Hi
I have to say that the first two Pink Fairies albums (Never never land &
What a bunch of sweeties) are essential to all lovers of freaked out
guitar rock.Paul Rudolph is one of the best guitarist around.If you
haven´t got the two albums get out and buy ém at once.
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>From: Doug Pearson <ceres at SIRIUS.COM>
>Subject: OFF: Pink Fairies (was: Re: HW97)
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>On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 19:07:27 +0000, Carl Edlund Anderson
><cea20 at CUS.CAM.AC.UK> wrote:
>>On ons 3 feb 1999 18.33 +0000 "J Strobridge"
<eset08 at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
>>wrote:
>>> IMO - I have to agree that I would only recommend Pink Fairies for
>>> the serious kollector rather than for their high quality of music
>>> except for the Paradise Island CD which was released a year or so
ago.
>>
>> Disagreement! The _Mandies and Mescaline 'Round Uncle Harry's_
>>(or something like that) live CD (BBC? John Peel?) is brilliant :)
>
>I must agree with Carl here, but also point out that two different
things
>are being talked about. The original 3 Pink Fairies albums ('Never
Never
>Land', 'What A Bunch of Sweeties' & 'Kings of Oblivion') are ESSENTIAL
ha=
>rd
>rock/psych albums with great scorching guitar by Paul Rudolph (pre-Eno,
>Calvert, Hawkwind) or (later) Larry Wallis (pre-Mot=F6rhead, who
continue=
>d
>playing his songs live for a couple years after he left, e.g. "City
Kids"=
>,
>"On Parole"). The album Carl is referring to (which is available in 3
>different configurations in 3 different countries!) consists entirely
of
>excellent recordings from this era, and the US version of Cleopatra
('The
>Golden Years' or something like that) also includes their 2 tracks from
t=
>he
>'Glastonbury Fayre' comp ("Do It" totally rocks, and the 18-minute
versio=
>n
>of "Uncle Harry's Last Freakout" is definitely one of the great guitar
>freakouts).
>
>On the other hand, the various later incarnations of the Pink Fairies
hav=
>e
>all been fairly spotty, especially since there are two camps claiming
the
>name (shades of HW!). The 80s full-band reunion ('Kill 'em and Eat
'em')
>had its moments (Mick Farren's "Waiting For The Ice Cream to Melt" is a
>great 80s-psych anthem), but the playing is sorta weak and the
production
>sorta thin & 80s-cheesy IMHO. Pretty much everything since then
released
>under the PF name is Twink-related (after he fell out with the rest of
th=
>e
>band for the umpteenth time), which (unfortunately) seems to result in
a
>severe lack of quality control, although I've heard great things about
th=
>e
>lengthy track on 'Pleasure Island' (recorded by Twink & Paul Rudolph)
tha=
>t
>Jill refers to. I'd definitely say that the Pinkwind album (Nik,
Twink,
>Trev Thoms & a couple of no-names) falls under that category. But the
>early 70s stuff is great! Buy it!
>
> -Doug
> ceres at sirius.com
>
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