Finland Freakout 1971
By Pink Fairies
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Track listing
- 1 Introduction 0:45
- 2 Tomorrow Never Knows 6:39
- 3 The Snake 6:37
- 4 Uncle Harry's Last Freakout 20:08
- 5 Walk Don't Run 13:22
- Total length: 47:31
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Finland Freakout 1971 [p] Archival, Live
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Not the best of the archival material but certainly worth a listen for fans of this crazy band. Chaotic fuzz filled psychedelic noise rock. I'd skip this and get _Fuzz Freakout 1970-1971_ instead as this album is the bonus tracks.
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A stormingly loud live recording contrasting with Paul Rudolph's delightfully hippieish stage banter. Tomorrow Never Knows is done violence, a bludgeoning version of The Snake is unzipped and set free, Uncle Harry rides again and Walk Don't Run is flattened by a ten tonne lorry. The only way this could be improved on is if it had live versions of Do It and Teenage Rebel.
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'Turku, Finland... I remember the clear, crisp, bright, beautiful mountain air...' Sorry, Russell Hunter. The nearest mountains are almost a thousand kilometres away. '...The armed guards at the airport...' What, in the '70s Finland?! '...We were staying in a typical Eastern European hotel of the times...' I doubt it! I guess Mr. Hunter had no idea that this would be released in Finland or then he just didn't care. Every Finn knows that his statements are wrong.
The album itself is a worthy document from the second Ruisrock festival (definitely not the first rock festival in Finland, like Sanderson – this time – recalls) in Turku 1971. The problem with it is that the music isn't very good. The overall sound is surprisingly fair, probably thanks to the mastering by Richard Evans. The band starts with a slightly-better-than-average version of "Tomorrow Never Knows", and closes with a completely freaked-up jam version of "Walk Don't Run" including vocal fragments. What is in between is 'original' Pink Fairies material, and I would call it quite useless. At the festival it may have felt different, or then not.
The album itself is a worthy document from the second Ruisrock festival (definitely not the first rock festival in Finland, like Sanderson – this time – recalls) in Turku 1971. The problem with it is that the music isn't very good. The overall sound is surprisingly fair, probably thanks to the mastering by Richard Evans. The band starts with a slightly-better-than-average version of "Tomorrow Never Knows", and closes with a completely freaked-up jam version of "Walk Don't Run" including vocal fragments. What is in between is 'original' Pink Fairies material, and I would call it quite useless. At the festival it may have felt different, or then not.
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Ah, the Fairies. If there was ever a band you could hold up against today's sterile, predictable, banal rock music to teach young whippersnappers about the value of chaos, noise and reckless power, the Pink Fairies might be the best choice. Sure, you can also invoke the MC5, Stooges, Hawkwind, Funkadelic, Blue Cheer, and many, many more, But lately, as I'm often struck by just how trite and dead mainstream rock is, I think of these guys. Not a bunch of noise-mongers, the Fairies could play, but weren't chops oriented. They almost always managed to find the perfect balance of anarchy and sructure, unbridled power and amateurish enthusiasm. This concert document, rather similar to others that have been unearthed in recent years, carries with it both great sound, very live but certainly better than bootleg quality, illustrates all of that. The fact that you can ear equal amounts of Sex Pistols and Black Sabbath in the band's loose but heavy, driving playing is also worth noting, revealing that the poles of punk, metal and rock are not nearly as far apart as the rock critic elite would have us believe. Which means that this record, and the Pink Fairies themselves were that example of rock's very own inconvenient truth; sometimes the music is just the music, for it's own sake, outside of politics, fashion, scenes and anyone's personal, critical ax to grind. For that cohesion of beautiful anarchism, we must thank the Fairies for leading us to the water, forcing our heads underwater and forcing us to drink.
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A fuzz power shoot in the face of raw hard psych and hard rock live power, a must have CD !!!!! awesome sound !!!
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1 Introduction
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Tomorrow Never Knows
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3
The Snake
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Uncle Harry's Last Freakout
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Walk Don't Run
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