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March 12, 2010 11:51 AM   Subscribe

The massively talented Micky Jones of the Welsh rock band Man has passed away. A blazing guitarist and soulful singer...Get out the Rizlas for Man, Man, and more Man. (SYTLs)
posted by Liquidwolf (17 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Loved this band. Spunk rock!
posted by stinkycheese at 11:54 AM on March 12, 2010


That first clip is smoking. I'm gobsmacked that I've never heard of these guys.
posted by Joe Beese at 12:07 PM on March 12, 2010


Be good to yourself at least once every day.


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posted by anazgnos at 12:07 PM on March 12, 2010


Last time I heard their name mentioned would have been about 1971 or so.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 12:10 PM on March 12, 2010 [1 favorite]




That first clip is smoking. I'm gobsmacked that I've never heard of these guys.


They never seemed to get known too much outside the cult british acid rock/head scene a la Hawkwind ( who they played with a lot). But the first 5-6 records or so are great. They really excelled as a live band, they were ridiculously tight and could imporov like no one else.
posted by Liquidwolf at 12:17 PM on March 12, 2010


I like to eat bananas
'cause they got no bones
I like marijauna
'cause it gets me stoned

RIP.
posted by MajorDundee at 12:20 PM on March 12, 2010


..so stoned I can't spell it correctly...
posted by MajorDundee at 12:24 PM on March 12, 2010


I once bought a vinyl reissue of their album 2 Oz. of Plastic With a Hole in the Middle which was mispressed, and had shitty 90s Eurodisco on the 2nd side. Either that or they were really ahead of their time. I have yet to even come across another copy of that record.

>That first clip is smoking. I'm gobsmacked that I've never heard of these guys.

They never seemed to get known too much outside the cult british acid rock/head scene a la Hawkwind ( who they played with a lot). But the first 5-6 records or so are great. They really excelled as a live band, they were ridiculously tight and could imporov like no one else.


I love that little vein of early British prog: Hawkwind, Man, Pink Fairies, Groundhogs, Tucky Buzzard, etc. A Visit to the Spaceship Factory, compiled by the Bevis Frond's Nick Salomon, has some real gems from that scene tucked into it.
posted by anazgnos at 12:31 PM on March 12, 2010


They never seemed to get known too much outside the cult british acid rock/head scene a la Hawkwind ( who they played with a lot).

Yeah, I saw them -- if not supporting Hawkwind, then on the exact same stage the following week. Possibly both. They were both staples of the British provincial rock scene in the very early 70's.

TBH, I never liked either band but I worked at a rock venue and prog rock was big in those days.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 12:36 PM on March 12, 2010


I once bought a vinyl reissue of their album 2 Oz. of Plastic With a Hole in the Middle which was mispressed, and had shitty 90s Eurodisco on the 2nd side. Either that or they were really ahead of their time. I have yet to even come across another copy of that record.

i can't believe you wrote that- I had a similar experience, I first listened to the reissue LP in the store and the second side I recall sounded like electro dance stuff. I was really confused. Later I got the album and there's nothing on it that sounds like that. To this day, I thought I had the LP playing at the wrong speed making it sound fast and "dancy" , but now I'm wondering if there was some mistake.
posted by Liquidwolf at 12:36 PM on March 12, 2010


anazgnos, the only band out of that lot I did like was The Deviants.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 12:39 PM on March 12, 2010



i can't believe you wrote that- I had a similar experience, I first listened to the reissue LP in the store and the second side I recall sounded like electro dance stuff. I was really confused. Later I got the album and there's nothing on it that sounds like that. To this day, I thought I had the LP playing at the wrong speed making it sound fast and "dancy" , but now I'm wondering if there was some mistake.


Yeah, I assumed it was a mixup at the pressing plant. The pressing I had was put out by Get Back, an Italian reissue label, and I figured any copies I found from them would be similarly afflicted. Was the good copy you picked up also on Get Back?
posted by anazgnos at 12:50 PM on March 12, 2010


Yeah, I assumed it was a mixup at the pressing plant. The pressing I had was put out by Get Back, an Italian reissue label, and I figured any copies I found from them would be similarly afflicted. Was the good copy you picked up also on Get Back?

Yeah i guess it was. I think Akarma also reissued it, maybe after that. That's really weird. I thought the same thing like "these guys were making techno music in the late 60s?" and it didn't fit their image at all. I tried to tell my fiend about it and he didn't know what he hell I was talking about.
posted by Liquidwolf at 1:01 PM on March 12, 2010 [1 favorite]


Great tunage. I've never heard of these guys but they are pretty damn tight.

On the bananas song: they may be singing about the weed, but he's chomping on that gum like he's coked-up to beat the band (pun intended).
posted by Benny Andajetz at 1:24 PM on March 12, 2010


Fantastic group. I'll have to bust out some of my old vinyl this weekend in tribute.

RIP Micky.

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posted by dhammond at 1:35 PM on March 12, 2010


On the bananas song

that's on "be good to yourself at least once a day" and is probably their best album, although rhinos, winos and lunatics is a close 2nd, even if half of that album's band was "help yourself", another worthwhile group

i don't know why, but united artists signed a lot of 2nd tier bands back then and the records would end up in the used bins or the cutout racks here in the midwest - along with hawkwind, amon duul 2 and others, man and help yourself records were available real cheap in the mid 70s - i got into man big time and have almost all the vinyl

it was hugely disappointing to me that they ran out of steam and broke up just as they were finally starting to get some airplay in the states, even though "the welch connection" was a little more pop loungey than it should have been

everything they did from "do you like it here now, are you settling in?" to "slow motion" was very good, even though micky jones (and the drummer, terry williams) were the only constant members

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