Mellotronists

<<The support band was Dark Star, who wrer this really great "starless & 
bible black"
influenced trio, who used to be 3/5 of Levitation, who were also great.>>

now there's a pair of bands I saw many many times. nothing could prepare the 
unprepared for the onslaught of levitation- many people just didn't "get" them 
at all first time round. some nice records (tim smith at the knobs) but the 
gigs were amazing. dark star were the same bombast reduced to a trio and 
without bickers' cryptic lyrics and between-song-asides; they also lost the 
keyboard/guitar nutter (bob something- andy t might remember) who would often 
interject over the top of something bickers would be muttering about tattooed barcodes 
and the like.
bic, a charming little elf of a chap, has lately been seen guitaring for the 
pet-shop boys. we tried to get him round here for a jam once- I think that's 
as near as he got to a mellotron. and levitation (obviously) were named for the 
hawkwind album of 1979, the first ever all digital production, apparently.

andy, how does one go about getting a support slot with hawkwind? 
seriously. we do drumming and stuff these days. it would work....

duncan/1098 ("try levitating /this/!")