Yesterday, it seemed like a thousand starlings had gathered in the trees just north of the barn, chattering and shaking the branches. Canada geese and Sandhill cranes are also beginning to join up in flocks, a sure sign that winter is on the way.
The starlings made their presence known while I was cleaning the pen where I will fatten the ducks and geese that will soon become next year's meat... another sign that winter is on its way.
Not sure if I'd call the Pink Fairies a band. They were more of a constantly shifting group of musicians that came out of the London psychedelic scene in the late 60s and early 70s. With a taste for drugs, free music and anarchistic politics, their original line-up featured Twink of The Pretty Things on drums, Twink's girlfriend, Silver Darling, playing the keyboards, Mick Farren of The Deviants doing the vocals, and former T. Rex percussionist, Steve Peregrin Took, on guitar. The band played one gig, then went their separate ways.
A year later, Twink recruited the other members of The Deviants... Paul Rudolph, Duncan Sanderson and Russell Hunter... to become the new line-up for the Pink Fairies. Twink left the band in 1971 and headed to Morocco, followed by Rudolph, who would eventually replace Lemmy in Hawkwind.
Sanderson and Hunter decided to continue the Pink Fairies, briefly replacing Rudolph with Mick Wayne before recruiting Larry Wallis from UFO. Wallis would go on to become the guitarist in the original line-up for Motörhead, but not before he recorded "Kings Of Oblivion" with Sanderson and Hunter.
My favorite line-up for the Pink Fairies is Sanderson, Hunter and Wallis. This album is the reason why.
