Posted on 09/08/2021 3:41:27 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Video with sound from bonus It's Hard CD Keyboards: Tim Gorman Drums: Kenny Jones
I watched this concert on pay per view. Can’t believe its been nearly 40 years. Ouch.
Kenny Jones didn’t have a pedal on his second bass drum in those days. It was just on stage for show.
It was Roger Daltrey who eventually kicked him out of the band. He said with Keith Moon, there were nights when things would click and the band would be fantastic. With Kenny Jones, those nights never came.
Didn’t he spell it Kenney?
Don’t care.
I listen to that song and wonder how Keith Moon would have played it.
Yea, I know there was only one Keith Moon, but Jones wasn’t just a step down, he was a falling off the cliff step down.
Love that song.
Saw this mid-tour and it was insanity.
What’s funny is here is a clip of Pete and Keith jamming out to Kenney with The Small Faces back in 1968. They are sitting right behind his drumkit.
https://youtu.be/vVjzPqcdHXQ?t=655
Agree 100% about Moon. I go by kenny jones thats the reason for interest in the drummer. Itchykoo park, by small faces featured kenney jones as drummer.
The thing is, Kenney Jones was a FANTASTIC drummer when he played for the Faces with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood.
The closest drummer I've heard that could be compared to Keith Moon was the drummer for the Stone Roses, Alan John "Reni" Wren. Right before they broke big as part if the "Madchester" movement in the late 1980s, Reni (as he was called) was actually snatched away by Townshend for a one-off show leaving the rest of the band in fear that they just lost their virtuoso drummer to The Who.
The other drummer who could compare to Moon was Clem Burke, of Blondie.
One of my favorite Who songs. And I have an old buddy who hails from Eminence, KY!
It certainly wasn’t like their 1970 Isle of Wight show. That is probably the best concert I’ve ever heard. They were beasts on stage back then. The ‘82 show just seemed very sedate in comparison.
It was Roger Daltrey who eventually kicked him out of the band.
The one thing Roger Daltey should have never done is pretend that he played guitar. I think I saw Jagger try to play guitar on Saturday Night Live, and I laughed..
Daltry actually did play guitar when The Who first started.
For years I misheard the lyrics as “living in funk”.
“It was Roger Daltrey who eventually kicked him out of the band.”
I see and talk to Daltrey here in Silverlake/Los Feliz small album stores from time to time. You will never catch him got to something like Amoeba where MOST people go. (I dont, the clerks are assholes) It’s weird because he’s one of the few celeb rocks stars I see more than once in weird locations in Hollywood. My GF asked him, of all people, what he thought of Kenney and he said to a group of us “I love the bloke and but he cant play”.
“I watched this concert on pay per view. Can’t believe its been nearly 40 years. Ouch”
Ditto, big event with about 10 of us surrounding a 25” TV (big tv for it’s time) Pete was on top of his Guitar Chops, that Tour, not that he was ever a great lead Guitarist. I saw him on his Club Tour back in the 90’s? at the Hollywood House of Blues with only Tim Gordon accompanying Pete on Keyboard. Most of the Show he played just Acoustic Guitar and I was very impressed with his performance. I was only about 10 feet away from him and we had a little banter back and forth. Great memory.
Terrific song. I always have to crank up the car radio when this one starts playing.
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