The Who- Baba O’Riley- Toronto 12-17-82
Pete Townshend returns In the Studio for the 50th anniversary of the timeless “Who’s Next”. Here is The Who with Kenney Jones on drums in Toronto December 1982 with a spirited “Baba O’Riley”.
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Pete Townshend returns In the Studio for the 50th anniversary of the timeless “Who’s Next”. Here is The Who with Kenney Jones on drums in Toronto December 1982 with a spirited “Baba O’Riley”.
The Who had announced that their 1982 tour would be their final one, and at least one member of the band, Pete Townshend, really believed it to be true at the time, making this final stop of that tour in Toronto December 17, 1982 and this performance of “Love Reign O’er Me“, the finale from […]
Deep Purple’s “Who Do We Think We Are?”, their January 1973 followup tp “Machine Head”., with Ian Gillan and Roger Glover In the Studio.
As we prepared here In the Studio for the big anniversary of The Who‘s magnificent masterpiece Who’s Next mid-August, we shared an ultra-rare performance of one of the more under-exposed chestnuts from it, “Love Ain’t for Keeping“. –Redbeard
Clearly The Who never got the memo that “rock is dead”, not in 1972 when Pete Townshend first wrote and sang it, not ten years later when they performed this terrific version in Toronto, and according to all accounts including their drummer Zak Starkey‘s dad, not this past Thursday when they sold out the Staples […]
The Doors Absolutely Live performing “Who Do You Love”
Happy birthday to The Who‘s Roger Daltrey tomorrow (Tuesday )! Here’s The Who performing Pete Townshend‘s “Behind Blue Eyes” live on 17 December, 1982 in Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens. – Redbeard
Believed by Pete Townshend to have been destroyed by his explicit orders as recently as in his 2012 autobiography Who I Am , the Tommy deluxe and super deluxe editions contain The Who performing Tommy in concert at London’s Wembley Arena in July 1969. Here is “Amazing Journey” .- Redbeard
On the 55th anniversary of “Paranoid”, original Black Sabbath singer / lyricist the late Ozzy Osbourne has fond memories of those days when he and his mates from the working-class neighborhood Aston decided to ditch their trendy blues music, cut the band down from a 6-piece to four, and started doing what Ozzy characterizes in this classic rock interview as “spooky music”.
Selecting the fifty songs over the twenty-one studio offerings for the “50 for 50” massive undertaking proved a challenge for Ian Anderson to curate, not simply for fan expectations. If there ever was a lyrical wordsmith who learned his songwriting trade in the widescreen cinematic tradition of the album format, and who is ill-suited for the one-song You Tube world he found himself in fifty years hence, it would be Ian Anderson.