A friend invited me to a midnight showing of The Kids Are Alright my senior high year 1981. I instantly became a fan and promptly bought all The Who vinyl I could find.
Actually, that's Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin fame. He was a "hired gun" on TONS of recordings done in Great Britain and Producer Shel Talmy brought him in to do the electric (Rickenbacker) 12-string. See my comment elsewhere for this video.
@@garyblanchard1084 In their early years, yes, but as they got older, they realized (this, from an interview with Pete Townsend), that the instrument smashing was a bit silly, so they stopped doing that.
I had their Live at Leeds, 8 track tape and player mounted under the dash. At 15, I installed the speakers and player myself! Still proud. Great Rock album.
God, what an incredibly fantastic powerhouse song!! First time hearing this, I was a Soph. in h.s. in Hempstead, NY, sick in bed with the old bakelite Regal radio on beside me..This song came on, I just flipped out!! This was their first American hit. Later I found out, also by just the jangly, clangy sound of Townshend's guitar, that it was a Rickenbacker electr. 12-string, prob. this Rose, Morris 1993 DeLuxe model..Just flipped me for a loop!! Had the pleasure of covering this, both playing rhythm on a ES335, and on my Rick 360/12 12-string while covering this and "The Kids Are All Right"!! Great memories of when I was playing professionally in Tucson Arizona!!
It's confirmed that the Ricky 12 was played by Jimmy Page. Yeah. THAT Jimmy Page! See my comment for the run-down of what is going on with this song. Tricky stuff.
My brother took me to my first concert at14...it was The Who and Lynard Skynard. That was a defining moment for me seeing the Who live. Since that day, I've been to 12 Who concerts. They're my favorite Rock and Roll band. Long Live Rock!
Yo no soy de esa época pero la verdad the who es lo mejor de los 60's ellos estaban algo adelantados a esa época y su sonido era mucho mejor a los demás grupos eran más rudos y sobre todo mi amor Keit ❤ el mejor bateria de esos años y aunque ahora no está en esta vida seguirá siendo de los mejores...te amo Keit siempre estaré enamorada de ti 💕💋
A MONSTER tune! I have listened to this for decades and it never gets old. For you guitar players especially: The Rickenbacker Electric 12-String is played by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin fame using flatwound strings in standard 12-String tuning EXCEPT that the "G" strings are tuned to a regularly pitched "G" and not in octaves. My Rick 12 wouldn't sound right when trying to play the tune with the usual set-up of tuning and strings. But I figured it out. This stereo mix is my fave. Just 12-string electric guitar, bass and drums with the Ivy League doing the clapping and backing vocals. Moon's funky backbeat hi hat licks and the ride and crash cymbals are now heard whereas they were pretty much mixed out in every other mix I have heard.
Love the early Mod sound and sharp look before the looser more general rock and the hippy style which came later. Their brief time as The High Numbers is a good listen 👍🇬🇧
No effort made to synch the audio with video here. Pete looks like a skinny goofball, Moon holds his drumsticks “wrong” and Roger looks silly in that overcoat. Entwhistle’s ears stick out funny. This is a relic from a naive era. Love it! ❤️
Pete wasn't a fan of this song, written as a pop introduction to the charts as he put it. Irrespective, we love it, an amazing 2 minutes of timeless guitar pop that will never go out of fashion. They cram more excitement into 2 mins than you would think humanly possible.
Around this time I had a Lambretta li 150 in metallic purple with chrome side panels and front mudguard, polished alloy horn cover and added lights and bars. Me and my mates rode through tunnels just to hear the sound we made! Basically a bunch of dickheads but we never knew it!! 😂😂😎
God, life goes by fast. I was just there at 14, loving these guys, and now I’m 70. Enjoy your youth, kids.
Amen Mr Fish, I was 15 then be 72 in less than two months.. lol
See these at The Marquee Wardour Street bout 1965.I believe they were the first loudest group I ever heard Live.especially in the quite small Marquee,
Indeed. I'll be 60 in June.
@@angelacharters199 60 ain't old.
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The greatest band that ever played on earth
I never tire of Can't Explain...
R.I.P. Keith Moon & John Entwistle 😥😥
Everything great about the music of the 60s in a tight little 2 minute package.
A bit like some of the girls ;)
A two-minute time capsule from a simpler, bygone era. What a groovy vibe.
The Sound of the Sixties!!
Nothing else gets anywhere near the Genius of these boys.
R.I.P Keith and John.❤
He gets such a GREAT tone out of that Rickenbacker!
A friend invited me to a midnight showing of The Kids Are Alright my senior high year 1981. I instantly became a fan and promptly bought all The Who vinyl I could find.
All these years still a great tune
Thank you John Entwistle for thumping us into the Unseen Realm with your bass guitar in 1965, you were the original Geddy Lee !!
So ready to give a like, until you mentioned Lee
@@christinecollins6648 Geddy hating, Satan loving Christine the life hating machine !
Love that raw sound of the 60ies. Here they still seem kinda "innocent" so to speak.
Timeless music. It will never get old
“Front man” on the drum riser. Moon was a treasure.
what a drum sound!!!
Never realized before that Pete was using a 12 string. Fantastic early rock song
Actually, that's Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin fame. He was a "hired gun" on TONS of recordings done in Great Britain and Producer Shel Talmy brought him in to do the electric (Rickenbacker) 12-string. See my comment elsewhere for this video.
My father’s singing backup vocals on this, don’t get the chance very often to brag about my old man
That song is an outstanding of British pop/ rock that was also the precursor of "Progressive rock".
And punk: the Clash took the guitar riff for the Clash City Rockers.
What a Great Rhythm Line!!! Saw these guys at Shea Stadium Rocktober 1980!!!
Certainly one of the greatest rock bands, ever.
some things are so obvious you don't need to say it
@@clubhouseme This comment was to the new generation, many who have never even heard of The Who.
Aggressive music culminating in guitar smashing and stage destruction was their hallmark.
@@garyblanchard1084 In their early years, yes, but as they got older, they realized (this, from an interview with Pete Townsend), that the instrument smashing was a bit silly, so they stopped doing that.
....and how cool is that Rickenbacker solo?
What amazing tone Pete gets! Just great. And John's bass tone, too!
I've known this song since before I got into the Byrds but I just realised how Byrds-like the guitar is in this one. Particularly that solo.
These guys in there 20's priceless
Not even -- they were still mostly teens. Townshend was 20.
With 2 older brothers and sister the Who was one of many bands that were in my dna growing up in 65
Love Moonies Ludwig super classic kit. Pre Premier deal.
I had their Live at Leeds, 8 track tape and player mounted under the dash. At 15, I installed the speakers and player myself! Still proud. Great Rock album.
I remember it being voted the best live album ever, sometime in the late 80's I think.
It's certainly up there, for sure.
The who can't explain classic song from the sixties good song from them fifty years old still sounds good now good rock band
Still incredibly cool. Goosebumps.
first rock song i learned to play
LOVE THE WHO # 1 ROCK BAND EVER !!
#foulers scooter club, still rolling with the memories
Mod sound and look was liberating. It helped create the ground swell for Sixties musical art.
My favourite band of all time. Seen them 2001 best concert ever
Amazing sound
They all look so young. Mods, Rockers those were the days.
They were young and those were the days
Dont forget the Mockers
SUPER ROCK BAND !
God, what an incredibly fantastic powerhouse song!! First time hearing this, I was a Soph. in h.s. in Hempstead, NY, sick in bed with the old bakelite Regal radio on beside me..This song came on, I just flipped out!! This was their first American hit. Later I found out, also by just the jangly, clangy sound of Townshend's guitar, that it was a Rickenbacker electr. 12-string, prob. this Rose, Morris 1993 DeLuxe model..Just flipped me for a loop!! Had the pleasure of covering this, both playing rhythm on a ES335, and on my Rick 360/12 12-string while covering this and "The Kids Are All Right"!! Great memories of when I was playing professionally in Tucson Arizona!!
It's confirmed that the Ricky 12 was played by Jimmy Page. Yeah. THAT Jimmy Page! See my comment for the run-down of what is going on with this song. Tricky stuff.
When I first heard this song (1965), and "My Generation" I had to have them! The Who created their own genre of music.
Absolutely historic!!! 😁👍
why is this still such a bop
this could come out now and still sound fresh
My brother took me to my first concert at14...it was The Who and Lynard Skynard. That was a defining moment for me seeing the Who live. Since that day, I've been to 12 Who concerts. They're my favorite Rock and Roll band. Long Live Rock!
Perhaps the single best riff of all time. Tighter than a full tick.
Yo no soy de esa época pero la verdad the who es lo mejor de los 60's ellos estaban algo adelantados a esa época y su sonido era mucho mejor a los demás grupos eran más rudos
y sobre todo mi amor Keit ❤ el mejor bateria de esos años y aunque ahora no está en esta vida seguirá siendo de los mejores...te amo Keit siempre estaré enamorada de ti 💕💋
The who....great
Not a big Who fan but this song, man....... It's just perfect rock n' roll.
GOLD!
Wish I had the amps and instruments.
Roger must have been warm in that get up! Top tune, doesn't seem only 2 mins long
Legendär!
... and at the 1:12 time-counter mark: There they are folks: *Marshall stacks* - , back when those were a _BRAND-NEW INVENTION !_
The days when freedom meant something...
Used to see them at the Florida Rooms in Brighton by the Palace Pier, in the 60's, I was 17 - amazing times!!!
Old is gold 🎸🎤👊
Los años 60 el comienzo de todos los grandes, the who, Beatles, rolling stones, zeppelin, floyd y tantas otras, amo los 60
Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪
Pete Townsend and a Rickenbacker...sweet.
A MONSTER tune! I have listened to this for decades and it never gets old. For you guitar players especially: The Rickenbacker Electric 12-String is played by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin fame using flatwound strings in standard 12-String tuning EXCEPT that the "G" strings are tuned to a regularly pitched "G" and not in octaves. My Rick 12 wouldn't sound right when trying to play the tune with the usual set-up of tuning and strings. But I figured it out. This stereo mix is my fave. Just 12-string electric guitar, bass and drums with the Ivy League doing the clapping and backing vocals. Moon's funky backbeat hi hat licks and the ride and crash cymbals are now heard whereas they were pretty much mixed out in every other mix I have heard.
Jimmy Page didn't play on this track, he was in the studio as a session musician but they never used any of his takes.
God , I love Pete's guitar.
Still Sounds fresh, superb track
Incredibly cool after all these years.
Love the early Mod sound and sharp look before the looser more general rock and the hippy style which came later. Their brief time as The High Numbers is a good listen 👍🇬🇧
The Who rocked
Can't explain!
No effort made to synch the audio with video here. Pete looks like a skinny goofball, Moon holds his drumsticks “wrong” and Roger looks silly in that overcoat. Entwhistle’s ears stick out funny. This is a relic from a naive era. Love it! ❤️
I will 'splain this song, "I Can't Explain." It's great.
One of the best produced songs in the 60' s and a great template for 70' s rock with this powerful guitar riff.
Jimmy Page on guitar or Pete?
Pete, Jimmy played on the b side
Pete wasn't a fan of this song, written as a pop introduction to the charts as he put it. Irrespective, we love it, an amazing 2 minutes of timeless guitar pop that will never go out of fashion. They cram more excitement into 2 mins than you would think humanly possible.
Love Pete, but sometimes he’s wrong
I was oblivious to the Who in the sixties. sadly. no one loved me.
The weekend starts here,kids!!
🙌🏼
Uma das melhores bandas dos anos 60
... e dos anos 70,80, caramba, até os dias atuais
Eles são demais
Amen
Ya killed me scooter.
You should check out the animated who song the kids are alright great video
Ah, that Ric!!!!
Ox looks like a teenager
I was just six years old..!
Talkin' 'bout my g-g-g-gener-ation...
I guess I outlived the lyric, "I hope I die before I get old"...
I can't explain how they went from this BEATLES sound to edgy hard rock.
Not Beatles sound.. The Kinks sound
👍
WHOooo, reign o'er me!
Closest The Who got to sounding like The Beatles.
They sounded even more like them on “The Kids are Alright”
The Beatles only wish
Особенно бас-гитарист...
that's almost live.
Great Kinks cover by these guys.
the trouble with Keith is that he takes it too seriously
Haha!
In 1965 one review compared The Who to The Beach Boys! A review of I can’t explain as I recall. Still like the cover by Scorpions as well.
Beach Boys WASPiest group
Dig the early Who. I believe this song is from December 1964. Correct me if I'm wrong
Great classic. Drummer a weard way to play. Hmm.
I never knew Kylo Ren was in a band!
early music video
Townshend uses a Rickenbacker 1993
New Wave 15 years before there was a New Wave!
Just shows that music doesn’t change that much. People just like attaching labels
@@johnp515 Well, I don't think 1985 sounded much like 1975.
Around this time I had a Lambretta li 150 in metallic purple with chrome side panels and front mudguard, polished alloy horn cover and added lights and bars. Me and my mates rode through tunnels just to hear the sound we made! Basically a bunch of dickheads but we never knew it!! 😂😂😎
No Studio to put Sound in?
Roger is still short, but he has a great head of hair
Impossibly young.
Who is this band? That's right!
Was Roger always 35?
Who is the band.
Открою секрет! Металика композицию one содрала у the Who!
Lip sync for a tv show is not the same as a live performance. Easy to figure that out just by watching Keith hamming it up.