HW:Acid Daze volume 1

[Jon Jarrett]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Dave Law wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:40:44 +0000, eddie jobson <eddiejobson at HOTMAIL.COM>
> wrote:

        <snip>

> >Incidentally on the original Silver Machine without Lemmy singing,
> >Calvert does the main vocals, but someone is singing in the background
> >(which sounds like different words), any idea who and what is being
> >sung?
>
> with regards to backing vocals on silver machine, i have in fromt of me a
> Trev Hughes "Hawkfrendz" newsletter from January 91 (no not april!) and in
> it is an open letter from a Lori Pompan who at the time was manager of
> former Pink Fairy Twink, according to this and i quote -
> "did you know that Twink was on Silver Machine on backing vocals"
> ones to assume this to be genuine, so could this solve the mystery?

        I'm not sure about that. Let's remember that this is Twink, who
claims to have been a member of Hawkwind and Syd Barrett's bands on the
strength of two and three partial gigs respectively, and who alters
writing credits in his name almost as freely as, well, Dave Brock or Nik
Turner. I wouldn't trust him or his manager to be right about this.

        Furthermore however, this `Silver Machine' is originally from the
1971 Greasy Truckers' Party, isn't it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but if
that's right there's a hint of a different answer in that. The `Master of
the Universe' from that recording, on the _Space Ritual_ remaster should
you want to check, has also got extra vocals that evening, mostly echoing
Nik's lines in the next phrase. And they sound to me as if they're in a
Welsh accent. Whatever else Twink may have claimed to be, he's not
Welsh; I think Dik Mik had a mike that night (and he was by Doug
Smith's own account, webbed somewhere I think, along with Lemmy
sufficiently wrecked as to be unable to move, not very long before the
performance). I think his is probably the extra voice on `Silver
Machine' too. Yours,
                     Jon

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