They didn't play this corrosion

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Year 2000 article, but they apparently forged the template for the Chemical Brothers.

https://amp.theguardian.com/culture/200 ... sfeatures3

As a massive fan of both I've not seen the connection but maybe that's just me
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Von used to say that crowds didn't understand that they played This Corrosion as punishment
"We're Hawkwind and this is a song about love." - :von: , 1993

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2000, so "Trip the light fantastic" tour? I went to the Rock City gig, pretty sure they didn't play This Corrosion there either.
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Punters say it was played. Reviewer left early, inconsolable?

They apparently played it three times on that tour, with the Forum show being the single UK performance.
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It wasn't played for a while at one point, prolly early 2000s to 2006ish? They do like to rotate the classics, Alice was out of the set late 90s, More til 2011, Marian etc. First & Last has been missing for a while so it must be its turn at present. Looking forward to it being rotated back in, when/if ever that may occur.
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So if they didn't play it next time you saw them, would you miss it? Feel cheated? Relieved?
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ruffers wrote: ↑27 Aug 2024, 09:10 So if they didn't play it next time you saw them, would you miss it? Feel cheated? Relieved?
I'd be chuffed to bits if they replaced it with a cover of Out Of Control :wink: :notworthy: which is as likely as my preferred setlist of unreleased tunes only.
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ruffers wrote: ↑27 Aug 2024, 09:10 So if they didn't play it next time you saw them, would you miss it? Feel cheated? Relieved?
I'd be fine with them not playing it, because I'm a bootleg-collecting obsessive who has heard hundreds of different performances of it. But the average gig-goer is not, and probably would come away disappointed if they didn't play some of the hits - Temple, This Corrosion, Love Me Like a Reptile, etc.
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ruffers wrote: ↑27 Aug 2024, 09:10 So if they didn't play it next time you saw them, would you miss it? Feel cheated? Relieved?
I probably wouldn't notice it missing, I've been to many gigs where they didn't play it. I'd much rather have FALAA or Vision Thing.
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