don't seem to be breaking out of their environment, I thought it'd be nice to have them on tour." He's not scared they're gonna blast him off stage? "Naah! Not with this band." "This Band" is the new T. Rex, consisting of Tony Newman, Herbie Flowers, (the infamous) Miller Anderson and Dino Dines. It's the only T. Rex that Bolan's been so obviously satisfied with since the basic Finn-Curry-Legend lineup. "What happened was, I'd broken up the old band" (a ragged Cuny-Dines-Lutton-Anderson line-up that never really came together) "and I had to do a Super Sonic for 'Laser Love' and there was no group. "So I said to Herbie and friends, 'Come along'. It was nine o'clock in the morning and we just did it, straight off, five minutes. To make the record with the old band it took a day, and though it was a great song it was a bad record. With this new lot it all went Crack! And I realized that I could record and be excited about it again. "So I booked Air Studios that day and we cut four tracks. The new band is everything I've ever wanted. "John's Children could have been a great group except for inexperience, and the '73 T. Rex was great on record but messy live, although it was what people wanted, what I wanted to do at the time -- it was enough just to be out there...I couldn't believe it all. "But now it's very important to