Here am de nooze kiddies-The Deviants are among us once more, IN SPADES!
Here am de nooze kiddies-The Deviants are among us once more, IN SPADES!
Dr Crow #5892134782 is one hell of an album, if you like that sort of thing, and as you are on this site and reading these words, we`ll take that as a given then shall we? Cool.
From the get-go i`m all over this record, as i`m sure any decent upright degenerate reprobate who`s old enuff to know better would be, am i right stranger? Of course i am.
I ain`t no great shakes at that there Big City writin` and stuff, i`ve jes` called `em as i`ve seen `em amigos, and i gotta tell ya, if a Sci-Fi gumshoe lookin` for lizard women on ghost town planetoids whilst enduring a terminal bender
which ain`t exactly bein` helped too much by the heat of dum-dum bullets whistling past his head is your idea of a good time, then you`re gonna have to look at this sucker real hard to find it comin` up wanting, an dat`s de trooth, so help me dog.
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SHAGRAT - PINK JACKETS REQUIRED? THE REAL FACTS BEHIND 'STEVE PEREGRIN TOOK'S SHAGRAT' By Larry Wallis & Mick Farren.
Greetings kiddies, I hope all is cool in Pinksville.
Today I'm launching a new feature, being a kinda rogues' gallery of the cohorts I've ridden with in various gangs, cliques, and coteries in The Past.
The past, yeah, it`s on my mind a lot lately, on account of a couple of things have cropped-up which have brought T.P rocketing back into what's doing a passing-fair imitation of my mind, to whit:
Mickey Farren has a book coming out, in September/October I think, called `Give the anarchist a cigarette`. It`s his recollections of his life from arriving in London as a hot-to-trot youth, and leaving for La Merica as an older and hipper youth. I haven't embarked upon this literary voyage yet, but did dip a little to get the feel of the thing, and was immediately transported back to a time when it was great to live in London, great to be a part of something truly momentous and history-making, great to be alive. How times have changed. Anyway, I will be blathering on about the book next time, when I'll have grokked the fullness of the tome, okay? Okay.
More info on `Give the Anarchist a Cigarette`
I should ask right now, have you checked out `Pick up the `phone America`, Andy's first outing as aThe Lone Rider? No? Well, try Captain Trips on ptooff@hkg.odn.ne.jp to get a copy. As the title implies, it's a bit on the American side, `cos he's lived and worked in LA for more years than I care to remember, and I like it a lot. Were I to be asked who it brought to mind, I'd have to say "The Tubes"-how bad can that be kiddies? I believe a member of the Bevis Frond camp will be on bass, I think it shoulda bin me, but whatcha gonna do? (Oops-too much Soprano-watching I think)
Nik Turner is putting together a version of Hawkestra for the evening, once again, more about all this next time. Russell Hunter hasn't actually told anyone to fuck off, in fact, he's been unusually enthusiastic about an evening's fun, so I'm cautiously optimistic that he may bash some synthetic animal skins with the modern equivalent of long bones, in a rhythmic fashion. Or at least in a fashion that Fairies and their pals will be able to groove on, fingers crossed.
Sandy is in Norway, who knows what he'll do? In fact, if he drifts past any of you Norwegians on an ice-flow with a fishing-pole in his hand let him know that his 4-string expertise would be mucho appreciato, would you? Thanx.
Man are doing this night too, but last I heard they were holding out to do two hours or nothing, a bit over-generous methinks, as it's only a five-hour gig. Once again, we'll see.
Another reason for The Past to have arrived in so rude a fashion was a visit to Art-O-Matic in Great Sutton street, E. London, to see an exhibition, no, celebration of the wonderful Barney Bubbles the man, and his early underground-era brain candy, it was great, and I recommend that if you are into that stuff, Hawkwind, Chillie Willie, not to mention Barney`s own recording career etc....then scoot along, it's a fine endeavour. Nice one Mike and Rebecca.
So, back to The Rogues' Gallery, which as of this moment, is to be called `The Long Riders Log`, and it's first reprobate up on the scaffold, one Martin `Mad Dog` Stone.
A couple of your queries answered. I wrote `I wish I was a girl` on a Danelectro bass-guitar, which I bought for £ 7: 50 from a South London pawn shop, and so the riff came first.
I am playing a Peavey Predator axe in the main, but sometimes I may drag a Gibson or Telecaster into the fray, it's all Peavey really tho`. I am enjoying a Line Six Pod for my amp-sound, and speaking of which, any of you people out there in Cyberland wanna buy the Marshall Silver Jubilee amp I used for `Kill `em and eat `em` album and tour? I really don't need to have the amp and cab taking up space any more,
so.............
Okay gang, I guess I may have spouted off a bit here, it's all off the top of my head, and I never edit, but before I go, a tip of the proverbial here to the lady who takes care of this site for me, my Web-Mistress of Pain, Fee Mercury Moon, (real name withheld to protect the dangerously innocent, or innocently dangerous, dunno which).
She originally got in touch with me, with a bit of a telling-off, regarding the fact that pinkfairies.com had been taken up by someone totally unconnected with us lot, and that someone should grab pinkfairies.co.uk, before it too went, so I did. Her job then was to design the site, and to all incense and porpoises update it for me as and when the talent-enhancers I use kicked me in that kinda direction, but she has done much more than that. Read on dear friends......
I get @`s from Fairyland complimenting me on the site, but it isn't of my doing-in fact, I'm the only drawback in the whole scenario! She trawls the net for stuff to add, all the graphics/designs/whatever are totally Fee-driven. She sends me stuff to read which I ignore, she threatens me, (offers bribes too, but that's another story, gentle reader) cajoles me, and just plain gives me gyp, and the results are as you see here. When I get onsite I am always amazed, `cos something new will have appeared. Just this week I sent her a `Lazza on Mount Olympus` biog that one of you guys sent me, to see if she could use it.
The poor girl had to point out that having sent it to me, she'd asked me ages ago what, if any of it, I would want her to use. I didn't know this, because I didn't pay attention, get the picture?
So thanx a bunch Fee, and a real big thank-you to all you wunderful people out there, who have given an old goblin so much encouragement in this endeavour to make up for lost time. NB. Must think about that thought, `Lost Time`.....
Adios Amigos, BE BIG!
Vlad The Inhaler August 2001.
Hi Kiddies, long time no see huh? Yeah, i`m sorry `bout the lack of input lately, i have been pretty busy, i even had to put recording on my own behalf on the back-burner for a while, as i`ve been helping out some chums `The FranTones` with their debut album, just a bit of fun with R& B-ish kinda stuff, i dunno if Fairy-Folk would go for it, but then again, what do i know? Anyway, things Pink:
I am given to understand that a tosser who has been known to be associated with the P.F`s on an occasional basis, is now blackening our name in the Southern California area, namely L.A., by going out as The L..A..P.F`s, with anyone who`s dumb enuff to fall for it playing in the band with him. Apparently, being familiar with the bands music is not a prerequisite to being `A Pink Fairy`. Not content with releasing CD`s of his goldfish farting, or a garbage truck shedding it`s load and calling it a Pink Fairies rehearsal circa `71 or somesuch, he goes around the globe and ponces about in public under our name, selling crap CD`s under false pretences, and apparently, doing very nicely out of it thank you! Oh yeah, when this mook doeas sell legit Fairy albums, non of us get a penny. In fact, Russell, Sandy, Paul, and i, are about the only guys in the music biz NOT making a living outta P.F stuff. Funny old world ain`t it? Anyway, fuck him, and the stolen horse he rode in on. Here endeth The Rant.
Boy, i didn`t mean to ignite there folks, in fact, i had no plan at all, i can`t think about this stuff, i just sit at the processor and let it happen. Edge-work or stoopidity-you decide.
`Death in the Guitarfternoon` is back on track again, i must work faster. You guys are being dead encouraging in your @ mails, which of course gives me tremendous attacks of the `What if they hate it` variety, but i have always recorded it the way i see it, and luckily this appears to strike a chord ( groan ) with alfalfa-ingesting loonies, as in My Kinda People, so fingers crossed, we`ll like it this time around. I have had some questions repeatedly asked by @, and not the least of these is `what`s up with Russell and Sandy`? Read on.
Russell has a straight job, which we are all sure is a cover for somethin` much more sinister, Devil-Cult, Sect Leader, that sort of thing, and Sandy takes `photos of the rockers that his old lady interviews for Scandanavian rock-mags. Russell does still have a virgin Giant Drum Kit, and periodically makes noises about the `Kings` line-up doing something live, with maybe a recording of the event,"Just to underline the thing", as he puts it. This is, of course, a possibility, but the logistics mean that it would need some organizing, but as i said, it really could happen. We just need a loada dough, to pay for all the stuff that simply `doing it` requires. Any ideas people?
Incidentally, i had a buncha @`s on my machine, with questions ranging from `What`s with Sandy`s bass on `I wish i was a girl`? to anything else you can imagine, when my Computer gave up the ghost, and i lost them all, so if questions ain`t been answered dudes, please feel free to ask me again.
At the front of the site, i told you about the Steve Took CD, it`s a good thing that it`s now available in this format, and as it has the single included, it makes a for a real interesting buncha songs. You may or may not be familiar with them, they are just about the most original tunes i`ve ever been a party to enjoying. Bloody difficult to play, as i recall, Steve had tempo-changes, half-choruses, and just plain old `bits`, that dropped in and out of the songs when and where Tookie`s fevered brain put them, I remember now, he was a drummer`s nightmare,, well, Phil Lenoir`s nightmare anyway, poor sod.
Then Biddy ( Dave Bidwell ) came along, and all was well in the drums dept. This was quite a wah-wah period for me i see,. We felt that Took`s `Screaming thru` the cosmos in a ball of hallucinogenic-fueled fire`, was nicely complemented by me stomping the shit out of the pedal any time the singing paused, it seems to have been a good plan, i still like it a lot. Some other time, maybe elswhere, i`ll talk at length about my adventures with Steve Pergrine Took, but for now, dig this:
On Sunday i showed my mother the CD sleeve. When she saw the pic inside, (she knew Steve very well ) a fond look came into her eyes. "He had a lovely smile, didn`t he Larry?" she said.
I missed him more in that moment, than i can describe here today.
I miss him still.
Be good kiddies, enjoy each other now, and remember: The Future Ain`t What It Used To Be.
Over and out,
Lazza.