Pay dirt! In Nairobi, intrepid African correspondent and Wallflowers vocalist David Rinck received a mysterious metal box. Inside he found a motherlode of vintage Wallflowers flyers and photos documenting the three phases of this incandescent band. Here’s a small sampling of Phase One, with Dave’s color notes … More to come!
“This was The Wallflowers’ first line-up: David Rinck on vocals, Tommy Clarke on guitar, Paul Howland on bass, Aaron Daniels on drums
“Also, me at the pinball machine – pinball was quite important to the original Wallflowers. We hung out in arcades a lot (especially Funland downtown, which inspired a song of the same name), and at one point I even acquired a pinball machine, which we played for 24-hour marathons.
“Tommy on his motorcycle – a fallback plan for the original Wallflowers, if the music thing didn’t work out, was starting a motorcycle gang.”