Pretty Things 1965 Live

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

Where was this?

One of the most underrated bands ever!

Drove my old man nuts 😂👴👍

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.

That crowd is seriously black beautied!!!!!

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

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

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 😂

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

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

This show happened at the Blokker Festival, Holland, 19. april 1965

Pretty Things Yes, I need Prtetty Things.

Go,cat,Go!

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

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

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!

Viv Prince

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

If only POP IDOL was like this 😂

Wallop 👊🏼

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

They were better on records than live.

Punk

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

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

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

whos playing the hatmonica?

Viv Prince was the ultimate looney!

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

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

awasome

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 :)

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

Moon took.EVERYTHING from Viv Princes style.

...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!

Классная группа была...кручу..

Intense

All life's Energy, positivity, hope and excitement, living in the moment when you're young and full of juice, I know it's only rock and roll, but we like it, lived it, yes we did !!....

Something for the conservative people in England in the sixties😅

This show was the invention of the mosh pit

I met this chick. The other day. I wander round the underground. Don't bring me down. For some reason this song stuck with me. Screw the stones. These guys were the real deal. Whether or not you can deal with them on a daily basis.

'Jeez ' just what is wrong with young people today !!!!!...

To me this shows why The Pretty Things were the ultimate mod group

Audio blows, but holy shit bet it sounded killer live with all those Fender 4x4 cabs and all that energy.