@@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!
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!
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.
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!!!!
@@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 !
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
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
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.
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!
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.
Couldn’t imagine seeing a band this nuts in 1965. They make The Stones look like The Mamas & Papas lol
Phil May made Michelle Phillips look like Cass Elliot!
Stones WAAAAAY tighter.
Yeah, I totally agree !!!
Even more so, "yard-who" ???
I'll probably go to hell for, that !!! 😂
@@steveconn Yes, tighter, more controlled, but not so WILD !
Derek Taylor the lead guitarist was in an earlier version of the Rolling Stones.
RIP Phil May, the most under rated frontman of rock and roll!
Agreed
One of the most underrated bands ever!
Viv Prince was a fantastic drummer!
Real deal English group , Make the Stones look the middle class twerps they are just playing the rebel game 😂
Who needed punk when you've got these guys.
Brilliant!!!
It WAS Punk !!!
@@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
U got that right brother😊😊😊😊
"Something always happens when we play this song."
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.
They should show the audience! They're part of the event!
@@publicanimal Part of it, but not the whole of it.
The Stones made a big point about the Pretties not receiving the same TV coverage as themselves.
Chaotic, nonchalant, proto-mosh-hardcore, sloppy. "Rosalyn", oh, the drummer! I loved it! I don't even know what the Rolling Stones are!
A world wide successful band.
In my old rock encyclopaedia Nic Cohn is quoted as saying: "The Pretty Things make the Stones look like a tea party in the vicarage.
Crazy long hair for 1965. Hair looks like 1967 for most bands
0:00 Big Boss Man
1:40 You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
6:07 Road Runner
9:05 Rosalyn
11:24 Don't Bring Me Down
13:24 Honey, I Need
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!
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!
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?!!..
Too much anti-establishment rebellion plus mis-management...
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.
Couldn't write good songs and the singer couldn't sing.
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!!!!
A pleasure🤘🙏
this footage should be studied by anthropologists - the audience wants to mosh but can't figure out how
I really like the music, but as social documentary, this film is priceless.
i love how mick was threatened by him and stole his dance moves, then they became leaders in psych🤣
@@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 !
Give it time
Even the audience seems so raw, discovering along with this band the rockabilly/blues combo...beginnings👊👍✌✌✌
In Los AngeLes at this time it was Sky Saxon & the Seeds doing it Like this too !
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
True treasonable exp I always dig free form free expression . Viv was the topper!
Wow! This is it and everything - raw dirty ‘Things!
cant beleive this was in 65….two years ahead easy
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
PhiL May was the very first " Long Hair " in London . . .
" CLean Living Under DifficuLt Circumstances . . . " - Peter Meaden
No one had hair like Phil.
Screaming Lord Sutch might of beat him to the punch.
Arthur Lee, Love, often mentioned as " first hippy" after Jesus of course
Dave Davies had long hair around this time as well
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.
Blokker Hallen, Netherlands april 1965
This show happened at the Blokker Festival 19. april 1965
Mixture of RB and garage punk. Drummer Viv Prince was the forerunner to the wild stage antics Keith Moon was to do with the Who.
They were one of the first bands that dropped acid
That was clumsy of dem dar Pretty Things!
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!
No cell phones
The hairiest & the scariest!!
Absolutely Awesome! What a band to have seen live in action. The vinyls didn't quite expose this facet!!
Many thanks for this gem.
This is absolutely nothing.......wtf is this
Up to now, I didn't realise the first iteration of this band had two guitarists, instead of just one.
Dick Taylor on lead guitar, and Brian Pendleton on rhythm guitar. :)
I still have Dick Richard's autograph after all these years. 1964?
Oh you mean Dick Taylor?
Das ist die 1. Besetzung
The Beatles were the good ones, the Stones were the bad ones - and the Pretty Things were evil.
People knew how to actually rock out then.
Very pretty...
6:07 MY FAVORITE VERSION
Hysterical. Love when they put up the fence. Lol.
I was too years old. Guntars Melbārdis
Mike Stax was right.
Mike Stax is always right.
@@AyliCarper-Mike AND John Stax! (Not related, of course…) 😉🎶✌️
They were better on records than live.
If only POP IDOL was like this 😂
That's great! Thanks a lot! Is it Vive Prince on drums?
YES!!
They cant have know what was about to hit them.......
Fontana stereo r1965"the pretty things live !"album😊😊😊😊
They were quite different in a small venue with no TV or Press around !....
That crowd is seriously black beautied!!!!!
Viv Prince
the pretty things were the best back then wild things bless them
Found out about this band from movie 'Monster Club'.
Seems way ahead of it's time, the whole scene, audience too.
Viv is actually swatting flies @3:50
whos playing the hatmonica?
PUNK ROCK!!!!
The Netherlands?
Yep !
Yeah, . . . . those were the days !
Anybody know what vanue and the specific date this concert was on?
19 April 1965 at the Blokker Festival in the Netherlands
@@VirreFriberg Thanks!!
Punk
Phil did more than change into a black sweater during their break before the second set…the start of Roadrunner shows a man possessed !
Just The Pretty Things. I like The Road Runner...
Guntars Melbärdis
I got a few of their albums as this band are absolutely brilliant
The group waiting to perform in the upper left of the picture is Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders.
You had to be there unbeatable live ,best live bad ever and you never knew what could happen next .shame all crap recording on u tube etc
Pretty Things Yes, I need Prtetty Things.
This was longer hair than anybody
is that viv prince on drums?
Yes!
@@truethought62my fave skin sticker
Remember seeing a photo of Viv Prince carrying a lobster about at some airport
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.
Wallop 👊🏼
Go,cat,Go!
EYE DIG )))))
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Mods !
Where was this?
This show/mayhem was at the Blokker Festival in Holland 19. april 1965
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.
Get a vocalist with charisma, a decent mic, and a tighter band and they may have approached the Stones!
WOW!