Classic rock. As we call it now. Don't get any better than this. I saw them in the Spring of '68. Houston Music Hall (matinee) Maybe this same tour. I knew this song and I remember thinking "Wasn't this a kind of quiet song?" But they totally tore it up!
Fantastic Music of THE WHO LIVE 68 before the Super Group Title that came after 69... pure WHO JAMMING IT OUT.... show cases the Bass, Drums, Guitar! in the early days of Rock you had to be able to play in front of a crowd. Thank you 大山基久
I saw The Who on March 30, 1968 at the 'Westbury Music Fair' perform this great (now forgotten) song from the very underrated LP, 'The Who Sellout'! It was a great concert! They were my favorite group! I saw them again in 1971 at Forest Hills when they premiered their 'Who's Next' tour, their all-time greatest album! Two absolutely terrific concerts! To be honest, in my opinion they 'shot their load' soon after that and then when Keith died as far as I was concerned so did The Who!
P.S., I met Daltrey at this concert while the Boston group, Orpheus (opening act) was performing. He signed my program poster. I remember that Roger was a very little and very thin guy. I'm not tall, but he was shorter than me,
Lucky bastard you. I was born about 15 years too late. I have seen them six times since '89, including 2019. I know it's not the same as the power group they were in the 60s and 70s, but i will take whatever I can.
I totally disagree! I saw The Who back in 79 that was my 1st time and I seen them 5 more times since the most recent being May of 2019 and they still got it. Pete and Roger are fantastic and they have a great bunch of musicians with them including Zak Starkey on drums, Ringo's son who by the way is much better than Ringo.
The Kit Lambert-produced Who records sound awful. The mixes are dreadful, & bass-lite. The irony is that The Beatles made great sounding records, 1965-1969, & The Who, in those years, did not make great sounding records with Lambert at the helm, yet The Who would have blown The Beatles off the stage any night.
@@crlaw75 John Entwistle ALWAYS wanted to re-record his bass parts, even when they were well engineered and magnificently executed. Apparently he re-recorded some bass parts on the Quadrophenia movie soundtrack, and also added some flute to a track. Roger told him he was bloody mad, and he should let go and move on, the bass parts were perfectly fine already and didn't need to be bloody replaced. When The Who were doing the Who Are You album, there were several prolonged delays in the recording schedule, so Entwistle would go to the studio by himself and wrangle John Astley into manning the mixing desk so he could rerecord his already perfect bass parts. Entwistle was a bit barmy this way, it was one of the side effects of his being too damned talented. Moonie wasn't the only loony in the 'Ooo.
The Who's live act blew their 1965-1969 Kit Lambert-produced albums off the planet. The Lambert-produced Who records sound awful. The mixes are dreadful, & bass-lite. Entwistle always complained that Moon's drums sounded like biscuit tins. The irony is that The Beatles made great sounding records, 1965-1969, & The Who, in those years, did not make great sounding records with Lambert at the helm, yet The Who would have blown The Beatles off the stage any night. This version of "Relax" features mucho improvising & extemporizing., which The Who did quite regularly on stage, but are not as well know for doing as, say, The Grateful Dead are (The Who were a great deal more succinct & cogent in their improvising and extemporizing than The Dead were). Great to have this full length version of "Relax"! CHEERS
I think "The Who Sell Out" is a fantastic-sounding album but 'tis true that there's absolutely none of the gut-wrenching improvisation and jamming heard on their live shows from this same period. The Who live and in the studio were two entirely separate entities. Case in point: the live vs. studio "Tommy".
Trying to compete with Hendrix or Cream ... after three minutes in it becomes a masturbatory blues jam in D and loses sight of the song for ten boring minutes.
I love both of the aforementioned bands but this isn't that. This is the beginning of the evolution that would ultimately become Live at Leeds, the greatest live album of all time.
I think this version of "Relax" certainly outdoes what Cream were doing and is equal to The Jimi Hendrix Experience though in a different way. "Blues jam"? That's all you're hearing?
Classic rock. As we call it now. Don't get any better than this.
I saw them in the Spring of '68. Houston Music Hall (matinee) Maybe this same tour. I knew this song and I remember thinking "Wasn't this a kind of quiet song?" But they totally tore it up!
Fantastic Music of THE WHO LIVE 68 before the Super Group Title that came after 69... pure WHO JAMMING IT OUT.... show cases the Bass, Drums, Guitar! in the early days of Rock you had to be able to play in front of a crowd. Thank you 大山基久
I saw The Who on March 30, 1968 at the 'Westbury Music Fair' perform this great (now forgotten) song from the very underrated LP, 'The Who Sellout'! It was a great concert! They were my favorite group! I saw them again in 1971 at Forest Hills when they premiered their 'Who's Next' tour, their all-time greatest album! Two absolutely terrific concerts! To be honest, in my opinion they 'shot their load' soon after that and then when Keith died as far as I was concerned so did The Who!
P.S., I met Daltrey at this concert while the Boston group, Orpheus (opening act) was performing. He signed my program poster. I remember that Roger was a very little and very thin guy. I'm not tall, but he was shorter than me,
I wish I got to see them between 68’ and 71’, definitely their prime years in terms of live shows.
Lucky bastard you. I was born about 15 years too late. I have seen them six times since '89, including 2019. I know it's not the same as the power group they were in the 60s and 70s, but i will take whatever I can.
_Quadrophuckingphenia!_
I totally disagree! I saw The Who back in 79 that was my 1st time and I seen them 5 more times since the most recent being May of 2019 and they still got it. Pete and Roger are fantastic and they have a great bunch of musicians with them including Zak Starkey on drums, Ringo's son who by the way is much better than Ringo.
I'll bet you the first 3 rows had their ears ringing for days after this... so damn powerful.
I was front row twice yup
Seen the who front row twice. Loved it. I was row 43 but paid a bouncer lol
Easily my favorite Who song.
The Song should have a 10,000,000 Thumbs Up...
This sounds better than the studio version.
The Kit Lambert-produced Who records sound awful. The mixes are dreadful, & bass-lite. The irony is that The Beatles made great sounding records, 1965-1969, & The Who, in those years, did not make great sounding records with Lambert at the helm, yet The Who would have blown The Beatles off the stage any night.
@@ericmalone3213 john entwistle said the same thing during that period
Waaayyy better!
@@ericmalone3213, Roger has said that John wanted to go in the studio to redo the bass sound off the early records and he said don't do it.
@@crlaw75 John Entwistle ALWAYS wanted to re-record his bass parts, even when they were well engineered and magnificently executed. Apparently he re-recorded some bass parts on the Quadrophenia movie soundtrack, and also added some flute to a track. Roger told him he was bloody mad, and he should let go and move on, the bass parts were perfectly fine already and didn't need to be bloody replaced. When The Who were doing the Who Are You album, there were several prolonged delays in the recording schedule, so Entwistle would go to the studio by himself and wrangle John Astley into manning the mixing desk so he could rerecord his already perfect bass parts. Entwistle was a bit barmy this way, it was one of the side effects of his being too damned talented. Moonie wasn't the only loony in the 'Ooo.
9:45 Sunshine of Your Love
Beautiful drum fill after 1:47, cymbal right to the snare. Don’t know how he did it. Just too fast.
The Who's live act blew their 1965-1969 Kit Lambert-produced albums off the planet. The Lambert-produced Who records sound awful. The mixes are dreadful, & bass-lite. Entwistle always complained that Moon's drums sounded like biscuit tins. The irony is that The Beatles made great sounding records, 1965-1969, & The Who, in those years, did not make great sounding records with Lambert at the helm, yet The Who would have blown The Beatles off the stage any night. This version of "Relax" features mucho improvising & extemporizing., which The Who did quite regularly on stage, but are not as well know for doing as, say, The Grateful Dead are (The Who were a great deal more succinct & cogent in their improvising and extemporizing than The Dead were). Great to have this full length version of "Relax"! CHEERS
I think "The Who Sell Out" is a fantastic-sounding album but 'tis true that there's absolutely none of the gut-wrenching improvisation and jamming heard on their live shows from this same period. The Who live and in the studio were two entirely separate entities. Case in point: the live vs. studio "Tommy".
Trying to compete with Hendrix or Cream ... after three minutes in it becomes a masturbatory blues jam in D and loses sight of the song for ten boring minutes.
While I don't agree with this. The Phrase "Mastubatory Blues" is one I will use for the rest of my life. Thank you!
I love both of the aforementioned bands but this isn't that. This is the beginning of the evolution that would ultimately become Live at Leeds, the greatest live album of all time.
I think this version of "Relax" certainly outdoes what Cream were doing and is equal to The Jimi Hendrix Experience though in a different way. "Blues jam"? That's all you're hearing?