Bowie And Legend Sign Petition Against T Rex Tribute Band Message Board and Comments

It is good, such things come to public now, (though it's sad you'll need headline names like David Bowie or Roy Wood to get noticed at all...) Finally this is NOT a competition between rival bands or musicians. I would like to see as many bands keeping Marc Bolan's music alive as possible - It's just the NAME. In fact this band uses Bolan's original biography, too, claiming to be the original / original followers. At least it all is so simple: "No Bolan, No T.Rex" / "No Lennon, No Beatles" / "No milk, No milkshake" Everyone who serious is into music, please sign in. KEEP HISTORY REAL Jörg Günther (aka 'Rexpert')

It is quite sad that a musician that played with Marc for such a short period feels that he can now claim the name of T.Rex for himself. I have to comment about Barry's claim re their show...T.REXTASY (not this 'new' T.Rex')in the UK remains the only band that has ever been endorsed by Wizard Artists (Marc's original publiching company)and has been seen and recommended by original T.Rex people and family including Gloria Jones (Marc's girlfriend), June Bolan (Marc's wife), Bill Legend (THE original drumme r), Tony Visconti (Marc's Producer), Mickey Finn (Percussionist) Dino Dines (Marc's keyboardist), Miller Anderson (Marc's guitarist) Harry Feld (Marc's Brother), Rolan Bolan (Marc's son) etc etc...the only person of note ever to lay approval on this new band is Rolan (as he guested on stage with them - as he has done with T.Rextasy too!) In fact Rolan's first EVER stage performance was at T.Rextasy's concert for Marc's anniversary at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in 1997 - where coincidently Paul Fenton was invited to play as guest to T.Rextasy! I am not against this band at all because T.Rextasy remain the most popular and authentic tribute to Bolan (see endorsements above), but it's literally just the name of the band that is wrong - even if they changed it to Paul Fenton's T.Rex it wouldn't be THAT bad! One may fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time, and you won't fool the Children of the Revolution. Rock and keep Marc in Your Heart. Danielz (T.Rextasy)

This is fantastic news that Bowie has signed. You can find the petition by google searching 'No Bolan, No T.Rex'... Roy Wood of ELO and Wizzard fame has also signed.