The Who represent everything I love about music. Beautiful songs, massive balls, not being afraid to take chances or making mistakes, and teetering right on the edge..
I think Tommy was Roger's album. Pete may have wrote it but this was the album that finally created who he was in the band. With the emotion, the cool jacket, the mic swing. Tommy really helped Roger find who he was. It also works because Roger really is Tommy. Literally! He plays him in the movie. But the overall character was really Roger at the time. Both him and Tommy were looking how to connect with people. All it took was smashing a mirror and now we have one of greatest vocalists.
One of the few hard rock songs where you push the anodes of your tube amplifiers into bright cherry red and bring up the volume up until the amplifier explodes and bursts into flames. This is one destructive song on any guitar/stereo amp and one of the few that inspired my monster home brew stereo amp of 1,200 watts back in the mid 1970's running into six 12 inch loudspeakers. At that time 1,200 watts in ones bedroom was like 50,000 watts today. It was so loud I had the Cops visit me after school in broad daylight to tell me to turn it down; but not after I had my main speaker boxes catch on fire playing another Lp record at my killer-watt volume. Now some 50 years later I just have to be satisfied with a small pair of headphones. Woe is me - Shit Happens !
I seriously think they where the greatest live band of all time many might say it's U2, KISS, Rolling Stones, but no just watch or listen to Live at Leeds and be proven wrong. I have to give a PowerPoint in computer class with open topic and I've decided to do it on The Who and how they're the greatest rock and roll band of all time.
My brother says Pete is the hands down most prolific songwriter of that generation and he did not have a partner. He wrote everything himself. You cannot beat this.
@@michaelmcburney4489 poxa vida eu nasci em 1971 e sou louco pelo The who. Poxa queria ter estado lá.... Caso você tenha algum material desse dia e quiser e puder compartilhar,serei eternamente grato. Poxa vida estou até emocionado.... Estou conversando com um expectador dos 600.000,00. Me sinto como estou tendo ligação direta com esse show......
The best concert I have ever seen! Keith will always be my favorite drummer. No matter what people say, he was the best. The whole band is great though.
This song makes me think of Bobby Kennedy. This song makes me nostalgic for a time when I believed in things, when I was ready to fight and die for things. This song radiates with idealism and love. I want to live in the decade of my choice.
Of all the commentators and rockers who emerged at this time, it's Pete Townsend, working-class London kid, who understood and captured the late 60s ethos better than anyone else.
That SG special and HiWatt amp was a beautiful combination. Everything between the rock n roll circus and this show features Pete playing through this configuration. So great, almost acoustic in clarity but simultaneously distorted due to the power tubes in the amps being cranked.
there is no way that there will ever be another album that was done like, "Tommy." How on earth, Pete, came came up with the idea is beyond me and and how each song is deeper than the marainas trench. It is simply musical genius and brilliance. their "tommy" stuff was always a crowd favorite and for good reason. high octane jam!
We are in the presence of rock gods! The greatest live band ever? fuckin right they are/were at nearly 70 still putting on one hellva show.BANG BIFF POW!
Estamos en el 2022 y este tema de who, sigue vigente. que hermoso tema musical. Yo lo escuche por primera vez el año 1973 cuando estudiaba en La Plata y vi la pelicula wooodstoke en el cine de los estudiantes. Cine Selec.
So, yeah, this song just made my head explode. But you know what.....any Who song will always "reach me", even when I'm completely senseless. They just have that much awesomeness and power :)
as my old man was a face back in sixties was brought up on his music but he never doubted my path in music stone roses /joy division/new order/the smiths/the cure & there are times in my life that I'll reflect back to his music xxx
I actually like this version a little more than the woodstock one, Roger’s vocals are more clear and powerful. Jesus, just look at the shots like 4:56. Thousands of people, all joining together, having fun, listening to Rock N’ Roll, you can feel the fucking energy.
+Bagheera 1 As (almost) always a great performance from a true one of a kind drummer. His technique may me unorthodox , but only a real idiot would complain. what Moon lacked in technical skill he made up in passion. Bruford also a great drummer doesn't get Keith, but really they are different peas in the same pod.
This is my most favorite Right behind you live version...I got excitement at your feet,this is my favorite line,lol! What a great band,those amazing guitar riffs,the bass line,the drums,the voice,it's perfection!!!
4 Guys one band, there's the Who and then all the rest, who are all great in their own way But for me Its Always been the The mighty WHO towering over rock music like the Rock Gods they are.
Keith, um baterista maluco e incomum John , um baixista incansável, Roger, um vocalista originalmente gago e que tornou-se a voz mais potente do rock e Pete, guitarrista e compositor avesso à mesmice, não poderia dar outra coisa senão o The Who , a maior banda de rock que que já existiu. Essa é minha opinião .
3 musicians and one singer, it is absolutely incredible what they are doing her. I do not think there is one band out there that has the shear talent that each member of The Who poses, and there are some pretty damn good bands out there.
Ha! So that's where Planty got his stage presence from! And tight trousers!!!!! But lost the tassels (shame).Thanks for posting this.Love it- and never understood why this was never a 'hit'.
@guijam94 I completely agree. I saw it a few years ago on VH1 and it was magical; it left me speechless. No other live performance can beat it. It was AWSOME. The Who is hands down the best live band I have ever heard. I don't know how they did it, but they did.
Every time I listen to great old live Who I want to grab my guitar and play along. And I can't resist doing the windmills and jumps and stuff right along with Pete.
I will always love the Woodstock version..but now I'm hooked on this one..the sound is like when young kids are rehearsing in a garage.. that's the sound I get from the drums I guess..I love John's skeleton outfit too!
The Beatles and Stones are a little more famous which makes The Who a little more legit by default. I guess it doesn’t matter because they simply crush every other Rock’n’Roll band when you see them live
I was there. Favourite band of all time, they should've stopped when The OX died IMHO. I must've seen them a dozen times, including last year 2017 in Birmingham.
I never wanted to be an atheist. I didn't. I wanted so badly to be a Christian. I envy them so fucking much. I'm not being an ass, I truly mean that. That pure love and knowing you're being cared for by something BIG. It just wasn't in the cards for me. Never will be. To damn left brain I guess. But, when I hear this song, for a moment, for just a flash, for just a glimpse, I see what it's like to be a Christian and I cry. I salute you.
Me gusta mucho la opera rock TOMMY y sobretodo este tema en genial en toda su dimensión con sus altos y bajos contraste de sonidos y formas te eleva y te unde me llena por completa viva el Rock. y the Who..
