Otis Gibbs and Bill Demain sent me(!) back to watching this doc - which I believe I first saw in the early '80s - but I agree with Bill and have always thought that it's an amazing and underrated record. Check out Otis Gibbs's youtube channel for some great music interviews and other stuff
Open up with on the road again, and not even 8 bars in to it commercial interrupts the groove, which ruins the song. It's bs. At least do the breaks between songs, not mid song. It's rude, invasive and just uncool....
Otis rules man I bought this album new and always was a favorite, just those cheesy '80s synthesizers, no one was immune. Really nice cover of North Country Girl.
Is that Mr Bean ( Rowan Atkinson) on " Communicate"!!!????Kids- thats an early phone PT is holding. Also an early Computer Monitor with green type. The music back then is Timeless .
Everyone seems to only be commenting on how much louder the bass is in this version. This isn’t the most important difference. This bass-following-the-chords mix loses like 80% of the song’s power! You gotta have the E-G-A chord progression over that drone E! Then John is finally let out of his cage in the second chorus. MUCH better that way: more dramatic, suspenseful, and eventually cathartic. This version does enable you to hear John’s occasional tricky parts more clearly. But they’re still getting the job done in the original mix, muddy as the bass tone may be…
Listening to You is pretty special with the choir. I saw The Who perform it in 2000 at their inaugural Teenage Cancer Trust gig at the Albert Hall in London, loads of kids came on stage at the end, it was quite emotional. It's such a hopeful song.
"Older guy shows off his musical talent to get the attention of an attractive young woman ...". Maybe this is why humans invented music 500,000 years ago.
An interesting line in that song that I'd never noticed before ... "Your hair is gold and mine is grey". Townshend was only about 22 years old when he wrote that song. For whatever reason, he seems to have been obsessed with old age from a very young age. "Hope I die before I get old".
Absolutely great! In an alternate universe in which Pete had never met Roger, John and Keith he would still have been one of the greatest songwriters/singers/guitarists ever. (Also: That young woman is lovely.)
In my now long life, with so much music behind us, I've always come back to Pete as my North Star. Jim, the kid across the street was a year older than me, and had parents that worked all day. They had one of those big wood console stereos and jimmy would drag it out to their front porch and crank it up. This was early summer, 1970. I was but 15. An empty vessel. He put on the just released Live at Leeds. A young man ain't got nuthin' in the world these days indeed. We listened over and over, closely examining those papers and photos and poster that came with the album. Ears were tuned to a new frequency, a new note. Distortion, somehow pure in its wildness, fundamentally changed us. Live at Leeds was like nothing else, then or since. But you know that. Arriving far into the future, we have accumulated gifts from Pete for well over 50 years. So many songs and stories. And so many people he introduced us to; Mary Anne, Ray High and Rastus, Captain Walker and his brother Ernie, the Acid Queen and the Hawker, Ace Face and Jimmy and The Godfather, the Seeker, Lilly and her pictures, Mr. Davidson who never rang, Happy Jack on the Isle of Man, and Sally who will take your hand, the Slip Kid, the brothers that got tattoos, people that seem so obsessed with the morning, Ivor the engine driver, Jeanie who wouldn't wear slit skirts and the kids that were alright, and that guy that won't take under 100 English Pounds for that bus. Pete has always given us more than he received. The best we ever had. Thank You.
I have listened to Wont Get Fooled Again more than Any Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Beatles or anyone else’s Song in my many years Never tire of its enlightening content and explosive display
I love this performance. I cant dins the originak version by Martin Carthy however. Does anybody know which guitar Pete's playing here? It sounds so crispy.
