> HAWKWIND'S
DRIVING
SPACE ROCK AND OVER-
WHELMING PSYCHEDELIC POUNDING ON ONES MIND WAS WHAT FIRST GOT ME HOOKED.
IT WAS SO DIFFERENT
FROM ALL THE OTHER BORING PROG-ROCK AT THE TIME (THE EXCEPTION OF OUR
CLOSE NEIGHBOURS IN DEUTSCHLAND OF COURSE, AMON
DÜÜL2 / NEU! / FAUST
/ CAN ETC.).
THE FIRST THING I REMEMBERED WAS THE MIGHTY ORGONE
ACCUMULATOR, PUMPING IN MY BELFAST FLAT, AND SOMETHING DIFFERENT
SEEMED TO BE HAPPENING,THIS WAS NOT DAVE OR NIK SINGING THIS TUNE,
THIS WAS SUAVE AND SPINE TINGLING. IT BECAME MY FAVOURITE TRACK
ON THE MASTERWORK, SPACE
RITUAL, (NEXT TO NIKS
BRAINSTORM).
I GOT THE NAME
BOB CALVERT ETCHED IN MY SKULL AND OUR AFFAIR BEGAN. I LOVED THE
MANS LYRICS
TO DEATH. AND FOUND MYSELF DEEPLY INVOLVED WITH WRITING SCI-FI SHIT
WITH DOUBLE MEANINGS ETC.
BUT FOR ME IT
JUST BOILS DOWN TO... I THINK HE WAS JUST A COOL MUTHERFUCKER WHO
COULD WRITE ACT SING AND SAVE HAWKWINDS ASS WHENEVER THINGS GOT
TOO DROLL.
I REALLY WISH BOB WAS STILL ALIVE TODAY, I REALLY BELIEVE HE WOULD
STILL BE DOING SHIT YEARS AHEAD OF ITS TIME AND EXCITING AUDIENCES.
I ONLY MET BOB ONCE IN MY EARLY TEENS. I MANAGED TO BUMP INTO HIM
AND NIK (WELL BEFORE WE DID MUSIC TOGETHER THAT IS) VERY NERVOUSLY
AND QUITE STONED I BLURTED OUT ONE OF THE MOST STUPIDEST THINGS
I'VE EVER SAID: "HUH.....UM ..BOB...I THINK YOUR MUSIC IS REALLY
MENTAL , " TO WHICH BOB PRESSED HIS HEAD REAL CLOSE TO MINE AND
BELTED OUT: "MENTAL ... MENTAL ... MMMMMMMMMMMMMENTAL,
DO YOU HAVE ANY CONCEPT OF THE MEANING OF THE WORD YOU FOOL, NOW
STAND ASIDE." TO WHICH HE
THREW HIS SCARF OVER HIS SHOULDER AND DISAPPEARED INTO THE CROWD...
'WHAT AN ASSHOLE',
MY FRIEND EXCLAIMED, I FELT TRODDEN BUT LATER I COULDN'T HAVE FELT
MORE HONOURED THAN TO HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE BY THE MAN HIMSELF.
I THINK IT'S
AMAZING ALL THE WORK YOU'RE DOING KNUT, THIS
WEBSITE IS LONG OVERDUE, I JUST NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE SO
EXTENSIVE.
ALL THE BEST. SUPPORT BOB. BUY HIS MUSIC, IT HELPS HIS WIFE AND
KID. SUPPORT THIS SITE. KEEP SPACE ROCK ALIVE.
THERE
ARE STILL PRESSUREHED'S
CALVERT TRIBUTE SINGLES AVAILABLE. ALT. VERSION OF OUR 'RIGHT
STUFF' "7" APPEARS ON THE NEW HAWKWND FRIENDS AND RELATIONS
CD. FAR FLUNG
ON TOUR THIS DEC--U.S. NIK
TURNER L.A STUDIO SESSIONS OUT ON X-MAS. <