at the very end of the single there is a ghostly detuned piano effect that sounds like the first lp by the nice, who were on the same label, and it may have been a reference to them as in the title
Marriott was actually the major motivating factor in my getting off drugs for good . Seeing that bright light that was Steve dim like it did really woke me up . Noone had more charisma , more talent . Noone was as effortlessly cool as him . It makes me sad to think about it .If drugs can ruin a man like him , I knew I had no chance at all .And I was FRIED too , for a long time . But I aint no mo !
Hey no worries apology accepted! I am soooo glad you bothered to check Rory out - he is my all time guitarist - I will let you folks keep Hendrix, Clapton, Keith (waay overated ) Richards etc .. I'll keep Rory & MyMarriott . HA! Anywhoo I grew up in a music minded fam & music like jobs etc. (see bio bo on YT pg) so had the good fortune of discovering all these wonderful unsung musicians yrs ago but YT is great because now EVERYONE can watch Humble Pie or Rory! Cheers on ya! MMG
@Khultan Hi ya! So cool you got that book !! I've not read it all as I was a little put off by the author being kinda smug like, but I have to say he has some interesting tidbits in it from what I did read & actually I learned one or two things I didn't already know HA! So glad you are discovering Rory Gallagher !!! As I said previously to me he and Marriott are the finest "in my mind's eye" - lemme know what you think of the book when you are done, may have to go pick it up again ! Cheers!
@Khultan Hi ya! So cool you got that book !! I've not read it all as I was a little put off by the author being kinda smug like, but I have to say he has some interesting tidbits in it from what I did read & actually I learned one or two things I didn't already know HA! So glad you are discovering Rory Gallagher !!! As I said previously to me he and Marriott are the finest "in my mind's eye" - lemme know what you think of the book when you are done, may have to go pick it up again ! Cheers!
If You Tube had been around all along I dare say the music industry would be quite different today. As it is is is fun to find bands I have never heard of before and see what I was missing. Along with the Small Faces some of my new favorites are Shocking Blue, Buffalo, The Creation, Poobah (heavy Psych), Eddie Cochrane, as of tooday Sir Lord Baltimore, and others who escape me right now. Never would have discovered any of it without leaving the safe confines of what i already know.
What it really boils down to is the fact that for the past few decades The Beatles, Stones,The WHo Led Zep, Floyd, etc have been crammed down our ears day in day out, same songs, often the same time each day. I like the above bands--except the Stones, just don't get em--but after all these years I am fed up with the same old stuff so now I prefer to hear bands like The Small Faces who never did get a fair shake from US mainstream radio. Im with Khultan on this one.
@TheTiglathpilesar Exactly!! I was way too young in the early 70s in San Francisco and all I've ever heard about here in the U.S. of A. is Greatful Dead this or Jefferson Airplane that, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones (I'm not much of a fan at all) . There were a million other bands around that seem to get little mention. It's only because of such communication sharing innovations in the form of, such as, Youtube, that I am now discovering an incredible number of TALENT equal or unique.
@Khultan AH we meet again. You know, allthrough at least the history of rock music the next wave of music happened organically as a response to boredom with what had been going on for a given amount of time. In earlier days that could be just a few years. Now we are force fed the same thing for decades but this time there is nothing new to replace it, just industry driven drivel. So, using technolog, we find old undiscovered (to us) gems like the Small Faces.
great musicians , great vocals and awesome lead vocals by Steve Marriot - Itchy coo park is one of the greatest songs of the 60s but really most of the rest of their material was just not that strong - very generic .
@Khultan - lot of great bands in the world right now with awesome musicians but a lot of em sound generic to me . When I listen to a lot of the small faces songs with all very due respect to these guys - sounds like they didn't really tap into a proverbial wellspring of amazing music to write so they were trying as it were to create great songs but didn't get there - as for beatles kinks,who,stones, floyd, cream , hendrix . all very original / non generic .
@bigbuzman Alot of bands in the world NOW and since the close of the 60s and maybe 2 or three years into the 1970s are deplorable on top of the the pretentious character set in the music. You mention The Kinks, The Who, The Stones, Cream, Hendrix and all that but I disagree with you. They've been touted as THE BEST. BULLSHIT. You're older than I but I know I missed alot of information in the 1970s up until the Internet era....
@bigbuzman I have never been a fan of the kind of blues that The Rolling Stones seem to be about, they didn't quite get it on well with pyschedelic music, did they, BigBuzman, like say, their rivals The Beatles? But, even the Beatles themselves didn't have that on lock down. Cream? Boring and pretentious. Floyd? Same box. The Who? Their first record (they weren't MOD) and, then again, only a few songs.
great song about the joys of drug abuse sung and played brilliantly. didnt have a clue what it was about when it first came out (young and naive) still bought it though and it still sou nds as good today!
Stevie was, quite simply, one of the very greatest stage talents guitar pop has ever seen: the voice, the moves, the charisma - the perfect front man to the most perfectly formed beat combo ever. Real shame he kinda lost a bit of control and died tragically. An innovative guitar player too - great tone and attack in his playing (Townsend, Page, Hendrix - they all learnt a lot from young Stevie!)
He'd have to be in my top 5 guitar stage talents along with Hendrix, Page, Chuck Berry and Towsend.
@353gunsandroses yeah, i tend to have a mouth on me, so i've been told LOL AND i luv the faces, and listen to them on youtube often... my favourite is i'm only dreaming and all or nothing my first luv gave me a 45 of all or nothing "back in the day" as they say
Stevie said in an interview that this song was basically about speed ( Uppers and getting blocked on Purple Hearts etc ) ... the joke was that when the buzz started to kick in - Stevie would look at people and with a grin say "Nice!" ... that's what "Here come the nice" means.
@highschoolmusical841 they died of death? then you say it was related to drinking, you appear to be reluctant to look at what appears to be obvious 2 me, but i could be wrong, look at the changes in Steve's appearance, he gained weight his face became bloated, etc. all symptoms of alcohol
small faces were mod, lived mod, breathed mod. even more than the who. small faces were mods that formed a mod band, the who were a band that became mod.
@highschoolmusical841 Sounds tough mate, reminds me abit of Jimmy from Quadrophenia, i'm only 14 so i'm not into any alcohol/drugs but i'll try stay off them. As bad as drink and drugs are, it's made some fucking class music. Sorry to hear about you and your dad, and in general your whole situation. Hope things get better in the future mate ;)
God bless all 4 of them.In my eyes they were the Mod band of the mid-60's, even in front of the Who, though I admit that's debatable over a few bevvies!
Went to see them play one night, they didn't turn up. This is one of the things people forget about the sixties, groups often didn't bother to turn up for concerts.
@upyerkilt123 Mr. Nice was a drug dealer; "He's always there if I need some speed" "He'll bring you up and show you around, he's always there if your feet hit the ground" ect
good question! my thoughts are from what i have read about him is the nice was not a him or an item etc it was just a word he used for lots of things that were in a feel good factor. He may well be saying the nice is a drug dealer but "the nice" from what is in the book is just a feeling. maybe he is using that feeling as a person?
whenever someone really works out what went on in Steve marriott's brain then they can tell me the numbers for the lottery.... that would be easier.
@upyerkilt123 i tend to respectfully disagree, it was about getting high back in the day and perhaps Steve was "covering" - regardless, the main thing is to enjoy the song and the dudes cuz they truly rocked, they never came 2 the states, yet i was able to see Steve in humble pie, i would have preferred the Small Faces, BIG SF fan back in the day
@TwistAndSh00t agreed, why would they say "he's always there if i need some speed, that would not indicate a feeling at all, but a "product" of sorts :)
I wonder which idiot producer made them record this silly number and dressed them in the silly gear in hope of jumping on the bandwagon. The small faces didn;t deserve this and Steve Marriot's face is a tell-tale of how embarrased he was.
@pinchold actually i think marriot and lane probably wrote this, it is after all a drug song, which i doubt they would have had written for them. sha la la la lee on the other hand, now that's crap! lol but you are right they deserved better
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Man this band is so creative but this is kind of like something you hear in that movie (meh what was it called.. valley of the dolls?) it sound theatrical. but I love a lot of their other songs. nothing wrong with the song but it sounds like a pepsi commercial :|
Alright Mate - fantastic for posting this Vid - just one point of order, This was the very first song to hit the charts that actually blatantly mentioned Drugs in the lyrics - the actual lyrics in the 1st verse 4th line should be "he's always there when I need some Speed" have a listen - the whole song is about that - sorry to be so anal but it's got to be right Mate - like I said - fantastic for posting the Vid - Cheers
god there was noone with the natural charm, crazy grace and stage presence as Marriott - I will forever fly my Marriott freak flag high - and as for the Smalls and Humble and all Marriotts bands - well he picked the finest to play with because he was the finest - sorry I will just never change my tune - Marriott and Gallagher - true genuine rock musicians on so many levels
@Khultan Read your comment, TA! Actually it's not odd at all to me! Both had a crazy raw natural grace onstagefew could top, both were amazing musicians, Marriott tops everyone vocally & was a great guitarist. Rory was the best blues/rock guitarist to me. Both seemed rather lonely despite friends and fans & both were 2 of the most UNDERRATED rock musicians ever!! They deserve to be in the R"R HOF & it's a crime they were often dissed by the press of their day. So there it is - cheers!
@mrmarriottsgirl I must apologize, because the reason being: I have never heard of Gallagher until YOU mentioned the name and I just took a little peek at one of his music performance. There's a charisma there.
This was filmed for the German TV "Beat Club" on 20th May 1967. If you watch the Kinks doing "Mr. Pleasant" (which was part of the same show), Dave Lee Travis appears playing a trombone wearing (I think?) the hat Steve's got on in this and the performance of "I Can't Make it".
@paulthepill I do believe that The Nice is the dealer of the weed, and or speed. I played this song so many times I had to replace the record. I am glad that I now have everything on cd and cant wear it all out. I remember that Itchycoo park was climbing up the top 40 and then suddenly was gone because of the lyrics, Well get high there. Hey Steve, well get high there.
@ZSOSER69 yeah, the word nice was used as the dealer for the record. when the first rush of amphetamine used to come on we used to look at each other and say 'nice', it was a stock 'saying' at the time, in an interview with ian mc lagen he used the same euphomism. good times, good band.
Its a shame that they never really broke through in a big way in the US. Their material was so good and Marriott was lights out as a vocalist. Itchycoo Park is still one of my all time favorites.
Itchycoo Park and Here Come the Nice were good songs in their own way - a bit hippy-dippy-druggy; most Brits who grew up with the SF (like me) prefer their earlier stuff. The music they were knockin' out live in the rough pubs around London when they first started was raw and loud - and far superior to their later stuff. Probably the most under-rated band in the world.
Thanks for the note. I have to admit the more I dig into their material, the more fascinated I become. They seemed to have a great variety of feels to their material, both hard edged and more melodic poetic stuff. Cheers.
pilesovinyl- Must say I agree with you. The group was just too groovy, and I miss the 60's/70's kind of music that simply isn't there anymore. I feel sorry for young folks that missed out on such a great period of TRULY GREAT MUSIC !
Sad, that most new/recent music (especially hiphop) is not so good.
@bazmcginnty The US loved Humble Pie and would have loved the SF too if they toured there and their songs were released there. The only one that was, Itchycoo Park, was a huge hit. The Beatles were the first of the British Invasion to tour there so of course they were popular. The SF songs are played way more in the US now than in the 60's. Too bad the SF didn't make it into the R&R Hall of Fame. They deserve it. Hopefully they will in the future.
The DC 5 may have toured first but they were unknown in US, no charted songs, before the Beatles. Anyway, doesn't change the fact that there was very limited exposure in the US to the SF. It's a pity. The US was deprived of one of the best bands of the 60's. Imo, the best band of all time. And the SF were deprived of the world-wide fame they deserved.
@pderus Still the beatles were not the first of the British invasion bands to tour the US
It's because Ian McLagan got caught with hashish at Heathrow that SF couldn't tour the US. I never hear any small faces songs besides Itchycoo Park, it's kind of like the same fate of the easybeats with Friday on my Mind.
@paintedship The thing that beat the Easybeats was the cost and time involved in getting from Australia to the other side of the world. The tyranny of distance, as they say.
@paintedship Exactly my point. It's a bit different from being able to catch the bus back home from London to a regional English city. They had to spend all that time far from their fan base, on the other side of the world, unable to afford to go back to Australia.
@pilesovinyl: they had been big over here in Germany and I am glad my teen years were in the 60s. My favourite was "Tin Soldier" with P.P.Arnold. It´s here on utube.
How could britain come up with so many great artists in one decade. The 60s was the most productive (musically) decade in history! All the greatest bands are from the 60s.
Don't lose these tracks: Muslims will cut your hands off for playing a stringed instrument, you won't get anything like this from the UK anymore after a couple of years...
Yeah, I always found it funny how blatantly they were going on about drugs in this song and yet it was "I Can't Make It" that got banned. Even funnier was that I never realised that one was about trying to get your girlfriend to, er, put out ;-)
@MrsSuratt Might well be,it's a well known story ,mods where mad about "purple hearts". but they sung very clearly "sweet" here. And so they should have, otherwise it would've been commercial suicide. With the BBC banning everything that had just a small reference to sex & drugs.
Harry Fenton suits? Don't you mean Take Six's finest threads and shoes from Trickers? Brilliant, the East Ends finest with Mrs Lanes youngest Ronnie doing his best. Bloody marvelous mate!!!!!
The amazing thing was that this record was that this record was not banned by the BBC. Much less explicit records were banned later such as getting high again by daddy longlegs, but when this record was released the powers in charge had absolutely no idea what the song was all about !
A bit - but Steve and Ronnie wrote them both and that can happen...still okay though - anything that Small Faces do with Steve's voice and passion for music.
at the very end of the single there is a ghostly detuned piano effect that sounds like the first lp by the nice, who were on the same label, and it may have been a reference to them as in the title
puddypuss 3 weeks ago
I wonder why Stevie looks so displeased at the end of the song?
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Marriott was actually the major motivating factor in my getting off drugs for good . Seeing that bright light that was Steve dim like it did really woke me up . Noone had more charisma , more talent . Noone was as effortlessly cool as him . It makes me sad to think about it .If drugs can ruin a man like him , I knew I had no chance at all .And I was FRIED too , for a long time . But I aint no mo !
RisingSon011 1 month ago
all i know is there's a nice bag on it's way, peace
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brickbat44 2 months ago
Hey no worries apology accepted! I am soooo glad you bothered to check Rory out - he is my all time guitarist - I will let you folks keep Hendrix, Clapton, Keith (waay overated ) Richards etc .. I'll keep Rory & MyMarriott . HA! Anywhoo I grew up in a music minded fam & music like jobs etc. (see bio bo on YT pg) so had the good fortune of discovering all these wonderful unsung musicians yrs ago but YT is great because now EVERYONE can watch Humble Pie or Rory! Cheers on ya! MMG
mrmarriottsgirl 5 months ago
@mrmarriottsgirl I just got this book featuring Gallagher/Marriot/Derringer/Trower.
Khultan 4 months ago
@Khultan Hi ya! So cool you got that book !! I've not read it all as I was a little put off by the author being kinda smug like, but I have to say he has some interesting tidbits in it from what I did read & actually I learned one or two things I didn't already know HA! So glad you are discovering Rory Gallagher !!! As I said previously to me he and Marriott are the finest "in my mind's eye" - lemme know what you think of the book when you are done, may have to go pick it up again ! Cheers!
mrmarriottsgirl 4 months ago
@mrmarriottsgirl Happy New Year to you!! ♪♪
Khultan 1 month ago
@Khultan TA! And a Happy one back to you! May it be a good one and full of all kinds of great music too!! Cheers! MMG
mrmarriottsgirl 1 month ago
@mrmarriottsgirl This > ♪♪♪♪♪♪ is always on my mind : )
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@Khultan Hi ya! So cool you got that book !! I've not read it all as I was a little put off by the author being kinda smug like, but I have to say he has some interesting tidbits in it from what I did read & actually I learned one or two things I didn't already know HA! So glad you are discovering Rory Gallagher !!! As I said previously to me he and Marriott are the finest "in my mind's eye" - lemme know what you think of the book when you are done, may have to go pick it up again ! Cheers!
mrmarriottsgirl 4 months ago
If You Tube had been around all along I dare say the music industry would be quite different today. As it is is is fun to find bands I have never heard of before and see what I was missing. Along with the Small Faces some of my new favorites are Shocking Blue, Buffalo, The Creation, Poobah (heavy Psych), Eddie Cochrane, as of tooday Sir Lord Baltimore, and others who escape me right now. Never would have discovered any of it without leaving the safe confines of what i already know.
TheTiglathpilesar 5 months ago
@TheTiglathpilesar Same here.
Khultan 5 months ago
What it really boils down to is the fact that for the past few decades The Beatles, Stones,The WHo Led Zep, Floyd, etc have been crammed down our ears day in day out, same songs, often the same time each day. I like the above bands--except the Stones, just don't get em--but after all these years I am fed up with the same old stuff so now I prefer to hear bands like The Small Faces who never did get a fair shake from US mainstream radio. Im with Khultan on this one.
TheTiglathpilesar 5 months ago
@TheTiglathpilesar Exactly!! I was way too young in the early 70s in San Francisco and all I've ever heard about here in the U.S. of A. is Greatful Dead this or Jefferson Airplane that, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones (I'm not much of a fan at all) . There were a million other bands around that seem to get little mention. It's only because of such communication sharing innovations in the form of, such as, Youtube, that I am now discovering an incredible number of TALENT equal or unique.
Khultan 5 months ago
@Khultan AH we meet again. You know, allthrough at least the history of rock music the next wave of music happened organically as a response to boredom with what had been going on for a given amount of time. In earlier days that could be just a few years. Now we are force fed the same thing for decades but this time there is nothing new to replace it, just industry driven drivel. So, using technolog, we find old undiscovered (to us) gems like the Small Faces.
TheTiglathpilesar 5 months ago
@TheTiglathpilesar I should modiffy that last critique to: 'Equal and unique'.
Khultan 5 months ago
Agree with bigbuzman. They didn't write enough catchy powerful tunes. They had great potential but lacked in the song writing and melody departments.
rascal211 5 months ago
great musicians , great vocals and awesome lead vocals by Steve Marriot - Itchy coo park is one of the greatest songs of the 60s but really most of the rest of their material was just not that strong - very generic .
bigbuzman 6 months ago
@bigbuzman Says you.
Khultan 6 months ago
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bigbuzman 5 months ago
@Khultan - the other one that i like is My Way of Giving that R S and faces covered - excellent versions by both versiopns of the small faces
bigbuzman 5 months ago
@bigbuzman I understand it is your opinion and, apparently, we are on opposites of the line on that.
Khultan 5 months ago
@bigbuzman I'm not sure I even understand you when you say that they are 'generic'. Care to expand upon that, hm?
Khultan 5 months ago
@Khultan - lot of great bands in the world right now with awesome musicians but a lot of em sound generic to me . When I listen to a lot of the small faces songs with all very due respect to these guys - sounds like they didn't really tap into a proverbial wellspring of amazing music to write so they were trying as it were to create great songs but didn't get there - as for beatles kinks,who,stones, floyd, cream , hendrix . all very original / non generic .
bigbuzman 5 months ago
@bigbuzman Alot of bands in the world NOW and since the close of the 60s and maybe 2 or three years into the 1970s are deplorable on top of the the pretentious character set in the music. You mention The Kinks, The Who, The Stones, Cream, Hendrix and all that but I disagree with you. They've been touted as THE BEST. BULLSHIT. You're older than I but I know I missed alot of information in the 1970s up until the Internet era....
Khultan 5 months ago
@bigbuzman I have never been a fan of the kind of blues that The Rolling Stones seem to be about, they didn't quite get it on well with pyschedelic music, did they, BigBuzman, like say, their rivals The Beatles? But, even the Beatles themselves didn't have that on lock down. Cream? Boring and pretentious. Floyd? Same box. The Who? Their first record (they weren't MOD) and, then again, only a few songs.
Khultan 5 months ago
great song about the joys of drug abuse sung and played brilliantly. didnt have a clue what it was about when it first came out (young and naive) still bought it though and it still sou nds as good today!
johnnybvalentine1 6 months ago
Oh my God...this is SOOO GOOD !
PAULLONDEN 7 months ago
@PAULLONDEN It really is.
bowievision 6 months ago
Stevie was, quite simply, one of the very greatest stage talents guitar pop has ever seen: the voice, the moves, the charisma - the perfect front man to the most perfectly formed beat combo ever. Real shame he kinda lost a bit of control and died tragically. An innovative guitar player too - great tone and attack in his playing (Townsend, Page, Hendrix - they all learnt a lot from young Stevie!)
He'd have to be in my top 5 guitar stage talents along with Hendrix, Page, Chuck Berry and Towsend.
1YBTU8 8 months ago
Awesome song indeed. This does not do it justice .
Fab4Mitchum 8 months ago
No offence to rainspirit100 but u comment allot don't ya?! Awesome song, my favourite by them except for red balloon, :D
353gunsandroses 9 months ago
@353gunsandroses yeah, i tend to have a mouth on me, so i've been told LOL AND i luv the faces, and listen to them on youtube often... my favourite is i'm only dreaming and all or nothing my first luv gave me a 45 of all or nothing "back in the day" as they say
rainspirit100 8 months ago 2
Stevie said in an interview that this song was basically about speed ( Uppers and getting blocked on Purple Hearts etc ) ... the joke was that when the buzz started to kick in - Stevie would look at people and with a grin say "Nice!" ... that's what "Here come the nice" means.
Rikitocker 10 months ago
@highschoolmusical841 P.S. sorry for your loses
rainspirit100 10 months ago
@highschoolmusical841 they died of death? then you say it was related to drinking, you appear to be reluctant to look at what appears to be obvious 2 me, but i could be wrong, look at the changes in Steve's appearance, he gained weight his face became bloated, etc. all symptoms of alcohol
rainspirit100 10 months ago 7
@rainspirit100 ....and cocaine. : (
Khultan 6 months ago
@rainspirit100
FUCK OF PAL
and let sleeping dogs die:::::::::::
brickbat44 2 months ago
@rainspirit100 NO, all symptoms of gettin older
csjh1 1 month ago
@highschoolmusical841 yes, steve dabble in the hardest of drugs - ALCOHOL, kills more people and is the most abused drug world wide
rainspirit100 10 months ago 5
small faces were mod, lived mod, breathed mod. even more than the who. small faces were mods that formed a mod band, the who were a band that became mod.
upyerkilt123 10 months ago
@highschoolmusical841 Sounds tough mate, reminds me abit of Jimmy from Quadrophenia, i'm only 14 so i'm not into any alcohol/drugs but i'll try stay off them. As bad as drink and drugs are, it's made some fucking class music. Sorry to hear about you and your dad, and in general your whole situation. Hope things get better in the future mate ;)
TwistAndSh00t 11 months ago
the nice is no fool !
63virgini 11 months ago
God bless all 4 of them.In my eyes they were the Mod band of the mid-60's, even in front of the Who, though I admit that's debatable over a few bevvies!
MrPansperson 11 months ago 3
Gebt mir die alten Beat Club-Zeiten zurück.
hjs480 11 months ago
Went to see them play one night, they didn't turn up. This is one of the things people forget about the sixties, groups often didn't bother to turn up for concerts.
inisk 11 months ago
@inisk
was that when the ywere meant to be playing on crackerjack and never showed, leaving Leslie Grantham to play on the piano My minds eye to the kids?
upyerkilt123 10 months ago
@upyerkilt123
Sad.
inisk 10 months ago
Smoking is, truly, bad for your health.
Khultan 11 months ago
am i the only one who thinks this song is all about drugs?
InokentyRocks 1 year ago
@InokentyRocks na it is
SCARSAC 11 months ago
@InokentyRocks
it is totally about drugs. the nice is the drug. i tohught everyone knew that. so maybe it is just us two that think this?
upyerkilt123 11 months ago
@upyerkilt123 Mr. Nice was a drug dealer; "He's always there if I need some speed" "He'll bring you up and show you around, he's always there if your feet hit the ground" ect
TwistAndSh00t 11 months ago
@TwistAndSh00t
try reading The book on Steve marriott, you will find out what "nice" is. it is not a drug dealer at all.
Nice was the word they used a lot when they were talking about getting wrecked on a drug.
here comes the nice means here comes the feeling they get from the drug.
upyerkilt123 10 months ago
@upyerkilt123 then why is he saying "i'd be just like him if i only could" and "here come the nice looking so cool"/
rainspirit100 10 months ago 4
@rainspirit100
good question! my thoughts are from what i have read about him is the nice was not a him or an item etc it was just a word he used for lots of things that were in a feel good factor. He may well be saying the nice is a drug dealer but "the nice" from what is in the book is just a feeling. maybe he is using that feeling as a person?
whenever someone really works out what went on in Steve marriott's brain then they can tell me the numbers for the lottery.... that would be easier.
upyerkilt123 10 months ago
@upyerkilt123 i tend to respectfully disagree, it was about getting high back in the day and perhaps Steve was "covering" - regardless, the main thing is to enjoy the song and the dudes cuz they truly rocked, they never came 2 the states, yet i was able to see Steve in humble pie, i would have preferred the Small Faces, BIG SF fan back in the day
rainspirit100 10 months ago 4
@upyerkilt123 then why does he say "here come the nice lookin so kool? and "i'd be just like him if i only could?"
rainspirit100 10 months ago 3
@upyerkilt123 then why do they say "he's always there when you need some speed?" kind of buries that "feeling" thang
rainspirit100 8 months ago 3
@TwistAndSh00t agreed, why would they say "he's always there if i need some speed, that would not indicate a feeling at all, but a "product" of sorts :)
rainspirit100 10 months ago 7
Great song sent to me by a lovely woman
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
I wonder which idiot producer made them record this silly number and dressed them in the silly gear in hope of jumping on the bandwagon. The small faces didn;t deserve this and Steve Marriot's face is a tell-tale of how embarrased he was.
pinchold 1 year ago
@pinchold actually i think marriot and lane probably wrote this, it is after all a drug song, which i doubt they would have had written for them. sha la la la lee on the other hand, now that's crap! lol but you are right they deserved better
spinalCJ 1 year ago
@pinchold : The producer was Mike Leckebusch, inventor of the german "Beatclub" from the television Bremen.
The "Beatclub" was the best and greatetst popshow on tv in europe in the late 60ties.
rentner66 1 year ago
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monicaseula 1 year ago
i hate to say it, as i luv the SF's but it does sound like a Pepsi commercial, OMG i will be banished to Pop Music hell for that comment :(
rainspirit100 1 year ago
@rainspirit100 you know this is a song about a pusher selling speed to kids right?
not the kind of Pepsi ad you see nowadays lol!
valerock667 1 year ago
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supersondessixties 1 year ago
"He's always there if i need some speed"
rainspirit100 1 year ago
This song is so fucking cool
magprob 1 year ago
The Nice is not a dealer, it was Keith-Lee-Brian-Dave.
good20004323 1 year ago
@good20004323 Not acording to their interview adn documentory. Niiiicceee
deve8uk 1 year ago
Man this band is so creative but this is kind of like something you hear in that movie (meh what was it called.. valley of the dolls?) it sound theatrical. but I love a lot of their other songs. nothing wrong with the song but it sounds like a pepsi commercial :|
lifepod2036 1 year ago
Alright Mate - fantastic for posting this Vid - just one point of order, This was the very first song to hit the charts that actually blatantly mentioned Drugs in the lyrics - the actual lyrics in the 1st verse 4th line should be "he's always there when I need some Speed" have a listen - the whole song is about that - sorry to be so anal but it's got to be right Mate - like I said - fantastic for posting the Vid - Cheers
mattdahat1 1 year ago
god there was noone with the natural charm, crazy grace and stage presence as Marriott - I will forever fly my Marriott freak flag high - and as for the Smalls and Humble and all Marriotts bands - well he picked the finest to play with because he was the finest - sorry I will just never change my tune - Marriott and Gallagher - true genuine rock musicians on so many levels
mrmarriottsgirl 1 year ago
@mrmarriottsgirl you said it. a beautiful geezer
angrysamoan666 1 year ago
@mrmarriottsgirl Gallagher? Very odd.
Khultan 5 months ago
@Khultan Read your comment, TA! Actually it's not odd at all to me! Both had a crazy raw natural grace onstagefew could top, both were amazing musicians, Marriott tops everyone vocally & was a great guitarist. Rory was the best blues/rock guitarist to me. Both seemed rather lonely despite friends and fans & both were 2 of the most UNDERRATED rock musicians ever!! They deserve to be in the R"R HOF & it's a crime they were often dissed by the press of their day. So there it is - cheers!
mrmarriottsgirl 5 months ago
@mrmarriottsgirl I must apologize, because the reason being: I have never heard of Gallagher until YOU mentioned the name and I just took a little peek at one of his music performance. There's a charisma there.
Khultan 5 months ago
This was filmed for the German TV "Beat Club" on 20th May 1967. If you watch the Kinks doing "Mr. Pleasant" (which was part of the same show), Dave Lee Travis appears playing a trombone wearing (I think?) the hat Steve's got on in this and the performance of "I Can't Make it".
clareyh1973 1 year ago
"Its a shame that they never really broke through in a big way in the US" - who gives a fuck about that... They broke through where it mattered...
junglealien 1 year ago
the small faces....dont make them like they used too...
steveevetsau 1 year ago
Steve Winwood is about 12 years old in that one!
jonnieslaughter 1 year ago
@benwellcowboy--- what a crass idiotic comment! scum.
delboy8000 1 year ago
hes always there when i need some speeeeed
scooterrab 1 year ago
Gods of Mods
MODS NEVER DIE!!!
driftal57 1 year ago
speed = amphetamine
nice = the high
paulthepill 1 year ago
@paulthepill I do believe that The Nice is the dealer of the weed, and or speed. I played this song so many times I had to replace the record. I am glad that I now have everything on cd and cant wear it all out. I remember that Itchycoo park was climbing up the top 40 and then suddenly was gone because of the lyrics, Well get high there. Hey Steve, well get high there.
ZSOSER69 1 year ago
@ZSOSER69 yeah, the word nice was used as the dealer for the record. when the first rush of amphetamine used to come on we used to look at each other and say 'nice', it was a stock 'saying' at the time, in an interview with ian mc lagen he used the same euphomism. good times, good band.
paulthepill 1 year ago
Greatest song ever about a drug dealer, LOL!
sbarr10 1 year ago 2
he's always there if I need some WEEEED... you know those were the lyrics!!
SEANFIR 1 year ago
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here comes the nice means the pwders
duffyjoes 1 year ago
here comes the nice means the pwders
duffyjoes 1 year ago
@duffyjoes mods =speed
TheBassfresh 1 year ago 2
last word of 4th line is SPEED
thats what it's about
steve's word 4 buzzed was nice
saw ian talk about it on documentary
plexibill 1 year ago
@plexibill The last word of the 4th line is actually Sweet.
belief1994 1 year ago
You got the score?
spectro52 1 year ago
Sounds like they got a good dealer,where can i get in touch with him!!
currypot1965 1 year ago
its understood ♥
han09hague 1 year ago
steve on speed-- look out man
chippy783 2 years ago
Its a shame that they never really broke through in a big way in the US. Their material was so good and Marriott was lights out as a vocalist. Itchycoo Park is still one of my all time favorites.
pilesovinyl 2 years ago 29
Itchycoo Park and Here Come the Nice were good songs in their own way - a bit hippy-dippy-druggy; most Brits who grew up with the SF (like me) prefer their earlier stuff. The music they were knockin' out live in the rough pubs around London when they first started was raw and loud - and far superior to their later stuff. Probably the most under-rated band in the world.
KeefieUK 2 years ago 4
Thanks for the note. I have to admit the more I dig into their material, the more fascinated I become. They seemed to have a great variety of feels to their material, both hard edged and more melodic poetic stuff. Cheers.
pilesovinyl 2 years ago
pilesovinyl- Must say I agree with you. The group was just too groovy, and I miss the 60's/70's kind of music that simply isn't there anymore. I feel sorry for young folks that missed out on such a great period of TRULY GREAT MUSIC !
Sad, that most new/recent music (especially hiphop) is not so good.
ThatMiserableCat 2 years ago 4
@pilesovinyl the US wouldnt have had a fukin clue how good they were.. they were so stuck on those wank beetles!!!
bazmcginnty 1 year ago
@bazmcginnty The US loved Humble Pie and would have loved the SF too if they toured there and their songs were released there. The only one that was, Itchycoo Park, was a huge hit. The Beatles were the first of the British Invasion to tour there so of course they were popular. The SF songs are played way more in the US now than in the 60's. Too bad the SF didn't make it into the R&R Hall of Fame. They deserve it. Hopefully they will in the future.
pderus 1 year ago
@pderus dave clark five toured the US before the beatles
paintedship 1 year ago
@paintedship
The DC 5 may have toured first but they were unknown in US, no charted songs, before the Beatles. Anyway, doesn't change the fact that there was very limited exposure in the US to the SF. It's a pity. The US was deprived of one of the best bands of the 60's. Imo, the best band of all time. And the SF were deprived of the world-wide fame they deserved.
pderus 1 year ago
@pderus Still the beatles were not the first of the British invasion bands to tour the US
It's because Ian McLagan got caught with hashish at Heathrow that SF couldn't tour the US. I never hear any small faces songs besides Itchycoo Park, it's kind of like the same fate of the easybeats with Friday on my Mind.
paintedship 1 year ago
@paintedship The thing that beat the Easybeats was the cost and time involved in getting from Australia to the other side of the world. The tyranny of distance, as they say.
HeadlandRoad 1 year ago
@HeadlandRoad they lived in England from late 1966 to 1969 though. They were just severely underrated as a lot of bands were.
paintedship 1 year ago
@paintedship Exactly my point. It's a bit different from being able to catch the bus back home from London to a regional English city. They had to spend all that time far from their fan base, on the other side of the world, unable to afford to go back to Australia.
HeadlandRoad 1 year ago
@pilesovinyl: they had been big over here in Germany and I am glad my teen years were in the 60s. My favourite was "Tin Soldier" with P.P.Arnold. It´s here on utube.
tomhits 6 months ago
How could britain come up with so many great artists in one decade. The 60s was the most productive (musically) decade in history! All the greatest bands are from the 60s.
HonkyCat90 2 years ago 5
Don't lose these tracks: Muslims will cut your hands off for playing a stringed instrument, you won't get anything like this from the UK anymore after a couple of years...
mullah06 2 years ago
Hey Hey My My Rock N Roll Will Never Die
HonkyCat90 2 years ago 2
Bless Ronnie and Steve.
keddw 2 years ago
Nice speed crash at the end!
tfallgren 2 years ago
If i need some speed......
ther51 2 years ago
awe with a bit of some..................!!!!!!
champagne5high 2 years ago
This song sounds like a beatles'one
which one?????
dollyn009 2 years ago
its speed not sweet!
tubby61 2 years ago
if im not mistaken its about methedrine
tdub863 2 years ago 2
They were pretty clear about what it was about. "He's always there if I need some speed". Pretty funny, actually.
MrsSuratt 2 years ago 9
Yeah, I always found it funny how blatantly they were going on about drugs in this song and yet it was "I Can't Make It" that got banned. Even funnier was that I never realised that one was about trying to get your girlfriend to, er, put out ;-)
Caff68 2 years ago 2
@MrsSuratt Might well be,it's a well known story ,mods where mad about "purple hearts". but they sung very clearly "sweet" here. And so they should have, otherwise it would've been commercial suicide. With the BBC banning everything that had just a small reference to sex & drugs.
PAULLONDEN 7 months ago
should have bought a water-bed
MrBOLLACKS 2 years ago
it aint about canestan isit?
MrBOLLACKS 2 years ago
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what about the lyrics to itchycunt park
then another dope song
MrBOLLACKS 2 years ago
its nice to be nice, lol =]
boss tune , tah hun ♥
han09hague 2 years ago
no shit its about drugs,..fkn go columbo...lol
carlos7217 2 years ago
wheres the intro?
KIDAmnesiacBends 2 years ago
I have the 45.....Yeah..if you only could.........understood,Yip!
scootafran 2 years ago
Harry Fenton suits? Don't you mean Take Six's finest threads and shoes from Trickers? Brilliant, the East Ends finest with Mrs Lanes youngest Ronnie doing his best. Bloody marvelous mate!!!!!
andygrahamme 2 years ago
Aw it's a jolly oliday with Mairyeee. It;s a pea souper guv, keep yer air on. My ole man's a dustman an oll that. Bloody marvelous!!!!!!
hearditman 2 years ago
remember children dont smoke in bed
what a waste
BenwellCowboy 2 years ago 25
I blame the shopkeeper who'd run out of rolling 'baccy.
Responsibility is good too, though.
ViolentRiC 2 years ago
@ViolentRiC Strange twist of fate wasn't it.
TheWeatherman1987 2 years ago
@BenwellCowboy DICK
jonomutiny 1 year ago
The Nice ☺ ,another great Immediate
band ,No ralation here ☺
PAULLONDEN 2 years ago
Lyrics are "He's always there if I need some speed". This song was about their drug dealer. Great cut.
tiptopdadddy 2 years ago 4
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reccaphoenix 2 years ago
"Great cut" --- lol
nalm2025 2 years ago
NICE TO BE NICE ;-D
xJayWalkerx 2 years ago 2
go on the mods here cums the nice
haggvespaboy 2 years ago
Steve Marriot the lead singer died a few years ago - in a house fire I believe. Yes, he was a great lead singer.
Gazolba 2 years ago
yeah 1991 bloody shame
thefierce123 2 years ago 3
few years ago, yeah haha
tobbelobbe666 2 years ago
The amazing thing was that this record was that this record was not banned by the BBC. Much less explicit records were banned later such as getting high again by daddy longlegs, but when this record was released the powers in charge had absolutely no idea what the song was all about !
petgerco 2 years ago
His vocals sound like Steve Winwood's when he was in The Spencer Davis Group...
iCarly082 2 years ago
jUST A BIT BETTER THAN STEVIE WINWOOD HELLO
jonnykay67 2 years ago
Great band , I never heard of them , great voice of the lead singer. What happenned to him?
calixtovi 2 years ago
calixtovi
very sad story man.... :( , go to wiki
He left the band after releasing 'Ogden's nut gone flake' , he was fed up with the pop image and screaming girls.
Then Steve formed Humble Pie with Peter Frampton. That was R&B/hard rock/heavy rock band. They have some cool stuff too.
Steve died in a fire at his Essex home in 1991.
xJayWalkerx 2 years ago
which one is steve mariot
rockthecasbah92 2 years ago
the guy singing with that awesome voice.
ladymoonlight38 2 years ago
thanks!
its intense
rockthecasbah92 2 years ago
Are the words not "he's always there if I need some SPEED??"
mousiemouth 2 years ago 4
A bit - but Steve and Ronnie wrote them both and that can happen...still okay though - anything that Small Faces do with Steve's voice and passion for music.
minimadalison 2 years ago
Interesting song, and great band!
And it is it just me, or does the melody of this song sound slightly similar to "All Or Nothing"?
RockMusicLover73 2 years ago
what a band! fuckin class
britpopmodliz 2 years ago
dope hell yes love it still
greetings vrom amsterdam ha ha ha
teet555 2 years ago
It was the Fuckin' 60s - what's the big deal? If you remember the 60s you etc etc
billyconnearly 2 years ago
get a grip - it was about getting high on Ganja - Hashish - Dope - Marijuana - Pot - Weed - whatever - the "NICE" was the man with the deal!!
billyconnearly 2 years ago 2
Yes I do know what this song is about...!
workingclasslennon 2 years ago
i dont, what is it about?
daniloh91 2 years ago
Don't you idiots know what this song is ABUOT?
psychoroni 3 years ago
Spell it out - I was born yesterday.
songster22046 2 years ago 3
what about ronnie lane then eh , the other half.
66mate21 3 years ago
Top London soul boys..
holmsie52 3 years ago
Haha was Keith Emerson their speed dealer?
Thomaspwgy 3 years ago
Theyre always there if your feet hit the ground..........XXXXX
scootafran 3 years ago
Great London Band
SollyMotherF 3 years ago
nice.....................
jonnynuclear 3 years ago
These guys are so groovy, man.
kdancat 3 years ago 3