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GONZO WEEKLY #173: Jon meets the bloke who makes Pink Fairies Ac
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I am always particularly fond of obsessives and enthusiasts, and even fonder of enthusiastic obsessives; those who do things that nobody else would have dreamt of doing purely because they can. Years ago when I was on the phone to dear departed Mick Farren, he told me of one such obsessive—a man who made action figures of the Pink Fairies no less. Mick promised to hunt out this man's address, but then he died and all sorts of plans that we had disappeared into the aether. Then, three years later along comes famed Gonzo artist and graphic whatnot dude Martin Cook. Had I heard of the bloke who made action gigs of the PFs he asked me? Yes, but I have been wanting to get in touch with him for years, I replied, and in two shakes of a gnat's tail the deed was done, and I was in touch with a jolly nice fellow called Tony who sent me this: “My PF's themed model making really started back in '04 when Larry Wallis released his solo album 'Death in the Guitar Afternoon'. There was a PO box address printed on the fold