Singled Out: Hawkwind's Inner Visions

It's quite interesting, really, the choice of songs of mine Hawkwind play ...
I don't think I ever "chose a song" - for instance , we were rehearsing for Live '79 and Dave just said " and then we'll play Lighthouse ... ! and we have been ever since. It's incredible the way that song has evolved .. It's happened again, as we've added "Tide of the Century ' to the Live set .. I wrote that as the New Millennium came in, and I was living in an windmill in Brittany ... close to the Sea ... It corresponds too to the conception of my daughter.. I actually spent the highest tide of last century, by the sea at Carnac... where the stones are, and I wrote a set of pieces called 'La Maree du Sciecle" and the project just grew from there. But it took a long time to come to fruition, I mean, two comets and an eclipse ! Living in the Windmill I was in total symbiosis with the sea and the wind .. There were nights- like those when the Erika went down, where being in my studio a top of the mill, I could feel the storms

Of course it was also a fantastic investigation to world of virtual recording, and I think hardest part is capturing the emotions .. I think the words sum up what was happening - "There's a Tide Coming ! - will you be there?" Playing the song live, with the group is already starting to widen it up in other direction.

Visions, on the other hand, was one I've recorded a couple of time by myself, but never released .. So it was an excellent choice when Dave suggested we did a version for "Blood of the Earth" There was always that Line "I have inner visions" but I had no Idea about what.. Then some things changed in my life, in a very dramatical way.... Could these be the visions of the near death experience I had had? - no that was something else.. Actually, the song is highly "Non-Conforme", insofar as the guitar riff is played by the Ax - Dave plays the Steel Guitar ... but it's Hawkwind and so it gets "raunchy" and slightly 'uptight'. Then, there's how , whilst in the midst of my recovery, my life was invaded and spun about by an astonishing erotic visual performer ... Visions indeed !

I discovered that we are sending and receiving visions all over the world... across the Internet ... Video calls , visio chat ... it's one of Arthur Clarke's promises from 2001. Youtube videos ... so many There's an incredible world out there for us all to explore The Flashing screens - it's exactly the riff - in images - in our minds. Hawkwind have had a long time relationship with images all over their 41 years, and so have I - both in my own way, as well as with Hawkwind

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