The Who France 31st March 1966 - Setlist: 00:00 1-Substitute. 03:32 2- Man With Money. 06:08 3- Dancing In The Street. 09:46 4- Barbara Ann. 12:00 5- My Generation.
Roger in a suit and Keith Moon young and wild! Brilliant early footage that I didn’t even know existed. This is when RU-vid shines! Rescuing obscure footage like this for posterity. This is the young, angry Who! And Keith liked Barbara Ann!
I know that free music on the internet has killed the record business, but I am so glad that things like this are available on the internet. The sound quality isn't good enough for official release anyway, and in those days they cared more about the energy of the performance more than whether the backing vocals were perfect... but what an incredible performance! I wish there could be two version of live videos; a version for the general public, where the cameras zoom in on a performer and cut between the members of the band, and a static version showing the whole band from start to finish, so that the viewer could watch whichever performer he chooses. I'd love to watch a video like that 4 times over, just so I could watch each of the 4 guys from start to finish. This is a very different band visually than Tommy-era, and very different than Who Are You era, and very different than the Kenny Jones era. I'm not just talking about their clothes and hair; it's the way they move onstage. Well, except for John; he stayed the same until he dropped dead... the fabulous thing about seeing John live was just watching his fingers. Anyway, point is, the footage from the early days is so different, and so rare, it's just great to see.
just like THE BEATLES how fast these guys progressed and how tangible was their progress is unbelievable. hard to imagine this is the same band playing 'sparks' AT WOODSTOCK A MERE 3 YEARS LATER.
Amazing how John manages thar trebly growl out of his bass that cuts through even with primitive TV recording. In most television of this or are you can't really hear the bass that well since most is subsonic and gets washed out of the tape. He was really a genius.
Unbelievable from the camera work to the sound and editing. Shows the bands growth from their R&B roots to what they would become. As a die hard fan this is the greatest clip I have ever seen!
I didn't know they did Barbara Ann live. I like that we get a glimpse of Keith's real voice at the end. I know he loved surf tunes, and it seems like this helps establish that he could drum "conventionally" and the wildness is a choice.
Brilliant. The sound man probably didn't exist in those days but if you listen carefully, you can hear the brilliance of the instruments. The who were the best of the best live.
Thanks for this great footage. Keith Moon singing falsetto on a Barbara Anne (Beach Boys) cover just made my day ..never would've believed it if I hadn't seen it.. F-f-fifty-three years on and still great f-f-f'ing fun
Beach boys covered The Regents Barbara Ann which can't be touched. I remember first te I heard Beach Boys version ,I said what is this crap. Awful compared to Regents. Moon js the star and loved his Barbara Ann vocals.
Wow is all I can say! been a fan for a long time, this the kind of footage we all want to see from our heroes, just before they make it really big and still hungry, Keith is the star, what a talent he was, and he clearly wasn't going to "make old bones" to quote my grandma, put it on slowmo, but still can't work out how moonie does it does it..thank you for posting...
@Blue In red: IMO, both great and perfectly suited to their bands. Imagine Moon in Zeppelin or Bonham in the The Who. Doesn't work. Neither band ever reached the same heights after each died.
Keiths eyes on Dancing in the Street are priceless no doubt he downed a handful of french blues before this gig ....obviously his favourite track he goes ballistic lol
Every performance on French tv I've seen from back then, they've either miked the singers but not the instruments, or just got the vocals INSANELY loud. It was definitely 'a thing' over there.
Love watching Keith Moon. Honestly he's FLYING on that drum kit. And he looks like he's about 13! Great to hear them without any processing. Very AWESOME.
"......I'm up on the stage again and I'm leaping along......"
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Moon and them didnt get into drugs until 67-68.. At least, this is what they claimed. Moon had drummed this way since he was a kid. He was always high-energy and all over the place. If he didnt have the talent and know-how since before drugs, he woulda been a pretty bad drummer, but on the contrary, there is real method to his drumming madness and he really brings the pieces together.
@ am not denying he didn't need any drugs he's my favourite drummer ever... But they were taking speed right from the start in 64/65 as it was part of the Mod movement it's all in his biography Dear Boy ... there was a famous fight where Rog knocked him out in 65 because he got tired of them all doing speed and flushed their pills down the toilet only to have Keith attck him with a Cymbal stand so Roger knocked him out
Great footage. Nice to actually see a performance of "Man With The Money", a track appearing on their BBC CD released in 2000. Old Everly Brothers song I believe.
+777RockNRollin I agree... I'm not familiar with the song (I've heard it, but I don't know every note like I do of everything on the original versions of their albums), but wow... Moon is fantastic.
:-) Gosh so long ago,now..seems like it was a few years ago,yeah,but not 48 yrs...I almost didn't know who I was hearing but then I heard Keith's unforgettable sound..
All they needed was an extra mic!! Imagine how epic this was if you were in the audience..Kieth Moon did by accident it seems knock his hihat/cymbal stand over at the end of "My Generation" , he played his heart out!
Sweetie Moonie....Merci pour le partage ! Dingue qd on voit la dern prestation de Keith juste avant sa mort en 78 comment les 4 avaient vieilli , seulement 12 ans... Ils sortaient tous les soirs qd ils ne jouaient pas Keith ne ressemblait à rien l'année de sa mort lui qui était le plus mignon😢😢😢😢
Moonie loved surf music. He's singing the Beach Boys "Party !" album version of Barbara Ann. That version features un-credited amigo Dean Torrence of Jan and Dean (Surf City, Dead Man's Curve) singing the high parts, not Brian W.
Bucket T on one of the Who's outtake albums is really good, and I think Keith Moon sung on that one, too. They played surf music with everything turned up way past 11.
If anything The Beatles fans were as crazy and loud as The Who they made more noise than the Beatles themselves! The Beatles got tired of not being heard due to the crowd screams drowning out their performances and so they stopped touring and remained only to studio work.
@Messy Marvin - Great spotting of Pete's Mk1 tone bender, I had no idea he ever used a fuzz box till now, I knew there was a fuzz box on I can't explain's b side , Bald headed Woman, however that was played by Jimmy Page.
This is PRECISELY why the Beatles stopped playing live in 1966. They knew with all their hearts (and all their quarter notes) that there would be so many comparisons between them and the Who. The Who runs for miles and miles around the Beatles as a live act.
