“Joe Meek’s thumping balls + the Kinks Sacred Riffing + Eddie Cochran’s slippery soul + Krautrock’s endless highway + drugs = the inside of Buddy Bolden’s 21st Century Head cracked open and spilling Bodhisattva blood = Hawkwind ’71 – ’75 = The Greatest Rock Band of All Time.”

<– Now how to break THAT down? One, you must know the music and performance talents of Joe Meek, Kinks, Eddie Cochran (what???!), Connie Plank pretty much, plus the 70s rocker lifestyle to then get inside someone named Buddy Bolden, who I admit is unfamiliar to me… Please, no eggs, but we know how life goes and that not everyone can be a music encyclopedia… then I now need to go back and research Buddy Bolden in order to appreciate the full flavor of Tim's If P Then Q…… One thing I can agree to is that Hawkwind 1971-1975 *IS* the Greatest Rock Band Of All Time.

Okay, so after that statement, Tim goes back to saying that from the land where we get beer (meed) and stories (barding), we get a dude whose name is out of print here but is the Cantebury ghost…. need I spell his name out?

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Okay……. backtracking to Buddy Bolden…. now this makes sense– I am not from New Orleans nor lived in New Orleans to know Jazz proper. Tim though lived in that heart center for a decade so this makes sense to me how he'd hear funky-butt ragtime within the licks of The Greatest Rock Band of All Time when England was after all looking across the pond to old timey tunes and sifting rifts into new rolls (Stones, Zeppelin). However, the unique secret sauce to Hawkwind which sets this group apart from other proggers, krauters, psychers was that the dudes were homebodies working with what resources they had at hand– if instruments and loaned artists maintaining said instruments filtered into England by way of Germany, like Slapp Happy and Amon Duul during joint gigs and crammed 'green rooms' (backstages) with crap gear that often fritzed, so too were grooves exchanged with the gear– dudes didn't just hang one one instrument either or a set idea of 'this is all I play or know' but behaved innovative, and not from a posh boy state to learn up on gear and chords, but from a playful heart, like kids with new toys on Christmas morning.