JOHNNY HALLIDAY / SMALL FACES 69 lp PSYCH MOD FREAKBEAT
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JOHNNY HALLIDAY
1969 LP WITH THE SMALL FACES AS BACKING BAND -THEIR LAST EVER RECORDINGS AS A GROUP.
ORIGINAL 1969 FRENCH LP ON PHILIPS LABEL. FANTASTIC LINE-UP FOR THIS FREAKBEAT MONSTER,WITH THE SMALL FACES PLUS PETER FRAMPTON AND THEN SPOOKY TOOTH MICKY JONES.
3 TRACKS ARE WRITTEN BY SMALL FACES , 6 BY MICKY JONES AND TOMMY BROWN, 1 BY JOHNNY HALLIDAY.
THIS IS THE LAST TIME THE SMALL FACES RECORDED AS A GROUP.
MUSICAL DIRECTION BY MICKY JONES AND TOMMY BROWN.THE MUSIC IS IN THE VEIN OF "ODGEN NUT FLAKES GONE",WITH LOTS OF KEYS AND PIANO AND PSYCH GUITAR.
GLYN JOHNS IS THE SOUND ENGINEER.
SOME COMMENTS ON THESE SESSIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE SMALL FACES FOUND ON IANMCLAGAN. COM:
“INTERVIEWER KEN SHARP: What do you remember about the album when you guys backed up Johnny Hallyday?
IAN MCLAGAN: ... That was with Frampton. Mick Jones ... was writing and producing with Johnny Hallyday, and Glyn Johns was engineering. (everybody laughing) ... anyway, Mick Jones was writing and producing, and we were basically f*cked, we didn't have any money and didn't have any idea what was going on...we were looking for.... Maybe Steve was already leaving....I think Glyn Johns was trying to get Steve and Pete (Peter Frampton) together. That was when they got together. Mick Jones told me that Glyn Johns definitely broke up the Small Faces. I wrote a chapter in the book about it, but I don't know if it's true! (laughing) I gotta speak to Glyn about this -- I don't know if I should hate him (laughing). I don't know why we did the album, we were short of money, I think. I can't listen to it. It wasn't a great time in my life, I was pretty pissed off. I don't know which came first: Glyn Johns or Peter Frampton or Steve.
STEVE MARRIOTT: The best we sounded (at the end of the group) was when we did some sessions for Johnny Hallyday, and I took Peter Frampton with me to the sessions in Paris. This is where I thought "Oh he'd be good in the band itself." When we did these sessions, we were officially still on Immediate, but unofficially not. We were still under contract to Immediate, kind of, because they pulled an option on us -- that was what the dispute was over. They just let it ride and didn't tell us they had an option. Something like that went down. Glyn Johns asked us to come to Paris 'cos Johnny Hallyday had always been a fan of ours, and wanted the Smooth Faces -- as he used to call us -- to come over and back him. So it was great, we unloaded some songs on him, too. Songs from way back like "That Man" and stuff like that. And some new ones that I'd just began to write which appeared on the first Humble Pie album: "What You Will" and "Buttermilk Boy." I'm still getting money for that and it's terrific -- thank you, Johnny!
KENNEY JONES: I remember playing great. I actually enjoyed playing with Peter Frampton because his guitar playing at the time was great, he really impressed me."
PHILIPS 844 971 BY stereo/mono
Original 1969 French pressing
COVER : VG ++
RECORD : VG ++
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