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Have you heard this guy? Really out of control and very eerie. Any info about him anywhere?

― wordyrappington (wordyrappington), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link

There was a good historical article on him in issue # 9 of the zine Popwatch.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

i bought his reissue record because i loved the alastair galbraith song 'pip proud'(even if it is only 50 seconds or something) and i didn't much like pip, it was a bit primitive which is ok but he didn't seem as spiritual or ethereal as i wanted him to be.

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Didn't this fellow do a record with Tom Carter from Charalimbides? How was that?

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 April 2005 07:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i heard it's great. never heard it tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 07:21 (nineteen years ago) link

the Half-A-Cow collection of his early stuff is pretty weird and beguiling, but not exactly "the Australian Syd Barrett" (in fact far from it) as had been advertised to me ( by one Alastair Galbraith, as it happens.) Alastair and David Nichols from the Cannanes are massive fans. apparently Proud has no teeth and lives out in a shack in the Australian desert.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 1 April 2005 07:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I should listen to that again. I don't know if I've quite come to fathom what he was doing on those records yet (he had two albums out on a major label in Australia in the late '60s). It's very charming, to say the least.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 1 April 2005 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Pip is one of my favorite 60s guys also one of the only ones to make a credible comeback decades later. I love all of his stuff in all of its absurdism and creaky apocalytic folk grandeur.

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 1 April 2005 08:04 (nineteen years ago) link

From an australian friend of mine:

"seems too that david nichols of sydney band the cannanes is a big fan and did a radio special on him not so long ago on PBS - a great melbourne community station. apparently they also recorded an EP together with Laurna McFarlane who was, oddly enough, the original drummer for sleater-kinney. she's a melbournite and has been living back there for a while now, playing in a band called ninetynine."

― wordyrappington (wordyrappington), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

i really like "Hey Gus", I need to get one of Pip's albums.
(Hey Gus and other songs can be downloaded here:
http://www.emperorjones.com/pip.html
(but that's easy to find cause it's the first google hit)

― Ludo (Ludo), Sunday, 17 April 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Word is going around that he passed away earlier in the month due to throat cancer:

http://lorrainecrescent.blogspot.com/2010/03/pip-proud-1949-2010.html

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh no. RIP

― DISASTÜR ZÜN RHINE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link

HAC's street press ad this week says "rip pip proud," presumably Nic would know if anyone does

― parm goin' ham (sic), Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link

damn. RIP

― wilter, Thursday, 18 March 2010 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Absurd & Beautiful - eulogy article

― parm goin' ham (sic), Thursday, 18 March 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Wow, great tribute.

The photo from that fucking rules
http://www.messandnoise.com/images/3010032/440x414-c.jpeg

― wilter, Friday, 19 March 2010 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link

four years pass...

So hey, I reviewed some reissues:

http://www.wonderingsound.com/review/pip-proud-adreneline-and-richard-a-bird-in-the-engine-superior-viaduct/

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link

excellent news... can replace my warped and gouged copy of adreneline & richard and finally hear a bird in the engine!

also just discovered there's a new comp drawn from the above along with tracks from his first recording. not sure i buy coley's barrett conspiracy, but: http://www.forcedexposure.com/reviewPipProud.aspx

― no lime tangier, Friday, 7 November 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

These reissues on Superior Viaduct are something else.
Unique fellow, Pip.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 03:33 (nine years ago) link

five years pass...

De Da De Dum

― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 07:36 (three years ago) link

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