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  • @nigelandavrilswift1273
    @nigelandavrilswift1273 Рік тому +32

    One of the most underrated bands ever!

  • @jndrummer5131
    @jndrummer5131 3 роки тому +80

    RIP Phil May, the most under rated frontman of rock and roll!

  • @doorknob1
    @doorknob1 2 роки тому +49

    Who needed punk when you've got these guys.
    Brilliant!!!

    • @desertbootguy
      @desertbootguy Рік тому +11

      It WAS Punk !!!

    • @jolu4294
      @jolu4294 10 місяців тому +3

      @@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.

    • @desertbootguy
      @desertbootguy 10 місяців тому

      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

    • @TyroneEpps
      @TyroneEpps 6 місяців тому

      U got that right brother😊😊😊😊

    • @Siva-p4n
      @Siva-p4n 2 місяці тому

      @@desertbootguy
      No. What we now call Punk were the Pretty Things.

  • @joki5346
    @joki5346 2 роки тому +22

    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.

  • @JamesMolyneux62
    @JamesMolyneux62 Рік тому +30

    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!!!!

  • @dadadrew
    @dadadrew Рік тому +10

    cant beleive this was in 65….two years ahead easy

  • @xdef1ne
    @xdef1ne 2 роки тому +94

    Couldn’t imagine seeing a band this nuts in 1965. They make The Stones look like The Mamas & Papas lol

    • @chrisyonts9652
      @chrisyonts9652 Рік тому +5

      Phil May made Michelle Phillips look like Cass Elliot!

    • @steveconn
      @steveconn Рік тому +5

      Stones WAAAAAY tighter.

    • @andrewstruzyk9954
      @andrewstruzyk9954 Рік тому +1

      Yeah, I totally agree !!!
      Even more so, "yard-who" ???
      I'll probably go to hell for, that !!! 😂

    • @bernardcoupu9730
      @bernardcoupu9730 Рік тому +8

      @@steveconn Yes, tighter, more controlled, but not so WILD !

    • @chrishutchison4875
      @chrishutchison4875 Рік тому +4

      Derek Taylor the lead guitarist was in an earlier version of the Rolling Stones.

  • @jolu4294
    @jolu4294 10 місяців тому +12

    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!

  • @geoffberesford
    @geoffberesford 3 роки тому +51

    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.

    • @publicanimal
      @publicanimal 2 роки тому +5

      They should show the audience! They're part of the event!

    • @geoffberesford
      @geoffberesford 2 роки тому +4

      @@publicanimal Part of it, but not the whole of it.

    • @mikhailbirukov7853
      @mikhailbirukov7853 2 роки тому +6

      The Stones made a big point about the Pretties not receiving the same TV coverage as themselves.

    • @PAULLONDEN
      @PAULLONDEN Місяць тому +1

      @@mikhailbirukov7853 Indeed , Andrew Oldham was very crafty in making sure his boys remained the baddest , which meant keeping this lot from "Ready Steady Go" and such shows. It seems The Pretty Things' management didn't had the professional ability and sophistication to counter that.

  • @edgeman148
    @edgeman148 Місяць тому +1

    I was lucky enough to see them around this time, they were bloody raw and brilliant and along with the original Yardbirds and blew my mind before Hendrix. Blimey, it's great to be a great grandfather :)

  • @tynosille6747
    @tynosille6747 Рік тому +10

    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!

  • @kasiii7533
    @kasiii7533 Рік тому +19

    Viv Prince was a fantastic drummer!

    • @f.w.2054
      @f.w.2054 Місяць тому

      Also a looney!

    • @f.w.2054
      @f.w.2054 Місяць тому

      Also a looney!

    • @f.w.2054
      @f.w.2054 Місяць тому

      Also a looney!

    • @f.w.2054
      @f.w.2054 Місяць тому

      He was also a lunatic!!

    • @f.w.2054
      @f.w.2054 Місяць тому

      And a lunatic!

  • @PAULLONDEN
    @PAULLONDEN Місяць тому +1

    Thanks , this is the best quality version of that legendary "Blokker" performance .

  • @oywee928
    @oywee928 Рік тому +6

    This show happened at the Blokker Festival 19. april 1965

  • @startervisions
    @startervisions 25 днів тому

    ...for 1965, this remarkably - wild, unhinged, and chaotic, for a rock n roll performance...there were bands who sounded like this 1964, on records...but a video of a live performance, this is one of a kind as far as I've ever seen...The Rolling Stones were somewhat wild, but not unhinged and chaotic...The Who were wild and chaotic, but only at the end of thier show as an encore...this Pretty Things performance is unhinged with an abandon, wild from start to finish, chaotic to the point of concern...they look and sound like they aren't even listening to eachother...they're all looking at the audience and going crazy...Iggy Pop and The Stooges took this method to it's extreme in 1968, but for 1965, this is about as "punk" as punk rock could have ever been...intriguing stuff...thank you!

  • @Mncrr
    @Mncrr Рік тому +10

    Crazy long hair for 1965. Hair looks like 1967 for most bands

  • @illiadmcswain3956
    @illiadmcswain3956 3 роки тому +21

    Even the audience seems so raw, discovering along with this band the rockabilly/blues combo...beginnings👊👍✌✌✌

  • @slowADSR
    @slowADSR 2 роки тому +13

    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

    • @maxsno
      @maxsno Рік тому

      True treasonable exp I always dig free form free expression . Viv was the topper!

  • @arlysilver
    @arlysilver Рік тому +8

    Wow! This is it and everything - raw dirty ‘Things!

  • @glgl1327
    @glgl1327 Рік тому +7

    "Something always happens when we play this song."

  • @michaelpanagiotis7109
    @michaelpanagiotis7109 2 роки тому +10

    In Los AngeLes at this time it was Sky Saxon & the Seeds doing it Like this too !

  • @growlerthe2nd712
    @growlerthe2nd712 9 місяців тому +2

    If only POP IDOL was like this 😂

  • @philipking-s1n
    @philipking-s1n Рік тому +3

    Absolutely Awesome! What a band to have seen live in action. The vinyls didn't quite expose this facet!!
    Many thanks for this gem.

  • @m3hnl
    @m3hnl Рік тому +2

    the pretty things were the best back then wild things bless them

  • @drowningman
    @drowningman 2 роки тому +16

    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

  • @guntarsmelbardis3264
    @guntarsmelbardis3264 Рік тому +6

    Very pretty...

  • @tynosille6747
    @tynosille6747 9 місяців тому +2

    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!

  • @ShirleyCipri
    @ShirleyCipri Місяць тому

    Saw them perform back in the mid 60s, at the Cavern Club in Manchester UK . always thought they were great.

  • @АлексейСеменов-р1ь3д

    Классная группа была...кручу..

  • @lazlokovacs2263
    @lazlokovacs2263 2 роки тому +20

    Chaotic, nonchalant, proto-mosh-hardcore, sloppy. "Rosalyn", oh, the drummer! I loved it! I don't even know what the Rolling Stones are!

    • @389383
      @389383 Рік тому

      A world wide successful band.

  • @dylandid50
    @dylandid50 5 місяців тому

    I got a few of their albums as this band are absolutely brilliant

  • @canesvenatici4259
    @canesvenatici4259 2 роки тому +8

    Up to now, I didn't realise the first iteration of this band had two guitarists, instead of just one.

    • @truethought62
      @truethought62 2 роки тому +3

      Dick Taylor on lead guitar, and Brian Pendleton on rhythm guitar. :)

  • @catmandoo5255
    @catmandoo5255 2 роки тому +13

    They were one of the first bands that dropped acid

    • @bobair2
      @bobair2 Рік тому +5

      That was clumsy of dem dar Pretty Things!

  • @lasttree3451
    @lasttree3451 2 роки тому +4

    Hysterical. Love when they put up the fence. Lol.

  • @michaelpanagiotis7109
    @michaelpanagiotis7109 2 роки тому +12

    PhiL May was the very first " Long Hair " in London . . .
    " CLean Living Under DifficuLt Circumstances . . . " - Peter Meaden

    • @schmozzer
      @schmozzer 2 роки тому +2

      No one had hair like Phil.

    • @bobair2
      @bobair2 Рік тому +6

      Screaming Lord Sutch might of beat him to the punch.

    • @maxsno
      @maxsno Рік тому +2

      Arthur Lee, Love, often mentioned as " first hippy" after Jesus of course

    • @kitkat914
      @kitkat914 Рік тому +2

      Dave Davies had long hair around this time as well

  • @Lsdceo
    @Lsdceo 3 місяці тому +1

    6:07 MY FAVORITE VERSION

  • @tonyfleck3029
    @tonyfleck3029 2 роки тому +20

    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?!!..

    • @mikhailbirukov7853
      @mikhailbirukov7853 2 роки тому

      Too much anti-establishment rebellion plus mis-management...

    • @xdef1ne
      @xdef1ne 2 роки тому +9

      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.

    • @389383
      @389383 Рік тому

      Couldn't write good songs and the singer couldn't sing.

  • @emmanuelsantana3369
    @emmanuelsantana3369 Місяць тому

    awasome

  • @schmozzer
    @schmozzer 2 роки тому +6

    I still have Dick Richard's autograph after all these years. 1964?

  • @chrisradano
    @chrisradano 3 роки тому +12

    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.

    • @sstaffords12
      @sstaffords12 2 роки тому +4

      Blokker Hallen, Netherlands april 1965

  • @TyroneEpps
    @TyroneEpps 6 місяців тому +1

    Fontana stereo r1965"the pretty things live !"album😊😊😊😊

  • @AndroidGameCoder
    @AndroidGameCoder 10 місяців тому +1

    Found out about this band from movie 'Monster Club'.

  • @KarlShefelman
    @KarlShefelman 9 місяців тому +1

    Seems way ahead of it's time, the whole scene, audience too.

  • @MrLouandy
    @MrLouandy Рік тому +1

    Yeah, . . . . those were the days !

  • @nurknanker6105
    @nurknanker6105 2 роки тому +6

    The hairiest & the scariest!!

  • @averyadrian1534
    @averyadrian1534 2 роки тому +7

    No cell phones

  • @kasiii7533
    @kasiii7533 Рік тому

    The group waiting to perform in the upper left of the picture is Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders.

  • @royphillips7435
    @royphillips7435 Рік тому +5

    Real deal English group , Make the Stones look the middle class twerps they are just playing the rebel game 😂

  • @HTJB60
    @HTJB60 2 роки тому +2

    They were quite different in a small venue with no TV or Press around !....

  • @KatharineShaw-z8u
    @KatharineShaw-z8u Рік тому +3

    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.

  • @stjust17320
    @stjust17320 Рік тому

    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

  • @vincentcousin5784
    @vincentcousin5784 4 дні тому

    Intense

  • @marcbolan1818
    @marcbolan1818 9 місяців тому +2

    Viv Prince

    • @f.w.2054
      @f.w.2054 Місяць тому

      A legitimate lunatic!

  • @justinspivey8728
    @justinspivey8728 Рік тому +2

    PUNK ROCK!!!!

  • @lonniewild9277
    @lonniewild9277 3 роки тому +36

    this footage should be studied by anthropologists - the audience wants to mosh but can't figure out how

    • @AyliCarper
      @AyliCarper 2 роки тому +8

      I really like the music, but as social documentary, this film is priceless.

    • @eclipsedeuphoria
      @eclipsedeuphoria 2 роки тому +8

      i love how mick was threatened by him and stole his dance moves, then they became leaders in psych🤣

    • @johnceglick8714
      @johnceglick8714 2 роки тому +1

      @@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 !

    • @maxsno
      @maxsno Рік тому

      Give it time

  • @gwugluud
    @gwugluud Рік тому +5

    People knew how to actually rock out then.

  • @silentbloodyslayer98
    @silentbloodyslayer98 2 роки тому +8

    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

  • @guntarsmelbardis3264
    @guntarsmelbardis3264 Рік тому

    Just The Pretty Things. I like The Road Runner...
    Guntars Melbärdis

  • @guntarsmelbardis3264
    @guntarsmelbardis3264 Рік тому

    I was too years old. Guntars Melbārdis

  • @catholiccowboy8545
    @catholiccowboy8545 7 місяців тому +1

    They were better on records than live.

  • @f.w.2054
    @f.w.2054 Місяць тому

    Viv Prince was the ultimate looney!

  • @georgecrumb9099
    @georgecrumb9099 Місяць тому

    Moon took.EVERYTHING from Viv Princes style.

  • @ЖогинЕвгений
    @ЖогинЕвгений Рік тому +3

    That's great! Thanks a lot! Is it Vive Prince on drums?

  • @radiomindchatter7994
    @radiomindchatter7994 Рік тому +2

    The Netherlands?

  • @doctorrobert1339
    @doctorrobert1339 2 роки тому +1

    Anybody know what vanue and the specific date this concert was on?

    • @VirreFriberg
      @VirreFriberg 2 роки тому +1

      19 April 1965 at the Blokker Festival in the Netherlands

    • @doctorrobert1339
      @doctorrobert1339 2 роки тому +1

      @@VirreFriberg Thanks!!

  • @Siva-p4n
    @Siva-p4n 8 місяців тому +1

    The Beatles were the good ones, the Stones were the bad ones - and the Pretty Things were evil.

  • @herbertbaumann2107
    @herbertbaumann2107 11 місяців тому

    Pretty Things Yes, I need Prtetty Things.

  • @jorgeperez9842
    @jorgeperez9842 4 місяці тому

    whos playing the hatmonica?

  • @andrewfindlay9099
    @andrewfindlay9099 Рік тому

    Remember seeing a photo of Viv Prince carrying a lobster about at some airport

    • @TGTG-vp9wg
      @TGTG-vp9wg 10 місяців тому

      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.

  • @fromthemakersof5529
    @fromthemakersof5529 8 місяців тому

    Wallop 👊🏼

  • @andrewburgess6417
    @andrewburgess6417 3 місяці тому

    Viv is actually swatting flies @3:50

  • @carlscott5447
    @carlscott5447 2 роки тому +8

    Mike Stax was right.

    • @AyliCarper
      @AyliCarper 2 роки тому +6

      Mike Stax is always right.

    • @truethought62
      @truethought62 2 роки тому

      @@AyliCarper-Mike AND John Stax! (Not related, of course…) 😉🎶✌️

  • @kevinharrison642
    @kevinharrison642 2 роки тому +3

    They cant have know what was about to hit them.......

  • @neil1390
    @neil1390 11 місяців тому

    Go,cat,Go!

  • @chuckabbate5924
    @chuckabbate5924 Рік тому +1

    That crowd is seriously black beautied!!!!!

  • @billlloyd4029
    @billlloyd4029 2 роки тому +4

    is that viv prince on drums?

    • @truethought62
      @truethought62 2 роки тому +6

      Yes!

    • @maxsno
      @maxsno Рік тому +3

      ​@@truethought62my fave skin sticker

  • @Karolinerochap
    @Karolinerochap Рік тому

    Where was this?

    • @oywee928
      @oywee928 Рік тому +1

      This show/mayhem was at the Blokker Festival in Holland 19. april 1965

  • @guntarsmelbardis3264
    @guntarsmelbardis3264 Рік тому

    No comments

  • @TGTG-vp9wg
    @TGTG-vp9wg 10 місяців тому

    Phil did more than change into a black sweater during their break before the second set…the start of Roadrunner shows a man possessed !

  • @daveyvane
    @daveyvane Рік тому

    This was longer hair than anybody

  • @dominiquemessager3008
    @dominiquemessager3008 Місяць тому

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @larrycreature7292
    @larrycreature7292 Рік тому

    EYE DIG )))))

  • @michaelpanagiotis7109
    @michaelpanagiotis7109 2 роки тому

    Mods !

  • @pierpaolodeiulis7783
    @pierpaolodeiulis7783 6 місяців тому

    Punk

  • @bentmller675
    @bentmller675 2 роки тому +3

    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.

  • @thorstenriedel3152
    @thorstenriedel3152 5 місяців тому +1

    This is absolutely nothing.......wtf is this

  • @steveconn
    @steveconn Рік тому +2

    Get a vocalist with charisma, a decent mic, and a tighter band and they may have approached the Stones!

    • @dreamok732
      @dreamok732 2 місяці тому

      You're trying to compare the Rolling Stones of 1965 with the Stones circa 1985. If you were around at the time this was the cooler band.