The REX live in a world of imagery sensed through the expression of all cultures awoked by their music, which Marc defines as 'acoustical". And certainly the roar of the Tyrannosaurus, backed by bongos, cymbals, gongs, pixiphone, etc., is a vibrationary experience which thrills the skin and collects in the ears, to be absorbed later into the head, and there to remain. 

Melodic inventiveness is well demonstrated in their LP entitled: 

My people were fair 
And had sky in their hair 
But now they're content 
To wear stars on their brows 

containing gems like ⌠Wielder of Words" (mantra-rock); "Afghan Woman' (oriental raga-like rock); ⌠Hot Rod Mama■ (super-hype); and lyrical-beat numbers like "Dwarfish Trumpet Blues". The distinct tinge of blues in the latter indicates that the possibilities of jazz-rock are being explored, although they have never played straight jazz. 

Tyrannosaurus Rex is an unlikely name for one as un-assuming, mild-mannered and soft-spoken as Marc, who is more in the image of a little gecko lizard, but the great reptile has always fascinated him. 

⌠When I was in bed with measles, aged eight, I read about prehistoric monsters and dug the whole scene, because they were so like dragons that could have breathed fire and smoke and somehow, because they existed, they justified unicorns and centaurs and the whole NARNIA scene. And years later, reading the Ray Bradbury story about a tyrannosaurus, reminded me of that time. And then I saw the sequence in FANTASIA which really freaked me out. And all the kids about eight and nine got really hung up with it, to I took the name. It▓s nice to make them happy thinking of it. 

"I relive my childhood through my songs, because I got inside things, like records and books, and live them. The textures of the past interest me, I never write for the future. Names, strings of words, odd books gas me, names of herbs just break me up, freak me out completely , I can groove a whole story out of just the name of a herb. It represents so many images to me I have to write them down so other people can dig it. I just write the things I want to read because I've never found it written. There are so few books like THE LORD OF THE RINGS and the NARNIA books, that once you've read them, you want more, and there just aren't any around. So I just write my own things. 

⌠I'm very unmusical. I don't know any chords or anything. When I write, the words and music come together, normally very roughly, but I start getting high on it and just can't stop, until I blow my mind off and it all comes bubbling out. A couple of weeks later it all comes together after rehearsing. Last summer we did it for nothing, now it▓s nice that we▓re getting paid bread for it. But we are still doing it for free this summer. We have permission from the council to use the bandstand in certain parks known to us all, as long as we don't advertise it. 

⌠Anyway we're not looking for publicity. We're not doing interviews at all, ever. as far as I'm concerned. 

⌠But I don't mind here in GANDALF'S GARDEN because it's a nice scene. We stopped talking to writers who do this sort of things some time ago. I'm frightened to talk to the press, only because I'd say what I feel and we'd got put inside, man. And you know, if you don't want to go into a pub to do an interview, they don't want to know, and you get misrepresented. I am saying what I am, I look like what I am, because it's too much of an effort to keep up an image. 

"My musical style it me as a person, although I never feel that it is just me doing it, it▓s more like my astral self. I do believe in the Guardian Angel scene. I don't think there's anything I do that isn't directed. 

"If I had a guru, I'd like him to be just an old cat who lives in a cottage in Cornwall, who had it all sussed out his own way, but who was also cool. But that person is within me anyway. Maharishi just brings me down. My real Guru, if I'm gonna have one, it Cod. And he's not Cod. 

"Christ must have been a gas. I think he was a very turned-on guy, and very much with God. God is the coolest thing of all. I think if I'm just a splinter out of his head, then he must be a bit like me, not much though. I see him as a monster sun that opens in the middle and you could get sucked into it and out the other side. Where you come out, I don't know, that▓s only my imagery. But it's a preparation for birth. We're only people and that▓s a bit of a drag. 

⌠I▓ve never read about religion, but it is the way I feel it. You are born and born again until you reach the ultimate, until you reach another scene, get into another dimension. I have no doubt about reincarnation. It's just there, like I'm there. I can't conceive myself as any ultimate. I can't possibly see the end." 

For an expanding circle of fans Tyrannosaurus Rex is the beginning - a loveable mind-blowing lizard striking pleasurable terror into the heart of those in growing earshot.