Its a lot better known now than say 10 years ago. Still not as much airplay as it should. All 3 of the albums you mentioned are fantastic. Check out The Who Live at Leeds, 1970. A really great album. And I’m not a huge Who fan but that one is awesome, double album. They really had their chops down having toured non-stop for years leading into that concert. Obviously a burst of great live stuff in that short period of time.
For years I had my alarm set to wake me up to “They Don’t Know”. Energizing groove to wake up with. Buddy Miles drumming is fantastic, like a soloist drummer to fill in behind Jimmy’s guitar. And clearly its a lot funkier than his work with The Experience, with Bassist Billy Cox leading the opening grooves, but Jimmy’s guitar kept pushing the limits of rock and roll. Buddy Miles was very well known and pushed for more exposute and it worked out great in the end, leading vocals on 3 great tracks (all the tracks are great imo!) and he’s even better singing backup to Jimmy on most of the others.
PS I believe the first BoG album was also recorded at Fillmore East.
“Check out The Who Live at Leeds, 1970. A really great album. And I’m not a huge Who fan but that one is awesome, double album”
Actually LAL was a single disc, Tommy was the double LP. Of course 30 years later when the remastered full length CD of the concert was release it became evident that Decca had their heads up their rear to not have released at least a double LP in 1970