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The book of guests
I've splitted my guestbook archive ordered by years, 2004 is now a part of the archive.
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Get the pictures
Some photographs taken by me at the Erfurt gig last Sunday. Seems that I need a new digital camera...
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No future?
I've decided to publish tourdates on this page if I get some. And I've got one...
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The book of guests
Get the pictures
I've created a new guestbook, the old ones are still available as a combined collection.
The gallery has got a new section with new photos from the Nuremberg gig in June 2004.
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Growing in my mind
A technical change only: I have transformed the lyrics pages to PHP scripts.
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No future
Really silly news from the United Kingdom: Strange old bastards misuse children's voices for a "legalise marihuana" song! Shame on you. (And me who will buy this CD...)
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It's been so long / 1999 / CRIES FROM THE OXFORD CIRCUS
Dick Taylor didn't join the Rolling Stones Convention in Brixton - I don't think that he had the time to come because there was something in the air in a small London club, somewhere between Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road...
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No future
I think I should have published it earlier: El Canuelo will be a festival in Spain in June with the Pretties and others. I think Rick Hoffman has already published this information...
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Now this pages have a new design - with frames, and I hope that no-one will have problems with that because modern browsers should support frames... (Please tell me if you have problems!)
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No future?
Well, why don't you take a look at this page? It's not a good quality but maybe you can enjoy a little bit (especially those of you who missed it like Martha...) I hope the CD will come soon!
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It's been so long... / Star-Club News 7/1965
A few weeks ago I got this issue of the legendary Star-Club News but I don't think that you should read it... But there are a few pictures of the band and one with Viv Prince (from another source).
A supplement to Phillipe DeBarge: In the book which came with "Unrepentant" you can read that it's a rumoured, unreleased French album, with the Pretty Things backing, from 1969. Looking for Phillipe...
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Find a sound, lay it down / Collections and Rarities / Phillipe DeBarge
Find a sound, lay it down / Live and Pretty / Pure And Pretty
Find a sound, lay it down / The Pretty Things'N Mates / A Whiter Shade Of Dirty Water
Phillipe DeBarge is said to be an unreleased Pretty Things album from 1968/69. It's now available on CD-R with a couple of bonus tracks from former live performances on TV. It has a bad quality (Let's say it with Monty Python: "This record is scratched!"), but the music is quite good. In my opinion there is no song with Phil May singing, so I have doubts that you hear the Pretties. It is possibly a fake but who in the world would take some tracks and pretend they were recordings by the Pretty Things...? On the CD-R is not a single hint about the origin, only a few images from a period 3 years before Philippe DeBarge...
Pure And Pretty is also a collection of TV, radio and studio session recordings between 1965 and 1970. There are some original versions of "Emotions" tracks without overdups - sounds interesting but I don't like most of these songs. Maybe they wanted to copy the Hollies' style at that time, but that went wrong. But only one year later the Pretties changed their musical direction again and were forgiven - and forgotten.
Two tracks were never released officially, there is also a version of "Renaissance Fair" by The Byrds - the recording quality is quite bad but these tracks are musical documents of the good old time...
It seems to me that over the Eighties and early Nineties Dick and Phil each year came, settled down, took some musicians and founded a new version of the Pretty Things. In 1993 they met Matthew Charles Fisher and some other guys from The Inmates to record a couple of old songs from the Sixties. The result is a hommage to American garage rock of these years. You can hear Phil singing on every song, he's good but not relaxed enough. It's a bit unnecessary but there is a version of our favourite song, "Midnight To Six Man"...
Somewhere on my page I had a collection of liner notes from CD inlays, now I assigned them to the CD's and there is an icon so you can find them. This icon looks like  . Maybe one day I will create an icon "Outlay" to upload my own opinions about the records...
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Today Arni Arnason from Iceland sent me an e-mail with a link to Time Out London Events where you can find that the Pretty Things play on Sunday August 23 (not August 16) at Ronnie Scott's. Maybe we should remember this URL (thank you, Arni). I won't be there but maybe some of you guys...
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Well, once more I've change the location of my homepage a few days ago, but I hope it will be the last time. Now a new edition of my guestbook has started, too - the old one got lost in space, but I saved most of the entries which can be read anywhere.
Some people complained about the fact that I don't have concert dates or something like that on my page. I'd like to have them here, but no-one tells me some... Except a guy whose name is Richard Wynne who wrote that the Pretties will play at Ronnie Scott's on Sunday August 16 (Thank you, Richard). But, it's a long way to Ronny Scott's...
In the last weeks I got some mails by Mike Ober (who produced "A Whiter Shade Of Dirty Water" - soon somewhere on my page - and "The British Invasion All-Stars United", both with Dick and Phil) and a guy named John Smith who wrote me interesting facts about the original Electric Banana albums. So I'd like to thank them and all others who told me interesting (and pretty) things, which I can use to improve my page in the future. And I'd like to thank all others who didn't write any single word, including the Pretty Things...
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