Get The Picture?

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Release Date: 27 April 2015

Label: Madfish

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 636551801317

Genres: Rock Pop-Rock

Release Date: 07 June 2019

Label: Madfish

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 636551271424

Genres: Rock Pop-Rock

Description
180gm heavyweight vinyl edition of 1965 second studio album from the bad boys of British R&B.

December 1965 'Get The Picture' - The Pretty Things certainly did with this follow up to their debut album of the same year. The band were getting wilder and the music getting better, with two remarkable singles 'Midnight To Six Man' and 'Come See Me'.

The Pretty Things were formed by Phil May and guitarist Dick Taylor in 1963. Taylor was hot from the first days of the Rolling Stones, the band he formed with Mick Jagger and Keith Richard, but left because it was time to go to art school; May was a hooligan disguised as a fellow student; and the rest of the band just picked things up from there.

Other bands played R&B, of course... the Kinks, the Yardbirds, even the Beatles tried their hand at it. But none of them played it like the Pretty Things. Their hair was long, their music was greasy, and they genuinely did not understand how to turn down the volume on their amplifiers.

Listed among the composing credits on 'Get The Picture' is one Jimmy Page, the most in demand session guitarist of the era.

This new vinyl edition is presented on heavyweight black vinyl.

"The Pretty Things always made 'The Stones' look tame, and I think the time has come for their renaissance"

Dave Gilmour â€“ Pink Floyd

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THE LEGENDARY 60s RnB UPSTARTS' CHERISHED SECOND ALBUM FROM 1965 FEATURING 6 BONUS TRACKS AND LINER NOTES INCLUDING THE SINGLES "L.S.D.", "MIDNIGHT TO SIX MAN", "CRY TO ME" AND "COME SEE ME"

"The Pretty Things always made 'The Stones' look tame, and I think the time has come for their renaissance" - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)

The Pretty Things, iconic 1st wave R&B cult heroes, created some of the most exciting and innovative records of the sixties and early seventies. Winners of the Hero award at the 2009 Mojo Honours, the band have been a massive success and a huge influence on artists as diverse as David Bowie, Aerosmith, The Ramones, Bob Dylan, The Sex Pistols, The White Stripes, Kasabian and many, many more. 2018 saw the release of a 50th-anniversary 'S.F. Sorrow' box set and the band's final and extensive UK & European tour, which included a performance of 'S.F. Sorrow' in full at the Isle of Wight Festival and ends at a farewell show in London at Indigo at the O2 with an impressive supporting line-up of David Gilmour and Van Morrison.

'Get the Picture?' The Pretty Things certainly did in December '65 with this follow up to their debut album of the same year. The band were getting wilder and their music was getting better, with two remarkable singles "Midnight To Six Man" and "Come See Me". And listed among the composing credits on 'Get The Picture?' is one Jimmy Page, the most in-demand session guitarist of the era. This mid-price CD edition of 'Get the Picture?' is presented in digipack packaging and complete with an 8-page booklet featuring liner notes from renowned journalist and editor Paul Du Noyer (NME, Q, MOJO).

"David Bowie worshipped Phil (May) - Phil had to write his telephone number in David Bowie's book, and it was under 'G' for God!" Dick Taylor, The Pretty Things
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