Random musical chat.

[Mook]

The Who live at The Fillmore East, 1968 is being officially released on 20th April.

 

I've not heard the bootlegs but apparently this is a 'holy grail' pre-Tommy performance.

[Lee909]

Really can't take to The Who

Always thought Townsend was a bit creepy and then he got nicked for child porn and it put the nail in the coffin for me

[Bjornebye]

No Glasto this year and Reading/Leeds have royally fucked up their line ups

[Bjornebye]

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

No Glasto this year and Reading/Leeds have royally fucked up their line ups

Seen that earlier. Absolutely woeful. Although, there's still acts to be announced, possibly still including some headliners.

[Mook]

Really can't take to The Who

Always thought Townsend was a bit creepy and then he got nicked for child porn and it put the nail in the coffin for me

 

Try Live at Leeds if you haven't already.

 

FWIW I'm not a Townsend fan myself, great guitarist & songwriter but an insufferable twat in most other ways.

[Lee909]

I'll give it a go

I love all the other big bands off that era on the whole just couldn't take to them. To be honest didn't try either.

 

I do like s good live album mind

 

Think Slash was spot on in his autobiography when he was talking about stealing cassettes from Tower music in LA. Steal a live album first,if a bands shit live they are not worth the effort to steal the rest

[Bjornebye]

Live at Leeds is an amazing album

[cloggypop]

I'd want paying plus expenses to go to that.

[cloggypop]

The Who live at The Fillmore East, 1968 is being officially released on 20th April.

 

I've not heard the bootlegs but apparently this is a 'holy grail' pre-Tommy performance.

I love The Who but Tommy is wank.

[El Rojo]

If we all end up going to jail for illegal downloading of music, I do hope they split us up by genre.

Haha!

[Boss]

I'd go see Wolf Alice and Kendrick Lemar and then go home. The Wombats near the top of the bill? I wouldn't see them in The Korova for free, let alone stand in a field waiting to watch them. 

[cloggypop]

I'm a sucker for Scouse bands but The Wombats are really shit like.

[Jose Jones]

I've never heard of half of those on the Reading line-up. Judging by the names alone though, they all sound like a pile of shit.

I imagine they spent 70% of the budget on Kendrick then filled up the rest of the bill with shite.

[cloggypop]

Talking about Scouse bands, some of you might well be into this

 

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/introducing-revolutionary-spirit-the-sound-of-liverpool-1976-1988/

[General Dryness]

I love The Who but Tommy is wank.

You're entitled to your opinion despite being massively wrong.

[Mook]

No Old Grey Whistle Test chat on here then?

 

I watched most of the 3hr special on Friday night & turned it off about 10:45pm because it was a load of shite, the guests were awful (Steve Marriott's daughter, seriously?), that trio of girls they had in were crap & it was basically the BBC patting themselves on the back for a programme they sacked off 30 years ago. Then there was the 'select your favourite clip' poll, won by a mimed Bob Marley performance of Stir it Up which we've all seen a million times.

 

I'll stick with my DVD I bought about 20 years back thanks, less talking bollocks & more live music.

[Lee909]

What the first half and turned off. Thought it was pretty crap

[KMD7]

No Old Grey Whistle Test chat on here then?

 

I watched most of the 3hr special on Friday night & turned it off about 10:45pm because it was a load of shite, the guests were awful (Steve Marriott's daughter, seriously?), that trio of girls they had in were crap & it was basically the BBC patting themselves on the back for a programme they sacked off 30 years ago. Then there was the 'select your favourite clip' poll, won by a mimed Bob Marley performance of Stir it Up which we've all seen a million times.

 

I'll stick with my DVD I bought about 20 years back thanks, less talking bollocks & more live music.

 

Was it definitely mimed? It's not the same as the single, I haven't seen the video in years granted

[Mook]

Was it definitely mimed? It's not the same as the single, I haven't seen the video in years granted

 

I'm 99% sure it's mimed, the old BBC music programmes used to get bands to record a slight variation of the song (sometimes just an overdub or two) & then mime to that, presumably so it would look more 'live'. The bands who were playing live on the early OGWT were playing really quietly (Curtis Mayfield is a good example of this).

[TheHowieLama]

Allegedly the vocals were performed live over a canned backing track -- true Wailers here tho - might be one of the few videos with those three together.

[stringvest]

apropos nothing, but I laughed the other day when a guy who'd been to a Kraftwerk concert described it was 'watching four blokes checking their emails'

[TheHowieLama]

[Jose Jones]

I went to see Protomartyr the other week. Their most recent album Relatives in Descent is pretty good. Check it out if you like a bit of North American wordy rock stuff. The guitarist only played one instrument the entire set, which I appreciate. Couple of effects pedals, no need to muck about with loads of different guitars at different tunings, etc.

 

Off to see Beck this evening.

[Mook]

The Who live at The Fillmore East, 1968 is being officially released on 20th April.

 

I've not heard the bootlegs but apparently this is a 'holy grail' pre-Tommy performance.

 

I've heard a couple of snippets from this now & it sounds amazing. You can hear where the MC5 were influenced by The Who here, can't wait to hear this right through.

 

 

Hopefully it's as good as The Yardbirds live set from around the same time which came out last year (Jimmy Page's tone on this would cut through concrete).