Hawkwind were, of course, major league cosmic troglodytes, theirs was a sound that Lemmy Kilmister once described as вЂњa black nightmareвЂќ: atonal jams about bleeding orifices, cosmic orgasms, and coma-induced trips through endless galactic nightmares, something akin to an inverted model of FunkadelicвЂ™s Mothership mythos with less funk in the oxygen supply.

Often these shows could end up with three or more drummers onstage to only end with cops shutting the power off and physically removed them from their kits. Two big strobes are firing off: POW, POW, POW! And as it gets closer to the start of the set the lighting guys increase the speed of the strobes and then add a little bit of synthesizer drone into the P.A. Depending on the speed of the strobes, it can almost look like an old movie. They had these huge World War II strobes. Paul remembered: вЂњPreceding going on, everybody was partying in the dressing room lots of psychedelics. There were many gigs from around that time when RudolphвЂ™s band, Pink Fairies, would exchange headlining slots with Hawkwind, where both bands would combine at some point toward the end of the show to become: Pinkwind. While the former DeviantsвЂ™ sidemen were still stranded in America after the tour, Twink, Farren and former Tyrannosaurus RexВ percussionist Steve Peregrin TookВ had used the Pink Fairies name for various activities including one shambolic gig inВ ManchesterВ (with Farren on vocals, Took on guitar, Twink on drums and his girlfriend Sally вЂњSilver DarlingвЂќ Melzer on keyboards. Most of the musicians involved were members of a drinking club called the Pink Fairies Motorcycle Club and All-Star Rock and Roll Band, taken from a story written by Jamie Mandelkau. Paul Rudolph, who was there for all of it as a member of both The Deviants and Pink Fairies. The story of the Pink Fairies is like a trip down a rabbit hole into a psychedelicized wonderland that includes characters like вЂњLemmyвЂќ Kilmister and Hawkwind, Mick Farren and The Deviants, Twink, Larry Wallis, Steve вЂњPeregrinвЂќ Took, Sandy Sanderson, the MC5, Eno and a host of other tripped-out pranksters.

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