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Extracts taken from the Forced Exposure # 11, (winter 1987) Nigel Cross interview.
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NIGEL CROSS: In Pete Frame's Hawkwind/Pink Fairies Family Tree, I think he lists Shagrat as the first real Larry Wallis band.
LARRY WALLIS: Well, before that happened there was The Entire Sioux Nation. That's when I really started to get real. Anyway, Bryan Ferry had this band called Gas Bolt and I didn't know anything about them, but I heard they were doing these auditions and that if you were any good you'd get to go to Germany. So I went down and there's Bryan Ferry and Gas Bolt and they all look like twits, except for the drummer. He had Hendrix hair, a mirrored waistcoats, red boots.. .So, I'm sitting back there, skinny as a rake, looking like Jim Hendrix in all the same gear. When they came off stage I got hold of the drummer and he said, Blimey. You look just like me". I said, "Yeah, I know. You wanna be in a Jimi Hendrix type band?"
He says "Excuse me Bryan, I'm leaving.
Wow. There and then he left. He went back home to Newcastle, got his drums and gear -- he was seventeen, so was I. -- Paul Nichols. He said to his mum and dad, "See ya later, I'm goin' to London."
He knew a bass player called Tim Taylor and we all lived at my mum and dad's house for two years. None of us wanted to be the frontman, so we got a singer from the Eyes of Blue --Terry Nolder. So there we were the Entire Sioux Nation.
We're down at the Speakeasy one night -- we'd play there all the fuckin' time that they'd give us 'cause Hendrix used to go there --and this group of people came in. They're wearing pink velvet jackets, they've got hair over their shoulders. They're Mick Farren, Steve Peregrine Took and various other members of the Pink Fairies All Star Rock a Roll Show & Motorcycle Circus - which was a drinking club!
So I'm up there doing Jimi Hendrix OOH WHEE WHOO WAH WAH WHEE and they're all right in front of me freaking out. Ever time we finish, YAAAHHHH !"
I'm thinking -- hey, they like me. Well, it seems that Mick Farren and Steve Took have always wanted to form a band, so they got hold of me sad said, LOOIC -- do you want to join a bigger league?" "Yeah." The Entire Sioux Nation sort of came to a halt.
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