Twink With Backbiter - Live At Spaceland, Silverlake CA 4/28/01 Complete Show- Pink Fairies, Rings

1. My Automobile 0:00 2. The Snake 3:38 3. The Fairy 8:12 4. Heavenly Man 11:28 5. Ten Thousand Words In A Cardboard Box 15:50 6. War Girl 20:47 7. I Wanna Be Free 24:55 8. Teenage Rebel 27:49 9. Fractured Sky 31:37 10. Suicide 35:19 11. Tomorrow Never Knows 40:41 12. Do It! 46:22 13. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue 50:48 Twink - lead vocal, percussion Jonathan Hall - guitar, vocal Heath Seifert - bass Bob Lee - drums, additional vocal on Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue Live At Spaceland, Silverlake CA 4/28/01 Recorded from the audience, by a friend of my friend Brad, I think his name was also Brad, and he tracked me down at Spaceland later to give me a cassette copy. Photo of Twink in the seventies from an online rock magazine. https://www.hit-channel.com/interviewtwink-pink-fairiestomorrowthe-pretty-thingsstars/66892 The opportunity for Backbiter to work with Twink came about when I ran into Paul Grant from BOMP! Records one day. I was asking Paul about a show that had just gone down, where Twink had done a short set with the band Stonesour backing him. As they had no plans to do it again, I mentioned that he should do some songs with Backbiter, we were already including Do It! in our set list at the time. Paul put us in touch, and Twink did come out to join us at Al's Bar not long after that. He enjoyed the experience so much, we talked about doing a couple of LA shows, full sets made up of his music. This was the second of those two gigs. It was billed at the time as "The Pink Fairies LA Featuring Twink". In hindsight, this was not a good move and I wish we had been billed the way I am labeling these tracks, as "Twink With Backbiter", or even just "Twink". None of us were really comfortable with the name, feared it would lead to bad feelings, which I think it did. We were also doing songs from Think Pink, and songs from the Rings and his 90s collaboration with Bevis Frond. To my way of thinking, the potential audience that would respond to the "Pink Fairies" name were virtually the exact same people who would have responded to the name "Twink" and maybe checked it out on its merits instead of b******g about use of the PF name. After this show, we lost touch. We regained contact about 8 years ago over Facebook. He now lives in Marakesh having converted to Islam during the later 2000s. Should the circumstances ever align for us to make music again, I would welcome the opportunity. I really enjoyed doing this music with him and found him a lot of fun, all of us did. He livened up a jam party at Heath's house by not just taking the mic with us, but bringing along his neighbor, Arthur "Killer" Kane, who played an entire set of Dolls songs in the living room with Jonathan, Billy Vockeroth, and Charlie Hall. This was a year or two before the Dolls revival, it was kind of shocking to see him, and he was a tall dude so it was like, really shocking. But, one of those things that happened if you spent time around Twink. Peace, my friend.

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