Can never forget buying Who's Next in summer of 71', getting home, opening it, listening to it---hooked, knew at once this is going to be a classic. Many songs from that album became anthemns for a lot of us. Thanks Army Guy.
I was in 4th grade and I kept hearing this ( The ‘Who’s Next ‘ album ) blasting out of a neighbor’s stereo… Made a big impact,,, made me into a drummer . Then I saw them in December of 1975 … Incredible
I first heard the Who in grade school when a local radio station played all of Tommy front to back on "Seven at Seven" (7 albums on Sundays at 7). Taped it on a Radio Shack cassette and listened to it while I but lawns in the summer. When I learned my first chord on the guitar, it was a D... which is the first in the Overture. A friend introduced me to Who's Next in 8th grade while we drank gin that he'd stolen from his banker dad. In 1982, my friends and I had tickets to see them at JFK in Philly. The Clash, Santana, and the Hooters were going to open. But the show got canceled. In college, I got into Quadrophenia, Who By Numbers, and every other Who album I could get my hands on. I learned to play a lot more of the songs on guitar. Fast forward to last year, and my wife and I got to see Townsend and Daltrey -- last two surviving members, of course -- along with Pete's brother and Zach Starkey, plus the Paris Symphony, do most of Tommy, most of Quadrophenia, and lots of other who songs in Paris. Not the same as when they were younger, I'm sure, but they were still incredible. Long live the Who.
I saw that show in Philly in 82 with the Hooters. It was on a Saturday, took a chartered bus down from Boston with some friends. Was there a second date that got canceled? Fucking show was amazing! The friend who hooked me up with the trip was a guitarist in music school. He thought I was crazy when we were listening to the clash one day (AMAZING band) and I mentioned that I thought the guitarist was heavily influenced by Townsend.. This was at least a year before we went to the Philly show. It was fun when at one point in the Clash set Paul looked over at me with this look of acknowledgement that, ya, it was obvious in the sound and in the stage presence and style. Santana, as always, was amazing! What a day. And the Hooters opened, they were great fun and got a huge raise from their hometown crowd. The Who were really cool, they had decided on this tour they would have a local band as the first stop in every tour. I was thrilled that it was The Hooters for Philly. And classic Philly, we even had a fight in the stands. How does that happen when you're enjoying the absolutely amazing bands, two of them clearly among the best rock bands of all time! Thanks for bringing back the memory and sorry you didn't get to see that show!
I jumped the seating area retaining wall at the Houston Astrodome and ran like crazy to end up on the floor about 25 feet from the show. My buddy was supposed to go too, but he chickened out. He told me later that 2 security guards missed on the diving tackle. It was 1983, and I was not fat and old.
@@michaelmappin4425 🥸 I was never the chicken. One time back in the early 90s, I climbed up the side of the Hampton Beach Casino to sneak in to see Kansas. I had a ticket, but they wouldn't let me in because I didn't have my ID, so I went around back and started climbing. I get to this balcony and I'm pulling myself up, as my head clears the deck, I'm face to face with a roadie who was bending down to pick up some gear. I'm hanging there explaining my situation for a good minute. When he sees I'm not going to last much longer, he pulls me up and tells me to start loading the drum kit in. In exchange for my labor, he let me in, introduced me to the band and told them my story. When I showed up at my friends' table, they were all very impressed.
@@davidgifford8112 The Ox. Thats who he was known as. All hell breaking loose around him, but the Ox stands still and keeps the focus. He is steady so the others can be crazy.
Quintessential song by one of rock’s greatest bands at the absolute apex of their performing career … if time travel were now available, I would be there with them at this very moment!
Yeah, that tone is a monster. Lots of other cats have figured out how to make it boom, though. It was his technique that made it special, the tone just filled it out.
Which is the best rock band ever is pure conjecture; Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and others. But The Who are hands-down winners IMHO in terms of energy, power and longevity. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page criticised them for continuing after Keith Moon's death, saying it wasn't right. The Rolling Stones continued after Brian Jones' death, but nobody ever says they should have stopped. For a band who, in the '60s, sang, "I hope I die before I get old", they still put on a huge performance. No other band equals what they have done.
I saw The Who in 2007 or 2008, after both Keith Moon and John Entwistle had passed. Zack Starkey (Ringo's son) was amazing in drums. Can't recall who played bass. Daltrey and Townsend were amazing, as usual.
I saw the Who three times with the original line up - twice open air at a London football ground and once indoors - great band live but for me a lack of depth in their music - best well known indoor band by far was Lou Reed - ironically he also played at the same open air festival as The Who (Charlton?) - but when I saw him play Heroin at Hammersmith Odeon (?) it was just amazing - the atmosphere was simply unbelievable
Please don't say Black Sabbath or Deep Purple in the same breath as this band. Neither had a LP as good as Who's Next nor neither of those two groups could write music like Tommy or Quadrophena. Infact Noel Gallagher has said they were a singles hit machine in the 60's. So BS & Deep Purple can't hold a candle to the Who. No offense
I always wondered where. They (moon esp) are past their peak and figuring out their future. Unfortunately this production is their one you see everywhere, including in the movie Kids Are Alright. Still good, and I wish I saw this live like you, but past their prime. Isle of Wight etc really is recommended viewing.
This was from 1978 at Shepperton Studios. Sadly, they hadn't toured in a long time, Keith was massively unfit and it was all a bit overcooked. Townshend is probably coked out of his mind here. They had played a show at Killburn in 1977 that was meant to provide footage for the documentary, but the show turned out to be pretty crappy (You can find it on DVD, although why they released it is anybody's guess.)
This bands energy in the 70s as you can see in this video was totally off the hook this band was the Fantastic Four of rock and roll👍💯 This band was untouchable!!!!!!!
I flew into Gatwick early one Sunday morning from Nevis and there sitting in the Arrivals area was dear Pete T and his partner. Like all of us, awaiting his luggage. That said, he did have an accoustic with him and despite being tempted to ask for a few bars of something from the past I left him alone as did everyone else....I grew up in West London and with the Who. What an amazing band.
From a time when music was really great...when people with actual talent ruled the music world. And I was right there... Started drums and guitar in 1959 at age 11...started gigging live in 1963...switched exclusively to bass and vocals in the early 90s. At age 76, I'm still playing out live. I'll never stop. If the music is in your soul, it's gotta come out.
Somehow I feel this is The Who in the best moments! Obviously after the very first beginning. I see John, Keith, Roger and Pete in total commitment! All the Best!
The band was unimpressed when the director of “The Kids Are Alright” asked them to do another take because it wasn’t “Who enough”. Pete said, “not Who enough? Here, hold my beer…”
they filmed a show in Dec. '77 - it became the "Live at Kilburn" concert video - originally filmed for "The Kids Are Alright" documentary film - but Moon was in such bad shape they had to reshoot this the following May in a studio - by then Moon was doing a bit better - but still just a shell of what he had been a few years earlier ..
Ok this the best opener, but the 2nd best is an audio clip of Pete coming out on stage saying: "I'll tell ya f*ckers something, alright? Either lay down or stand up or sit down or do something...but shut up, alright? This is a rock & roll concert, not a f***ing tea party!"
Better still was at Wembley 1975, when after opening with Can't Explain and Substitute, Pete's first words to the crowd, who if they dared to dance were sternly told off by white t-shirted stewards, were: "If any of those cunts in white shirts tell you to sit down, tell 'em to fuck off." It got the second biggest cheer of the night (the first being after every song they played). THE greatest live rock'n'roll band of all time, period.
In August of 2000 I decided to just go for it and bought front row seats from a scalper. I remember they were $650 each. YOLO! We saw them at Irvine Meadows, I hired a limo for my wife and I. It was such an experience, so glad I did it. Looking up with Daltrey's microphone spinning over my head. I remember on the way home having the limo take us through a burger joint drive through for some food. Two years later I happened to be in Las Vegas. I come too, severely hung over and turn on the TV to see that John Entwhistle had died. I drove by the Hard Rock to see the marquee say "Well Miss You John".
The best. They did everything and portrayed teenage angst beautifully. And add to that the rock operas, and the Storytelling in their songs. I think it was 1980. I saw them in Kansas City nosebleed seats, but they were great. The opening act was the Pretenders And they didn’t have many good songs yet except for brass in pocket.
They never opened any shows with Baba O'Riley. This is not even a real concert. This is Shepperton Studios, where the Who filmed 3 songs, specifically for the movie The Kids Are Allright.
Not sure about EVERY Who concert but I'll bet you're correct! Saw them Dec.3 1979 at the tragic Cincinnati show and I believe they opened with Can't Explain? Ears rang for several days after that show! Rock on!
@@JohnWhitt-sw1pe according to my records, they opened with Substitute at the Cincinnati concert as well, followed by I Can't Explain. But my real point was, this so-called concert they are showing just wasn't a real concert.
OMG ! What an absolute awesome performance!! Pete Townsend never looked so happy!! Just seeing Moon there on drums,,, just breathtaking. Warms my heart.
Saw them at the Electric Factory in Philly in 1968. It was just before they really hit it big. What a night! I was 17 and boy, was the world on the cusp of a cultural revolution!
Pretty sure this isn't the opening to an actual show. When they were filming "The Kids Are All Right" they didn't have enough or the right kind of concert footage. So they rented a hall, dragged in their gear, and did Baba, as you see here. That might be why they had to use the synth track from the album version. Anyway, it's not really an opener for anything, if I am remembering correctly.
They did a whole show the night before and went back the next day to re-record this and Won't Get Fooled Again because they didn't like the way they sounded.
Always recognized as a brilliant songwriter but underrated as one of the greatest performers of all time. Look at him move around the stage! Like a man possessed by his own music. Absolutely original. Bravo!
THAT BECAUSE HE WAS HIGHER THEN THEN MAN ON THE MOON FUCKED UP ON DRUGS never had a uk no 1 so how can he be recognized as a brilliant songwriter underrated as one of the greatest performers just to burst your bubble he wrote some songs that i do like there not as great as queen the beatles the eagles deacon blue oasis slade and other bands that had no1 hits the whos best is no2 in the singles charts no1 in the album charts are they a great band airrrrrr no there ok
Pete Townshend is NOT UNDERRATED!!! Wtf is wrong with RUclips commenters? Look up the word or just banish it from your vocabulary already, ok? Who’s going to be the next RUclips commenter’s underrated? Maybe the Beatles as songwriters? When you suddenly discover something new, that thing is not underrated. It was unknown to you. Get it?
@@artysanmobile Just discovered? I saw them with Moon on drums in 76 in Phila. Saw them at Madison Square. Garden the night Townsend cut his hand open. Saw them perform Qudrophenia with an all-star cast at Madison Square Garden late nineties.
My most memorable experience in attending a concert was in November 1975 in Greensboro,NC where I was in the first row, in the center of the stage a mere 15 ft from the boys. I could hear them off mic as well as through the system. Moon was sporting his Esso jumpsuit, Pete had a pink scarf tied around his neck, likely a gift from a fan backstage. During one of his trademark mic twirls Roger’s mic strikes some overhead lights and showers glass all over Pete, John and himself while turning his head away and raising one hand to protect himself. John and Pete barely noticed, then came a roady came out with a towel to brush away the broken glass. Moon came out from behind the drums to introduce the song “Uncle Ernie” speaking in a perfect American accent. Pete then says to the audience:” You could always tell when Keith’s hotel room was above yours by the blood dripping from the ceiling.”
How I wish I can say I saw them live back when John and Keith were still around. Well at least I can say I did see The Who, Pete and Roger, along with Zak Starkey on drums and Pete’s brother Simon on rhythm guitar, along with an orchestra, five years ago at Fenway Park. Still it was the greatest rock concert I’ve ever attended. And I’ve attended quite a number of them.
All of what has been stated may be true. But, they were having fun and they were the fucking Who!
I’m a PROUD BOOMER and I KNOW my generations music will NEVER be forgotten! It WAS the best, IS the best and will ALWAYS BE THE BEST!
Ok Boomer. You sound like your parents. The mentally old. 🤦🤦🤦🤦
Bass notes weighing 800 pounds each. The Ox was an unstoppable force
Hookers and blow stopped him.
One of the greatest bands of all time.
Love how Keith Moon TAPES his headphones to his head, so they don't fall off. My man KNOWS things are gonna get crazy!
Can never forget buying Who's Next in summer of 71', getting home, opening it, listening to it---hooked, knew at once this is going to be a classic. Many songs from that album became anthemns for a lot of us. Thanks Army Guy.
I was in 4th grade and I kept hearing this ( The ‘Who’s Next ‘ album ) blasting out of a neighbor’s stereo…
Made a big impact,,, made me into a drummer . Then I saw them in December of 1975 …
Incredible
Please don’t forget meaty beaty big and bouncy another great album.
It looks like Pete did an entire 8-Ball before hitting the stage.
i was thinking same...
That’s a rock band. They aren’t standing around staring at their shoes, they put on a god dam show.
Except John. But then again, that’s one of the things they are known for, the contrast between him and the other band members.
Back when rock was rock.
This song shows us. Every person in the WHO was a piece of a marvelous collaboration. This song kills it. Ox just carries.
Nearly the first 2 minutes of the song is just Ox and Moonie. Fucking amazing.
I first heard the Who in grade school when a local radio station played all of Tommy front to back on "Seven at Seven" (7 albums on Sundays at 7). Taped it on a Radio Shack cassette and listened to it while I but lawns in the summer. When I learned my first chord on the guitar, it was a D... which is the first in the Overture. A friend introduced me to Who's Next in 8th grade while we drank gin that he'd stolen from his banker dad. In 1982, my friends and I had tickets to see them at JFK in Philly. The Clash, Santana, and the Hooters were going to open. But the show got canceled. In college, I got into Quadrophenia, Who By Numbers, and every other Who album I could get my hands on. I learned to play a lot more of the songs on guitar. Fast forward to last year, and my wife and I got to see Townsend and Daltrey -- last two surviving members, of course -- along with Pete's brother and Zach Starkey, plus the Paris Symphony, do most of Tommy, most of Quadrophenia, and lots of other who songs in Paris. Not the same as when they were younger, I'm sure, but they were still incredible. Long live the Who.
Wow, incredible story, thx for sharing!
You lucky bugger.. cheers from NZ...if course they were great... they had that mad bugger, Moon...😂
Absolutely
I saw that show in Philly in 82 with the Hooters. It was on a Saturday, took a chartered bus down from Boston with some friends.
Was there a second date that got canceled?
Fucking show was amazing!
The friend who hooked me up with the trip was a guitarist in music school.
He thought I was crazy when we were listening to the clash one day (AMAZING band) and I mentioned that I thought the guitarist was heavily influenced by Townsend.. This was at least a year before we went to the Philly show.
It was fun when at one point in the Clash set Paul looked over at me with this look of acknowledgement that, ya, it was obvious in the sound and in the stage presence and style.
Santana, as always, was amazing!
What a day.
And the Hooters opened, they were great fun and got a huge raise from their hometown crowd.
The Who were really cool, they had decided on this tour they would have a local band as the first stop in every tour.
I was thrilled that it was The Hooters for Philly.
And classic Philly, we even had a fight in the stands. How does that happen when you're enjoying the absolutely amazing bands, two of them clearly among the best rock bands of all time!
Thanks for bringing back the memory and sorry you didn't get to see that show!
John’s bass is simply monstrous
How cool is that. Keith looked good too. You know...together.
Entwhistles thuderous bass intro..wowwee
Absolute gods, all of them!!!
Old School Rules!! This Proves it big time...
I jumped the seating area retaining wall at the Houston Astrodome and ran like crazy to end up on the floor about 25 feet from the show. My buddy was supposed to go too, but he chickened out. He told me later that 2 security guards missed on the diving tackle. It was 1983, and I was not fat and old.
A tale as old as time itself. The buddy that chickens out of row hopping at the last second. We've all been there man. You're not alone.
@@dominysynclair Classic.
@@michaelmappin4425 🥸 I was never the chicken. One time back in the early 90s, I climbed up the side of the Hampton Beach Casino to sneak in to see Kansas. I had a ticket, but they wouldn't let me in because I didn't have my ID, so I went around back and started climbing. I get to this balcony and I'm pulling myself up, as my head clears the deck, I'm face to face with a roadie who was bending down to pick up some gear.
I'm hanging there explaining my situation for a good minute. When he sees I'm not going to last much longer, he pulls me up and tells me to start loading the drum kit in. In exchange for my labor, he let me in, introduced me to the band and told them my story. When I showed up at my friends' table, they were all very impressed.
These guys were/are the BEST!!!!!
Pete must have been on some good drugs
lol my thoughts exactly. I’m sure Moonie had plenty to choose from
When coke was pure. Watch the body twitch like a squirrel being electrocuted
Pablo Escobars era
☮️
No drugs were harmed in the filming if this clip. Ahem…
That's not entirely accurate...
The Who stole the show at The Concert for New York.
You couldn’t tell Townshend was coked up to the follicles, could you?
Entwistle is as well!
Entwistle an underrated bassist.
Underrated by whom?
Just stands there and holds it altogether.
@@davidgifford8112 The Ox. Thats who he was known as. All hell breaking loose around him, but the Ox stands still and keeps the focus. He is steady so the others can be crazy.
'Underrated' is the most overly misused word in RUclips.
@@s13hgp Underrated by the six people in the world who don't think that he was the most influential bass player ever.
Quintessential song by one of rock’s greatest bands at the absolute apex of their performing career … if time travel were now available, I would be there with them at this very moment!
it Sucks to get old ):
The theme of their 2nd hit song, My Generation
Looks like Pete drank all Keith's red bulls before the show
I think he used Keith’s straw too, his nose is running 🛫
No other bass player managed quite the complete harmony-laden tone of John Entwhistle. Not then and not now.
Yeah, that tone is a monster. Lots of other cats have figured out how to make it boom, though. It was his technique that made it special, the tone just filled it out.
How come Roger has such nice teeth? I thought he was British!
Which is the best rock band ever is pure conjecture; Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and others. But The Who are hands-down winners IMHO in terms of energy, power and longevity. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page criticised them for continuing after Keith Moon's death, saying it wasn't right. The Rolling Stones continued after Brian Jones' death, but nobody ever says they should have stopped. For a band who, in the '60s, sang, "I hope I die before I get old", they still put on a huge performance. No other band equals what they have done.
I saw The Who in 2007 or 2008, after both Keith Moon and John Entwistle had passed. Zack Starkey (Ringo's son) was amazing in drums. Can't recall who played bass. Daltrey and Townsend were amazing, as usual.
@@danturney7037Pino Palladino
You should listen to a OZ rock band called The Southern River Band and their amazing song Stan Qualen. 🎸
I saw the Who three times with the original line up - twice open air at a London football ground and once indoors - great band live but for me a lack of depth in their music - best well known indoor band by far was Lou Reed - ironically he also played at the same open air festival as The Who (Charlton?) - but when I saw him play Heroin at Hammersmith Odeon (?) it was just amazing - the atmosphere was simply unbelievable
Please don't say Black Sabbath or Deep Purple in the same breath as this band. Neither had a LP as good as Who's Next nor neither of those two groups could write music like Tommy or Quadrophena. Infact Noel Gallagher has said they were a singles hit machine in the 60's. So BS & Deep Purple can't hold a candle to the Who. No offense
Rodger had a magnificent set of lungs on him back in the day
Oh yes he did!
My first ever concert was The WHO at Charlton in 1975 - they wrote the rule book !
The difference between a good band and a great band is song writing-----PERIOD
Ture story. Having a lead bassist and a lead drummer didn't hurt either.
And, they were amazing all four original members alive and kicking ass!
Saw them live 3X with Moon about fifty years ago. Great memories.
Saw it. Who By Numbers Tour, Chicago Stadium, 11/75
I always wondered where. They (moon esp) are past their peak and figuring out their future. Unfortunately this production is their one you see everywhere, including in the movie Kids Are Alright. Still good, and I wish I saw this live like you, but past their prime. Isle of Wight etc really is recommended viewing.
Saw The Who AND The Kinks at the Kinetic Playground circa 1970….for I think $5….🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
This was from 1978 at Shepperton Studios. Sadly, they hadn't toured in a long time, Keith was massively unfit and it was all a bit overcooked. Townshend is probably coked out of his mind here. They had played a show at Killburn in 1977 that was meant to provide footage for the documentary, but the show turned out to be pretty crappy (You can find it on DVD, although why they released it is anybody's guess.)
This bands energy in the 70s as you can see in this video was totally off the hook this band was the Fantastic Four of rock and roll👍💯 This band was untouchable!!!!!!!
5:15 is still my favorite Who song
Quadrophrenia was a great album! Good call!
Quadraphenia was my favorite!
Nice
ONE OF THE HIGH NUMBERS GREATEST HITS.
That footage Lambert and Stamp took at The Railway is some of my favorite footage of them.
Best opener by The Who? Agreed!!! Emphatically agreed!
The Who ? The WHO are band that had a lead at every position .
The first lead rhythm section in rock history.
@@dominysynclair Great band that will never be repeated .
The best!
I flew into Gatwick early one Sunday morning from Nevis and there sitting in the Arrivals area was dear Pete T and his partner. Like all of us, awaiting his luggage. That said, he did have an accoustic with him and despite being tempted to ask for a few bars of something from the past I left him alone as did everyone else....I grew up in West London and with the Who. What an amazing band.
If there is a Rock & Roll anthem, this is one of them! From one of the best Rock bands of All Time...
4 seconds total for Entwhistle ??????? What the hell !!!!!???????
he doesn't move that much :)
@DanielScerbo ruclips.net/video/96TjWtm7kSQ/видео.html
The headphones duct taped to moon’s head always slays me.
Thought the same!
I’m A Boy has one of the best drum parts ever !
"Let's get together before we get much older " .... here I am almost 65
Townsend penned some great stuff . Fucking love these guys .
From a time when music was really great...when people with actual talent ruled the music world. And I was right there... Started drums and guitar in 1959 at age 11...started gigging live in 1963...switched exclusively to bass and vocals in the early 90s. At age 76, I'm still playing out live. I'll never stop. If the music is in your soul, it's gotta come out.
Talent great talent is still here, it's just a much different conceptualization of it all.
KEEP ON ROCKIN'!
God bless ya, man!
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What show men. I can watch a thousand times and see something new.
2 seconds of one of the Greatest bassists who ever lived. I f-ing hate video directors/editors.
He was amazing to watch or as amazing as a bass player can be. Fingers flying over the strings.....
it's because they're not musicians.
The Bass gets ignored so often!
the best band by far to have graced this earth fantastic x
Is that keith moon on drums???
Yes Goober
This energy 😍, they are still performing after 50+ years
🤩🙏❤️💪💎🎶🎸🥁🎤🎧
Somehow I feel this is The Who in the best moments! Obviously after the very first beginning.
I see John, Keith, Roger and Pete in total commitment! All the Best!
The band was unimpressed when the director of “The Kids Are Alright” asked them to do another take because it wasn’t “Who enough”. Pete said, “not Who enough? Here, hold my beer…”
Always preferred Daltry's voice to Robert Plant's. 'Teenage Wasteland' by another other name is still Baba O'Reilly.
It’s never been called Teenage Wasteland. Never.
@@Frankie5Angels150 All kinds of people have called it that for the last 45 years.
Another British band that truly rocks! Daltry and Townsend, powerful showmen!
Circa 1977 before Moon died Sept 1978
May 25, 1978
they filmed a show in Dec. '77 - it became the "Live at Kilburn" concert video - originally filmed for "The Kids Are Alright" documentary film - but Moon was in such bad shape they had to reshoot this the following May in a studio - by then Moon was doing a bit better - but still just a shell of what he had been a few years earlier ..
Thanks for sharing this. One of the greatest songs by one of the greatest bands ever.
Mission Accomplished.. gets me FIRED UP
This was already punk before they found a name for it...
One of the best bass lines ever.
Definition of Rock Band:
The Who🥁🥁🥁
Saw them with KM in Oakland 1976, i was 16 and instantly addicted to Rock Concerts!
Excellent opening but I really would have enjoyed a camera keyed on Moon, who looked serious, sober and in the groove.
Best live show band ever, hands down!
One of 'em.
Had the chance to see them in DC in 76. Wow! The best band ever!
never saw Buttholes, Big B,
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Was that at Largo Cap center open seating?
What speed are they going (on?)
Ok this the best opener, but the 2nd best is an audio clip of Pete coming out on stage saying:
"I'll tell ya f*ckers something, alright? Either lay down or stand up or sit down or do something...but shut up, alright? This is a rock & roll concert, not a f***ing tea party!"
Better still was at Wembley 1975, when after opening with Can't Explain and Substitute, Pete's first words to the crowd, who if they dared to dance were sternly told off by white t-shirted stewards, were: "If any of those cunts in white shirts tell you to sit down, tell 'em to fuck off." It got the second biggest cheer of the night (the first being after every song they played). THE greatest live rock'n'roll band of all time, period.
@@bestbuttertypical Pete:
Thanks for that. Loud and good.
Edit: "Pete wrote music for blokes to fight to", Roger Daltrey. ruclips.net/user/shortsyxEuQ2_FJKM
Magnificent.
FYI... pinball games were against the law back in the 60's. They were considered gambling, a game of chance. After Pinball Wizard NY chaned the law.
😆😂🤣 not even a little bit true! I was growing up in NY in the early 60s and we always had pinball - especially at Coney Island.
Certainly not in the UK.
@@Frankie5Angels150 They were illegal. Go watch the movie Pinball.
In August of 2000 I decided to just go for it and bought front row seats from a scalper. I remember they were $650 each. YOLO! We saw them at Irvine Meadows, I hired a limo for my wife and I. It was such an experience, so glad I did it. Looking up with Daltrey's microphone spinning over my head.
I remember on the way home having the limo take us through a burger joint drive through for some food.
Two years later I happened to be in Las Vegas. I come too, severely hung over and turn on the TV to see that John Entwhistle had died. I drove by the Hard Rock to see the marquee say "Well Miss You John".
I saw at the 57 in Boston when it came out in 1979
The first 3 notes Entwistle played, that tone, changed my life..
For me it was Behind Blue Eyes, Chicago, same tour.
The best. They did everything and portrayed teenage angst beautifully. And add to that the rock operas, and the Storytelling in their songs.
I think it was 1980. I saw them in Kansas City nosebleed seats, but they were great. The opening act was the Pretenders And they didn’t have many good songs yet except for brass in pocket.
So awesome . Miss Keith and John Entwistle , one of the greatest Bass players all time . rip maestro
I wonder how many cases of dislocated right arm joint Pete Townsend had in his life.
He actually injured his hand once doing his windmill. The tremolo(?) bar gored him.
I saw The Who when they were an opening act for The Association.
Must have been in the USA, as here in Europe, it would certainly would have been the other way around.
them were the days
Im guessing there might have been a little cocaine use before this performance.
Those we heady times....
They never opened any shows with Baba O'Riley. This is not even a real concert. This is Shepperton Studios, where the Who filmed 3 songs, specifically for the movie The Kids Are Allright.
@@Bill-d6u well, how about not spoiling it with political comments. At least I tried to keep it related to the topic.
Actually they did in seattle 1980
@@moontheloon8910 they opened with Substitute in Seattle, 1980.
Not sure about EVERY Who concert but I'll bet you're correct! Saw them Dec.3 1979 at the tragic Cincinnati show and I believe they opened with Can't Explain? Ears rang for several days after that show! Rock on!
@@JohnWhitt-sw1pe according to my records, they opened with Substitute at the Cincinnati concert as well, followed by I Can't Explain. But my real point was, this so-called concert they are showing just wasn't a real concert.
Pete was so juiced on stage back in the day....Daltry didn't do all the showy stuff, Pete was right there too...
listen to the depth and twang of John's bass, its like he changed strings after every song.
And bass strings, especially Rotosound strings were highly inconsistent back then. Every time I bought Rotosounds the D string would be dead already.
OMG ! What an absolute awesome performance!! Pete Townsend never looked so happy!! Just seeing Moon there on drums,,, just breathtaking. Warms my heart.
Best Who opener....would not disagree!
I've showed this video to my Taiwan students dozens of times. When I ask "Were they good?" They cheer and respond wildly.
This was done for the movie " The Kids Are Alright" It isn't an actual concert.
Good catch.
Lucky to have born when WE were, to see the greatest bands making the greatest rock and roll. this is definitely a great one.
I love The Who
More Cowbell!
Ah The days ❤
Don't cry.
Don't raise your eye.
It's only teenage wasteland.
Saw them at the Electric Factory in Philly in 1968. It was just before they really hit it big. What a night! I was 17 and boy, was the world on the cusp of a cultural revolution!
In the world of front men there are only a few that stand out as giants .. and Roger is one of them !
I'd place Ian Anderson in that group also.
And he apparently had a good dentist.
Pretty sure this isn't the opening to an actual show. When they were filming "The Kids Are All Right" they didn't have enough or the right kind of concert footage. So they rented a hall, dragged in their gear, and did Baba, as you see here. That might be why they had to use the synth track from the album version. Anyway, it's not really an opener for anything, if I am remembering correctly.
They did a whole show the night before and went back the next day to re-record this and Won't Get Fooled Again because they didn't like the way they sounded.
I got a feva... and the only prescription is more tambourine!
BWAAA HAAA AHAAAAAAAAA 😅🤣😂
No Cowbell???
Just brilliant!!👏🏼
Always recognized as a brilliant songwriter but underrated as one of the greatest performers of all time. Look at him move around the stage! Like a man possessed by his own music. Absolutely original. Bravo!
THAT BECAUSE HE WAS HIGHER THEN THEN MAN ON THE MOON FUCKED UP ON DRUGS never had a uk no 1
so how can he be recognized as a brilliant songwriter underrated as one of the greatest performers
just to burst your bubble he wrote some songs that i do like there not as great as
queen the beatles the eagles deacon blue oasis slade and other bands that had no1 hits the whos best is no2 in the singles charts no1 in the album charts
are they a great band airrrrrr no there ok
Pete Townshend is NOT UNDERRATED!!! Wtf is wrong with RUclips commenters? Look up the word or just banish it from your vocabulary already, ok? Who’s going to be the next RUclips commenter’s underrated? Maybe the Beatles as songwriters? When you suddenly discover something new, that thing is not underrated. It was unknown to you. Get it?
@@artysanmobile Yeah well they are now comparing Taylor Swift to The Beatles in the NY Times comments section. 🤢🤢🤢Made me want to barf.
@@jdenino6022 Did you even read my comment?
@@artysanmobile Just discovered? I saw them with Moon on drums in 76 in Phila. Saw them at Madison Square. Garden the night Townsend cut his hand open. Saw them perform Qudrophenia with an all-star cast at Madison Square Garden late nineties.
My most memorable experience in attending a concert was in November 1975 in Greensboro,NC where I was in the first row, in the center of the stage a mere 15 ft from the boys. I could hear them off mic as well as through the system. Moon was sporting his Esso jumpsuit, Pete had a pink scarf tied around his neck, likely a gift from a fan backstage. During one of his trademark mic twirls Roger’s mic strikes some overhead lights and showers glass all over Pete, John and himself while turning his head away and raising one hand to protect himself. John and Pete barely noticed, then came a roady came out with a towel to brush away the broken glass. Moon came out from behind the drums to introduce the song “Uncle Ernie” speaking in a perfect American accent. Pete then says to the audience:” You could always tell when Keith’s hotel room was above yours by the blood dripping from the ceiling.”
Love those old Sunn cabs behind John.
How I wish I can say I saw them live back when John and Keith were still around. Well at least I can say I did see The Who, Pete and Roger, along with Zak Starkey on drums and Pete’s brother Simon on rhythm guitar, along with an orchestra, five years ago at Fenway Park. Still it was the greatest rock concert I’ve ever attended. And I’ve attended quite a number of them.