best movement of "a quick one, while he's away" by the who

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.

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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.

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.

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.

The Stones arguably were putting out the better records, though.

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).

"Duh Byetles may huvv myde bettuh rekuhds, but live, we wudda blann um off duh styche."

—the ox

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

I always wished Peter Brötzmann had made Low-Life with John Entwistle instead of with Bill Laswell.

It's really, really difficult for me to imagine any other bassist working with Moon so well.

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Billy Childish likes to cover the You Are Forgiven segment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTN_w7KBJng

So in the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus version Entwistle is playing a Precision?

Hmm. Silly me. I guess he played many different Precisions back then.

Listened to the circus version while out on a walk this evening, great as ever.

you are precision

(you are pre ciiiiiision)

Heh.

Tbh, so used to seeing him with those fancy basses later on:Thunderbirds, Alembic, Buzzards etc.

He did play many Precisions, but had a preference for one: https://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/bass/bass6768.html#frankenstein

Was wondering when that would come up.