VERY RARE ORIGINAL LP RECORD PSYCHEDELIC MASTERPIECE Album

Twink

" Think Pink "

Very Rare and Hard to Find ORIGINAL LP Record from 1970 Full Laminated glossy cover GERMAN pressing on Polydor Records ( Stereo -GEMA-2310 057 ).Original Member of 'Pink Fairies',Pretty Things'!

Condition:

Record lp Vinyl: EX [ Thick heavy vinyl has some light surface hairlines marks - Labels are clean NMint condition].

Cover sleeve Jacket: EX+ [ Full Laminated Gloss has some very light corners wear,extreme light shadow of starting ring wear (39 years old !) some light edges wear on the back side edge with the lamination and one mini tiny peel in the back middle,and some light storage rubbing wear on the back,NO seam splits,still very nice solid amazing cover sleeve photo.]. 

TWINK is essentially John Charles Alder and with the help of various members of the British psychedelia scene he recorded and released this fine album in 1970 (although the recording quality and music are firmly rooted in the 60s).

John Charles Alder (born 29 November 1944), better known as Twink, is an English drummer, singer and song writer who was a central figure in the English psychedelic movement, and an actor.

 'The Coming of the Other One' starts off our journey and is the most psychedelic song on the album, it's really out there and one interesting thing to note is the similarity that it bears to later krautrock acts with the ethnic percussion and sitar as well as spoken word parts (focusing on the apocalypse in the year 1999, a novel concept now that year has passed). 'Dawn of Magic' is another real highlight, a short song of chanting and building, very intense. 'Tiptoe on the Highest Hill' provides us with some great jamming and sparse soundscapes. Mexican grass war is quite a unique song with a marching motif and various percussion along with tympani and yelps and guitars coming in and out of the mix. Suicide is a very raw and melancholy investigation of the dark side of the mind, made even more so by the fairly upbeat nature of the main part of the song, contrasted with the spacey reverberant vibraphones.

The production on this album is fantastic (disregarding the fact that it's quite gritty and raw due to the technology available), it always seems very rich and dense and there are some very interesting delays and reverbs present which is a formidable achievement given the resources available to achieve those sounds back then.

Think Pink is a great little gem that's well worth investigating by any psychedelia fan, kraut fans will find something to enjoy here IN THIS GREAT ALBUM too.

Line-up / Musicians

- Twink [ Tabla,Drums,Vocal ]
- Paul Randolph [ Lead Guitar,acoustic Guitar ]
- Wally Allen [ Piano ]
- John Povey [ Mellotron ]
- Steve Peregrine Took [ vocal effects,pixie horn ]
- John Wood [ Bass Guitar ]

- Honk [ Bass Guitar ]

Songs / Tracks Listing

SIDE ONE

1. The Coming Of The One (3:51)
2. Ten Thousand Words In A Cardboard Box (4:30)
3. Dawn Of Magic (1:44)
4. Tiptoe On The Highest Hill (5:19)
5. Fluid (4:08)

SIDE TWO

6. Mexican Grass War (5:30)
7. Rock And Roll The Joint (2:32)
8. Suicide (4:26)
9. Three Little Piggies (3:15)
10. The Sparrow Is A Sign (2:24)

ULTRA RARE AND VERY HARD TO FIND A NICE GERMAN COPY LIKE THIS ONE!

Alder's career began in 1963 as a member of a rhythm and blues band from Colchester called Dane Stephens and the Deep Beats. After a year, the band changed its name to The Fairies.The Fairies were sent gifts and Alder, having long curly hair, regularly received bottles of Twink brand home perm lotion. It was at this time that he adopted 'Twink' as his stage name.In 1964 The Fairies recorded the single "Don't Think Twice It's Alright" for the Decca Records label. In 1965 they recorded two singles, "Don't Mind" and "Get Yourself Home".The band split at some date before 1967.

In 1965 Twink moved to London and lived in Chelsea. When The Fairies came to a halt, he joined a rhythm and blues/soul music band called The In-Crowd after its previous drummer had left the band. Other members were Steve Howe (guitar) and Keith West.A few months later the band was renamed Tomorrow. The success of West's solo recording Excerpt From A Teenage Opera resulted in the band breaking up.In Joe Boyd's book White Bicycles he cites a Tomorrow show at UFO Club and, in particular, Twink's performance, as the zenith of 60's pop culture.

Twink replaced Skip Allen in The Pretty Things and participated in the making of the album S.F. Sorrow. He was also a member of this group when they appeared in the Norman Wisdom film, 'What's Good For The Goose'. He became noted for outrageous behaviour, such as climbing the speaker stacks and diving into the audience when the band performed at a free open-air concert in London's Hyde Park.

He recorded his first solo album, Think Pink, with The Deviants, including Mick Farren (who produced the album), Paul Rudolph who played guitar, as well as Steve Peregrin Took.

The line up of The Pink Fairies (Mark 1) featured Think Pink musicians Twink, Took and Farren, and was named after the Pink Fairies Rock 'n' Roll Club, a loose group of people including Took, Farren, The Deviants, Syd Barrett (still at the time in Pink Floyd). They were resident in Ladbroke Grove, the home of the UK Underground.

Pink Fairies (Mark 2) was formed with Twink and former Deviants (but without Mick Farren). He left The Pink Fairies in 1971 (although he would periodically return) and after a spell in Morocco moved to Cambridge where he played with Syd Barrett, in Stars, after which he moved back to London.

In 1987 he rejoined The Pink Fairies for a reunion tour.

He periodically performed with fellow Ladbroke Grove community band Hawkwind.

He also collaborated with Hawkwind founder Nik Turner in the band PinkWind. Turner brought in the Wind and Twink, as a member of The Pink Fairies provided the Pink. PinkWind released two albums. Some line-ups also featured Judge Trev Thoms of Inner City Unit and Steve Took's Horns.

Early in 1972 Twink played in the short lived trio Stars with Syd Barrett and bassist Jack Monck. Stars played a handful of shows which were well received. However, Syd, fragile mentally, quit after reading a negative review by Roy Hollingworth in Melody Maker.

Gritty psychedelia, quite ahead of it's time!

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