Damn bad week.
Rip It Up and Trans-Europe Express on repeat.
Damn!tepista wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 1:28pmPhil May (Pretty Things)
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Easy to underestimate her importance to the Beatles becoming huge. Her photographs made them seem like serious artists, not just silly teenage rock n rollers. One of those overlooked steps in rock n roll becoming rock.JennyB wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 3:10pmAstrid Kirchherr https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-beat ... 81-2669896
SF going on tonight.tepista wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 1:28pmPhil May (Pretty Things)
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Just been playing "Walking through My Dreams" and "Defecting Grey" awesome songs.Heston wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 4:09pmSF going on tonight.tepista wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 1:28pmPhil May (Pretty Things)
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"Trust" has just blew my mind all over again.Marky Dread wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 4:37pmJust been playing "Walking through My Dreams" and "Defecting Grey" awesome songs.Heston wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 4:09pmSF going on tonight.tepista wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 1:28pmPhil May (Pretty Things)
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It's a cracking album for sure.Heston wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 5:53pm"Trust" has just blew my mind all over again.Marky Dread wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 4:37pmJust been playing "Walking through My Dreams" and "Defecting Grey" awesome songs.Heston wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 4:09pmSF going on tonight.tepista wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 1:28pmPhil May (Pretty Things)
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Thanks John, will have to check that footage out.JohnS wrote: ↑15 May 2020, 8:03pmPhil May used the same leisure centre as me and I sort of got to know him, after a mutual friend introduced us in the changing room(!) He was always a friendly cheerful fella, happy to chat. I knew he'd had a very serious health scare a few years ago with COPD but recovered and was looking after himself - he would use the swimming pool and gym for gentle exercise.
I last saw him maybe 6 months ago and to be honest he was looking a bit frail but cheerful as ever. When the virus thing kicked off he was one of those I feared for, but hearing that his passing was NOT covid-related, but rather from post-surgery complications after he crashed his bike - I don't know whether to cry or (sort of) laugh. RIP Phil.
SF Sorrow is great but I think I prefer the Pretty Things' R&B era. There's some full-tilt live footage from Holland in 1965 that is streets ahead of anything the Stones, Who or Kinks were conjuring up on stage at the time. No wonder they all cited the PTs as inspirational.