The Who

[Jimbilly]

I got to meet Simon Phillips for a moment at Jazz Alley in Seattle about a year ago, his website says they are coming back in June, he seemed really cool, very nice. There's some video on youtube of him doing some great stuff to a Pete Townsend or Who song.  not this one, but this is good too

 

[Jimbilly]

this one I think, so cool that they got these stories recorded, skip to 7:15 if you've got somewhere to be

 

[Jakeboy]

@cmatthes my older sister Ann went to that 1982 show and I remember thinking, There won’t be a next time….but I so wanted to see Moonie…and he was gone. There were many next times but I never saw them.

And thank you @Hbomfor that 1969 pic of Pete with a Strat..,I didn’t know he played a Strat back then, but Jimi really influenced those English dudes.

[crunchee]

I found out about that High Numbers footage a few years ago as well, it was helpful for hearing what Pete's sound was like back then with Fender amps:

1964 Fender Bassman amp | Pete Townshend’s Guitar Gear | Whotabs

[topekatj]

On 2/5/2025 at 4:15 AM, ArnieZ said:

 

 

Senior Year 1968, I know, old as ****. The Who played a concert in our high school gym. They were killing time before playing the Grande Ballroom. Tickets were a few bucks. Got the whole show including the destruction during My Generation!!! Debra and Joan went on to become the band's groupies and the un-named male is still a roadie for the group!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

arniez

@ArnieZ Lucky guy!
I never realized it was the ‘Pictures of Lilly’ drum set (shown above, pre destruction) that was destroyed on the Smothers Brothers show.

https://reverb.com/news/keith-moon-and-his-pictures-of-lily-drum-kit

[Jakeboy]

Early on with the Who, Pete played blonde Bassman and Bandmaster heads. One of the reasons I had a blonde Bassman clone at one time. 
Should have kept that one. 

[Brooks]

The expanded Live At Leeds is so great, they were ferocious sounding live from ~69 to ~72.

Isle Of Wight has some great footage;

https://youtu.be/M9boFzhUVG4

[RobB]

For Brooksie:

[Jakeboy]

LOVE the expanded Leeds!

[ArnieZ]

9 hours ago, Jakeboy said:

LOVE the expanded Leeds!

I never knew it existed!!

arniez

[kizanski]

This Just In: The Who Are Old!

The Who get real about octogenarian rock star life

[Willie G. Moseley]

Fall of '65  (sophomore high school year) we had Muscle Shoals stars Wilson Pickettt and Arthur Alexander for dances in the YMCA gym.

Band for the Junior prom in '67 was the Memphis Gentrys. ("Keep On Dancin'). JImmy Hart---yes, the guy who became a pro wrestling manager--was the lead vocalist.

Only time I  saw the Who was in '72;  Who's Next  tour but that was a college performance

[RobB]

On 2/6/2025 at 2:59 PM, kizanski said:

As I said above, I saw them on the '82 "Farewell" tour. "It's Hard" had just come out.

I saw that tour at the LA Coliseum. Oddly, I went under protest. Allow me to explain:

A month or two before the show a friend and I went to Tower Records to get our copies of, "It's Hard." We went home to spin the new album. At the end of side 2, the tonearm returned to its cradle. After what seemed an eternity he quipped: "Naw. 'It's Limp.'"

Back to Tower the next day to return our copies. 

[kizanski]

10 minutes ago, RobB said:

Back to Tower the next day to return our copies. 

I've never heard of anyone returning an album, but I agree it was not a very good one.  

Truth be told, as big of a Who fan as I am, I can do without most of their studio albums.  Quadrophenia (my favorite) and Tommy would both come with me to my desert island exile, but I almost never reach for any of the others.  

They're mostly a live act to me; Live at Leeds, Woodstock (the whole set is available on YouTube), and the scores of live bootlegs I have collected over the years.  

This is why it hurts that hole in my chest where my heart would be to see these old farts stumbling and bumbling around.  

Just stop already.  

[RobB]

On 3/31/2025 at 6:10 PM, kizanski said:

I've never heard of anyone returning an album, but I agree it was not a very good one.  

All of the SoCal Towers had shrinkwrap machines. If the return had a receipt and wasn’t TOO damaged, back in the bins it went. 

[ARM OF HAMER]

                              Only saw The WHO once.................they played in Bloomington, Minnesota at the old MET, The Metropolitan Sports Center. It was torn down and now is the site of THE MALL OF AMERICA. They were really good, and the sound was spot on, and yes Moon was still alive at that point thrashing those drums! I think Wishbone Ash opened for them, not sure though as it was so long ago.

[Steve Haynie]

The only time I saw The Who was in 1997 when they played the entire Quadrophenia album. 

[JGale]

Saratoga Performing Arts Center along with about 10,000 others. Sat on the bridge entrance for hours watching everyone leave, or it coulda been minutes I dunno lsd does that to people.

[HSB0531]

On 2/21/2025 at 6:36 AM, ArnieZ said:

I never knew it existed!!

arniez

Neither did I !!

[HSB0531]

On 3/31/2025 at 9:10 PM, kizanski said:

I've never heard of anyone returning an album, but I agree it was not a very good one.  

Truth be told, as big of a Who fan as I am, I can do without most of their studio albums.  Quadrophenia (my favorite) and Tommy would both come with me to my desert island exile, but I almost never reach for any of the others.  

They're mostly a live act to me; Live at Leeds, Woodstock (the whole set is available on YouTube), and the scores of live bootlegs I have collected over the years.  

This is why it hurts that hole in my chest where my heart would be to see these old farts stumbling and bumbling around.  

Just stop already.  

I definitely agree with you on Quadrophenia.  I remember WNEW's Alison Steele (The Nightbird) playing a whole side of it when it came out.  Such a great "theme" album!

That one and Who's Next are my picks for their best.

Live at Leeds was an album that I never got to hear in it's entirety, just Young Man Blues and maybe 2 others.

[HSB0531]

On 2/6/2025 at 6:57 PM, Jimbilly said:

this one I think, so cool that they got these stories recorded, skip to 7:15 if you've got somewhere to be

 

Simon Phillips is one of those amazing drummers who can play in such diverse styles of music.

He played on Michael Schenker's first solo album.

The Pete Townsend album.

Toto.

And lots more.

[kizanski]

26 minutes ago, HSB0531 said:

I remember WNEW's Alison Steele (The Nightbird) playing a whole side of it when it came out. 

That’s how old she is.  Quadrophenia came out in ‘73.  
Have you heard her voice recently?  She sounds like the sea hag.  

[HSB0531]

9 minutes ago, kizanski said:

That’s how old she is.  Quadrophenia came out in ‘73.  
Have you heard her voice recently?  She sounds like the sea hag.  

Sea hag voice??

Alison Steele born 1937,  died 1995 would have me doing my best Bones McCoy and say.....She's dead Kiz!

But 30 years dead would make her sea hag voice quite the accomplishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Steele

[kizanski]

5 minutes ago, HSB0531 said:

Sea hag voice??

Alison Steele born 1937,  died 1995 would have me doing my best Bones McCoy and say.....She's dead Kiz!

But 30 years dead would make her sea hag voice quite the accomplishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Steele

Who am I thinking of then??

[alantig]

1 hour ago, kizanski said:

Who am I thinking of then??

Nina Blackwood, the MTV VJ.