The Pretty Things "Baron Saturday" (live officiel) | Archive INA

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Les PRETTY THINGS interprètent "Baron Saturday". 25 juillet 1969 Archive INA Émissions TV, Archive tv, Archive television, tv replay live, live music, french tv Images d'archive INA
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[@peliche77]

A masterpiece from one of the most brilliant and underrated psychedelic albums of all time. 'SF Sorrow' is obligatory for any lover of good music. A piece of art.

[@jayrox40]

R.I.P Phil May.

[@lupodelupis3672]

A group that should get more recognitions. They were a cornerstone of psychedelic rock.

[@tynosille6747]

I never get tired of baron Saturday! What a shame we missed this album in America! It got no airplay where I lived and I feel jipped! Just glad I blindly stumbled into it on spotify!

[@danielnietourena416]

I discovered the album S.F. Sorrow in the 1970s in a trip to London. A masterpiece that still I enjoy. I got surprised that many other people less talented than The Pretty Things were more famous.

[@tynosille6747]

I thought I knew about all the great albums from that period until recently finding this one on Spotify. Its all I'm listening too currently. Love the whole album how this slipped past my radar I don't know. I had parachute which I loved but this one is on another level!

[@tynosille6747]

I only discovered this album thru Spotify and can't get enough of it wow!

[@J.R.Psych74]

Pretty neat Pretty Things played here. I saw footage of Zeppelin on this same stage. Gotta love Twink. Far out.

[@scottdavis3571]

Wish I was in that audience.

[@tynosille6747]

That album is every bit as good as any of the others of that time that got lots of air time. Don't understand why we were cheated here in America of hearing this one

[@terrycuster4213]

There' s nothing live just playback show But good to see this again.

[@Siciliandefensee4c5]

Truly great!! Nice to hear some rock n roll backbone. Just solid innovative music.

[@oliverking3717]

Many of the previous comments are by people you haven't got a clue. This was as an alternative oasis in a sea of normality. This is art. To discard this exceptional rarity is to abandon hope. I bet you thought buying Fleetwood Mac's Rumours 10 years later as the pinnacle of sound.

[@philnoble8014]

Oliver King .... well said bro!! This here was essential!! As well as a damn good song!!! 👍🏼

[@FuzzyDancingBear]

Thank you for that Rumours comment, couldn't have expressed it better

[@tynosille6747]

Fleetwood Mac couldn't touch this album even when they were womanless! This album is right up with Sgt. Peppers! I like every song.

[@PAULLONDEN]

"Baron Samedi" ......a Haitian voodoo character..... who finaly managed to wink Phil over to the other side.....Thanks Phil !

[@johnflynn7084]

Love it! Thanks 91.7 WMSE for playing

[@ianhenderson9491]

I thought it was well known that they had to mime this performance for two reasons. The first was because they couldn't find a way of replicating the complex studio versions. And secondly, perhaps more importantly, according to Phil May they were all, their soundman included, off their heads on LSD!

[@philobrandon5710]

Samedi Gras , and bless the French for recording this

[@marcfedak]

Thanks Ina Chansons for posting this video of one of my favourite PrettyThings songs. I especially like Dick Taylor's lead vocals (which reminds me of some cartoon character from the late 60s, Snidely Whiplash or Dick Dastardly) and the backing vocals, the Paul McCartney style piano playing, the psychedelicized drumming, and of course the weird mellotron.

[@bwyd]

This act was complète genius

[@alex-E7WHU]

Thanks for uploading this. It's brilliant.

[@katebemb8900]

Love Twink

[@Stationario]

Some really good stuff over the years. Interesting phase changes from blues/R&B clubs to Stadium stuff with Singapore Silk Torpedo and beyond. And then there's Phillipe De Barge. Film stars in Whats Good For the Goose. hmmmmmm. Stones/Beatles......who are they ? Keep rocking Phil/Dick

[@lazlokovacs2263]

If I see correctly, it's Twink on the drums. He spent time in another "delinquent" band called the Pink Fairies. Isn't that beautiful?

[@3791]

Great!!!!

[@happydayz7857]

Doesn’t sound live at all. It’s the recorded version.

[@micklumley9038]

In 1980-81, I worked in a hotel in Sidmouth,. Devon, and the pot washer was Vince, the drummer. Left just as Moonie died in the Who. He replaced him for a while.

[@odilecroc3843]

yes!

[@Elishtakinn]

this band would've made it big in America.

[@maroualchicon1426]

a very good psychadelik song !

[@lewinusmone4]

dick's first lead vocal, Twink on drums

[@bobgreen623]

Gotta love Twink!

[@tomtaylor3721]

Dick crushes it.

[@groovyray]

george spear No, twink is definitely on the drums on this performance.

[@maxmerry8470]

Has to be earlier than July, 1969. Dick Taylor would have left the band by then.

[@desoxido]

Nobody else noticed the similitude between this song and Beatles's Hey Bulldog?

[@jsilence418]

+desoxido Not really, if you want to push it you could probably make any song sound like " Auld lang syne " .

[@groovyray]

I noticed

[@nextlevelstart]

Simititude

[@ChainNonSmoker]

Could've fit The White Album somehow

[@psychedelicpiper999]

In response to the comment from john crane below me, he's confusing this album with Pink Floyd's "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn". This was recorded after "Sgt. Pepper".

[@steelmob]

These dudes were trippy

[@spacemenme]

Made this album at Abbey Road when the Beatles were making Sgt. Pepper and they'd sneak into the studio the Beatles were using and borrow their instruments on the sly.

[@sparks7769]

Correction, this album was made in early-mid 1968, almost a full year after the Beatles made sgt. Peppers..... s.f. Sorrow was released in late 1968. The previous album Emotions came out a month before sgt. Peppers.

[@bobgreen623]

I suspect the Beatles were more or less permanently set up at Abbey Road, and I have heard that the Pretties 'borrowed' the mellotron from time to time....

[@SuperNevile]

That was the Zombies making "Odyssey and Oracle" just after Pepper. "Piper at the Gates Of Dawn" was being at the same time as "Pepper"

[@astrophonix]

That's voo-dee-doo! Haitian voo-dee-doo!

[@albertgrynza4750]

Loaaoaaoalaoao of death

[@PAULLONDEN]

This is so accid saturated....

[@TheOldHacker]

If that's live, why aren't the guitars plugged in? It may be live (as in the performers are actually there) but they're MIMING (pretending to play along to the record). It's a jolly good tape, though. With John "Twink" Alder on drums!

[@Robert-tv9rq]

It is play back!

[@MrSambollet]

Where are the violins?

[@psychedelicpiper999]

Those aren't violins, but a Mellotron playing. And they are miming to the pre-recorded studio version, which was standard to do in those days.

[@MadastheHatter13]

I never understood the point of miming/lip-synching performances and folks are in so much denial about it now more than ever.

[@nightware785]

It was a LOT easier for the TV studios if they didn't have to get a real live sound. Just play the studio track and have the band act along.

[@richieboy6825]

Who’s denying it?

[@samwaylen]

For me,there are one or two things about this that intrigue me. There are instrumental sounds coming out of my speakers that do not correspond to anything that the players on screen appear to have been creating. TWO SIMPLE EXAMPLES ARE THE TAMBOURINE AND THE FLUTE TOWARDS THE END OF THE SONG. Does anyone out there know of anyone who was there who might have known enough about the likes of lip-syncing and that to verify that this truly WAS a live performance ?

[@nightware785]

It's not a live performance, they are lip syncing to the studio album version of the track. Their instruments aren't even plugged into their amps. They're not really trying to pretend it's live. It was common back then to lip sync for TV.

[@will2741]

No offence like, but I can't see how this could be puzzling to anyone. 1/ It's clearly the studio version 2/ They are clearly miming 3/ It's not as if miming is some unheard of, once in a blue moon event...

[@TomsTechniques]

The chorus sounds a lot like Beverly Hills by Weezer...if John Lennon were lead singer.

[@MicroTechForms]

This song has nothing to do with me... what the heck?

[@sandrar9210]

Great song. Lip syncing to no end though.