Blues, Psychedelic, Progressive, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal or Just Plain Eclectic 1969-1971 Part 3.
The Pink Fairies grew out of the unique 1960s psychedelic band the Deviants, who had released the classic underground sounding debut album Ptoof! in 1967 and over the space of a few years they had released another couple of albums all worth checking out. These albums were highlighted by their acidy jamming style. The project came to an end, when band leader Mike Farren quit the music business and the remaining band members formed an even more diverse and at times harder rocking outfit in the Pink Fairies. The Pink Fairies were essentially a psychedelic outfit with a free flowing style almost reminiscent of Wishbone Ash, they had the hippie spaced out feel of Hawkwind and touched on territory covered by Pink Floyd and weren’t afraid to dabble with American R&B either, but their base sound was probably rooted around a straight-up rock ‘n’ roll sound which became evident across their discography. The vocals on this their debut album were mostly covered by drummer Twink (ex-drummer of the Pretty Things) and he was joined by old Deviant members Paul Rudolph guitar, Duncan Sanderson bass and Russell Hunter on drums. The featured album Neverneverland is just so eclectic and should be of real interest to anybody wanting to check out a really unique band from this era, if fact I’d go as far to say, that they were one of the most interesting British bands of this time period. If you want proof of that just check out these videos of the band.
Pink Fairies Neverneverland 1971(Polydor)
Psychedelic Rock
An eclectic gem from the London hippie commune.