Re-recording of The Pretty Thing's 1969 album Parachute.
Wally Waller - Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion, Vocals Skip Alan - Drums, Percussion Pete Tolson - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Slide Guitar, Vocals John Povey - Keyboards, Harp, Percussion, Vocals
Информация с YouTube: "These ex-Pretty Things recorded their new album "Parachute Reborn" in The John Wood Studios in Malaga Spain(JohnWoodStudios.com). John Wood, who was the engineer on the project, somehow found time to put this video together. He tells me these same four blokes can be seen playing the same song from 1971 at The Paris Olympia (on YouTube). Bass/Vocals Wally Waller, Organ/Harp Jon Povey, Guitar Pete Tolson, Drums Skip Alan".
The Pretty Things - Parachute (1970)
The Pretty Things are one of the most important British rock bands of the 60s and 70s that somehow never gained recognition in the States. They started as an R&B rock band much like the Rolling Stones and in '67 they took a turn towards psychedelia with the orchestrated album, Emotions. Then they went on to record the first rock opera ever, S.F. Sorrow, but the Who's Tommy would outshine it with much better sales. Founding member Dick Taylor would leave shortly after, apparantly disappointed with the lack of recognition it received. The band carried on and recorded Parachute with excellent results. The first six tracks have a striking similarity to the second side of Abbey Road, due to the use of seamless songs and layered vocal harmonies. This similarity is no surprise considering that Parachute was recorded in Abbey Road with the Beatles' engineer Norman Smith producing. The first half is the most immediately striking, but the second half has a great combination of raunchy blues and slower songs. According to allmusic.com, the album is a concept album about "a generation caught between the conflicting calls of (rural) peace, love, and boredom, and (urban) sophistication, sex, and squalor in a harsh world." I've only picked up on this concept in a couple tracks thus far, to be honest. The last six songs are bonus tracks, which are inferior to the album cuts, but good nonetheless.
"The Good Mr. Square" & "She Was Tall, She Was High"
Parachute, released in 1970 is The Pretty Things' fifth studio album, following S.F. Sorrow and preceding Freeway Madness. It is their first album without Dick Taylor.
Reviews at the time of release were very positive, with Billboard calling it "another top-flight album" for the band[2]. In 1975, Rolling Stone critic Steve Turner even wrote that it had been "a Rolling Stone 'album of the year',"[3] though in fact Parachute did not place among the magazine's Albums of the Year for 1970[4] or 1971[5], and indeed was not mentioned in Rolling Stone until Stephen Holden called it an "obscure underground classic" in his review of Freeway Madness[6].
The musicians involved were Phil May, Wally Waller, John Povey, Vic Unitt, Skip Alan.
The record was later packaged together with S.F. Sorrow as a double LP titled Real Pretty. In Canada, this album was on Motown Records.
Snapper Records released a 40th anniversary double CD in September 2010 which included acoustic reworkings of various tracks recorded in May 2010 by Wally Waller and Phil May.
