@@desertbootguy I grew up on 80s and 90s punk and recently got into 60s "punk". my favorite genre ever now. Punk with harmonicas, tambourines, and organs. Amazing.
I got into it buying a 60's punk (BFtG) comp with a Cramps styled cover ... Thinking it was kind of like the Cramps. Still love it. Totally into 70's punk and 80's/90's Hardcore punk ... @@jolu4294
In those days, the media was evidently more interested in looking at the audience than they were in the band. At around this time (circa 1964/5) I attended a powerful concert by this unique band at the 100 Club in London. An experience indelibly imprinted on my memory ever since. Singer Phil May was a one-off phenomenon with a presentation style all his own and in doing so, made the band very exciting to watch . It's such a pity the Pretty Things were denied the exposure that the Rolling Stones had during this period...and therein lies a tale to be told.
The change in music and style from '60-'65 is incredible. You got your early '60s nerdy, goody-two-shoes, all wearing suits, with gaping smiles upon their faces the entire song, to this: protopunk, the long hair, raw sound, attitude, the crowd is pretty much starting a mosh pit/fighting at 2:45, amazing. LOVE the mid-60s music. Hard to believe these people if still alive are in their late 70s nowadays!
Almost 60 years ago I listened to the Pretty Things and loved them .......but never saw them. This footage is such a priceless revelation. Thank you so much for posting this!!!!
How this group slipped under the american radar for the most part baffles me i had parachute but had never heard any cuts from their masterpiece S. F. Sorrow! What a shame im just getting to it almost 60 years later! Better late than never and at least i can legally toke on a hog leg of my favorite weed while listening to it! Times they are a changin!
I saw a concert of the Things in "Beautiful Balloon" in Berlin. After the show I tried to enter backstage and after crowding with many others, I can get Vivian Prince Drumsticks. I play long time with that sticks on my first drumset
This is Absolutely crazy Live footage of a forgotten Great Band!! Please tell me how the Beatles and Stones made it and these very talented Bad boys didn't?!!!.. Probably because with the attitude they had they wouldn't play the game?!!..
Labels hated them, they were basically banned from New Zealand due to nearly burning down our Town Hall & causing riots every night they played while on their week tour of our Country lol. Greatest Psych-Rock band ever.
This band is so underrated! Their S.F.Sorrow album is just as good as the best albums of the day yet here in america i never heard 1 song from it till after parachute was released in 1970 a good album but no where near the Sorrow album. Maybe Sorrow got some airplay on the coasts i dont know but in middle america nothing. Perhaps someone out there can tell me if you ever heard the S.F.Sorrow album on the radio back then. We were Motowned to death here. Still are on any oldies stations. I like a lot of motown songs but british invasion is so overlooked in middle america other than the huge groups. There were so many bands like the pretty things that got no airplay. Status quo is another one. Other than pictures of matchstick men never heard their stuff. Ma kellys greasy spoon was a terrific album that got no airplay. Any of you coasters tell me if you got to hear some of these lesser known groups on the radio? So much great music i had to work at to find when i would see a used record store in whatever city i was in during my traveling time in the 70s. I wore out 2 hard to find S.F.sorrow albums thats why when spotify came out i was delighted to find stuff i hadnt heard in years. Though im now 68 years old my car is usually blaring a pretty things album or a status quo album everyday not to mention a lot of other old forgotten great bands, like Love, grapefruit, the idle race... What a brief moment in time with so many talented bands!
Good stuff from the early days. Live for the music. So where are we tonight? Stockholm? Frankfurt? I bet I could have scored with some of those chicks.
@@AyliCarper Early wild childd / hippies ! 1965 was a turn around year , a harbinger of wat was to come . Turbulence , socially, and politically , and dropping acid ,smoking marijuana , shooting smack ( heroin) , and large consumption of alcohol ! And, of course , sending USAs military to SouthVietnam !
John Stax ruined the piano after he was above it lmao, you can see at 9:00 he got yelled about it then seemed a bunch of musicians were trying to fix it... LOL
That was the disastrous 1965 tour in New Zealand . An intoxicated Viv with his stale lobster was removed from the flight home and was subsequently sacked.
May have his own harmonica style.The boys came out best on records, so much life and energy on those early recordings, but they are not good enough to transform it to stage, you need to play your ass of, night after night,to become a skilled perfor- mer, it"s not something you learn playing at home.
