's man: the case against joe biden (front wall book potlatch - free) which goes quickly. it's a necessary corrective to any idea that joe biden will do anything useful. 

the john renbourn collected (flashback records - a fiver) is great. 

yesterday horsemouth sunbathed in the back garden (and even came in and hid from the sun at some points). he went up to the cafe to chat with minty.  this morning he's wearing a jumper.

he's been enjoying the hawkbinge podcast - what is very enjoyable is seeing what kind of opinion of the classic albums would be formed by someone unaffected by the peer group pressure of hawkwind fandom. what if you didn't have to pick brainstorm as your track from doremi? what if you could pick the jangly 12string songs instead? or the mellotron and violin workouts from warrior? 

their intention is to go through hawkwind's studio albums chronologically (bypassing the live albums) but this may already be misconceived. they've already had to break stride for silver machine the single (the rhythm track recorded live) and space ritual (a double live album featuring many songs not recorded elsewhere). even the studio albums are not integral things - hall of the mountain grill is padded out with  two tracks recorded live  (paradox and you'd better believe it), warrior on the edge of time features the already released single kings of speed. 

the live is the key resource for hawkwind. 

hawkwind's output is very conditional (a product of circumstance rather than planning). there are no magical talents - there is a dave brock/ nik turner tension (minor talents), distorted and hidden by the addition of lemmy and simon house (genuine talents). 

there is a pleasure in being reminded of forgotten songs (web weaver for example). it's a strange stub of a song. horsemouth had totally forgotten there's a vocal on it (a decent harmony even) because it's mixed down as texture. did they run out of lyrics? 

today horsemouth goes to pick up some keys (and maybe play some music - we shall see).