1970. I was 16 years old, just bought my first motorcycle and had my first serious girlfriend. My good friend told me I had to come over to his house, he had just bought a new album, The Who Live at Leeds. I was a huge Who fan and already had their "The Who Sell Out" and Tommy" in my collection but Live at Leeds blew me out the door. Many Who albums followed with "Who's next" my favorite studio album but Live at Leeds is the best ever live album....bar none.
bought this album when I was a Junior in High School, I still play it to this day, blew my speakers up to Magic Bus, it was worth it!! I’m 70 years young and still love this album!!!
One indication of a great band is when the live version is better than the studio version, which is the case with every track on this record, the best live album I've ever heard.
THEY CHERRY PICKED IT AND WE LOVED PLAYING IT OVER AND OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE LATER RELEASE SHOCKED MY BY IT'S SHABBY INCLUSIONS.........................
TWO OF THE GREATEST LIVE ALBUM,S EVER, THE WHO LIVE AT LEEDS, HUMBLE PIE LIVE AT FILLMORE EAST, JESUS US BRIT,S HAVE BEEN SPOILT FOR YEARS WITH ALL THE GREAT ROCK BANDS WE,V BEEN GIVEN. PEACE TO YOU ALL MY FRIEND'S. 🙏✌️😎🏴
I was in my early teens when I heard Eddie Van-Halen said Live at Leeds as the best live album ever made. I just had to borrow this from a drunken Uncle. Ed was right.
I saw Led Zep open for the Who and thought, "Wow, they just wiped the Who off the stage." How very wrong I was. Three hours later my head was wringing and I'd never seen anything like the Who.
@@talbotsplace7316 you are one very lucky person! Two of the greatest rock bands ever to have graced this planet, and you saw them both on the only time they were ever on the same bill!
One of the Best Live Hard Rock Albums ever recorded if the not the greatest. Bought this album when i was a senior in high school. The saw them live in ' 71' The live improvisation of "My Generation" with it's"Tommy" mood and melodies, and classically powerful crescendo with that minor E(sounds like it) still gives me goose bumps today.
To all the punks, goths, indies, metalheads, rappers, gen-xer's, millenials, snowflakes, whatever name(s) you go by, whenever you roll your eyes at me when I talk about definitive rock n' roll, this "Boomer" just rolls his eyes back atcha, smiles, shakes his head, and says, "just checkout The Who, Live at Leeds, 'My Generation.'" No more words needed.
I was really into the who as a teenager. Then fell off listening to new bands. Just rediscovered this a few months ago. It blows everything elso I have listened too is the last few decades away. I am 66
0:00 My Generation 2:43 See Me, Feel Me 4:02 Higher (aka Naked Eye) 5:51 Overbridge 6:37 Prelude of Underture 8:41 Coming Out to Get You 9:52 Underture 12:42 Driving Four 13:49 Outro
There's Happy Trails by Quicksilver, Bless It's Pointed Liittle Head by the Airplane, and a few others. But Live At Leeds is indeed tremendous! Few live acts could perform on the caliber of the Who!
I'm 51 years old, and an ex pro drummer. I've been obsessed with all types of rock/pop/punk music since i was a toddler (thank you, my wonderful, music-oriented parents).The Who are the very greatest rock band, by such a long way, ever, imho, xxx
A creepy bassist, a pedophile guitarist, a criminal drummer and a singer who looks like a movie star. A black hole of rock and roll stereotypes. Like Jerry Lee landing in London with his 13 year old bride who was clutching a Barbie Doll!!!!!!!!!!!!
Started with my Dad playing it and air drumming across the livingroom before 81...42 now and this is my friggin jam. When i want The Who like a drug injected into my veins i want live at Leeds, My Generation. FULL STOP
From the age of 55 it blows me away to think that 6 years before this these guys were a pub band in London playing 2-3 minute songs. Having progressed from "Magic Bus" through "Tommy" here they are in their mid twenties producing an over 14 minute multi themed medley.
Non mi venite a parlare di deep purple o ac/dc o altra porcheria simile....questa è la più grande rock'n'roll band di sempre...questo è il miglior live album mai pubblicato .
He wasn't flawless, but that's what amazes me about the energy behind this recording. No matter what he did, it passed--there was so much going on that even the 'skating on thin ice' parts worked. I've been a gigging guitarist for 42 years, and I can sense when a lead player is flailing. But Townsend just goes for it, and makes it work, whatever "it" might be. He was on that night!
Townsend said in interviews, that he really wanted to make a bid to be regarded as one of the greats of his era, with that performance...I would say he succeeded, big time!...Nowadays he is deferential about it...but it still stands!
Got this album in 1970 with all the inserts, I framed the poster I still have the LP and play it. Still blows me away like the first time I heard it, The Who set the bar for powerhouse stadium Rock from Daltry's first scream
I agree. No other drummer had his fire, power, spirit and spontaneity. He epitomized rock and roll. Raw, rough, tight, loose, anarchistic, unconventional, unorthodox, unpredictable. His drums were a means to an end. Moonie fucking with your head. Doing the impossible as an afterthought. I once read he was a force of nature who occasionally sat behind a drumset. If it's possible to sum up Moon with words, I think that one sentence comes close.
This performance defined my tastes in music for the rest of my life... when I heard it for the first time it seemed to me a revolution and a revelation! The Who was perfect and ferocious here. Absolutely amazing performance.
I seriously doubt that any'rock' band ever got even close to this level of performance...I've seen The Stones and Led Zep in their heydays, and neither of them got even close....This is rock music as good as it can possibly get.
I'd say that Bruce and the E Street Band 75 to 78 were the tightest band around. Some of the recordings are insane. Different energy to The Who of course, but just as refined and dangerous at the same time. I recommend live at Hammersmith Odeon or something from 78 when they were touring Darkness on the Edge of Town. Both Bruce and The Who are icons of live shows!
Led Zep was a better studio band than live band. I saw them 5 times including their second performance in America in January of '69 in San Francisco. This is my favorite live album ever, but, I've seen tons of great live shows and it's so subjective. Again, I love this album for 50 years. I saw Hendrix, Cream, and tons more who had perfect sets over the decades.
Johns bass playing here is the best rock lead bass ever. Plus Moons great drumming, Petes one guitar playing two parts, Rogers superb voice...Just the best rock band ever. Musical, wild, on the edge of controlled destruction, a perfect balance of mayhem and music that no band could ever approach.
Headphone Heaven. They had to stick Entwhistle in the left ear, Townshend in the right, because they are each so interesting, you need to keep them separate. Complimentary, and both punching the same time-clock, but each so full. Moon in the middle because he's tying it all together. Gotta love Daltrey's vocal chords shredded like a flag that's been flapping on a pole for 100 years of war...
This track is the quintessential epitome of what The Who are really about. Raw but yet refined, without Moon tying Entwistle and Townshend together with his aggressive and virtuosic drums, Roger wouldn't have had the opportunity to develop into the singer her became. There is no other band that has come close to this live. None.
THE best live album oh yeah .. and probably the best live track ever! Been listening for years and it still resonates. What a total absolute diamond band... never saw them live ( the originals ) but what a legacy they have left. Legends! The ultimate live band... who comes even close?
11:30 is something out of this world. The same moment at Hull can't match it. I'm grateful that I've been able to play it over and over again, all these years.
This is fantastic, I went between this and Humble Pie, Rocking the Fillmore, both incredible albums , they were all so tight and payed as a band, the best of the best. Funny how you get older and go back to what you loved , my body is 63 now. Luckily my older brother bought great albums.
Roger's singing on this entire album - the intonation, the timing, is tremendous. Really creative timing especially on My Generation and Shaking All Over. If you're going to cover a tune, make it as listenable, and Roger did more than that. His deliberate dragging behind the tempo in the beginning is hip. The uplifted voice at the end of the sentence is remarkable. Who else sang it like that?! Completely original. Pete's guitar is the also best possible accompaniment. Also excellent. "Why don't you all fade away."
They finally started to make money after ten years of poverty so the band was excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rock Kings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@raddmann336 And as a scrapper with an unbroken nose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When he went in for a pint with his long curly ringlets and cute tush, men approached to seduce her, but on close proximity - realized it was a bloke!!!!!!!!!!! Especialy when Roger Dodger wore a kilt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This still fires me up, and MOVES me perhaps even more now than at the age of 10 when I got this, my first album, for my 10th birthday in October 1970. There is no live performance in Rock and Roll that matches this.
I still have my original LP from 1970, scratches and all, I always maintained it is the best live album ever produced. I listen to it now, and it is like the first time as a teen, hearing that sonic soaring do what music should do. Thanks elduerino, What a blast.
"I hope I die before I get old." ...Ooops! Too late! God had other plans. I'm 67 years on planet Earth now. I was privledged to see The Who live at Mammoth Gardens in 1970 in Denver, Colorado. What a show at a piss-poor venue. Mammoth Gardens was an old roller skating rink that was falling apart. The place was packed with mods and hippies. The Who were thunderously LOUD! The building shook. My ears rang for two days. I loved it. John Entwistle on bass and Keith Moon on drums made The Who. Moon was the best drummer that I have ever seen or heard. And I have seen and heard many. Ginger Baker in Cream was excellent; but in my opinion, Keith Moon was better. Thank you for posting Live AT Leeds.
everyone marvels at John Entwistle's furious bass playing, but let us not go without paying just dues to the phenomenal guitar work of the oft highly under rated Peter Townshend. His performance on this album set him firmly in place in my mind as one of the great metal guitar players of all time
My god. I'd forgotten how good this was, haven't heard it in a few years. Thanks for putting this out here, and mostly thanks to the greatest rock and roll band ever, The Who.
This did change my life forever... I don't think I would have learned how to play guitar, bass and drums without this record. Sadly, I never could figure out how to play the Drums, Bass & Guitar while Singing at the same time... so I bought a four track cassette machine!
Never bettered! The Who at their world beating best! ✌🏽️🎸 Love sparks version here. Hands down one of the finest live recordings of ALL TIME! Townsend was absolutely flawless.
Just surfing the internet on some free time I had......... and here I am. I remember buying this album in '70 or '71 at the age of sixteen, and I knew it was the best "Live" thing I had ever heard on vinyl up to that point; but I also knew there was something I wasn't getting. I didn't really know what that was until nearly forty years later, when someone had the bright idea of releasing the entire Leeds concert, unedited. Well, piss on my head and tell me it's raining! I was right, it was the best live recording, only better than they allowed us to hear back then. I enjoyed the fact that someone finally got sense; but I was actually more pissed off that greedy, self-centered, corrupt, and imbecilic morons, held back this complete musical performance from the public for so long. I'm also pretty amazed at the fact that no one had the brilliant vision of filming this performance; I know that at the age of sixteen, I certainly thought about it. Pete and Roger may disagree, and they have the right to; but as far as I'm concerned, this was the best live album that was ever recorded, and the best recorded performance I've ever heard from the Who.
Not sure why, but the chord progression Pete starts riffing on at 2:14 just warms my heart somehow. I've heard that progression used many times, but the way they play it here is special, I think.
I love this part they go off on a sort of gallop then Pete goes off in all sorts of directions with some Tommy stuff, Naked Eye and new things hes trying out.
Side two of this album got me through some dark days. I would put my headphones on and blast it and afterwards felt like I beat the sh*t out of someone. The absolute best live performance and still gives me chills to this day.
+Mark Rice I have to advise that this answer is not based on experience but only what I have seen. Somewhere out there in the mists of time in the ether, is a photograph of Townsend's amplifier stack It was known as "The Who Stack". Basically it consisted of a stack of as many as five or six HiWatt amplifiers connected together then pumped through Marshall quad boxes (for which Townsend was a tester). The story goes that the sound of the guitar varied considerably with the level of amplification used. I know jack-all about amplifiers though. www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/cp103.html
TheThirdMan was two hiwatt cp103 heads into a cabinet each. The bottom cabinets on the stacks were not used. And also fuzz pedal. That’s it. Cabinets were hiwatt too.
With the Who playing live you get always the impression that there wer more instruments involved than just 3 (drums, bass and a guitar). Phantastic playing!
Most classic song from The Who the song stirs and rejuvenates the energy in me to continue to pursue the truth that is intrinsically embedded in our nature and must not be lost as it is the only way to free our minds from the restrictions, hindrances, obstacles, lies, deceptions and distortions we face everyday that try to govern our society into one that does not have a humanistic or even realistic approach to universal compassion and prevents us from becoming the quintessence of human beings.
The bass playing in "See Me/Feel Me" (2:39), especially that surge of bass at the end (3:42)! Hands down one of the finest live recordings of ALL TIME! Townsend was absolutely flawless. best live album ever made. allmans fillmore hon men...
