Rating: C
Huw is best known as English band Hawkwind’s guitar
player. Hawkwind is a legendary band that mixed it up
like no one before and few after. Space rock, hard rock
and acid rock were mixed with what some would come to
call heavy metal making Hawkwind one of a kind in the
annals of rock superstardom. The band even spawned
Motorhead’s Lemmy.
Huw has released an album of 18 instrumental classic
guitar pieces from the 18th, 19th
and 20th centuries. The pieces are short and
conscience. His playing is competent but he is far from
a virtuoso. The songs are mostly classical standards
including “Romeo and Juliet” and “Bouree but Huw pays
homage to Hawkwind with their track “5th
Second of Forever.”
While this one is much more tame than anything
Hawkwind ever did, it goes well late at night with
candle light and your mate by your side.
By Jeb Wright