I Can See For Miles - The Who | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION!
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How the hell did this band never have a number 1 single in the British charts? One of the greatest groups of all time.
Amen to that!
It’s time to dig into the early stuff. “The Seeker” “Magic Bus” “Can’t Explain” “Pictures of Lilly” “The Kids are Alright” a great mid 70s cut is “Squeeze Box”
"I'm A Boy"!
Can't Explain is excellent
Squeeze Box. That one leaves most fans of the later years going "Huh?" Love Pictures of Lilly and don't forget Substitute.
"Mama's got a squeeze box, Daddy never sleeps at night!" Love it, fun and suggestive. From the classic 1975 album "The Who By Numbers".
@@jimd7260 I"M a Boy is so underrated!
Two of their best early songs: "I Can't Explain" and "Substitute".
Love them both. I also like The Kids Are Alright and Happy Jack.
@@dimedraweriv258 How about "Pictures of Lily"? 1967
Big B great song too.
@@dimedraweriv258 Yes, "Pictures of LIly" was the song that Townshend described in an interview as being "power pop," thus giving a name to an entire subgenre of rock.
@@dimedraweriv258 McCartney told Pete that Happy Jack was his favorite Who song. I can totally see why, too. He loves songs about quirky characters.
Reminds me of the early days after Alex joined Andy and they reacted to about 5 or 6 Who songs over a few months, and by and large loved them all. Their enthusiasm for these classic rock staples was so infectious. Glad to finally be getting back to The Who!
100%!
Took them ages to get to A Quick One then they kind of dismissed it.
Absolutely
This song was dubbed the heaviest rock song yet by a rock critic when it was released in 1967. Hearing that comment led Paul Mccartney to write the song "Helter Skelter" as an even heavier song. The rest is history.
Cool history!
It also sounds a little proto punk. I can definitely see songs like this influencing punk rock.
@@dimedraweriv258 probably! I also think the Kinks were the grandpas of Punk.
Which means they have to react to Helter-skelter soon
The story is that Townsend was spurred into writing this because You Really Got Me by The Kinks had just been deemed the loudest song ever.
Context? My immediate mental gestalt of this song is walking across a park with a winter sky on way to a grade 8 school dance (one of my firsts and my crush was going to be there too in a crinkly minidress that felt so good to be embraced with and slow dance to - another story) - full of excitement and looking up at the constellations, thinking I can see miles and miles into the universe and humming this song - probably Oct/Nov 1967. One of my favourite delicious memories of my life. That's my context...
You can really hear the evolution from Mod to Psychedelic leading into acid rock. Pete is one of the best composers and rhythm players ever.
The bass line is freakin' RELENTLESS. I've never been chased by a psychopath, but if it ever happens, I'll be hearing this bass line.
HA! That's the funniest thing I ever heard, brilliant! I wish I could smash the like button ten more times for that one. The guitar solo too. Best one-note guitar solo other than maybe "Down By The River"!
But have you been chased by Boris the Spider?
Entwistle was a BEAST!
@@Fuzcapp He was an OX!
@@Fuzcapp The Charles Atlas course with DYNAMIC TENSION ... will turn you ... into ...
Andy surprised me. He doesn’t usually like repeating lyrics, but it is The Who after all.
Just before “Sell Out” was released Townshend bragged to the press that they just recorded the loudest song in the history of music. Paul McCartney read it and went to EMI Studios and wrote Helter Skelter. True Story.
LOL 😂
Townshend is deaf now
@@goldendusty1951 Yeah I read that not too long ago. That's just awful .. not to be able to even hear rock n roll. 😩
Yeah but it’s a medical issue not related to the loud music he was exposed to because of their playing. That’s per a interview with Pete Townsend.
@@GT-mq1dx Right that's what I read that it was a medical issue. Never read anything stating it was from loud music??
This was on the radio when I saw them in 1967! Yes I saw them smash their instruments!!
Keith Moon was a major influence on me as a drummer, and this particular song is one of the main reasons. He is just so aggressive and it works so well. Take it away and put a straight beat to it and it's no longer the same song.
That’s a fact. The production was brilliant too but mad Moon made it rock.
yeah, Moon makes the song, and at the time, we never heard anything like it and was the main reason I took up drumming,
The Who have NEVER sounded the same without Keith. Not even with Zak.
Quintessential Moon song...
I agree but to hear Moon at his greatest it has to be "The Ox" the way he just riffs off the bass line is badass ..
Took me a long time but I finally realized that Entwistle and Moon were perhaps one of the best rhythm sections in rock.
The drumming on this song is impeccable.
Keith Moon might just be the greatest rock drummer of them all. There are some runs that just defy analysis they are so brilliant.
I'm a Brit who dates from the early Who era, and there's loads of amazing stuff you haven't touched on which fell between 'Substitute' and this fantastic track. Check out 'Pictures of Lily', 'I'm a Boy' and 'Magic Bus'. Love your work!
THey are about to do the Monterey Pop film on Patreon this month! So they will get Substitute, including one of Moons most awesome stick tricks.
Definitely Pictures Of Lily! (i mean, virtually all Keith-era Who is worth doing. Dogs Part 2! I want to see a reaction to Dogs Part 2! Ha! :P
@@TTM9691 I love "Dogs" ... the original "Dogs":
"Eh, where's me wage packet?
Ah, I'll put twenty-five knicker, please
On Yellow Printer
Oh, I hope the wife don't find out
Yes, it's sure to win, isn't it?
Yes, I know, it's a good dog
I saw it run at White City, just last week
Broke the record, Yellow Printer
Nice dog, yes, lovely form
Lovely buttocks..."
The Who were trail blazers. I remember buying the 45 as young teen when it came out. Moon's drumming caught my attention at first. There was so much raw power in it, always on the edge, tightly controlled but wild and reckless at the same time. This was a great song for the time... and a classic now.
“Sunrise” is one of the most beautiful love songs ever written. Peter and a guitar, and John comes in on the very… last… note!
He wrote it for his mum! Pete penned the song in the earliest days of the Who -- they might've still been called the Detours or the High Numbers at that point -- when he was studying jazz guitar. He wanted to impress his mother, to prove to her that he could be "a proper musician" like his dad.
When "I Can See For Miles" came out in 1967 I was 9 years old & it was the first record ( 45 ) I ever bought. The "B" side was "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand".
The Who had like 3 eras of sound in their evolution. 64-67 , 68-74 , and 75-82. I personally love them all.
Hmmm. I'd say it was more like 64-69 (Mods to Tommy)....or really 64-66- Shel Talmy and 66-69 - Kit Lambert's weird but cool production style / 70-73 - (the zenith of Leeds-Who's Next-Quadrophenia...their sound finally captured, both in the studio and on the live album)/and 74-78 (Keith in decline: the Tommy movie, the neurotic, aging rock star angst of Who By Numbers and Who Are You, Keith's death). And then post Keith. I mean that's a completely different sound with Kenny Jones. I don't lump in Who By Numbers with Face Dances and It's Hard in any way. That's an odd of way of dividing their career. 68-74? Sorry, but "Call Me Lightning" is a long way from "Quadrophenia" in sound.
1967 was quite a year. Seemed like all the cultural and generational elements that had been cross-pollinating and simmering below the surface "suddenly" achieved critical mass and the whole world blew up. This tune was one of the anthems for the period. Easy to understand why our parents were so freaked out by everything that was happening, seemingly all at once. Kinda like now.
I know our Mother's we're freaked out that we were listening to Rock, but, we were burning our bra's too. 😂😂😂
I know every generation sez this, but the generation gap between boomers and their depression era parents was the friggin' grand canyon
Is there any revolutionary music now? If so I'm not seeing it. Maybe something other than music.
What more can you say about these fellas. All Stars in their own right. I had a huge crush on Roger Daltry and still love him today. I showed my kids the movie "Tommy" and they loved it. They literally invented the "Rock Opera". No one swings a mic better than Roger. 🎙️🎤
I loved Tommy, it made the album make sense.
@@robynbaker7325 Right!!! It paved the way for me to show my kids (now adults) "Rocky Horror Picture Show". "Hair" Jesus Christ Superstar".
It was The Pretty Things who literally invented the rock opera.
@@ChrisLawton66 I'm not familiar with them but I will definitely check them out. Thanks ☺️👍
I saw Tommy in the theater in 7th grade because I heard Elton John was in it. Never even heard of The Who before the movie. It turned me into a Who fan but the baked beans scene burned Ann Margaret into my memory forever...
The Who Sell Out is an often overlooked masterpiece. It features more songs with Pete Townsend singing lead. The “commercial” breaks between song tracks are a unique feature. Maryanne With The Shaky Hands is one of May favorite songs. Sunrise is just all Pete singing and on acoustic and is a beautiful song. Give the whole album a listen.
Yep. Gems all over it.
Sunrise and I Can't Reach You are masterpieces. The album is full of masterpieces.
I LOVE that album. LOVE it. Sunrise is GORGEOUS. And Rael is mindblowing. So is the first song. Oh my god, I can talk about this album all day long. This and "We're Only In It For The Money" - which came out practically the same time - they are like twin musical commentaries/satires of the 1967 music scene. Add "Their Satanic Majesty's Request" and you've got three wild, super psychedelic reactions to "Sgt. Pepper"!
Yes, always liked Tattoo and Rael as well.
Just like The Rolling Stones, people didn’t know that The Who who could also get psychedelic with the best of them. All of the elite groups of the ‘60s did psychedelic rock. And nearly all of them had at least one S-tier song. And it was specifically *because* they did a lot of psychedelics. Drug culture makes music better. It just does. It’s a shame that too many great stars just couldn’t handle it without becoming addicts.
Back in the 90s used to drive through the hills of Wales on the A44 listening to a Rock mix-tape which was great. Then I'd crest a hill, this song would come on (full blast of course) , and I'd be in that magic zone staring at the view and being controlled by the music. Amazed I never crashed.
Super song, performance and production. Another reason we're still lovin' it 55 years later.
This song came out when I was 12 and it was the first time I realized that love can be dangerous. Quite the epiphany for a 12-year-old girl, lol. Lesson learned.
One of the best songs The Who ever did, very heavy and influential when it was first released.
They had to interrupt the song. Some guy got word to them on the stage that Andy & Alex hadn't reacted to it yet and they had to stop. ;-)
This song is all about the drums. Keith just takes you on HIS ride from start to finish.
Question: is it really the Who with half the band missing? Life long fan here and it hurt seeing them without Kieth. When The Ox passed on, it became too sad to see them live any more. How can you still be The Who when every single original member was a genius and top 5 on any list of exceptional musicians in their own genres? I still remember John playing an extended solo at the Hollywood Bowl. Never heard anything like it before or since. Amazing.
Years ahead of its time. For 1967 it may be the greatest single of its time. The Who never disappoints. An S tier.
Imagine having this blasting out of your AM radio in your car circa '67. 😁
Live at Leeds, one of the first & best live albums ever made. Check “Magic Bus” from that LP, it’s an epic jam!✌️❤️🎶
Woodstock ... Who rhythm jamming live.
You really need to do The Kids Are Alright as one of your monthly movies. One of the best 'Rockumentaries' ever, and the Who in their orime.
The who are on of my all times favs..........THIS SONG ROCKS
You guys giving I Can See For Miles it's proper due, only serves to cement Andy & Alex as the top in reaction videos.
Love this who song. A classic song from their earlier days. A+ for this song.
BAD ASS SONG. . LOVE THIS JAM
THE WHO. ROCKS.
🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Keith Moon wore my visor while playing this song. My head was larger than his, so it sat on the ridge of his nose. And he went absolutely insane. For the first time, my little girl crush on Daltrey was totally overshadowed.
no way!! what's the story?
@@loosilu I was in the front row, having my own little Sally Simpson moment, and threw my visor on stage. It landed perfectly on Moon’s cymbal. He put it on his head, and it dropped to his nose. He wore it for the rest of the song, and was savage. The whole concert was incredible, but he definitely had my undivided attention for the rest of the song!
@@harriotteworthington3147 Wow, amazing story!!!! Lucky you! We lost him far to soon.
Did you ever get it back?
@@kentclark6420 Nope. I’m sure it was tossed after the gig. But in my little girl mind, we connected… 🤪
The lighter hearted psychedelic flipside of this one for me would be "Magic Bus". The many flavors of The Who.
I knew you guys would love this song! The drums combined with that razorlike guitar, amazing.
I'm glad that they liked it too. That's why we baby boomers love them still and want A&A to hear them.
1967 was a unbelievable year for rock music .. especially the summer ..
I would credit this track as being the intro to 70's style rock before the 70's arrived. It was new musical territory for the time.
YES, spot on
Yes, except it was still catchy enough to get heavy radio airplay alongside the Beatles, the Bee Gees, the Rascals, Aretha Franklin, the Grass Roots, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, The Turtles, Mary Hopkin, Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, etc.
@@gregsager2062 Pete really knew how to write a single.
@@loosilu Yes, he did. The man understands what to do with a hook.
@@gregsager2062 looking at your comments I think we have very similar taste!
Great choice - I've been lobbying for this track for years, since my opinion is that it opened the door to "heavy" music. I still have the vinyl. This was my theme song in Vietnam in 1967 (flew a Huey gunship)....fit perfectly with what we did every day.
My wife, (girlfriend at the time) saw The Who in the Cleveland Music Hall in the early 70s. Keith was still alive. They were supporting Who's Next. Great concert.
That may be the concert I went too....thought it was at the Kent State coliseum but too much dope back then I'm not sure
hope she missed the one in cincy a few years later...
@@Largeagegaplove they might have played at Kent too.
It's a really good song for driving down the highway. You're looking way down the road and singing I can see for Miles.
🎵Your Gonna LOVE THIS.....🎶🎶🎶
Two words: Windmill Mania.
If he did windmill every chord, his arm would almost never stop moving the whole song. The ultimate brand statement. What a glorious band.
The Annie Leibovitz pic of Pete leaning on his bloodied up hand come to mind every time he revs it up.
Now that you're back to the Who, I want to go back to recommending "Slip Kid" from their underrated "Why By Numbers" album from 1975. Rocks hard with different phases to it, something you liked in their other songs.
1967 was a great year for banger songs!
"Sell Out" is a great album. "Tattoo" is my favorite & among Townshend's best, funny but genuinely touching too.
There's a live version on the deluxe LIve At Leeds.
She sang the best she ever sang .....
I love Moon's powerhouse drumming on this. Your next Who song should be "Can't Explain." Killer guitar work and staccato drums. One of my favorite early Who songs.
For years they played it as the first or second song at every show. Pete used to say he could tell how the show was going to go by the first chord of that song.
"The Song is Over" is a great one. Don't think anyone has reacted to it which is a shame.
They're overdue for a Who's Next reaction. My favorite on that album is Love Ain't for Keeping. Much too short for anyone to react to on its own.
No ,Deborah , they never do and its epic in their body of work..They never played it on FM radio going back to the 70's and The Who never played it in concert ..Maybe they broke the string by playing it once or twice in recent years just for yuks and grins ,but I don't think so .
Nobody talks about "Goin' Mobile" ever _snif_
In 65 The Who released the single Anyway Anyhow Anywhere. Nobody was quite sure what to do with a banger that foreshadowed the future of hard rock. It still cooks brain. It’s one of the very first uses of guitar feedback. Revolutionary!
After being stalked and spied on my phone, this song has a new meaning to me.
The preferred context for this song is to listen to the album.
Your main unexplored area of The Who is early Who, so that's where I would go next. I'd say your next Who song should be either "Substitute" or "The Kids Are Alright". The Who had some great singles in the '60s.
It's funny. The song The Kids Are Alright isn't actually in the movie by that name. So even if A&A have watched the film for Patreon, it would still be a new song for them.
I'm a Boy and Substitute, underrated.
Amazing how a song exactly 55 years old still resonates! One of the best songs The Who ever did imho, which is saying a lot. Perfect combination of angry/powerful instrumentation and lyrics.
The Who was the group for Misfits! Everybody liked Beatles, Stones, etc. The Who had a sense of humor and they were the Zepplin before Zepplin.
Everyone was discovering pot and freedom of whatever. You are correct, this was the ultimate cool song! Other great later songs: songs
"You better, you Bet" . and "Mama's got a squeezebox"!! LOL,
For the 60s I’d recommend Pictures of Lily or Dogs. For the 70s, I recommend My Wife - it was actually written by the bassist, John Entwistle. He also did the vocals for that track. For the 80s, I’d recommend Athena 😄
"I Can't Explain" is super iconic!
Please do it next :)
Love it.
Keith's slash and burn drumming was so unique back then....I remember it well
OH MY GOSH; Andy listened to the lyrics... the boy has become a man in storytelling! Great reaction Boyz!
It's happened with a few songs before but you were so into that your reactions made me like this soon about 30% more
This song is from the album 'The Who Sell Out,' a concept album which came out just before 'Tommy.' It's a fun album, perhaps a bit underrated compared to their later, more well-known albums (Tommy to Quadrophenia). Highly recommended for a 'first time reaction' as an album. Other suggestions are The Seeker, Join Together, Relay and Let's See Action (all of which were released as singles and are not on any major Who album).
Absolutely agree with you 100% about "first time reaction" material. This is definitely a spectacular "movie" of an album.
When I was 6-7 we’d steal my brothers 45s & play this over & over & over. My sis was only 4. Tommy came out after this. Pete said he felt this was the best song he could write in the singles format. So he went looking for something else. Whallah. A masterpiece was born.
Those chorus harmonies do it for me!
I agree with you guys on this one, great song. "Substitute" is another early gem you have not reacted to yet. Have a great weekend to all. Cheers!
The whole album that it's from (Who Sell Out) is a brilliant pop at the music industry and a perfect representation of the way music was heard by the listener they made the album to sound like an actual radio station programme complete with made up ads 1967 came out. I like it.
Some of the ads -- the radio station jingles -- were actual ads that were swiped from Radio London, the offshort "pirate" radio station that had such a big influence on British popular music radio listeners back in the 1960s.
The sound of my childhood. I turned nine-years-old that year.
Meaty beaty big and bouncy album's got a lot of their 60s singles - some great songs
I love this band and I listen to this song when I need to get motivated or I need to bring up my mood. It is not about the lyrics for me though I know every one by heart, it is the charge of the music, this song keeps hammering like a freight train moving down a track it has a rhythm that is relentless and it really powers me up. Thank you for your great reactions.
This has always been one of my favorite Who songs. Thanks for the enthusiastic reaction!
I`m 59 years old and the 60's is my favorite musical decade. The various styles and sounds, and the 60's was the first time in where kids 18 and older had their own F you money because of the music they created.
I remember listening to this song on my Walkman flying to Mexico, looking out the window.
Reminisce from an old guy:
The whole album, starting with the title "The Who Sell Out" and the cover photos (Moon and Entwistle are shown on the back cover, using other products), is parody/irony on several levels. In the original-release vinyl, there was no silence between tracks, instead there were little radio ads for products and other goofy stuff. Apparently, some of those were actual jingles that were used without permission, so there were some lawsuits. And then at the end of Side 2, after the last music track, a voice in the trailing grooves kept saying "Shut it off... shut it off... shut it off..." and if you let it play all the way down into the locked groove it would endlessly repeat "shut the d* thing off." Since almost all record players would automatically lift and swing out the needle arm before the needle reached the locked groove, you only got to hear that if you were playing the disc on a cheap kiddie unit.
After the success of See For Miles and of this album, The Who released another album along with their single Magic Bus. That must've been an impulsive/last-minute marketing decision, since two of the album cuts from Sell Out were also put on the Magic Bus album to bring it up to standard content size. (I bought and owned the original U.S. pressings of both albums.)
IT's a tribute to pirate radio stations. At the time, they were the only stations in the UK playing rock music. They were instrumental in the Who's success.
This album has some gems. I remember buying this album as a cutout. The old folks here will remember those.😅
Lee Michaels Live…😀
Wow, I can't believe this was a cut-out! I felt so lucky to have the early Who albums (and Mothers of Invention albums too!) because a lot of those weren't in print! Zappa had so many albums out, no one had them all! lol. Anyways, what's my greatest cut-out score? Hmmmm. The only thing coming to mind right now is finding a Robert Fripp album at a Caldor, lol.
The 60's were SO good!!!
There are an insane amount of fantastic songs from 1967. So many more to explore.
Great reaction and great song. You used the perfect adjective for the feel: "menacing". It's raw and psychedelic but never meandering. It's sharp and focused. One of their best. A unique one that you might want to try: "A Quick One, While He's Away."
My favorite Who song! Their first big hit in the U.S. before Tommy. Listen to the whole album! It's a concept album, supposed to sound like British pirate radio stations, which broadcast illegally from ships offshore in the late 60's. Check out the movie "Pirate Radio" for the full story.
I loved this song since I first heard it back around ‘69 as an 8-year old. Definitely an S level for me! & I’ll listen to this anytime it comes up on the radio!
@@trajan6927 An expression used for the absolute highest level. May be derived from UK schools where S levels are above A levels.
MEATY, BEATY, BIG, AND BOUNCY! It has to be a full album episode. Keep it up, guys!
It's a great song to listen to when you've discovered you're being cheated on, and the cheater doesn't yet know you know. Then you see how they look, trying to keep up the facade. And you can see it for miles.
Yep. Captured perfectly in the bridge couplet:
The Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal, my eyes can see on clearer days,
You thought that I would need a crystal ball to see right through the haze.
Also good when you are very high on acid
Definitely never put it on a mix CD for your girl.
Such a good song. Love the Who. You Better, You Bet. Talk about musicianship, those guys have massive talent. Thanks for this memory.
MAGIC BUS, GOING MOBILE, THE SONG IS OVER, SUBSTITUTE, THE SEEKER, LONG LIVE ROCK (there are a lot of great songs from The Who you have yet to react to).
I was 15 when this came out and it was #10 on Orlando's WHOO 990 am radio station. It was WAY ahead of its time in every way!!!
Can’t Explain why in mere words I love The Who
Got a feelin' inside. It's a certain kind.
That's why. ;-)
Eveyr time they played it live Moonie looked like a fanboy hearing his favorite song.
As always, love your reaction, but boys...this a solid "S+" every day of the week! I do not understand your hesitation about needing a certain context for listening to it. This is not only an iconic song, but one of their biggest radio hits, constantly played from the moment it first came out right up to five minutes ago. The only other song from this era that is close to its equal is "The Seeker", which is another banger you must give a spin to ASAP (the lyrics are amazing!).
....our highschool homeroom "morning announcements" were precluded by this song over the intercom system....EVERY morning.... so it's good & bad . But it's vital to rock history in its "heaviness" .
You guys are right, it’s always memorable when something goes wrong for a performer during a show.
In 1980 I was 14 and went to see Queen at the New Haven Civic Center in Connecticut. It was a stormy summer night outside with lightning, and about a half hour into an INCREDIBLE show the power went out. The emergency lights kicked on so the place was lit up like before the show began, but the amps were dead. Freddie Mercury started laughing and yelled out “we not leaving, so just stay where you are. Hopefully they can fix the problem, but in the meantime I’ll sing for you, but you’ll have be quiet, all right?”. He then began to sing without a microphone to the crowd of 17,000, and his voice was so powerful that you could hear him really clearly even in the nosebleed section where I was. It took about a 20 minutes and the power came back on, and the band resumed like nothing had gone wrong.
A&A, their “Long Live Rock” and “You Better, You Bet” are next for you!!
"I Can See For Miles" is from 1967, reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100.
And it's one of the CSI songs! It was the theme song for the short lived series CSI: Cyber.
“Join Together” is another great who song to add to the list
@@jacjr6193 They did Join Together at the DC show a couple of weeks ago!
"Ode To Billy Joe" is a hot summer southern gothic American classic.
it was released July 3rd, 1967, by Bobbie Gentry. Gonna keep pushing it.
I support you. 🙂👌
@@lynne5322 TY Lynn E
Let’s push it .. push it good.
Wow, didn't realize it was that early.
This is one of my favorite songs by The Who as well. It is psychedelic in the best way.
Something to understand about this song. Drumming wise, this was before Rush, before Bonham, even before Iron Butterfly. Being a 16 year old drummer at the time it was life changing.
The Who have so many great songs. I had to liked it even if it's not up yet. This one is a very good kind of psychedelic rock song. I have hallucinated a lot while listening to this one... 😉
I appreciate your love for The Who, but you've been missing out on one of the Greatest live albums Ever - LIVE at LEEDS. Recorded in 1971 on a night when the band was in top form, they deliver one raw banger after another. Like a runaway freight train, they keep on coming. Young Man Blues, Magic Bus, Amazing Journey/Sparks, and my favorite, a 15 minute version of My Generation which is a medley of 7 different songs.
Totally agree! Even though they have recently seen The Who live, it's not the same. In my opinion, nobody from that Era, and few since, could match the raw fury of The Who live; a whole different level of intensity and passion from their great studio work. Plus, live, Pete's guitar really steps to the forefront. Live at Leeds may be the best live rock album ever, easily top3.
mojoesixpack - They didn’t see The Who. They saw the Pete & Roger Show. The Who were one of those rare bands where each member was indispensable. The band stopped existing after Entwhistle passed and they barely got away with it after Moon died. Although Zak with Entwhistle still in the band did have magical moments ❤️
@@cirenosnor5768 Great point!
Just to give you an idea of the magnitude of greatness of this band, they were voted the favorite band of my high school class. In 1984!! They are right up there with the Stones and Zeppelin in my book.
Talk about unique: This song doesn't have a beat, not in a traditional sense. This is why its Keith who's the most amazing from this era. He was different in every sense.
This has always been one of my favorite Who songs.
I saw John McLaughlin (Mahvishnu Orchestra) in concert and he broke his string on stage for the first time in over 30 years. He went backstage to restring while his band played and they kicked ass more during that than the rest of the show.
Had onstage seats for Andres Segovia. He stopped a song twice to retune his guitar, apologized, and went on to kill it. Loved that uncompromisingly high standard.
Saw him & Mahavishnu at the Dr Pepper concerts in Central Park-Mid-70's. Unreal.
You nailed the harmony aspect! My favorite part of the song- switching from major to minor in the chorus and back. ♥️
At the time, if you weren't already hip to the Who from "I Can't Explain'' or "My Generation" or "Happy Jack'' or "Pictures of Lily" or their appearance at Monterey Pop, then "I Can See for Miles'' was the one that opened EVERYone's eyes because it was a big AM radio hit and reached the top 10 on Billboard. So for a lot of listeners, "I Can See for Miles'' was the entry point, and then they went back and heard earlier material.