This is the first rock song I ever heard in my life. My dad played it for me when I was 6 years old. I like Hip hop and rap, but ever since that day, I've always been a sucker for a sick riff.
Definitely! One of my top three musicians ever. My tortoise is named after him. Please check out some Mose.Allison. The wit, sarcastic, and self effacing lyrics are the best you're ever going to hear.
@@NickKaminski1980 That about sums it up. He always puts a smile on my face. Was lucky enough to see him perform at a small club, The Quiet Knight, in Chicago in the mid 70's.
I’ve always said that Zeppelin is my favorite band but The Who is the best. I know I’ll probably get jumped on for saying this, but saw both live and The Who definitely blew Zep away.
i've always said the who is the better band.. and my favorite. To me plant is the one that doesn't hold up, especially live. There are nail on chalkboard moments, and this is from a Rush fan, haha. The chemistry that the who had is unrivaled and no band has rocked harder.
@@profjohnfrinks I thought Plant was better with his solo stuff which is excellent.As mentioned previously I saw both bands live many times and Zeppwlin were good but The Who were much better!
This is a Mose Allison tune. They definitely do it justice. Also, Pete always said that Zeppelin copied The Who's style. Check out Amazing Journey from this album. Moon tries to murder the drums...
@@timrobinson100 Even without being a Who fan, you can clearly see their huge influence on Zeppelin. Jimmy Page guitar magic had nothing to do with Townshend, and that’s about all you can give them.
@Uncle Phil I left some wiggle room & said top 5. You're right, it's probably higher. My other four in no order: All the World's a Stage, Live Rust, Made in Japan & The Concert in Central Park. The Kids are Alright would be my #1 if it qualified.
Check out View From a Backstage Pass, supposedly the who recorded a second night that they deemed to be better. There was a problem with the audio equipment and Live at Leeds came to be. It would have been Live at Hull. Anyway, I'm not sure if the audio was repaired, but they released it a few years ago and many of the songs are more ferocious, if possible. There are also live Quadrophenia songs mixed in!
The chromatic build starting at 3:41 is what makes this performance. It facilitates the transition to a quieter background for the pure vitriol of "they stepped BACK!" There's chugging proto-metal at 1:50 that is a full year ahead of Black Sabbath's Paranoid, and the overall attitude is very punk, half a decade before that became a thing. This performance is a de facto ground zero for both punk and metal; an equal to Botticelli's "Birth of Venus," only much darker and more sinister in its' beauty.
You`ve got that the wrong way round my friend Robert Plant sounds like Roger Daltrey the first rock god. Plant said the amount of chicks he got thinking they were with Daltrey was unbelieveable. He also said they were the best live band he`d ever seen they only played together once at Merriweather May 25th 1969 and The Who blew Zep off the stage. Further live must see are A Quick One Stones Circus 1968 and a visual performance of Young Man Blues Isle of Wight Festival 1970.
Nah....Daltrey was certainly among the first with that style of singing, but he hasn't got the singing chops of Plant. Plant's voice on tracks like You Shook Me, Whole Lotta Love and Dazed and Confused was insanely good. Plant's singing talent was ridiculous. Heavy rock and metal singers copied him relentlessly.
@@stephendavis5530 Plant`s voice was great particularly on all the covers for the first few years but went downhill very quickly. Daltrey reached his peak around a decade into his career Plant had been and gone it that time frame. Ballads, plaintive or full throated rockers Daltrey had it all.
Yes, it’s almost like the four of them were competing to dominate at times. What I love to do is try to pull them apart in my mind to make sense of how complicated it all is-interwoven layers like a symphony. Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony gets intense like The Who toward the end.
Jazz pianist and laconic singer Mose Allison would not have recognized the song he wrote. Townshend was a big Mose fan. As a teen, he knew a bloke who somehow got records from the U.S. One day Pete heard one of Mose's records and loved his smoky, Deep South, soulful voice. Pete was astounded when he saw the record cover, which revealed Mose was a white man. After that, Pete said many years later, he had the notion that maybe he could be a singer someday.
Always loved Keith Moon's stix and nothin' against any of his other trax, but on this recording at Leeds Keith is on point, focused like a laser, and He Is On Fire!
Glad to see younger dudes discovering what I've known for decades. The Who is the greatest live act in the history of rock. Live at Leeds is THE definitive live album.
Please do a review of Young Man Blues performed by The Who at the Young Vic theater from April 1971. Some of the most kick-ass rock and roll/blues I’ve ever heard!
@@trismaccarran9950 I was soooo lucky to see the original four many times! Keith: always unpredictable, musical and unconventionable. Watching Keith play was like watching a ballet at times. He was the best Keith Moon type drummer in the world. (as KM would say from time to time)
It's based on a blues, and there's a bit of blues in there, but it's really just full blow agro rock. Very much improvised as well - certainly never played the same way twice.
You must see the video of this, to completely appreciate this performance. The Who, are a Band you have to see to get the entire picture of (No pun intended) to see "Who" they were, and what they were about. Great Band started in 1966, until .....? They were still performing as of 2 yrs ago, until Bass player John Entwisle passed away in his mid 70s . One of the top three (in my, and many other people's opinion) Classic Rock Bands ever. Those were the days.
The WHO had just finished debuting Tommy. The hardcore fans from the poor parts of England didn’t like it. They thought the original “Punks” meaning the WHO, before anyone even heard of Punk, sold out. So they decided to put on a show for the mods and rockers and prove they still had the edge. Best live Album ever
The version front Live at the Isle of Wight beats this hands down. Townshend shakes the guitar in front of the amps like he's trying to give it shaken baby syndrome.
It is what they used to call progressive blues back in the late 60's. They all played a style called "lead rythmn". Pete was playing a blend of rythmn and Iead guitar while John Entwistle was spiraling around him with what was called lead bass and god only knows what to call Kieth Moon's drumming...genius maybe?
There is some latter day material that has aged well: Another Tricky Day and Eminence Front come to mind. That latter one HAS to be experienced live, for Pete's ad-lib vitriol. The 12/17/82 Toronto performance is the perfect example. Pissed-off Who songs have always been the best to perform, for me. Usually, I have to be both John AND Roger when doing them.
This band was ALL about the contrast between the genius R&B songwriter/guitarist Pete Townsend and the maniac drummer Keith Moon, whom the former to this day has NEVER understood. Bassist John Entwistle, too, was a genius in his own right, and the band tended to break down between Pete, Roger, and "the other two." Unfortunately, there's nothing to be had listening to them anymore since the deaths of John and Keith except something along the lines of nostalgia. Like the band Sha Na Na.
Robert Plant sounded like Roger Daltrey.The Who were first and Zeppelin copied.I saw them both live and although Zeppelin were really good they were nowhere as good as the Who live.
