MARK PRINDLE
The most prominent post on Phil and the Frantics is a really snide piece by Mark Prindle from www.markprindle.com entitled “Frantically Ripping Off Everybody They Can”. (One nice thing about there being a Wikipedia article is that it usually comes up at or near the top of a Google search rather than junk like this). The article calls the band “Phil and the F--kups” (and that was just in the second paragraph) and names the front man Phil “Philthy Animal” Kelsey. (“Philthy Animal” is a real person by the way; that is the nickname of Phil Taylor, the longtime drummer for the British hard rock band Motörhead that also features Lemmy). Needless to say, the Prindle piece has almost no reliable information; it doesn’t even get the name of their hit song right.
The title of the Prindle piece refers to the fact that Phil and the Frantics is best known for a song called “I Must Run”, which was a local hit single in their native Arizona; the song is said to have been adapted rather openly from the flip side of the Zombies’ fourth single, “She’s Coming Home” b/w “I Must Move”.
Anyway, the Mark Prindle article runs with that and also accuses the band of copying a Beatles song and a Byrds song and a lot of other not-funny stuff. It also starts with a confession that while in college, the author bootlegged copies of the albums in Bomp! Records’ Pebbles Series.
One thing that bootleggers don’t like though is when their records are bootlegged by others, as Mark Prindle admitted to doing at the start of his article on Phil and the Frantics.
(August 2012)
