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With a belt, y'know, a bit of blood and the whole of Los Angeles shuts up. To counter this, he drew from the shock rock style of Iggy Pop as Took explained to the NME in 1972 'I took my shirt off in the Sunset Strip where we were playing and whipped myself till everybody shut up. Additionally, the acoustic duo were overshadowed by the loud electric acts they were billed with. Took was contractually obliged to go on the US tour, but his heart was not in it and he attempted to cope through taking drugs. Bolan was severely affected by the spiked drink and considered Took to be the prime suspect. Took had already earned himself the nickname 'The Phantom Spiker' (in which he rejoiced) through previous similar pranks. Another contributing factor was an incident at the launch party for the UK edition of Rolling Stone, where jugs of punch prepared for the event were spiked with the hallucinogen STP. Consequently, before the first Tyrannosaurus Rex tour of America, Bolan and his management sacked Took. While in Tyrannosaurus Rex, Took also appeared as a backing vocalist on a session for David Bowie, the results of which can be heard on the BBC sessions album Bowie at the Beeb.Įventually, Took donated two of his songs to former Tomorrow and Pretty Things drummer Twink's 1969 solo album, Think Pink. Took worked with Syd Barrett on unreleased 'Ramadan' tracks. Mick Farren, in his memoir Give The Anarchist A Cigarette, recalled that Took would 'drag a bemused Syd Barrett along' to events in Ladbroke Grove in the late 1960s Took remained friends with Barrett well into the 1970s. In addition, Took's friendship with Bolan's idol Syd Barrett had also developed through their shared interests in both LSD and 'strange musical noises'. The relationship was deteriorating badly-Bolan barely tolerated Took's drug use, and Steve Mann recalled that it was clear they 'cordially detested each other'. Bolan was living quietly with wife-to-be June Child, while Took was rapidly forging links with 'revolutionary' underground acts, such as The Deviants and The Pretty Things. By this time, their lifestyles were in direct conflict. Took developed his own songwriting and in early 1969, with recording just complete on Tyrannosaurus Rex's third LP, Unicorn, Took suggested to Bolan that the duo could perform some of his own material Bolan refused.

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Towards the end of his time in the band, as Bolan began returning to the electric guitar, Took returned to a full drum set and also contributed some bass guitar parts. Took's arrangements contributed to transforming Bolan's music from the straightforward rock 'n roll it had previously been into an exotic brew of musical styles designed to appeal to Bolan's new audience of hippies.

Took contributed harmony backing vocals, which are more noticeable in live recordings than on studio recordings, and provided bongos, African drums, kazoo, pixiphone, and Chinese gong. The flower-power unit, championed by John Peel onto the club and stage circuit and thence into the record shops, released three albums and achieved two top 40 hits. After one disastrous concert at the Electric Garden in London, Bolan and Took reduced the band to a duo, busking in subways on acoustic guitar and bongos, Took having been obliged to sell his full drum kit to pay the rent until paying gigs started to come in.

#Peregrin took nickname mod#

At the age of 17, having played drums for some months with a mod band named the Waterproof Sparrows, he answered an advert in Melody Maker for Tyrannosaurus Rex, the electric band that Marc Bolan was forming following his departure from John's Children. He took his name from the hobbit Peregrin Took in J. Took was born Stephen Ross Porter in Eltham, London, on 28 July 1949, and attended Shooters Hill School. Early life and Tyrannosaurus Rex (1967–1969)