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Welcome back to Meet Arthur Reacts! Today, we're diving into an unforgettable performance by The Who, playing "A Quick One (While He's Away)" live at The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. Join us as we experience the sheer brilliance, energy, and showmanship that The Who brings to this iconic event.
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The Who are one of the most influential rock bands of all time, known for their explosive performances and innovative music. With members Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, and Keith Moon, The Who have left an indelible mark on rock history with their dynamic sound and legendary stage presence.
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"A Quick One (While He's Away)" is a multi-part rock suite that showcases The Who's musical versatility and storytelling prowess. This live performance at The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus is a testament to their incredible talent and stagecraft. Join us as we break down the energetic performance, intricate instrumentation, and the overall magic that makes this moment iconic.
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The start of the “forgiven” section is where the band sing - “cello, cello …..”. This was because the manager refused to pay for a cello player for the backing, hence the cello chant instead!!!
always thought they were singing Jello.
Ha... I always thought it was jealous
True. They wanted cellos but couldn't afford them. So, they sang "cellos".
Greatest live band of all 🎸
Moon and his mates at the height of their greatness
The Who really must be the greatest live band.....
For blowing The Stones out of the water on their own show - you are forgiven 😂
They blew Zep off the stage the one time they performed at the same venue.
To be fair, The Who had just finished a tour in the US at the time of filming this, and were at the top of their game. The Stones had been idle, and Brian Jones would be making his last appearance with them, as he would die 7 months later. They were definitely not at the top of their game. The Dirty Mac performance, before Yoko comes in, is another standout performance by one hell of a lineup.
@@richardyoung3462 - Plus the Rolling Stones were all strung out from managing the event, itself, for endless hours before they had to perform. The reason why they didn't release the event footage for so long was they were embarrassed about the quality of their own work, moreso than being outshone by other bands. Standards, less than ego.
Best analyst I've seen broke it down like this: The Beatles shoot for your head, the Stones your crotch, the Who go right for your f***ing throat!
One of the best live songs ever.
Greatest band ever. Entwistle's driving, thunderous bass is literally awesome.
By the way, anyone catch Brian Jones right at the very end of the clip.
It's the most entertaining band to ever watch.
Keith Moons top looks like something Dot Cotton would wear to the Bingo! What an incredible drummer though. Zak Starkey did an awesome job in his place but KM was truly ferociously talented
Totally agree! When I saw them a few years back Zak was on the drums and I was REALLY impressed. Will also give Kenny Jones a shout from Small Faces he done a good job for The Who when Moon passed. Overall The Who just have very good taste in drummers haha!
Keith Moon bought Zaks first drum kit....
Remember, the Who was...
LEAD Vocal - Roger Daltry
LEAD Guitar - Pete Townsend
LEAD Bass - John Entwistle
LEAD Drums - Keith Moon
All LEAD players. That's what made the Who so unique. You really need to react to the Who's "The Real Me". Ox's bass work on that song is unreal. 100% LEAD bass!
Notice the IVOR section , Moon plays rolls to simulate the sound of the train slow rolling, he's an orchestral style drummer. plays to the effect and with the melody.
also... cello. cello, cello. The Libretto is pretty simple classic story of missing soldier in wartime...
A man goes off to war and his woman believes that he has died. -- "her mans been gone for nigh on a year"
Her plight is well known around the countryside. -- "your cryin' is a well known sound"
Ivor the engine driver starts romancing her and they get together. "I know you well I know that you feel blue"
The woman's husband discovered alive and is returning home from the war. -- "Soon be home"
When he returns, she confesses that she thought he was dead and fooled around with Ivor. -- "I missed you and I must admit I kissed a few... "
Her husband forgives her. -- "you are forgiven"
Oh, hell, yeah. Absolutely. That's what rock is. Delight and shock every time.
You should try their live version of Young Man Blues at the Isle of Wight festival, 2am in a field and The Who absolutely kill it, one of the greatest live bands ever.
The Who had just returned from a tour of America and were at the peak of their 60's live performance powers.....
Now that's a rock band.
If you don't groove to the bass part in that first full band segment, you're dead inside
More Who please guys. "Young Man Blues" from the Isle Of Wight 1970; "See Me, Feel Me" from Woodstock; "Sparks" from Woodstock; ""Won't Get Fooled Again" and/or "Baba O'Riley" from Shepparton; "My Generation" from Monterey...any Who track with Keith Moon is worth reacting to.
Thank you. The Who are my band, and for some reason, this masterclass in live performance is all but forgotten, except by aficionados. Compare any contemporary band and the Who stomp them, as they did the Stones, and every other group that we're foolish enough to brave the stage with them that day. Thank you Subscribed! Great work, guys.
That performance & their whole set at the 911 gig are purely iconic 👍👍
Moon is the only player that can sound like a drum set being thrown down a flight of stairs, yet keep perfect time.
The first time i saw the who "Live at Leeds" hadnt been out a year and i loved that album. But suprise to all of us Whos next was released the next week. Holy cow !!!! No opening bands the Who played for hours !!!
Best band.
So great !
The BLOODY WHO!!
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
The whole Rolling Stones rock and roll Circus is full of legends. Would of been good if this concept came to be as they wanted it to.
Blame Mick Jagger. He felt the Stones were so blown away by The Who that he stopped it being broadcast. The Stones played well enough, as did everybody else, but The Who just killed it. Luckily, Jeff Stein was able to rescue this performance from being permanently shelved by getting permission to use it in his 1979 rockumentary The Kids Are Alright. I always felt this was the highlight performance of the film from the first time I saw it. Wes Anderson was impressed enough to use it brilliantly in the escalating prank war between Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray in Rushmore.
In '75, I turned 18, graduated HS, and could buy beer. I saw Jaws in the theater and the Frampton "Comes Alive" tour in the summer, but the absolute highlight of the year was seeing The Who with Mooney in November. I've seen The Stones twice and Zep once, but that is still my favorite concert memory. Great year! I saw the Tommy tour twice in '89 and saw them once again in the early 2000s, before John passed.
I liked Tommy, but Who's Next, Quadrophenia, and this tune, Naked Eye, is what turned me into a Who fan. Another 10 from Pete. (and some of his best lead playing) It's Kenny Jones on drums, not Mooney, but still great.
Genius lyrics.
The Who Naked Eye
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RIP Mooney and John. Thank You!
Jack is very smart for requesting this gem😊
Is this Jack's secret account 👀
am 65 years old and I saw the who 5 times. they are without a doubt. the greatest rock band live or just on a album. Pete Townshend is a musical genius. it wasn't just that each one of the band members were the best at what they did. the lyrics that Pete was writing was so far ahead of anyone else. who's next album where songs for another album Pete Townshend was writing. but he had a break down. so he gave them a few songs from his lifehouse album. there's a song called relay its on cassette tape hard to find on who's next album. but he is talking about information moving across the wires in seconds. what we now call the internet. this was in the late 60s early 70s that Pete was writing about the internet. if that's not a musical genius then there's no such thing as a genius. am so glad I was born in 1959 in North Philadelphia PA. I was able to see the greatest rock bands and the greatest rock band ever ever THE WHO
John Entwistle is an amazing and underrated bass player. When you catch video of him, you can see how remarkable he plays and how much he adds to the song. Just watch his fingers.
Daltrey's vocals on their 2019 album WHO are ridiculously good. A really good album, by the way.
that album slipped through the cracks. if they had put it out in the80's even, it would have sold quite well.
I saw this film many times growing up and I love this band. My earliest memories of enjoying music are from watching this. I once bought a toy microphone just so I could twirl it like Roger. My grandmother didn’t appreciate that. 😂
The Beatles are my special nr 1 Band. For the normal nr 1 The Who and Jethro Tull are battle on and I let them battle forever because i cant decide which of them i love more.😂
The story goes it took two takes to get this version, and the images seem to support that since John's outfit changes. It's a black leather executioner style outfit in most scenes, but in other's, it's his skeleton bones on black (at least the top anyway) he wore on tour. Another fun story, when the water starts spraying everywhere from Keith's kit, he supposedly had a hose and sprinkler rigged to a floor pedal to activate each time hit it.
Keith's was an absolute menace
Excellent reaction guys! The Who is my favorite band...started listening to them when I was ten...I'm 55 now...
Watching this one late Xmas night I thought I was hallucinating, then he sang u are forgiven, the vibe hit my drunk senses like a bolt of lightning, best night alone Iv ever had, glad to see my people enjoying this, it’s left field gold is wat it is🇬🇧👍be lucky boys
Magic Bus, Live at Leeds please! Also take a look at Ten Years After - Live at Woodstock, and at Rory Gallagher - Bullfrog Blues from the Old Grey Whistle Test. I promise you won’t regret either!!!
Love the reaction to this iconic session - no wonder the Stones wouldn’t release the Rock n Roll Circus at the time - they were blown off the stage by the Who (and others!)
But the Stones hadn’t toured in almost two years and were just getting back to live music when they did RNR Circus. The Who were fresh off their North American Tour and had honed their live craft entirely. It was kind of an unfair advantage. Not to mention, the Stones’ Brian Jones had become ultimately futile and more or less a liability. His physical and mental condition at Circus was so alarming that Pete Townshend even wrote in his memoir that he intervened with both Mick and Keith and felt Brian needed to be in a hospital. Moreover, the Stones were producing this event and were up for almost 48 hours coordinating the whole thing. By the time they played, it was nearly 3 am, and Jagger was completely gassed. His voice was hoarse and almost gone when they did “Salt of the Earth” after being up and active for so long. The Who were phenomenal, but there are many variables as to why the Stones were usurped by nearly everyone who played at the concert. Never mind the fact that 1967-68 was a tumultuous period for the group as they were laden with legal issues and perpetual hounding from the British authorities. Everything would change when Mick Taylor joined the band as the lead guitarist in 1969.
John entwistle was voted bass player of the Millennium
You’re all forgiven. Thanks Pete.
Their live performances at Woodstock and the Monterey Pop festival are epic as well. Definitely worth checking out.
You should react to My Generation from their Live at Leeds album - one of the more EPIC live performances.
No, Their performance on The Smothers Brothers show!
Sadly there are not bands like the Who anymore, unique.
Shut up boomer, bet you haven't seen a band for 40 years
First time I saw the Who, they had to finish with a drummer out of the audience when Moon crashed and burned.
I found this gem recently also and the energy is off the charts. Did you notice that somehow Moon had water dancing on his drums at the end? Also the part where they’re singing cello cello cello …. Is because they wanted cellos there but the label said it would cost too much so the just sang the part.
Some things to put the who, and this song into context. It was said that my semi-distant cousin Keith (my Dad's side had Moons in their line) didn't so much set the pace for the rest of the band, but instead he played along to them. He was a product of those rockers who ran entirely on chemicals and alcohol. Need more energy for the stage? Just guzzle more uppers. Oops, too many uppers? Guzzle alcohol or some other downer. Need to wind down from the performance? You get the idea.
This meant rather uneven performances and sometimes absolutely disastrous gigs, but when it all came together just right it could be magic.
As for the subject of the song, well... It comes from Tommy, of course. It does go into some rather dark corners of human experience, which were familiar to Pete, and that's all I'll say about that.
I saw Keith play with a High Hat... he had it between his ride toms!
What a weird place for it
@@MoreMeetArthur I thought so too! Only used it for a few songs and then knocked it over.
Keith always played a double bass drum set. So both feet were engaged all the time. No place for a high hat.
@@PeterSchuett He never put a foot on it- undid the wingnut at the top so the halves stayed together- no adjustments possible.
Check out The Who at Tanglewood 1970 I Don't Even Know Myself or Isle of Wight Festival 1970. Another more obscure song of theirs, but you'll appreciate the incredible dynamics, and as part of that the controlled chaos of Moon. He goes from full on Animal down to tapping on the rim like A Quick One, but off of insane fills and right back into full bore Moon the Loon and back and forth. Also, fantastic harmonies on that as well. The whole of those two performances is really worth a watch, really. At Isle of Wight, it's 4am in front of 600,000, and the whole festival was powered by The Who's PA, which was really just their stage rig, a stack of HiWatt amps. At the climax of We're Not Gonna Take It/See Me, Feel Me, they turned on giant spotlights they got from an airport supplier to mimic the rising sun that had occurred when they hit that point at Woodstock.
11:44 He'd dyed his hair ginger too... :0)
I want a full wall poster when the they begin their first "falalala" showing the whole band.
Saw a saying it went something like this…The Beatles were for the head..The Stones kicked you in the balls..And the Who stabbed you in the fucking throat!!..Great band great song.
Keith actually watched Pete and took his cues from Pete, not John
McCartney wrote Helter Skelter b/c Townshend called I Can See For Miles the mots raucous record ever made. The Fab 4 were heavily influenced by Dylan and the Who.
I do not know if you caught it, but the three note "refrain" after "..and later with him, had a nap." was later used extensively in "TOMMY".
I think "everybody in the 60s could sing" might be the best distillation of great rock and roll I've ever heard. I mean... Yep.
The main differencence is Pete Townshend writes 95%Songs so he can sing whichever songs or verses he wants
An amazing song. So sad today's youth has no concept of music.
To true!
Id place both Entwistle and Squire ahead of JPJ. JPJ is the secret weapon if Zep; however, Entwistle and Squire were pioneers! Entwistle was the master of any and all playing styles!
If you want to hear some of the fiercest live performance of all time, watch their footage from the London coliseum...... seriously....it's mind numbing.
John was the godfather of the electric bass. John Paul Jones or anyone else didn't hold a candle to him.
John Entwistle is the best bass guitarist, hands down!
For me it’s between him and John Paul Jones it’s basically whoever I’ve listened to most recently 😂
If you read Pete's biography you learn what this song is really about and yes, it's disturbing. Pete didn't know what the song was about until much later in life and went through years of therapy. Great song by the greatest rock band of all time.
Keith Moon fue uno de los mejores, amado incluso por Rich, Williams y Elvin Jones! Nada más que decir.
Please react to another great song of The who "Join Together"
She was assuredly NOT forgiven. Not by a damn sight.
Word had it the Stones were disappointed with their own performance n kept this buried.
Also said was the Who contemplated buying it and calling it the Who’s Rock n Roll Circus with the Rolling Stones.
The Who were really tight here, it was said, because they were at the end of a tour.
No comment about the water shower from Moon’s drums?!
Didn’t know this! That’s a really cool insight thank you for commenting! As for the Moon shower 😂 if it was anyone else we would have been surprised…. But with Keith it’s almost expected 😂
The Who was not a Band, the was a Orchester.
Queen, The Who and Pink Floyd are all great but I'd love to see some Jethro Tull. Something from the Aqualung or Songs from the Wood albums would be great
Will try get a Jethro Tull video filmed soon! Appreciate the comment!
I love a lot of the Who’s stuff but this stuff blows chunks
THe song is far as i understand about abuse