Hunter had been working with Took on a rerecording of acoustic Shagrat song Amanda as a possible single. Longtime Took friend Mick Wayne happened to be in the studios at the time and was roped into the session on guitar. Afterwards, Wayne, Sanderson and Hunter formed a new Pink Fairies lineup which recorded the single Well Well Well. Unhappy at Wayne's songwriting and playing style however, the other two Fairies approached Farren to nominate a successor. Farren's choice was Wallis and he would repeat this choice two years later when asked by Lemmy to suggest a guitarist for the founding lineup of Motörhead. The two band incarnations featuring Wallis recorded the Kings Of Oblivion and On Parole albums respectively. This was to be the start of a long personal and professional relationship between Wallis and Farren which would encompass Wallis' production work and co-songwriting on Farren's second solo album Vampires Stole My Lunch Money. The partnership was renewed in late 2001 when Wallis provided musical backing at Farren's reading of his memoir Give The Anarchist A Cigarrette at London pub Filthy McNasty's. Looking back on Shagrat in 1972, Took opined that the band had suffered from being ahead of its time. Interviewed by Charles Shaar Murray in 1972 for the NME, Took commented that record companies "didn't want to buy Steel Abortion or Peppermint Flickstick. A bit naughty, the words, but then I'd taken in all this American culture and American society in general, and got chemicalised out of it, a general trip, and put it all into words. Now there's Alice Cooper's School's Out and Killer, Hawkwind and the general thing is there now, and it wasn't there then because they couldn't accept that it was gonna sell. I was saying to 'em. "Look, man, look at the Yanks, because we're about three years behind them as far as youth culture is concerned. This is what's gonna sell." and they'd say, 'Oh yes, lads sure, do they really want to hear this sort of thing?" Band members Electric Shagrat Steve Peregrin Took: lead vocals, rhythm guitar, maracas Larry Wallis: lead guitar, backing vocals Tim Taylor: bass Phil Lenoir: drums Acoustic Shagrat Steve Peregrin Took; vocals, acoustic guitar Larry Wallis: acoustic bass Dave Bidwell: percussion (tambourine, handclaps) Timeline Discography References External links Steve Peregrin Took's official website English rock music groups Musical groups established in 1970 Musical groups from London