OFF: alien sex fiend

[PatrickC]

Solely on the basis that ASF had done an excellent version of `Echoes' on
the Saucerful of Pink album, and the compilation I saw had Silver Machine on
it I bought it - and was extremely disappointed. The version of Silver
Machine they do has scratchy guitars and Nik Fiends voice is akin to a cat
being garotted (IMHO) i.e. they are more a dodgy Cleopatra goth band than a
punk/space band.

-Patrick



-----Original Message-----
From: Sen. Volstead <antisol at SOFTHOME.NET>
To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Date: Sunday, 21 November 1999 2:26
Subject: OFF: alien sex fiend


>I was in a used record store, contemplating whether or not it was a good
>idea to buy another Farflung album because I liked the picture on the
>cover- when over the music system I heard what sounded eerily similar to
>Farflung itself, accompanied by Nik Turner on sax (It reminded me of
>what i'd heard at SD99).
>After standing there for about 20 seconds i decided it could only be
>that line-up, or otherwise someone imitating or paying tribute, and
>doing a damn good job for that matter. So as you'd expect I went up to
>the desk and made an inquiry. The lady told me it was "Alien Sex Fiend",
>and had not heard of Nik turner or FarFlung (nor did she know the name
>of the saxophone player). It turned out she was a great fan, but I
>didn't want to try to extract any more information, since I knew I would
>eventually start babbling about Nik Turner (still high from strange daze
>concert, you see).
>
>I'd heard of Alien Sex Fiend before, but really knew nothing about them.
>Somehow I'd catalogued them as a typical gothy pop band, probably as a
>result of my opinion (of the musical tastes) of  whomever I had
>originally heard the name from.
>
>This all happened more than two months ago, but I didn't think of
>reacting until now.
>
>A search I did just a second ago found no downloadable recordings, or
>song titles I recognized, but I did find that they are on a compilation
>with Nik Turner and Pressurhed. Interesting too, that their front-man is
>"Nik Fiend". Some biographical information, and they're starting to look
>very interesting to me. I'm very surprised now that I'd never come
>across them elsewhere.
>
>Does anyone like/dislike these people or have any comments, useful or
>otherwise?
>
>hey, they covered silvermachine as well!
>