image001.gif (18104 bytes)  This article first appeared in
hawkfan 13  way back in 1985, and to my knowledge has to be Alan
Daveys first interview in his long and illustrious career as
Hawkwind bassist. As you will see it was conducted by Hawkfan
head honcho, Brian Tawn and makes for interesting reading. the
original spanned across some 12 pages so this approximately half
of it, I did try the OCR facility on my scanner but quite
frankly it took longer to edit that than it did to type it, so
hence you'll see that I've been pretty busy and the thought of
transcribing the same again one hit was somewhat daunting as I'm
sure you can imagine, so you can get on with reading this to
start with and rest assured that part 2 will be with you very
shortly.  I've tried to not only copy the piece verbatim, trying
only to add the occasional missing word or correct the odd piece
of grammar, so hopefully it will come over as the original was
intended. I'm sure it wasn't intentional but there are a couple
of great quotes in h