Also, cello cello cello cello
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Friday, 24 March 2017 13:07 (seven years ago) link
^otm 2x
― And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 March 2017 17:42 (seven years ago) link
"You Are Forgiven" for "'cello, 'cello, 'cello," and "Crying Town" for Daltrey's sneering vocal.
also
'Ivor the Engine Driver', Live at Leeds version, because drums.
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Thursday, March 23, 2017 1:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 24 March 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
They revived this for part of the 2015 tour, first time in 47 years. I saw the Foxwoods (Casino in CT) show that May, and it was fortunately still in the setlist. It wasn't barnstorming (largely due to, oddly enough, Zak Starkey's relatively muted performance), but came off as quaint and charming. Most of the audience, sadly, either sat (for the only time that night) or went to the bathroom.
When Who fanatics say, "Why don't they play more obscure stuff?" it's because most of their audience doesn't give a shit and apparently gets confused and disoriented when they hear something they haven't heard before.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 24 March 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
Seriously, since they expanded Live at Leeds to feature the full concert (including Tommy etc.) the version of 'A Quick One, While He's Away' on that has pretty much become the definitive version for me, or the one that I've listened to the most at any rate. I vastly prefer it to the studio version, and while we're at it I'm more likely to listen to the live version of Tommy than the studio album too.
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Saturday, 25 March 2017 00:47 (seven years ago) link
Billy Childish likes to cover the You Are Forgiven segment, he's done several versions of it with his various bands and plays it live a lot, when he plays live which he hasn't much recently.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 25 March 2017 00:54 (seven years ago) link
Voted "Crying Town"
― timellison, Saturday, 25 March 2017 01:25 (seven years ago) link
I can imagine if they did "Dogs" live, the audience might cry if they thought that they'd dropped 'Baba O'Reilly" in preference.
― Mark G, Sunday, 26 March 2017 09:17 (seven years ago) link
Is the "dang dang dang..." part considered a section of Soon Be Home or You Are Forgiven? That's the highlight for me.
― Darin, Sunday, 26 March 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
I always considered it part of "You Are Forgiven."
And hey, here's the Beatles (3/4ths of them, anyway; George had temporarily split) dicking around on "Soon Be Home" (presumably fresh in Lennon's mind from the recent Rock & Roll Circus): https://youtu.be/L_pUxXhArq8
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 26 March 2017 19:20 (seven years ago) link
You Are Forgiven section on Rock n Roll Circus is the best thing ever, especially if it owns the dang dang bit. That Lennon/Yoko noise is quite revealing: Once he would surely have appreciated the humour in the original, but now he and his wife proceed to suck out the fun, the pisstaking, the cheek of the thing, and regurgitate it into atonal 'primal' wibbling that is no fun at all.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 26 March 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
Pete: "here comes Ivor the Engine Driver to make you feel much better"
Heckler: "dirty old sod!"
Classic.
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:18 (seven years ago) link
Ha, I think that heckler was Keith!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 27 March 2017 15:51 (seven years ago) link
It's possible! There's some great stage banter on Live at Leeds... I particularly love the segment prior to 'Young Man Blues'...
Pete: "and I think I read something on one of his record covers that said he was a "jazz sage"... quite what that means, I dunno..."
Keith: "he played with a chicken!"
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Monday, 27 March 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link
I thought it was "a flavor of chicken!"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 27 March 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link
"He always gets off at the wrong stop..."
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 March 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
Pete: "and what happens is... they fornicate..."
Keith: "what's that? what's that, Pete?"
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Monday, 27 March 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link
i was obsessed with The Kids Are Alright when i was a kid, and played their live "A Quick One" endlessly. it was one of the first songs i learned how to play, my brother played drums and i played guitar and we had all the parts figured out from tabs.
you can't top the "You Are Forgiven" bit at the end, when the line is sung in a round, and Moon is bashing those water-covered drums, and it sounds like the room is about to explode
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 27 March 2017 21:52 (seven years ago) link
i really don't like The Who but i always love that bit in Rock N Roll Circus where all the band come and sit/stand together at the start of this. i've literally never seen a band do that ever before or since.
― piscesx, Monday, 27 March 2017 22:33 (seven years ago) link
I'm not really much of a Who fan either but I go into mini phases of obsession with this song
― na (NA), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 00:52 (seven years ago) link
Am a medium level Who fan but this, um, suite seems to distill what they were good at to its essence.
― And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 01:12 (seven years ago) link
OTM.
The Who were half a million dollars in debt, their last two singles had flopped in the UK, they were back to playing at the Marquee, and basically couldn't get arrested when they did the RnR Circus. It wasn't even a matter of playing like they had something to prove; they just did what they'd done a few dozen times in the US that year. They had no idea how good they were. Of course, everyone else on the bill was floored by it (and it was one of the reasons the Stones shelved the special for 28 years, as they didn't look great by comparison).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 02:00 (seven years ago) link
What's the proto-Plastic Ono Band called in that again, (The) Dirty Mac?
― And Run Into It And Blecch It (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 02:10 (seven years ago) link
i think maybe i had only ever listened to the rock'n'roll circus/live at leeds versions of this bc i am listening to the studio version now and it sounds really weird and unfamiliar (and bad)
― na (NA), Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, the studio version isn't great, but then I loathe the way that album sounds. I'm sure I've said this before, but I don't think they made a great sounding studio album until Who's Next.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:44 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 31 March 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
I think My Generation sounds great, as do all the '60s non-album singles. But yeah, apart from a few songs, A Quick One is poorly produced.
I still dig the studio version, though; like what I said about their 2015 live rendition, it's quaint and charming rather than menacing and powerful. But I vastly prefer the RnR Circus and Leeds versions.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 31 March 2017 00:18 (seven years ago) link
I just had to watch the Rock'n'Roll Circus performance of this again. Fuck, Moon is on fire and the climax of 'You Are Forgiven' is electrifying as fuck. So much energy and intensity. The Stones played like a wet fart in comparison.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Friday, 31 March 2017 19:03 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that's the thing: the Who played more shows in the summer and fall of 1968 than the Stones had played in the preceding three years.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 31 March 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
The Stones arguably were putting out the better records, though.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Friday, 31 March 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link
True, the Who could only manage "Call Me Lightning," "Dogs," and "Magic Bus" in '68 (though they recorded more than enough material for an album: http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-who-whos-for-tennis.html).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 31 March 2017 19:46 (seven years ago) link
"Duh Byetles may huvv myde bettuh rekuhds, but live, we wudda blann um off duh styche."
—the ox
― veronica moser, Friday, 31 March 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link
I've watched this about a million times, but every time I do I have to pick my jaw up off the floor. The Who were lucky to have him and Moon in the same band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80dsyo2Ox-0
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Friday, 31 March 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
I always wished Peter Brötzmann had made Low-Life with John Entwistle instead of with Bill Laswell.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 31 March 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
It's really, really difficult for me to imagine any other bassist working with Moon so well.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Friday, 31 March 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 1 April 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Billy Childish likes to cover the You Are Forgiven segment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTN_w7KBJng
― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 April 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
So in the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus version Entwistle is playing a Precision?
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 02:36 (three years ago) link
Hmm. Silly me. I guess he played many different Precisions back then.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 02:44 (three years ago) link
Listened to the circus version while out on a walk this evening, great as ever.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 03:29 (three years ago) link
you are precision
(you are pre ciiiiiision)
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 12:10 (three years ago) link
Heh.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 12:19 (three years ago) link
Tbh, so used to seeing him with those fancy basses later on:Thunderbirds, Alembic, Buzzards etc.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 12:24 (three years ago) link
He did play many Precisions, but had a preference for one: https://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/bass/bass6768.html#frankenstein
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 12:36 (three years ago) link
Was wondering when that would come up.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link