Here is a picture from that night.
Posted on 02/14/2020 8:16:13 AM PST by DoodleBob
Here is a picture from that night.
I have three copies I picked up in bulk lots at estate sales.
I listened to it and, yep, it’s the best live concert album set of all time. Truly amazing. And multiple performances of some songs.
Have that album!..................
Absolutely the best rendition of Magic Bus.
Heard them (well, two of the original) at Atlantic City 2 1/2 years ago for the first time; one of the best concerts in my life. Pretty good for old guys!
There was so much cool stuff that came with the LP.
For Who fans, I highly recommend reading the most recent autobiography by Pete Townshend and also that of Roger Daltrey. Very different but enjoyable reads, and reflect the incredibly divergent personalities of both “front men” of The Who. Both books provide a unique and eye-opening view on the British rock scene of the 1960s and then the experiences of The Who in the 70s.
The intro to “Young Man Blues” to kick it off.
As good as The Live at Leeds version is, the Isle of Wight version took it to a whole new level.
Long Live Rock!
That was the year Keith passed out on stage, and they had to bring in an audience member to finish the set.
They added “Shakin’ All Over” to the setlist, because people were mixing them up with The Guess Who, who did the original, so they figured, why not just go ahead and do the song.
In the bootleg/original soundboard recording, in the middle of Shakin they do a few lines from Spoonful. That soundboard has lots of nuggets of things they edited out, like at the very end of Magic Bus, at the very end the show, Moon and Entwistle and Townshend could not end at the same time. But that mild trainwreck was edited out for the final, released versions.
Ditto! (The Kinks' One for the Road is also mighty good.)
It’s been called the first heavy metal album although both metal and non-metal fans alike would probably dispute if not disdain that claim.
That was a strange era of sorts with Townshend’s boiler suit stage outfit. Guitarists were fascinated by his feather-light Gibson SG Special - those snarly P90 pickups through a backline of Hiwatt amplifiers were distinctive and deafening.
Daltrey was at the peak of his cascading Achilles hairdo and sported an equally iconic jacket with elaborate fringe. The frantic microphone twirling was also at a peak - the sight of which caused involuntary shudders among those who have had mic and guitar leads fail and short out from mere normal use.
It’s strange to think of the dizzying pace of change in those days despite the relatively limited technology of vinyl records, landlines, print newspapers and 2-3 TV channels (especially in the UK). Consider The Who 1965 - completely mod with the drainpipe trousers, trimmed hair and the Union Jack coat. Five short years later they had their Leeds/Woodstock look.
Compare that with, say, the Rolling Stones and many bands of the last 40 years - their look has barely budged.
Yup, Isle of Wight has some awesome stuff on it.
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It’s a crying shame there is no footage of this show ... or of Pete Townshend punching Abbie Hoffman at Woodstock. A great period for the Who.
I was very much let down by Townshend’s book but then many autobiographies fall short of the mark. Clapton’s, for example, was dreadful - repetitive (how many stories of lying drunk on the kitchen floor do we need?), unrevealing, unilluminating. Townshend seemed bound and determined to tell us all about his philandering and, um, his sailboat. ZZZZ.
But autobios are still usually vital to understanding what was happening at the eye of the storm. Chrissie Hynde’s book was mostly good although - again - the pontificating about suburban Akron in the pre-highway days got tiresome.
It seems third-party authors are often a better judge of relevant material and able to maintain proportion and pacing.
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