Seeing the Fairies and Hawkwind at the Roundhouse Implosion nights until 5 or 6am in the morning always went better with the free “Acid” the bands handed out. Those were most definitely the days!
Was a regular at these shows. As you say, they were the days and how we survived them I know not...but we did and still do. Man completed the shows as I recall and added something very special to the mix.
@@yvoheaton6402 Hi there Yvo. Dear oh dear me.. yes I wondered then how on Earth we all would ferry or fair in the years to come. -I got kicked out twice from HP School or the socialist Eaton in Kensington. >>->The initial dismissal came after my mum discovered a hash pipe which I left in her kitchen. She would refer to me as being “ non-compos mentis“ throughout my teens and a certain younger brother sucked up to the idea. Hey ho! .. But if the truth to be told I gained a BA with Hons in Graphic Design in my late twenties. And just post my graduation, I worked on and off improving the overall Posters and Design etc for Dingwalls just down the road from the Roundhouse. Hahaha! But on a serious note for a mo we were munching some of the real California Sunshine and and other stuff. It certainly changed many peoples minds and concepts of reality. I’d love to say more but being 68 and 4 months!! So I’m thinking of writing this all down in a book on those halcyon days we all came through. Oh, and incidentally I still see my old peer group and a few of us have moved to Brighton where people are still shining a little. Do take care and it’s been a blast writing to you. -You can always write back. Take care Olgierd x.
@@olgierdogden4742 we are the same age and no doubt we shared the same space at many a gig. I much enjoyed Dingwalls. Saw many greats in that space and many fond memories. I have taken the pen by the nib and started to write a memoir. The music chapters will no doubt touch many of the bands seen and listened to throughout the hectic 70's and 80's. Eel Pie Island and the Marquee were second homes. Memories may fade but the music lives on and rightly so. I remember hanging around the Lowry Organ shop in Ealing hoping to spy a keyboard player or two and of course the Marshall shop was always guaranteed to have a good selection of top players strumming or just calling in to chat. Even ventured to Brighton a few times and broke a toe playing football on the beach one day by kicking a large pebble rather than the ball....
@@yvoheaton6402 Wow! Hahaha! Isn’t life great no matter what bleedin well gets in the way. My lovely peer group -or at least the ones who had their heads and parents tuned in shall we say managed to get to Eel Pie whilst leaving me with a daft sense of “how dare you leave me out!” But as for the Marquee and 100 Club oh brother or sister times and gigs were blissful and especially the Chinese nosh in the hundred club. I new Alexis Korner and went to school with his kids. And found myself chief roadie for his son Niko bless him. It was the Marquee’s 25th Anniversary and they invited all the old heads who cut their teeth gigging there during it’s infancy. I carried Niko’s Gibson and still have the staff pass to prove that Oggie -that’s me was yet another aficionado who graced the club back and front stage. -Alexis did a set with…. Drum Roll))) Ruby Turner and a lovely session singer, Charlie Watts still kicking the peddles and eating with chopsticks. And Bill Wyman who I later trapped a few years ago in the Brighton Laines. And continued to chat away as if we had known each other from eons. My main reason for stopping and not giving way to his minder who kept telling me things like “he’s only his double” was that my eldest brother new Brian Jones and a couple of other Stones. Oh and Alexis’s son played some mean guitar with the Shara~bang at the marquee. Incidentally, I started writing on where? Facebook and informed my friends and public to how I scored those little midnight runners off Lemmy. And later a certain co-founder of Motörhead Lucas Fox started writing to about a book but nothing else I’m thankful to say, for now anyway. Thanks for writing back. WE helped change the world and never forget that. Big luv, big hug and I have never met you, but I’m have now. Do write the book incidentally and keep in touch if you so wish. Life’s been hell, and life’s got SO many rewards that outnumber those dark days. I also enjoy classical music to but that’s another story. Take care Ox
Thank fuck for the Fairies. I got expelled from a crap Public school too because of them. Supposed to do a six hour end of term detention but had to literally leg it so I could get to the Pink Fairies Christmas party at Kensington Town Hall. Forever grateful to the Fairies for getting me kicked out of that shithole school.
Paul Rudolph / Duncan Sanderson / Russell Hunter / Twink line-up in this performance. they are in the free-jam middle portion of "Uncle Harry's Last Freakout" in this footage. this may have been broadcast sometime in 1973, but this footage was most certainly shot in 1970-71as thats when this line-up existed. in 1973, Larry Wallis was fronting the band as a 3 piece and they would have been playing stuff from "Kings Of Oblivion" which is nothing like what they are playing here in this footage. i'm impressed with how they are all casually sharing a joint while a roadie is fixing something on Twink's drum kit, but they never stop playing or jamming. one of my all-time favorite bands, and all 3 of their classic LPs are some of the best Hard Rock this world has ever heard.
watching the interview, Paul Rudolph clearly says they have 2 albums, and Twink is nowhere to be seen, so the interview is from a later date from the live footage; most probably 1972 after "What A Bunch Of Sweeties" was released.
M8 That's Larry Wallis on lead guitar. Not Paul Rudolph. And it's Lazza talking in the interview too. Paul Rudolph was probably in Hawkwind at the time?
As an apprentice I shampood hippie Hildas hair she asked me what sounds I liked so said I love the pink faries so she said my son Boss is there manager I will take you to see them....and she did at Camden as we sat on the edge of the stage Dave said behave yourself muvver lol lovely memory x
Never had a chance to see them live in the early 1970's I had just finished a 4 year apprenticeship and the wages weren't good but had their albums. Effing great to hear them live I would have really enjoyed being there and had a wee bit blow.
Damn Ida loved to have seen both them bands live. All the live MC5 live footage is energetic af. Their Beat Club performance, which is on RUclips, is a favorite video of mine. I watch it at least once a year. 👍
@cavewaller on a similar note i felt my ear go pop! at a motorhead concert. I moved away from the big speaker when it happened. I wondered why no-one was standing in that spot
i was 15 years old ,1972 saw them and matching mole in chelmsford ,essex with my school friend steve,they handed out pink fairies poster ,think it read never never land put in on my bedroom ,x im 66 now ,very happy days and memories, ,
This is the first bit of proper live footage I've seen of the Fairies ever and I've been listening to them for decades. And Twink is in the line-up too. Fantastic!
Is that him drumming. Damn hd looks burnt tf out lol. Not knocking him, but you see him 5 yrs before this with the Pretty Things And he looks like a schoolboy lol.
Unbelievable - what a band! This is incredible music. Saw them at least 3 times in the seventies - and was blown away! Whoever put this up please put up some more of this concert! Up the pinks!!
You know hate when music student dudes say hey lets jam and they sit down and go ok im playing an A to D C major Nah nah nah nah nah nah shut up and lets fucking jam like this video Up the pinks!
PINK FARIES were an underground peoples band & played a huge amount of the free festivals of the time ...last time i saw them was at Dingwalls venue fantastic !
Mia Paboplanes TWINK WAS ON THE FIRST ALBUM "NEVER NEVER LAND", WHICH WAS '71. HE PLAYED OFF AND ON WITH THE BAND , UP TO THE REUNION ALBUM "Eat 'Em and Smile"., and , possibly, after that , though Mick Farren said they declined to let him participate in a reunion gig in the 90's "Because no one could stand him".
+mostholyo Agree on this line-up. I saw the Pinks in May '73 with Hawkwind and a bunch of other other bands at the Empire Pool Wembley. A typically wonderful Pink Fairies stunt - they were billed as Danny and the Racing Cars so nobody had a clue they were playing till they arrived on stage looking a bit refreshed! What a beautiful noise they made. They played their set as a three-piece, just Larry Wallis, Sandy and Russell. Fab gig, happy days.
Cool. There's a feature article on The Pink Fairies in the new Vive Le Rock. Curiously , Farren is in the main group photo. SEEMS TO BE A DEVIANTS PIC , RUN BY MISTAKE. He and Phil May founded the drinking club that became The Pink Fairies....I think Farren was only there in an advisory capacity , as with Motorhead. LEMMY IMPLIED THAT MICK WAS MOTORHEAD'S FIRST PICK SINGER , But it seems he went straight from Hawkwind to THE WALLIS/FOX / LEMMY LINEUP.
What a joy to be able to see this footage Russ is my all time favourite. Awesome to see Twink Larry is great but would love to see some decent Paul Rudolph footage
great band live i am nearly 58 years old and saw the pinks in and around my home town of newport gwent south wales at least 9 or 10 times at the start of the 70s always better live than on album
I saw 'em around this time playing at the old Kensington Town Hall with Gong, and Larry Wallace through that Fender Dual Showman Reverb was INCREDIBLY LOUD. Hahahaha....
The best and original guitar player that invented Motorhead. Their music with Larry from Pink Fairies was way Heavier than the band would ever be again
@@junglie it's some of the Heaviest Metal songs ever recorded. It was called the Watcher when I heard it. I really liked the song White Negro Flies Over London
@@junglie White Line Fever is by far the Heaviest Motorhead song. The demo just wiped out the studio material. They got soft after Iron Fist, and started this BS " We are Motorhead and we play Rock and Roll " . They were definitely a Metal band in the 1970s. Way Heavier than Black Sabbath, or Led Zeppelin was in the late 1970s
@@junglie Do you actually consider On Parole their best album????? . White Negro Flies Over London was incredibly Heavy, as was Metropolis, Capricorn, Iron Horse, Keep Us On the Road, White Line Fever, Werewolf Woman, and Master of the Universe. I am not that keen with the On Parole or the Hatchet Head 1976 Live Parole albums, but the Watcher album definitely destroyed music like nothing else from 1975
@@godetonter4764 yes by far or i wouldn't have said it. we are all entitled to our own opinion, music is a very individiual taste mate, happy xmas. in fact think i'll play it now been too long.
this is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen - Twink & Larry Wallis passing doobies whilst jamming, roadie changing kick drum skin and Larry looks fucked! brilliant jam
Classic, I have watched this before.... but missed the guy changing the Bass Drum beater head around 4mins in...... thought the stand-up floor tom thing was just part of the show!!
THANKS FOR POSTING BRINGS IT ALL BACK I SAW THEM PLAY AT LEAST 6 TIMES AROUND SOUTH WALES WHERE I LIVE ALWAYS BETTER LIVE A GANG OF US WOULD IT THE CHEAPEST PUB NEAR THE VENUE THEN GO AND SEE THE PINKS THEY NEVER LET US DOWN THE TWO DRUM LINE UP WAS THE BEST UP THE PINKS AND I AM NEARLY 60 YEARS OLD
@deepindercheema... What an honour! A comment from Mr. Bob Harris! Yes, it's from Pop 2, I wrote that in the description. Larry Wallis got eventually sober and went to wrote some good songs for Dr. Feelgood, especially "As Long As The Price Is Right" in 1977, which was also a single. OGWT: I got the official DVDs,but looks like a lot of stuff has yet to be released. Here in Italy we never had the chance to watch these kind of shows on TV, that's why we (Italians) are so musically ignorant...
They made Kill 'Em And Eat Em with this lineup. In fact most of Lazza' solo/frontman career records were a lot like Kings of Oblivion in style - the unreleased 1980 album, the 1991 Redbyrds EP, Police Car single, Death In The Guitafternoon in 2002.
Saw the pink fairies in 1974. The good thing at colleges was though it was over 18's the guy on the door was so out of it he let two school kids in. My abiding memory apart from the great music was that someone had been sick on the floor and some guy ripped on acid sat in the vomit and proceeded to pick handfuls of it up and threw it at the people behind him. A few years later he would of had the shit kicked out of him, but the audience did nothing just smiled. Another guy had his head in the speaker bin the whole gig and is probably deaf from that point on. Lemmy came on for the encore of 'i saw her standing there' Fairies were fantastic. I was offered some free acid at the end and said no. The hippy couldn't quite make me out. What a sensible kid i was.
I was 21 at the time. We listened to everything from Coltrane to Beefheart, but the band we followed in London was the Edgar Broughton Band. Because of this we got to see the Fairies at whiles, but their lot were hipper and cooler than the Broughton fans. Ha ha. Talk about prolonged adolescence.
Saw these many times around London pubs and clubs they played on the back of a truck outside the Bath pop festival 1970 don't remember much after that. Probably old age ✌
I just started listen to these guys because they had a connection with T. Rex and oh my fuck devil,i really liked it! Sounds like a mix of Deep Purple with Grateful Dead :P
I was listening to Motorhead the song City kids figuring out this band wrote it and I am so happy got some new rock and roll in my life it's Lemmy turning me on to new old so hit
Saw these at Shenstone Teacher Training College, Bromsgrove in1973, I guess. Excellent band ( don't think the students liked them tho.) They may have been supporting Arthur Browns Kingdom Fire- memory not what it was. Best part of his set was when he set fire to his piano, stood on it and his jeans caught fire. Couldn.t make it up. Fairies wow!
Sandy and russell were recently asked if there was anything theyd stiĺl like to do. Russell said "yes id like to play with larry wallis again." Says it all.
🎉🎉😂 They were on the same wave length/LSD etc as thier audience ❤ At least I felt they were, I timed it as such, drop LSD spend no more than half an hour traversing the London Underground, Arrive at Pink Fairies Gig ,Vodka in hand.,I'm sure they dropped a tab half an hour b4 gig too ..At least I felt we were 'Cosmically Connected" through out..Coming up together , and transcending anything that got in the way of a party 😅 ...They were fun at its most electrifying, The dancing got wild.😂 You could hardly believe you were 'avin such a good time🎉😊🎉 xx
That's definitely Twink back on drums as it looks and sounds exactly like him, and Andy Colquhoun is a guitarist. Twink had left after the release of Never Never Land, but did rejoin them just after the release of Kings Of Oblivion.
I hate when people say that ''drugs don't increase your creativity''. Go to 1:45 and look at that guy playing guitar and smoking weed at the same time. And just look at his face. He's fucking wasted!
23igna they dont "increase" creativity...look at Frank Zappa. ..he didn't take drugs.. or ask rock musicians who've STOPPED taking drugs if they feel less creative...they dont. It's all in the mind.
+klmullins65 Yeah but look at The beatles, look at jimi hendrix, at the grateful dead, jefferson airplane... the list of musicians who took drugs is huge. Frank zappa is just an exception.
23igna I'm a musician who's had to overcome substance abuse...I used to believe that drugs enhanced creativity too, but now that I'm clean, I view that notion as a myth, because the love of music, and the urge to create is there without the "aid" of drugs, and those feelings go way deeper than having to be "inspired" by feeling stoned...I think many musicians became addicted because they thought they needed drugs for inspiration.
Nice to see the Fairies live in all their glory . Clean living , alcohol and drug free young men a credit to British manhood . They could do with a haircut though .
IM GLAD YOU LIKE THE OLD CLASSIC,I PLAYED IN THE DRUG SQUAD MANY MOONS AGO WITH MR TONY DAVIDSON MY INFLUENCES BEING LAZZA WALLIS,MICK FARREN,LIGHTNING RAIDERS AND MC5 LIST GOES ON AND ON OH YES I FORGOT TO MENTION THE DEVIANTS . ALL MY BEST STONEY IF YOU SEE HIM CHEERS BUDDY
Seeing the Fairies and Hawkwind at the Roundhouse Implosion nights until 5 or 6am in the morning always went better with the free “Acid” the bands handed out. Those were most definitely the days!
Was a regular at these shows. As you say, they were the days and how we survived them I know not...but we did and still do. Man completed the shows as I recall and added something very special to the mix.
@@yvoheaton6402
Hi there Yvo. Dear oh dear me.. yes I wondered then how on Earth we all would ferry or fair in the years to come. -I got kicked out twice from HP School or the socialist Eaton in Kensington. >>->The initial dismissal came after my mum discovered a hash pipe which I left in her kitchen. She would refer to me as being “ non-compos mentis“ throughout my teens and a certain younger brother sucked up to the idea. Hey ho! ..
But if the truth to be told I gained a BA with Hons in Graphic Design in my late twenties. And just post my graduation, I worked on and off improving the overall Posters and Design etc for Dingwalls just down the road from the Roundhouse. Hahaha!
But on a serious note for a mo we were munching some of the real California Sunshine and and other stuff. It certainly changed many peoples minds and concepts of reality.
I’d love to say more but being 68 and 4 months!! So I’m thinking of writing this all down in a book on those halcyon days we all came through. Oh, and incidentally I still see my old peer group and a few of us have moved to Brighton where people are still shining a little. Do take care and it’s been a blast writing to you. -You can always write back. Take care Olgierd x.
@@olgierdogden4742 we are the same age and no doubt we shared the same space at many a gig. I much enjoyed Dingwalls. Saw many greats in that space and many fond memories. I have taken the pen by the nib and started to write a memoir. The music chapters will no doubt touch many of the bands seen and listened to throughout the hectic 70's and 80's. Eel Pie Island and the Marquee were second homes. Memories may fade but the music lives on and rightly so. I remember hanging around the Lowry Organ shop in Ealing hoping to spy a keyboard player or two and of course the Marshall shop was always guaranteed to have a good selection of top players strumming or just calling in to chat. Even ventured to Brighton a few times and broke a toe playing football on the beach one day by kicking a large pebble rather than the ball....
@@yvoheaton6402
Wow! Hahaha! Isn’t life great no matter what bleedin well gets in the way. My lovely peer group -or at least the ones who had their heads and parents tuned in shall we say managed to get to Eel Pie whilst leaving me with a daft sense of “how dare you leave me out!” But as for the Marquee and 100 Club oh brother or sister times and gigs were blissful and especially the Chinese nosh in the hundred club. I new Alexis Korner and went to school with his kids. And found myself chief roadie for his son Niko bless him. It was the Marquee’s 25th Anniversary and they invited all the old heads who cut their teeth gigging there during it’s infancy. I carried Niko’s Gibson and still have the staff pass to prove that Oggie -that’s me was yet another aficionado who graced the club back and front stage. -Alexis did a set with…. Drum Roll))) Ruby Turner and a lovely session singer, Charlie Watts still kicking the peddles and eating with chopsticks. And Bill Wyman who I later trapped a few years ago in the Brighton Laines. And continued to chat away as if we had known each other from eons. My main reason for stopping and not giving way to his minder who kept telling me things like “he’s only his double” was that my eldest brother new Brian Jones and a couple of other Stones. Oh and Alexis’s son played some mean guitar with the Shara~bang at the marquee.
Incidentally, I started writing on where? Facebook and informed my friends and public to how I scored those little midnight runners off Lemmy. And later a certain co-founder of Motörhead Lucas Fox started writing to about a book but nothing else I’m thankful to say, for now anyway.
Thanks for writing back. WE helped change the world and never forget that. Big luv, big hug and I have never met you, but I’m have now. Do write the book incidentally and keep in touch if you so wish. Life’s been hell, and life’s got SO many rewards that outnumber those dark days. I also enjoy classical music to but that’s another story. Take care Ox
Thank fuck for the Fairies. I got expelled from a crap Public school too because of them. Supposed to do a six hour end of term detention but had to literally leg it so I could get to the Pink Fairies Christmas party at Kensington Town Hall.
Forever grateful to the Fairies for getting me kicked out of that shithole school.
Paul Rudolph / Duncan Sanderson / Russell Hunter / Twink line-up in this performance. they are in the free-jam middle portion of "Uncle Harry's Last Freakout" in this footage. this may have been broadcast sometime in 1973, but this footage was most certainly shot in 1970-71as thats when this line-up existed. in 1973, Larry Wallis was fronting the band as a 3 piece and they would have been playing stuff from "Kings Of Oblivion" which is nothing like what they are playing here in this footage. i'm impressed with how they are all casually sharing a joint while a roadie is fixing something on Twink's drum kit, but they never stop playing or jamming. one of my all-time favorite bands, and all 3 of their classic LPs are some of the best Hard Rock this world has ever heard.
watching the interview, Paul Rudolph clearly says they have 2 albums, and Twink is nowhere to be seen, so the interview is from a later date from the live footage; most probably 1972 after "What A Bunch Of Sweeties" was released.
and the second live clip is from the ending solo in "Do It"
M8 That's Larry Wallis on lead guitar. Not Paul Rudolph. And it's Lazza talking in the interview too. Paul Rudolph was probably in Hawkwind at the time?
@@twistedspanner Paul Rudolph replaced Lemmy in Hawkwind, 1975. I saw both of them in the same year.
@@wedgeguilala4742 no, the second clip is a particularly fast version of the middle 8 from I Wish I Was A Girl from Kings of Oblivion
Never got the recognition they deserved, check out their albums, these guys were top musicians. Up the Pinks !!
The most UNDERATED band ever. These guys rock!
Top ten of underrated rock outfits of all time, Larry Wallis... genius.
RIP Larry Wallis, from Motörhead, UFO, and of course, THE PINK FARIES
Larry Wallis + echoplex= pure magic! Great stuff, thanks for posting it. "Kings Of Oblivion" was/is a masterpiece.
i agree a classic rock album that should have being a huge hit
As an apprentice I shampood hippie Hildas hair she asked me what sounds I liked so said I love the pink faries so she said my son Boss is there manager I will take you to see them....and she did at Camden as we sat on the edge of the stage Dave said behave yourself muvver lol lovely memory x
Never had a chance to see them live in the early 1970's I had just finished a 4 year apprenticeship and the wages weren't good but had their albums. Effing great to hear them live I would have really enjoyed being there and had a wee bit blow.
Pink Fairies and MC5 were 2 of the bands that played really good live shows! wish I had a time machine!! \m/\m/
Flaming groovies as well.
The Deviants
I'm still slightly deaf in my right ear from seeing the pink fairies :-) an I'm glad!!! (Probably shoulda said hearing the pink fairies lol... what?)
Damn Ida loved to have seen both them bands live. All the live MC5 live footage is energetic af. Their Beat Club performance, which is on RUclips, is a favorite video of mine. I watch it at least once a year. 👍
@cavewaller on a similar note i felt my ear go pop! at a motorhead concert. I moved away from the big speaker when it happened. I wondered why no-one was standing in that spot
i love the pink fairies. those guys are literally having a blast!
i was 15 years old ,1972 saw them and matching mole in chelmsford ,essex with my school friend steve,they handed out pink fairies poster ,think it read never never land put in on my bedroom ,x im 66 now ,very happy days and memories, ,
This is the first bit of proper live footage I've seen of the Fairies ever and I've been listening to them for decades. And Twink is in the line-up too. Fantastic!
Is that him drumming. Damn hd looks burnt tf out lol. Not knocking him, but you see him 5 yrs before this with the Pretty Things And he looks like a schoolboy lol.
@@bluecollar825 Yeah it's him
Unbelievable - what a band! This is incredible music. Saw them at least 3 times in the seventies - and was blown away! Whoever put this up please put up some more of this concert! Up the pinks!!
I miss the Jam bands.
@@rowstone3019 Do it!
R.I.P Larry Wallis.
The first band I ever saw live. Dunstable 1974. It blew my tiny, fifteen year old mind
Great memory man!👍 This would hook just about any kid into goin and seeing live music as often as they could lol.🤣
I still revere the Pink Fairies, to this very day.
Rip Larry and Sandy, We Miss You Guys
Nice one!!
A very underrated band.... Hard Rock , Psych Rock 4 ever!!!
ten out of ten for putting this up, the interview made my year.
Saw then at North London Polytechnic Hollaway Rd around 1973 I think Liquid Len did the lights.. intense
Amazing music and as raw as it gets.
Very underrated/overlooked band.
I like that they are high on life and are clearly entirely drug free
LOL flawless !
Hahaha...
Hahaha ha
They look so joyful since they let Jesus into their lives.
"Clearly" :P
never saw them live sadly, Kings of Oblivion is one of my favourite albums another great pre punk band
it's rock n roll and the message is DO IT..... DO IT!!!!
Best band I never got too see live,and I've seen a few.
its just my favorite kind of music makes me freak out ~ they rock so hard
check out Hawkwind and the Edgar Broughton Band ....they rock hard to....back when rock had a pair and not afraid to let'em swing!!!
I’ve recently found this band. I’m in love
You know hate when music student dudes say hey lets jam and they sit down and go ok im playing an A to D C major
Nah nah nah nah nah nah shut up and lets fucking jam like this video
Up the pinks!
PINK FARIES were an underground peoples band & played a huge amount of the free festivals of the time ...last time i saw them was at Dingwalls venue fantastic !
RIP Larry and Sandy
Larry Wallis guitar - Duncan "Sandy" Sanderson bass - Russell Hunter drums - Twink drums.
mostholyo Twink was in the band at 1973??? i thought he only went back on 1987
Mia Paboplanes TWINK WAS ON THE FIRST ALBUM "NEVER NEVER LAND", WHICH WAS '71. HE PLAYED OFF AND ON WITH THE BAND , UP TO THE REUNION ALBUM "Eat 'Em and Smile"., and , possibly, after that , though Mick Farren said they declined to let him participate in a reunion gig in the 90's "Because no one could stand him".
+mostholyo Agree on this line-up. I saw the Pinks in May '73 with Hawkwind and a bunch of other other bands at the Empire Pool Wembley. A typically wonderful Pink Fairies stunt - they were billed as Danny and the Racing Cars so nobody had a clue they were playing till they arrived on stage looking a bit refreshed! What a beautiful noise they made. They played their set as a three-piece, just Larry Wallis, Sandy and Russell. Fab gig, happy days.
Cool. There's a feature article on The Pink Fairies in the new Vive Le Rock. Curiously , Farren is in the main group photo. SEEMS TO BE A DEVIANTS PIC , RUN BY MISTAKE. He and Phil May founded the drinking club that became The Pink Fairies....I think Farren was only there in an advisory capacity , as with Motorhead. LEMMY IMPLIED THAT MICK WAS MOTORHEAD'S FIRST PICK SINGER , But it seems he went straight from Hawkwind to THE WALLIS/FOX / LEMMY LINEUP.
@@Gentlem1 "Kill 'Em & Eat 'Em" ! ;-)
YOU HAVE MADE MY DAY THIS IS A GEM LINE UP IS LAZZA WALLIS ON GUITAR RUSS HUNTER ON DRUMS SANDY SANDERSON ON BASS TWINK ON DRUMS
THANKYOU AMIGO
What a joy to be able to see this footage Russ is my all time favourite. Awesome to see Twink Larry is great but would love to see some decent Paul Rudolph footage
See just above
great band live i am nearly 58 years old
and saw the pinks in and around my home town of newport gwent south wales
at least 9 or 10 times at the start of the 70s always better live than on album
RIP, Larry Wallis
real wild ones! love this performance with the two drummers (Twink & Russell Hunter)
Best live band ever!!!👍
Saw them live at least 6 or 7 times in the south wales area twice in my own town newport south wales always great Live I am now 67
I saw 'em around this time playing at the old Kensington Town Hall with Gong, and Larry Wallace through that Fender Dual Showman Reverb was INCREDIBLY LOUD. Hahahaha....
Great Live Pinks! Just wish there was more...
The best and original guitar player that invented Motorhead. Their music with Larry from Pink Fairies was way Heavier than the band would ever be again
yep on parole's their best album.
@@junglie it's some of the Heaviest Metal songs ever recorded. It was called the Watcher when I heard it. I really liked the song White Negro Flies Over London
@@junglie White Line Fever is by far the Heaviest Motorhead song. The demo just wiped out the studio material. They got soft after Iron Fist, and started this BS " We are Motorhead and we play Rock and Roll " . They were definitely a Metal band in the 1970s. Way Heavier than Black Sabbath, or Led Zeppelin was in the late 1970s
@@junglie Do you actually consider On Parole their best album????? . White Negro Flies Over London was incredibly Heavy, as was Metropolis, Capricorn, Iron Horse, Keep Us On the Road, White Line Fever, Werewolf Woman, and Master of the Universe. I am not that keen with the On Parole or the Hatchet Head 1976 Live Parole albums, but the Watcher album definitely destroyed music like nothing else from 1975
@@godetonter4764 yes by far or i wouldn't have said it. we are all entitled to our own opinion, music is a very individiual taste mate, happy xmas. in fact think i'll play it now been too long.
Priceless, thanks for sharing. It would be nice if a video surfaces from the Paul Rudolph era.
yesssss Rudolph
I saw them play With
Rudolph in the line up
More than once
Yes, footage exists of them at Phun City 1970? I saw it at Sandy's wake...
this is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen - Twink & Larry Wallis passing doobies whilst jamming, roadie changing kick drum skin and Larry looks fucked! brilliant jam
Love it baby!!!
Dont forget Twink missing the cymbal cos his stick broke and was too short......😏
@@felixfelix7447 yes!
My cat legit loves this music
Dodge. But that poor snake!
why have numerous people got that avatar ? i´m always thinking it´s the same person now noticing it isn´t
BEST LIVE VIDEO OF "THE PINK FAIRIES"....
Classic, I have watched this before.... but missed the guy changing the Bass Drum beater head around 4mins in...... thought the stand-up floor tom thing was just part of the show!!
Great clips of a classic band. I did hear Twink came back into the fold just after the release of Kings Of Oblivion and this proves it.
thanks for the upload.... wondrous stuff.... greetings from tasmania
THANKS FOR POSTING BRINGS IT ALL BACK
I SAW THEM PLAY AT LEAST 6 TIMES
AROUND SOUTH WALES WHERE I LIVE
ALWAYS BETTER LIVE
A GANG OF US WOULD IT THE CHEAPEST PUB
NEAR THE VENUE
THEN GO AND SEE THE PINKS THEY NEVER LET US DOWN
THE TWO DRUM LINE UP WAS THE BEST
UP THE PINKS
AND I AM NEARLY 60 YEARS OLD
@deepindercheema...
What an honour! A comment from Mr. Bob Harris!
Yes, it's from Pop 2, I wrote that in the description. Larry Wallis got eventually sober and went to wrote some good songs for Dr. Feelgood, especially "As Long As The Price Is Right" in 1977, which was also a single.
OGWT: I got the official DVDs,but looks like a lot of stuff has yet to be released.
Here in Italy we never had the chance to watch these kind of shows on TV, that's why we (Italians) are so musically ignorant...
Fairies are my go-to for big loud wrecked acid rock.
This is Larry Wallis on guitar.
up with the pinks!!
Wallis had a unique lead guitar style that was quite enchanting. Too bad they didnt make any more albums with this lineup
They made Kill 'Em And Eat Em with this lineup. In fact most of Lazza' solo/frontman career records were a lot like Kings of Oblivion in style - the unreleased 1980 album, the 1991 Redbyrds EP, Police Car single, Death In The Guitafternoon in 2002.
Amazing live video > *Very rare & BEST* < period - progressive music 70`s
Saw the pink fairies in 1974. The good thing at colleges was though it was over 18's the guy on the door was so out of it he let two school kids in. My abiding memory apart from the great music was that someone had been sick on the floor and some guy ripped on acid sat in the vomit and proceeded to pick handfuls of it up and threw it at the people behind him. A few years later he would of had the shit kicked out of him, but the audience did nothing just smiled. Another guy had his head in the speaker bin the whole gig and is probably deaf from that point on. Lemmy came on for the encore of 'i saw her standing there' Fairies were fantastic. I was offered some free acid at the end and said no. The hippy couldn't quite make me out. What a sensible kid i was.
Russell is doing all the hard work while Twank just loons around for the camera.
I was 21 at the time. We listened to everything from Coltrane to Beefheart, but the band we followed in London was the Edgar Broughton Band. Because of this we got to see the Fairies at whiles, but their lot were hipper and cooler than the Broughton fans. Ha ha. Talk about prolonged adolescence.
RIP Duncan Sanderson
Wish there was some live footage of Paul Rudolph playing he was amazing , saw Larry when he played briefly with UFO
The best 12 minutes and 22 seconds of my life
Heard them on a vinyl POLYDOR compilation first time. Loved them ever since all through punk and beyond.
Love the bit of broken drumstick flying up at about 7.30.
Out of sight man. Unique sound composition. Beautiful man. I dig it. Time warp 50 years man.
Twink-drums, Russel Hunter -drums, Larry Wallis-guitar (ex-UFO), Duncan Sanderson -bass
Did Larry have a hit on his own "Police car" or was that someone else...im not going to bother googling it..fuck technology...
I don't know about hit, but yeah Larry released Police Car on a 45 as well as taking part in the Stiff tour
Saw these many times around London pubs and clubs they played on the back of a truck outside the Bath pop festival 1970 don't remember much after that. Probably old age ✌
I just started listen to these guys because they had a connection with T. Rex and oh my fuck devil,i really liked it! Sounds like a mix of Deep Purple with Grateful Dead :P
Kinda Mia,but they were also looked at as the Brits answer 2 the MC5 & they had that Hawkwind/Deviants connection goin on 2.
I was listening to Motorhead the song City kids figuring out this band wrote it and I am so happy got some new rock and roll in my life it's Lemmy turning me on to new old so hit
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
THIS IS 1973 FOR FUCKS SAKE
It must've been around this time that I saw them with Gong at Kensington Town Hall. Larry Wallace's Dual Showman was ferociously loud :-)
First time here in Spanish and I love it her and motorhead's version of city kids
Pink Fairies / Finland Freakout 1971 recorded at the Turku Festival by state radio still available on the UKCD (MLP17CD)
It seems that this concert recording of sufficient quality for release on CD ...
Awesome 👍😎
Radonjic Dragan says > Very rare video from that period. When I first saw him, I was very happy !
Yes they played outside at a lot of the hippie pop festivals.
Great energy and they were our equivalent of the MC5
Total chaos but so much fun
Saw these at Shenstone Teacher Training College, Bromsgrove in1973, I guess. Excellent band ( don't think the students liked them tho.) They may have been supporting Arthur Browns Kingdom Fire- memory not what it was. Best part of his set was when he set fire to his piano, stood on it and his jeans caught fire. Couldn.t make it up. Fairies wow!
Sandy and russell were recently asked if there was anything theyd stiĺl like to do. Russell said "yes id like to play with larry wallis again." Says it all.
Really missed Larry on the new Fairies album. It was a half decent effort, would have been a stormer with Larry on.
Great band
Larry Wallis play with Motorhead for a bit in the late 1970's
Mid-seventies. On Parole and that was it but there at the very outset nonetheless.
🎉🎉😂 They were on the same wave length/LSD etc as thier audience ❤ At least I felt they were, I timed it as such, drop LSD spend no more than half an hour traversing the London Underground, Arrive at Pink Fairies Gig ,Vodka in hand.,I'm sure they dropped a tab half an hour b4 gig too ..At least I felt we were 'Cosmically Connected" through out..Coming up together , and transcending anything that got in the way of a party 😅 ...They were fun at its most electrifying, The dancing got wild.😂 You could hardly believe you were 'avin such a good time🎉😊🎉 xx
That's absolutely Twink on timbales. I honestly didn't know he was in the later edition until now but pictures don;t lie.
First band I ever saw 1973.
Brill. I saw them in Brum in 1974.
Best drum ever solo??? totaly magic!
Bordel l'époque ou la 2 servait encore à quelque chose !
The universe is a bathroom and Earth is the urinal.
I remember seeing the Pink Fairies at college in Dartford in late '71. I think we paid 5/- to get in.
Sawthem in 1973 (could've been 1972) at Lowther Pavilion in Lytham St. Anne's. They were a three-piece then. And very good.
That's definitely Twink back on drums as it looks and sounds exactly like him, and Andy Colquhoun is a guitarist. Twink had left after the release of Never Never Land, but did rejoin them just after the release of Kings Of Oblivion.
Andy Coluhoun ???? I think not ! definitely Larry Wallis, just with an unusual barnet !
RIP MICK FARREN1943--2013]
I hate when people say that ''drugs don't increase your creativity''. Go to 1:45 and look at that guy playing guitar and smoking weed at the same time. And just look at his face. He's fucking wasted!
23igna they dont "increase" creativity...look at Frank Zappa. ..he didn't take drugs.. or ask rock musicians who've STOPPED taking drugs if they feel less creative...they dont. It's all in the mind.
+klmullins65 Yeah but look at The beatles, look at jimi hendrix, at the grateful dead, jefferson airplane... the list of musicians who took drugs is huge. Frank zappa is just an exception.
Alot of those musicians died from drugs, and most of those you named that are still living have stoppped...
True, but they made one the best records in the history of rock&roll. What is bad is drug addiction, not drugs themselves.
23igna I'm a musician who's had to overcome substance abuse...I used to believe that drugs enhanced creativity too, but now that I'm clean, I view that notion as a myth, because the love of music, and the urge to create is there without the "aid" of drugs, and those feelings go way deeper than having to be "inspired" by feeling stoned...I think many musicians became addicted because they thought they needed drugs for inspiration.
imagine being able to drum like that for that long....
Nice to see the Fairies live in all their glory . Clean living , alcohol and drug free young men a credit to British manhood . They could do with a haircut though .
IM GLAD YOU LIKE THE OLD CLASSIC,I PLAYED IN THE DRUG SQUAD MANY MOONS AGO WITH MR TONY DAVIDSON MY INFLUENCES BEING LAZZA WALLIS,MICK FARREN,LIGHTNING RAIDERS AND MC5 LIST GOES ON AND ON OH YES I FORGOT TO MENTION THE DEVIANTS . ALL MY BEST STONEY IF YOU SEE HIM CHEERS BUDDY
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le bassiste fume des Gitanes...la classe!
You can hear the DNA of Motorhead here. Larry Wallis was the founding guitarist along with Lemmy.
Yes. I read a Motorhead revue years ago: "Superb musicianship disguised as Heavy Metal."
The Fairies were soooooooooooooooooooo good good good good gooddddd......YAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
& sooooooooooo LLLLLooooouuuddddd!!
Twink was always a joy to watch.