V01-T02 Thunderwing

.....The natural follow-up to a T. Rex cover would be a T. Rex rarity:

Volume 1: THE PITCHFORK APPROACH, track 2

• 03:47 "THUNDERWING" (Marc Bolan)
• performed by: T. Rex
• original source: B-side, 7" T.Rex Wax Company MARC1 (UK) 05/05/72
• and my source: CD "GREAT HITS" Sounds Marketing System, Inc. MD32-5018 (Japan) 1983

.....I compiled this first volume in 1993 and this song wouldn't appear on CD in the US until 1997 when it became a bonus track on the album "THE SLIDER", home of the A-side METAL GURU. The label 'T. Rex Wax Co.' was actually an imprint on EMI, not an independent label, and these were the first album and second single (after TELEGRAM SAM) on it. Over the last twenty years Bolan's voluminous recorded output (including demos, live shows and wigged-out radio interviews) has been endlessly repackaged. At the time I put the tape together there were still a few B-sides and other items from Bolan's career I was yet to find and wouldn't be making a definitive compilation on him for a while. This car-cruising tune, I thought, deserved to be aired more often.