Jim Choate wrote:
from the late 60s isn't punk but it sounds like punk) and of course Hawkwind (honestly, just listen to the basslines). If there is a
So, you're the one who stole my Orgone Accumulator? You know they started out as a front band for a sci-fi writer?
("sci-fi"? what is this "sci-fi"? We know of no "sci-fi"?) If you mean Michael Moorcock I think they were fans of his and he wrote some lyrics for them & later on he did go on stage with them now and again but I don't think it's true to say they *started* that way or that they were just a "front band" for him. (Unlike the short-lived and semi-fictional Deep Fix, which may have included a lot of Hawkwind members but was Moorcock's band) Mike Moorcock's living in Texas now. And writing cowboy stories. Well, they are as much like cowboy stories as some of the his other stuff was like sf Some reviews at: http://sfsite.com/~silverag/texas.html And a not-at-all spellchecked interview with Colin Greenland at: http://freespace.virgin.net/g.hurry/mm_int.htm Michael Moorcock: The part of Texas I'm moving to is more like Califonia, its full of old hippies and mad computer people. In fact our entire estate is run by old hippies. All of them are lunitics, sort of rolling up joints and telling you how they dug New Worlds in the 60s. I mean its amazing to me. I find the people who are most interested - they got it from the SF and theyre trying to make it real thats what interests me. Theres a story that the Americans never quite got the space ship they wanted right because they were trying to make it look like a Buck Rogers space ship. Which I believe because thats how a space ship should look. Colin Greenland: So science fiction does predict the future? Michael Moorcock: No, it creates it which is slightly different. Its full of looney SF fans. When I went up to see 2001, 2001 ways to fall asleap!, and the NASA people were out there and this is probably what was wrong with the film - the NASA people were out there and they were deeply interested in the science, as if they would really land a space ship on Jupiter. I cant do with all that. PSFG : In the early days you used to do a lot of stuff with certain bands, like Hawkwind and Blue Oyster Cult. How did that come about? Michael Moorcock: It just happened PSFG : So did they like approach you or did you go there or what? Michael Moorcock: Hawkwind based their title on the Hawkmoon books that was the start of it and I didnt meet them for the first few months. I lived in Ladbrook Grove, everything happened in Ladbrook Grove in the sixties and seventies. I mean it was just nice and I happened to live in Ladbrook Grove and it all happened around me. You couldnt actually move for bloody Rock and Roll bands. Ken Brown