| Twink сегодня |
[Feb. 21st, 2012|03:11 am] |
Выяснилось интересное - оказывается, Твинк (Twink), культовый британский барабанщик 1960-х, игравший в группах "The Fairies", "Tomorrow" и "The Pink Fairies", а также в "The Pretty Things" времён культового альбома "S.F. Sorrow", "Hawkwind" и в последней группе Сида Барретта "Stars" - шесть лет назад принял ислам, сменил имя и сейчас проживает в Марокко.
Забавные зигзаги совершают иногда биографии... |
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| Дейв Дейвис (The Kinks) о Виве Принсе (2) |
[Feb. 19th, 2012|11:22 pm] |
"…I also struck up a friendship with Viv Prince, the drummer of the Pretty Things, who might have become our drummer if he had shown up for that audition a few years earlier. Viv understood the true art of self-abuse and had the stamina to be permanently stoned. Some days we hung out together and lost all track of time. We would take amphetamines in the morning and share two or three joints, followed by lunchtime drinking sessions in Soho pubs and drinking clubs, all of which knew him on a first name basis. In the evening more pills, some hash, perhaps a fleeting visit to Marquee, but usually to the pub next door. It was great while it lasted, but our mutual quest to get higher that was humanly possible was an empty dream. One day in De Hems, a pub near Chinatown in the West End where many rock journalists from the period congregated, Viv stumbled to a chair and lit up a Winston, cupping his hands and inhaling the cigarette as if it was the last joint on a planet.
‘Viv,’ I said, ‘you do know that’s only a cigarette you’re smoking, don’t you?’ He blanked out for a few seconds before he replied. ‘Yeah, so what? There’s no difference in the end, is there?’
We couldn’t have got any higher. I must confess that sometimes we would get so out of it that here didn’t seem any point."
('Kink: An Autobiography' by Dave Davies; (P) 1996 Boxtree, London) |
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| 69 (& 3) |
[Jan. 28th, 2012|09:57 pm] |
 Дику Тейлору исполнилось 69 лет. ---- И - три года со дня открытия данного сообщества. |
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| Viv Prince in 1963 |
[Nov. 21st, 2011|12:37 am] |
 Carter-Lewis & the Southerners - October 1963 |
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| Дейв Дейвис (The Kinks) о Виве Принсе |
[Nov. 13th, 2011|05:03 pm] |
"…Now we needed a drummer. For some reason there were hardly any drummers around at the time who had the right musical background. Most of the were still hovering in and out of the jazz field. It was very hard to find a drummer who could play a solid-based rock tempo. Most drummers were still ‘thinking cymbals’, thinking jazz. There were a lot of drummers who were jazz snobs. We auditioned many of them but it seemed like we would never find the right one.
There was one guy I really liked called Viv Prince. I had heard him on a session at one of the small recording studios in Denmark Street. But he missed the audition. I found out some time later, when Viv and I became friends, that he’d been stoned the night before the audition and no one could wake him." ('Kink: An Autobiography' by Dave Davies; (P) 1996 Boxtree, London)
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