The Who : Classic or Dud

I don't hear any electric organ on "Frozen Warnings". It sounds like Cale's violas overdubbed on Nico's harmonium, maybe with some kind of gate giving the tremolo effect. Some of the viola is also being played backwards, apparently with the same effect.

Sounds like some "repeater"/stuttering effect (like in the Baba vid) processor being applied to Nico's Harmonium, to my ears at least.

Apparently the Who's organization is working on a Who Are You Super Deluxe set. (That and A Quick One are the only two remaining Keith Moon-era albums without a super deluxe box set.)

It's usually cited as the least of the Who's Keith Moon-era albums, and I would have to agree even though I actually enjoy it. I think it's a fine album, but I rarely listen to it. I'm guessing there's at least one enjoyable live recording in the vaults, and the demos might be fine, but I can't imagine any great, lost outtakes beyond what was already included on the expanded CD reissue from the '90s.

(That and A Quick One are the only two remaining Keith Moon-era albums without a super deluxe box set.)

Ah forgot that one! Nope.

Should feature 275 alternate takes of "Success Story"

I'm enough of a fan that that is maybe unfair, but I've never owned it and never had any interest in owning it (Who Are You?), that is).

There's a Hoffman thread that gets into track speculation: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-who-who-are-you-super-deluxe-edition-speculation-and-wishlist.1182711/

Haven’t listened to that album in decades but just looking at original track listing makes me want to revisit.

The 1996 remix of the song “Who are You” always sounded wrong to me, as the power chords are kinda buried compared to the original LP.

Daltrey's memoir is about as gritty and pugilistic as I expected it to be.

Yeah

"Jimmy the dip and Johnny the squirrel came backstage at the Capri Club in Stepney one night and they brought Electric George with him who had a big stick on the end of a chain, he was mouthing off about some mandrax that Moony stole from him last week in Ladbroke Grove, but that was still well out of order and I told him so, but Pete was all 'Don't hit him'."

^^Best "Wang Dang Doodle" verse.

To celebrate his 60th anniversary at Abbey Road, the studio interviewed Ken Scott, at one point asking him what was the most outrageous session he worked on:

“…there was the time Keith Moon guested on a track on the Truth album and upon leaving the car park at around 11:00pm almost ran over a little old lady walking her dog. Most people would have wound down their window and apologised, not he. He swiftly turned on the PA system built into his Rolls Royce and proceeded to curse her out with the most foul language at a VERY loud volume. EMI received more than a few complaints about that the next day.”

He was more successful at running over chauffeurs.

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holy cow the "my wife" on here. pete is nuts. 2nd song. about 3:10 in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G1FqWPcO-k

nice and crunchy in 1975. they were trying to save us from punk rock.

for some reason youtube started recommending me clips of the who live where all you hear is entwhistle's bass

it is florid! i don't really like the who after "sell out" (blame the singer) but you have to admit JE had super-nimble fingers

he really did. he was one of a kind. i think. maybe there were others. he played that thing like a flamenco guitar sometimes.

In the last month, I’ve bought both a Hiwatt amp and a 20” cymbal.

The Houston show from that tour was officially released on DVD as Live in Texas 75 and it's pretty great. Cheap too - you can buy a new copy for $10 from Amazon. I feel like it's the kind of thing that would've been a bigger deal 30 or 40 years ago but it kind of got lost in the shuffle when you had a million concert DVD's flooding the market in the '00s. (I didn't even know about it until several years ago.)

^^Terrific DVD, taken from the camera feed for the jumbotrons at the first concert held at the Summit (now Lakewood Church).

Moonie had some fun afterwards:
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/keith-moon-houston-party/

The article is pretty thin about what actually happened, but I remember back when Entwistle died, our local Classic Rock station took listener calls all night, and a woman who was there called in with a version of events. She said the label had a big afterparty and -- in honor of "Squeeze Box" -- they hired several strippers as entertainment, dressing them in accordions (and nothing else!) and staging them on a dais in the middle of a hotel ballroom. The group & their entourage show up, Keith is like, "Right on!" and hops up on the dais with the girls and begins stripping himself.

Meanwhile, the county sheriff's department is also on the hotel grounds, hoping for an easy drug raid and headlines aplenty. They bust in moments after Moon joined the girls on the dais, and...they just stopped, freezing at the sight they never in a million years could have predicted that is now in front of them.

Supposedly there was some palm greasing once everyone came to their senses, and no arrests made or charges brought up.

Pete just donated all of his synthesizers to the University of West London
https://www.uwl.ac.uk/study/study-facilities/the-townshend-studio

Cool.