Phillip John "Pip" Proud (1947 – 2010) was an Australian singer-songwriter, poet, novelist and dramatist whose idiosyncratic song-poems gained a cult following in Australia in the 1960s and around the world in the 1990s-2000s.
"[2] He was signed to the Phillips/Phonogram label and his first commercial album Adreneline [sic] and Richard (1968) reprised most of the tracks from his earlier effort, re-recorded.
Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane has written that it "contained such sparse, idiosyncratic and evocative songs as 'De Da De Dum', 'Purple Boy Gang', 'Into Elizabeth's Eyes', 'An Old Servant' and 'Adreneline [sic] and Richard'.
"[4] The album "garnered positive reviews in Go-Set, and Proud made a few television appearances as well as doing a handful of live gigs.
[5] In his book Ubu Films: Sydney Underground Movies 1965-1970 (1997) Peter Mudie described the film as an "experimental documentary" which "observes Pip and his constant companion Alison in a variety of settings which project Pip's attitudes to urban life.
McFarlane summarised Proud's impact, "This shy singer/songwriter/poet was a true anomaly on the Australian 1960s pop scene.
Proud sang his gentle pop songs in a quaint, quavering voice while strumming or tapping the strings of his (unamplified) electric guitar.
His novels are yet to be published, "although Sydney radio station Double J aired two adaptations of his plays Vlort Phlitson, Intergalactic Trouble Shooter and Don Coyote.
"[4] In 1975 Proud contributed to a three-author poetry collection, Upon the Dancing, with Iain Ramage and Michael Ney.
[1] In 1994 New Zealand singer-guitarist, Alastair Galbraith, released a track, "Pip Proud", on his four-track extended play, Cluster.
[1][7] Proud was tracked down in 1995 by historian David Nichols leading to the re-release of his two Polydor LPs on CD via Nic Dalton's Half a Cow label as Eagle-Wise (1996).
Proud resumed recording new material to release more albums, primarily, for the Emperor Jones label.
I recorded to a cassette player that was hooked up to the car to power it, then a petrol generator, then solar cells.