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Post by davey on Jan 11, 2024 18:53:27 GMT
Can someone print an example of an early Townhend interview that could serve as a case in point?
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Post by riggers on Jan 11, 2024 20:24:35 GMT
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Post by Charlie O. on Jan 11, 2024 21:39:24 GMT
Can someone print an example of an early Townhend interview that could serve as a case in point? Maybe the best known one is his 1968 Rolling Stone interview: Part OnePart Two |
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Post by oh oooh on Jan 11, 2024 21:44:46 GMT
This really is shaping up to be a fucking excellent thread.
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Post by loveless on Jan 11, 2024 21:52:25 GMT
Can someone print an example of an early Townhend interview that could serve as a case in point? Maybe the best known one is his 1968 Rolling Stone interview: Part OnePart TwoYeah, that's the one I was thinking of. |
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jan 12, 2024 0:21:36 GMT
*Which brings us to 'A Quick One (While He's Away)' as performed by the Who at Rock and Roll Circus in December 1968. ACCEPT NO FUCKING SUBSTITUTE! This is the business. The combination of ambitious yet playful writing/structure, and...yes, sheer balls out power and chemistry. Again, we've all got our motivations for doing whatever we do in music, but this is like actual footage of the very best thing happening, and...if I had to show someone what I was going for onstage as an ensemble player...there it is. Professional and personal bonds have been made by this clip, and...similarly...tour bus or residential recording studio lounges have witnessed some real lasting divisions based on/inflamed by the enormous gulf between "enraptured/awed" and "indifferent" reactions. This. I feel the opposite (what's new), that performance of 'A Quick One' is illustrative of when The Who start to go wrong for me. It's all very performative..all thrashing power chords, over-busy drumming, silly vocal interludes that go nowhere. None of it hangs together or has much purpose (either melodically or otherwise). It's like this showy facsimile of what 'meaningful' rock music might sound like, and unfortunately they doubled down on that direction in the 70s. |
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Post by Sneelock on Jan 12, 2024 0:52:05 GMT
can you blame 'em? who else was working that side of the street? kinks? small faces? maybe sort of but "a quick one" jumps right into the deep end of the pool.
at the beginning of that "...circus" clip
they look absurdly pleased with how their voices are going together.
the 'OO was never lacking in confidence but I think they are mighty high on themselves in that clip. I think they were excited by this new direction and I think it LIGHTS them up.
I first saw the clip in "the kids are alright" & it sort of blew me away. it's pretty far fetched but I'll be damned. it really works for me.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jan 12, 2024 0:54:24 GMT
it's rock as bombastic spectacle, and if that's your thing they do it pretty damn well i guess.
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Post by Sneelock on Jan 12, 2024 0:56:23 GMT
it's rock as bombastic spectacle. file under "the Who"  your point is a good one but they were pretty bombastic from the get-go. they keep getting more bombastic until you stop liking them. your cut-off date comes way sooner than mine! |
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Post by quaco on Jan 12, 2024 1:55:28 GMT
It's more like Spike Jones than bombastic spectacle, to these eyes/ears. Talented people doing nutty and very non-serious things for the sheer exhilaration of it.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jan 12, 2024 12:05:48 GMT
at the beginning of that "...circus" clip they look absurdly pleased with how their voices are going together. I can't remember if I commented on it here or elsewhere, but if you watch the clip on youtube with the auto-generated captions on it makes it look like they're singing "Jerrald, Jerrald, Jerrald, Jerrald..." during the "Cello, cello, cello..." bit. |
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