yesterday horsemouth child-minded. which was fun. unfortunately there seems to be a problem loading credit onto his burner phone (they may have reached the end of their rainbow together or it may be a temporary problem). but the gig dragged on into the evening so horsemouth was unable to go over to howard's and check out the live recording.
horsemouth returned home to watch some french crime serial and make believe he could understand what was being said (rather than in fact reading the subtitles). he had a bag of chips on the way home.
he hopes to get over to howard's sometime more like mid-week (but they'll have to arrange it via email because of the dead phone).
there has been a worrying silence from the hawkbinge camp for the last little while (well the last six weeks in fact). horsemouth worries that, faced with the full horror of hawkwind's 80ies studio album discography, the youngster has done a runner. the oldster makes a genial host but what makes the podcast engaging is the youngster's direct and unvarnished opinions on what there is on the studio albums. they have until the end of the month (59 days is their previous longest period of silence).
horsemouth thinks there are three phases of hawkwind covered so far - the launch (hawkwind, X in search of space), the golden UA years/ the lemmy years (doremi, silver machine, space ritual, hall of the mountain grill, warrior on the edge of time), the silver 'charisma' age/ the calvert years (astounding sounds amazing music, quark strangeness and charm, PXR5, hawklords).
to be honest hawkwind's reputation is based on their 70ies work.
with live 79 we move into the bronze age/ the lloyd-langton years. they strike early gold with levitation (horsemouth is keen to hear the youngster's take on that) but thereafter (church of hawkwind, sonic attack, choose your masques, earth ritual preview, chronicle of the black sword, zones etc.) it is diminishing returns. they still exist as a live proposition (for when you are on holiday in the west country/ for lead guitar retrofitted outings of their back catalogue) but freed from the murk of poor recording practices you can hear not much is going on. they can invite nik turner back from his sojourn with inner city unit (and then fire him again) but it makes little odds.
around this time (the eighties as they were known) horsemouth would see nik turner with inner city unit and bob calvert's various outfits and (the gong affiliated) here and now. these were all fun gigs. he would also see lots of anarcho-punk bands. dave brock has just compiled a record for cherry red of the festival circuit bands - it doesn't look definitive to horsemouth.
in the nineties horsemouth finally succeeds in getting his own band together so he sees lots of bands on 'the circuit' in london trying to make it and he becomes more interested in making music of his own rather than listening to other people's.
today a grey morning. in the world of books horsemouth is still with allen ginsberg at the burning ghats. when that is done he will probably start on the day of the triffids and the gary snyder/ ginsberg letters back to back. the upcoming week is warmer and wetter. it is half-term for many schools. there is stellar regions day to look forward to.
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elsewhere a discussion of rasta attitudes to vaccination. (hint: they are against it).
tbh a fair few of horsemouth's friends are anti-vax (on that natural health versus (evil) science basis) or have at least delaying getting jabbed. horsemouth remembers chatting with a bangladeshi child minder early doors (hist. he doesn't want to dob her in) and she wasn't getting vaxxed either (despite working with children and living in a multi-generational home). heartwarmingly (for horsemouth) she blamed her employers and their skiiing holidays for spreading the virus.
it's no surprise if many rastas are anti-vax given the place natural and life have in their ideology and given the anti-vax positions of the jehovah's witnesses etc.. and then again many of horsemouth's friends are anti-lockdown on the basis that it is not necessary (debateable) and an infringement of their freedom (yes but er.) some friends (who work for the NHS) are anti- vaccine mandate.
but these are not rastas - unreason is much more broadly spread (and for reasonable reasons).
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