UK Fnordcooler 23: Immanentizing The Eschaton - When The Pyramid Meets The Eye!

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Those pictures of stacia on that jorgen angel site are, er, quite something. She was an awesome-looking woman.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, she is an awesome looking woman! Quite gorgeous. But I really don't want to see her nekkid breasts popping up when my boss walks by.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ah ha! Kate's groupies have arrived at the Truck Festival!

http://www.starfarer.net/galleryb/hwfarmcr.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I want purple corduroy flares. Would that make me too much of a sodding hippie?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

yes

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, if the paisley didnt' do it, the flares certainly won't.

― G00blar, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Point/Counterpoint

― G00blar, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it's not like I'm going to get purple corduroy flares with little paisleys embroidered around the hems or anything!

Though actually... hrmmmm.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Who did Stacia marry? Some rock star...

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

I am on FIRE today. I have obtained the use of a Honda F1 racing car for our company to use for 4 days! (You can't drive it - but we can have it at work or at a show or to swank around with customers).

I have part 2 of nu-job interview in 20 mins. Getting the car will help!

― Dr.C, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Tony Ashton from ashton, gardner and dyke, I think?

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Nice one, Dr. C!

― G00blar, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Six foot tall she was! Mama!

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Re: bike -- PEDALUS

Re: the feeling, i was convinced this was a sick joke for some time

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I hoped The Feeling were a joke too but sadly they do exist.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

There should be a band called The It

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

kate i have some purple corduroy flares... try them out next time you come round!

― emsk, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Would be superb with a yorkshire accent

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost)

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Like yr clothes would ever fit me, Emsk! I might get one leg into the waistband. :-(

I have never actually heard the Feeling. I think this is why I'm so calm and non-hating about music these days. I just don't get exposed to bands that I would hate!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

The Feeling are difficult to hate--they are so utterly bland that it's difficult to summon up any kind of emotion whatsoever (ironically)

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Using The Lex Rule™ You don't need to hear bands to hate them anymore.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

That said, the Triumph 2000 tracks where they don't sing, and don't really have any riffs, and just kind of wibble on are quite nice.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

**Six foot tall she was! Mama!**

TOTAL TALL HOTTNESS?

― Dr.C, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Stacia = the very definition of Total Tall Hottness.

I just want more pictures of young Hawkwind with Lemmy looking almost.. err... cute.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

I have heard one Feeling song which was a quite good ELO pastiche. The only other one I heard was the one they performed on the Christmas Day TOTP which was really awful!

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I can't find any photos of Stacia with her clothes ON just right now...

but in the meantime, wow, look at these synths:

http://www.starfarer.net/galleryb/dik_del.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

To be accurate, that's some "sound generators" Dik Mik fiddling about with

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ahah!

http://www.starfarer.net/galleryd/staciach.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Not very flattering, she's got platforms on, she must have been about 6' 2" in them!

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

The one on the left is a synth! It's a primitive VCS3 or something. On the right is just oscillators of the sort that Joe used to have. And what looks like a Copycat type tape echo or something. Hard to tell.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't played the Triumph 2000 or The Slipstream yet.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

OK, then, Dada, you find a flattering SFW pic of Stacia with clothes on.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

x-post it gets much better towards the end, when it goes all instrumental. I'm scared of the remixes, though.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

The ones with clothes off are better.

You should talk to our drummer about Hawkwind, Kate.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Del is indeed playing a VCS3 with a Cricklewood keyboard. Suppsedly DikMik was a TV repair man, and used to use his test tone generators from work, and yeah, that looks like a copicat in front of what he's fiddling w/.

There are a couple of WS images of stacia on that jorgen angel site, but I'm too into looking at this:

http://www.silentstar.com/web/sites/www.silentstar.com.web/files/images/Brooks%20OShea%20Dance%2001.jpg

rowr etc.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Dik Mik was just their dealer

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

... so they had to give him something to do in the band

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

maybe fixing tellys didn't pay well enough, I dunno.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

So according to this DikMik was their roadie originally. As was Nick, ha ha. They wanted to buy him a Moog to "give him something to do".

Shimuras need to get one of those - someone who just kind of hangs around and fixes things. And, err, well, I don't take drugs, but they could deal CHEESE to us.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

That Carol Clerk Hawkwind biography from a few years ago is well worth reading, btw, though it's more than a bit grim w/r/t the nineties-date. A bunch of lives you would not want to live yrself or have anyone you cared about live them either.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

What was that 70s Hawkwind book? I read that once

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

What, the science fiction novel by michael butterworth? I had that, and the follow up - "time of the hawklords" and "queens of deliria" I think? They were both really terrible, bad pulp fiction.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

All you cheese loving cooler residents should just go live in a commune and make cheese and listen to Hawkwind.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

The first one, I went round various gigs getting members to sign it - I got Nik Turner, Bob Calvert, Dave Brock, Butterworth Himself, then I presented it to Lemmy "I'm not signing that, it's fucking shit!" - here endeth that plan.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

No no, I think was "This is Hawkwind: Do Not Panic", which appears to have been publish in 1984

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Suggestion for next poll.
Can we have a census on the age of all watercooler posters?
18-24
25-30
35-40
40-45
Coffindodger

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

um there should be a 31-35 in there haha

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I had that as well, it was written by Dave Brock's gf Kris, who's from Shields IIRC - she was always nice to the hangers on after HW gigs. It was quite entertaining, I lent it out to a few people, and after a while, if you put it on a table or whatever, it would fall open on the page with the photo of stacia on it. I lost my copy years ago.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

All you cheese loving cooler residents should just go live in a commune and make cheese and listen to Hawkwind.

This is the bestest idea EVAH!!!

Actually, that's an idea, to read a bio - I don't actually know that much about them as people at ALL. And virtually nothing beyond the sort of "classic"era.

But it's kind of nice to keep this image in my mind of free love free drugs free noise space hippies riding this wave of sonic terror through the cosmos and not learn thee ugly truth about them getting drug addictions and a fighting all the time and bands splintering and them all sueing each other over the name and the publishing and all those other horrible things that bands end up doing to one another. (I do not actually know if any of these things happened to Hawkwind in specific, I've just read too many rock bios.)

Can it spoil your appreciation of music to learn too much about the people that made it? I'm thinking of that Nico bio, how sad it was.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

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