OFF: Farflung and Pink Faries

[Douglas Pearson]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:33:45 -0400, K Henderson <henderson.120 at OSU.EDU>
wrote:
>DD says...
>>Just noticed that Farflung and Pink Faries are playing the Club Spaceland
>>in Los Angeles on Friday, April 27th.
>
>Ummm...cool.  Are they (PF) touring nationwide?  Didn't find much online
>and Larry Wallis' site (www.pinkfairies.co.uk) hasn't been updated since
>December.

No, this is the band that probably has Lazza seeing twelve different shades
of purple without the aid of hallucinogens.  It's Twink, backed by the LA
punk/hardrock band Backbiter.  (The drummer for Backbiter is Bob Lee, who
played with Slotnick on the Hawkwind tribute album, and was in Mike Watt's
backing band for at least a couple tours; he kicks ass!)  I think they're
technically supposed to call themselves "Twink's L.A. Pink Fairies" or
something like that ... (sound familiar?) ...

>What is the current availability of their early works (on CD), like Never
>Neverland and Kings of Oblivion?  I remember that the latter at least is
>not so easy to get (at least cheaply).

'Kings of Oblivion' has been reissued in the UK by Voiceprint; I've seen it
in local stores.  The first two albums ('Never Neverland' and 'What A Bunch
Of Sweeties') are STILL out-of-print everywhere (there were expensive CD's
available on Japanese Polydor in the early 90's, but those are long gone).

>Anybody know a good semi-inexpensive source for either?

Does the Artist Shop carry 'Kings' in their catalog of Voiceprint stuff?

>Who's the current band?  Could early Motorhead (like On Parole) be
>incorporated into a PF set?  Or is it?

You certainly won't hear "On Parole" or "City Kids" from this version of
the Pink Fairies (don't forget that "On Parole" was the B-side of "Police
Car", the Larry Wallis solo single on Stiff).  If we're talking Wallis-
composed Motorhead songs, I wanna hear "Vibrator" (complete with solo, of
course!).

While we're on the subject, has anyone in the UK seen the (I think it's
called) 'Masters Series' CD by the Pink Fairies on Polydor that has four
tracks - both sides of both the "Snake"/"Do It" and "Well Well Well"/"Hold
On" singles?  That's something I could really use a copy of since three of
those are non-LP tracks (OK, two of them are on that old late-70s
compilation, but "Hold On" has never been available ANYWHERE else except
the original 7").

    -Doug
     ceres at sirius.com