HW et al: Fuz magazine #2

Captain Bl@ck starfield at SUPANET.COM
Tue May 1 14:11:05 EDT 2001


If it IS Paul Rudolph playing lead, then that has to be some of his finest
work. I'd appreciate it if you could check the credits sometime, Doug.

Captain Bl at ck




----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Pearson <ceres at SIRIUS.COM>
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Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: HW et al: Fuz magazine #2


> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 20:45:41 +0100, Captain Bl at ck <starfield at SUPANET.COM>
> wrote:
> >Agree with comments on Think Pink. But who actually played on it?
>
> The new Italian reissue includes full credits.  It varies from track to
> track, but the gist of it is (I'm at work, so no album in front of me, but
> I just looked at these on saturday, so) ...
>
> Paul Rudolph plays almost all of the lead guitar (he's joined on a couple
> tracks by Victor Unitt of the Pretty Things / Edgar Broughton Band).
>
> Twink plays all the drums EXCEPT "Mexican Grass War" which is original
> Pretty Things drummer Vivian Prince.
>
> John "Junior" Wood of Tomorrow plays (I think) all the bass parts (and
> maybe some keyboards, too, I forget).
>
> John Povey of the Pretty Things plays sitar (and also maybe keyboards).
>
> John "Wally" Waller of the Pretty Things plays keyboards.
>
> (... and Twink is John Alder - John's all over this album.  No wonder they
> all needed nicknames!)
>
> I *think* that's all the instruments, except possibly some extra acoustic
> guitar and percussion by Twink & Steve Took.  Mick Farren, Silver (Twink's
> girlfriend at the time), and others also made vocal contributions.  But
> Paul Rudolph's guitar playing on this album is MIND-BLOWING; it almost
> could've been a solo album by HIM.
>
>     -Doug
>      ceres at sirius.com



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