Remembrances Of Prolerockers Past
With Capitol's repackaged Beatlemania having established the past summer as the authorized re-issue of the golden season of 1964.
Remembrances Of Prolerockers Past
PRETTY THINGS The Vintage Years (Sire)
TROGGS The Vintage Years (Sire)
With Capitol's repackaged Beatlemania having established the past summer as the authorized re-issue of the golden season of 1964, we're now well into the second winter of the recycled British Invasion, far enough along to realize just how inefficient an artistic determinism ground out our faves during the original Invasion.
The Pretty Things are a rather extreme case in point, as, until this reissue, their early sides have never been readily available in the U.S. Founded by one-time Rolling Stone Dick Taylor, a trimly-bearded art student whose appearance would suggest a blues-priggishness more acute than John Mayall's, the Pretty Things nevertheless thrashed out a raucous R&B even less reverent of its sources than that of the liberated Stones.