Basically unknown Skynyrd opened for the Who in 1973 at the Philadelphia Spectrum blew the crowd away. Then the Who followed with Quadrophenia the place went nuts! I drove from Jersey to Philly on a Tuesday night in December for one of the best concerts ever! Skynyrd and the greatest live band The Who!
I remember watching this at the time and thinking, "This is why I love The Who." Best live band I've ever seen bar none. I've seen The Who so many times, 60s 70s 80s 90s 00s 10s 20s. Yeah I am fucking old now! Myself and my brother back in 1979 saw them play at Wembley Stadium with, in order of appearance, Nils Lofgren, AC/DC - original line up Bon Scott as singer, The Stranglers and then the boys headlined. That was August '79. In the November of' 79, myself and my brother, again, actually took the Friday Night train down to Brighton at 5:15pm as we were going to see them play at the Brighton Centre. Fucking awesome pissed up, Dexy'ed up absolute mental weekend. Loved every moment of it! Oh and we're from Shepherds Bush too.
Hey, agree every word, saw them twice n 1975, Bingley Hall Stafford then at Charlton, top o the bill over Streetwalkers, Little Feat, Outlaws and Alex Harvey. Best live band bar none.
Saw them headline Charlton in '74. They were fantastic. Saw them twice in London, all completely pissed. No respect for the fans who paid good money to see them. Love their music though.
Saw them the year before at Worthing Assembly Rooms (capacity 500) in West Sussex. School was alive with rumours of an unpublicised gig (which they sometimes did). The street was full but I got inside and up to the front. Moonie was on fire. Daltrey lost a mike in the crowd. Townsend tore his fingers doing the windmill and blood down his white jumpsuit. The loudest gig Ive been to I think. Deaf for a week. And probably the best. Not bad for 50p.
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I saw The Who for the first time November 29 th 1973 the Quadrophenia tour with Skynyrd . Still the best concert I ever saw. So much fun!!!!
I was at a show the following month. Skynyrd was yet to have a hit, as I recall. when PT would leap, the crowd went (as they did when TOMMY hit the stage) CRAZY!!
Skynyrd' s first major tour. Great stuff. I've seen both bands a few times but never together. I saw Skynyrd with Black Sabbath and Peter Frampton. Still have the ticket stub. $6.50 at the door.
It's a little known fact that I was a stowaway on Apollo 11 - No glory for me though, just me and MC in the CM before we hooked up with those other two for the return trip. I don't like talking about it though.
I just love how Keith Moon was such a good sport. He was always compassionate if Pete got mad and started smashing his stuff, he'd just join along with him and smash everything to pieces.
@@sheatiller2465 Because of a strike by TV musicians at the time The Who were told they needed to record the music before the show and were forbidden from playing live instruments. The only thing live was Roger and Pete's vocals. Towards the end you can see Pete power on his stack of amps and start playing a solo. Soon after that you can hear Pete's guitar fade out and Pete's prerecorded solo continues as Pete stopped playing. Pete then went ballistic and Keith joined in.
@@bostonwhofan I think John's harmony/back up vocals were live too. You can hear just John's voice in a few places like 1:02 Pete did the intro vocals obviously and you can even hear him say something to the audience or crew just before that at 0:19
I saw it on TOTP and was lucky enough to see the Who at the Kings Hall Belle Vue Manchester in 1975 as a 15 year old.... been a who fan all the rest of my life
Quadrophenia is such a classic of the classics of Rock, it's a part of one of the best phasis of my life, I love it a lot, great joy to see this images
Quadrophenia was an album I listened to over and over during my senior year of high school. Always takes me back to those days. Pretty much what turned me into a Who fan.
All right, kids! This is what REAL MUSIC is, not any crap from Kanye, Cardi B, or Arianna Grande. The 70s was the best decade for music. The 60s come at a very close second.
Love these guys. When I need energy these are my guys. It hurts me though cause when I was 19 in 1974 my beautiful 15 yr old girlfriend broke up with up with me. I had her for about a month. My 1st true love. No one will replace her. Our 1st kiss was under the plum tree at my house. She played the flute in my band. No lady will replace my first love but they only will comfort me a little
@@TheKosmikid how do you think these Mic throwing ideas were invented. Clearly, it was an expression of Mod, Exie-centric, depressing, revolutionary, working class man, macho, violent, puppet master, girl noticing, random thing that happened on the road but worked, idea. Magic Bus really.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams........................
What a year 1973 was. Looking back then, I was 16 and growing up in London when there was no looking down at smartphones all day long, no supernumerary piercings and tattoos and far less stroppy attitudes and competitiveness from people. Also, women and girls looked far more elegant, wearing mainly skirts and dresses and hardly any boring and drab looking trousers.
It was Pete being angry at playing along to a track for one of the first times, and he felt insulted by the BBC announcers intro lines. So he was like "Hey, I'm Pete Townshend. Fuck this." and smashed stuff while the track kept playing to let the world know he wasn't fake [give or take].
bottom line is - this was their choice - they could have insisted on playing live - but seem to have been too lazy or lacking in confidence to do that..
@@frankzappaspussy7362 nah, not their choice. I remember reading about it back then. I'm not going to skim through my books, but it's probably mentioned in 'Before I Get Old', one of their bio books.
How? Don't get me wrong. The Who is my favorite band and Quadrophenia one of my favorite albums in all of music. But, Pete got more than a bit whiny on this project, verging on Roger Water's level of poor-me-I-was-born-during-The-Blitz navel gazing. But hey, nothing makes good music like psychological trauma.
It's funny. I've always felt that objectively, Pete is the better singer. And yet...I can't imagine wanting anyone other than Roger to be the primary lead singer of this incredible band, my all-time favorite in rock. What he _does_ with that voice is just masterful. He wreaks such powerful performances out of the voice he has, instead of pretending he's anything other than what he is. So, I love them both and just enjoy the differences. And then, when the two of them combine their voices with the Ox's in harmony, it's one of the most distinctive harmony sounds in rock, and the combination doesn't really sound immediately like any of their individual voices to me. Instantly recognizable, and so very richly textured. Heaven.
Here's the real story behind this (referenced from pg 236 of the really, really great book "Anyway Anyhow Anywhere - The Complete Chronicle Of The Who 1958-1978")... this was taped on Wednesday October 3, 1973 for the special hour-long 500th edition of Top Of The Pops. The band assumed they would be miming but were actually expected to perform/record a non-mimed performance the day before because of a recent Musicians Union ruling (the band mimed it anyway for the representatives there and went through the motions as it were). Roger's vocals are live day-of the show with the rest miming the "newly recorded backing" (obviously) with the exception of the intro. Noel Edmunds introduces the band and at the fade Pete broke the neck on his Gretsch (the same one used on many Who recordings - it would be repaired and is still in Pete's possession today), kicked over some of Moon's set and then turned to flip-off show producer Robin Nash to demonstrate his view of the BBC as a whole (the previous day's event probably didn't help). The wigs being thrown about were lifted from the BBC prop department. As a result, this segment was cut from the transmission the following evening, but segments can be seen in the end credits for The Kids Are Alright. Pete's gestures here and Moon's behavior in the green room got the group a BBC lifetime ban (one that was lifted not long after a letter of apology was accepted).
Also Keith Moon used a cymbal like a frizby and spun it into the audience luckily without serious consequences !! ( I was a member of the Camera crew )
Clearly Pete was hacked about the situation. His vocals at 0:29 are clearly live because he starts singing before he reaches the microphone and that crescendo can be heard.
j 'avais 20 ans dans les années 70 , c'était la meilleure expression musicale pour ma génération ....rock on le British Rock! , et merci aux Who , Stones , Purple, Zep , Hendrix et tous ces fantastiques artistes de cette période là qui nous ont offert liberté et énergie avec du solide rock.
Classic clip! But a few errors in both the intro by Noel Edmonds and in the comments here. This was recorded in October 1973, Edmonds states they haven't had a single out in 2 years, but they released both Join Together and Relay in 1972, reading number 9 and number 21 in the UK charts respectively. Also, although this is a backing track with live vocals (From both Daltrey & Townshend), Pete's guitar is also live for the intro (through the small combo amp in front of his stack) as he makes an absolute howler in the riff around 0.37, and can been seen at around 0.41 turning round and switching the amp off. The guitar he smashes up is a beautful Gretsch given to him by Joe Walsh and used on Who's Next and Quadrophenia (notably on Won't get fooled again). Luckily it just snapped in half and the neck was able to be repaired and reattached and he still uses it to this day.
No, as I said, the intro is clearly live and the amp is on, then most, if not all of the rest is on the backing track. I think your right that Pete tries to turn the amp back on later in the song,then kicks it over and smashes the guitar when the power is turned off@@Tonks143
Pete must have been upset about the sound not working correctly at the end, it looked like he wanted to get more distortion, perhaps, but he took it out on the equipment and Keith's drums
First time \i ever set eyes on Keith moon drumming. I watched like the first-night audience in Springtime for Hitler. Also realised who Roger Daltrey sang for in his spare time.
LOVE The Who! Quadrophenia was and is a classic! Daltry was a powerful. Just listened to "Won't Get Fooled Again" while working in the Garage, came looking for The New Vaudeville Band - "Winchester Cathedral" and ended up here. Not, "dreadfully sorry..." I went the long way.
The Who performs so different to the rest and no way this can be argued away either this song should off been on The Kids are Alright album but in its full length
@jessemaes1990 oh, there's and interview from John Entwistle that he says that Pete loved that guitar, and broke it by accident. He had it fixed and sounded great still. Aparently it was given to Pete by Joe Walsh.
4:04 Pete gets upset because the sound engineers on the show cut the power to his amp. That's why he gets angry, smashes up his guitar, and flips off the guys in the booth. I heard it was something about union rules that only vocals could be live on TOTP at the time. You can see him crank up the amp @ 3:22
So this is the infamous show where Pete smashed the Gretsch that he used to get his awesome tone on Who's Next and Quadrophenia! What the heck made him decide to use it for this - considering he never used it live - and even more importantly, what made him mad enough to smash it?
@@loosilu Yes he used it a lot on the Who's Next album. It was/is a very temperamental guitar that would never stay in tune so was not used on stage. It was given to him by Joe Walsh of The Eagles. Pete was annoyed that they cut the song short so that was the reason for him kicking in the drum set and smashing the Gretsch (which seemed to fall apart very quickly!!)
@@megadave1197 depends what your definition of a "super group" is I suppose but I still think they are underrated. They don't get the props like Zeppelin, Beatles,Stones ect got. Imo
Re the guitar smashing: they did Who's Next on the 'Classic Albums' series and Townshend talked the TV audience through it, and showed how while his guitar solo was reaching its crescendo a roadie would slide an old guitar across the front of the stage, and he would pick that up and smash it, then they'd glue it back together and he'd do it again at the next gig.
Basically unknown Skynyrd opened for the Who in
1973 at the Philadelphia Spectrum blew the crowd away. Then the Who followed with Quadrophenia the place went nuts! I drove from Jersey to Philly on a Tuesday night in December for one of the best concerts ever! Skynyrd and the greatest live band The Who!
Keith mad as a box of frogs! God bless him!!! Forever
That’s an artist ..someone who makes people excited
I remember watching this at the time and thinking, "This is why I love The Who." Best live band I've ever seen bar none. I've seen The Who so many times, 60s 70s 80s 90s 00s 10s 20s. Yeah I am fucking old now! Myself and my brother back in 1979 saw them play at Wembley Stadium with, in order of appearance, Nils Lofgren, AC/DC - original line up Bon Scott as singer, The Stranglers and then the boys headlined. That was August '79. In the November of' 79, myself and my brother, again, actually took the Friday Night train down to Brighton at 5:15pm as we were going to see them play at the Brighton Centre. Fucking awesome pissed up, Dexy'ed up absolute mental weekend. Loved every moment of it! Oh and we're from Shepherds Bush too.
Hey, agree every word, saw them twice n 1975, Bingley Hall Stafford then at Charlton, top o the bill over Streetwalkers, Little Feat, Outlaws and Alex Harvey. Best live band bar none.
Saw them headline Charlton in '74. They were fantastic. Saw them twice in London, all completely pissed. No respect for the fans who paid good money to see them. Love their music though.
The best live band of all time
simon edwards Leeds is proof..as is the Isle of Wight live recording of Tommy
But not live on this and other notable occasions
Keith didn't even try to look like he wasn't miming the drums.
Yes, and it's not really close
so this wasn't live?? i ask because at the end you hear drum and guitar playing even though pete is kicking the drums over and not playing
Saw them the year before at Worthing Assembly Rooms (capacity 500) in West Sussex. School was alive with rumours of an unpublicised gig (which they sometimes did). The street was full but I got inside and up to the front. Moonie was on fire. Daltrey lost a mike in the crowd. Townsend tore his fingers doing the windmill and blood down his white jumpsuit. The loudest gig Ive been to I think. Deaf for a week. And probably the best. Not bad for 50p.
I saw The Who for the first time November 29 th 1973 the Quadrophenia tour with Skynyrd . Still the best concert I ever saw. So much fun!!!!
I was at a show the following month. Skynyrd was yet to have a hit, as I recall. when PT would leap, the crowd went (as they did when TOMMY hit the stage) CRAZY!!
I’m sure LS was great,I never got to see them but luckily I caught The Who twice and they were excellent
You lucky, lucky person.
Skynyrd' s first major tour. Great stuff. I've seen both bands a few times but never together. I saw Skynyrd with Black Sabbath and Peter Frampton. Still have the ticket stub. $6.50 at the door.
@@tyronesharp401 Both bands on MCA recordings.
I first saw The Who, at Woodstock, at age 6. Their magic still amazes me to this day.
Indifferent parents then taken into care perhaps ?
@@gillianwignall5397 I'm not sure. However, my Aunt + her boyfriend took me to the festival with them, in 1969.
Kim Sullivan Sure you did & I`m the CRIMSON SHADOW!!!!!
It's a little known fact that I was a stowaway on Apollo 11 - No glory for me though, just me and MC in the CM before we hooked up with those other two for the return trip.
I don't like talking about it though.
@@apathyintheuk265 Good for you. Lol, but, you ARE talking about it. 😆🤣
I always wish there were more footage from the 1973 Quadrophenia era
I agree.
My goodness,...they're singing LIVE!!!
They just epitomize what a rock band is like nobody else
Man, Ox was a force!!!!
@@walliegirl2 Entwistle and McCartney...the 2 greatest bass players of all time...
In the U.S alone the Who played over 2000 shows in their career. A hardened live act they seem utter dynamite, just magnificent. And LOUD!
I just love how Keith Moon was such a good sport. He was always compassionate if Pete got mad and started smashing his stuff, he'd just join along with him and smash everything to pieces.
Yeah; Roger too when Pete fell down at Live Aid. I wonder what ticked Pete off--the awkwardness of lip-syncing most or all of the song's parts?
Shea Tiller from what I've read, it was the show's continuous edits to the backing track.
@@sheatiller2465 Because of a strike by TV musicians at the time The Who were told they needed to record the music before the show and were forbidden from playing live instruments. The only thing live was Roger and Pete's vocals. Towards the end you can see Pete power on his stack of amps and start playing a solo. Soon after that you can hear Pete's guitar fade out and Pete's prerecorded solo continues as Pete stopped playing. Pete then went ballistic and Keith joined in.
@@bostonwhofan good handle. I am also a Boston WHO fan. at one show I was at in the Garden, Pete was identically dressed. blue T, white bell bottoms.
@@bostonwhofan I think John's harmony/back up vocals were live too. You can hear just John's voice in a few places like 1:02 Pete did the intro vocals obviously and you can even hear him say something to the audience or crew just before that at 0:19
One of my favorite Who Albums every song 100%👍 Quadraphrenia is a very very awesome treat just like Physical Graffiti
This is one of the greatest songs ever from THE WHO! BRILLIANT!
Agree love MY WIFE too
I saw it on TOTP and was lucky enough to see the Who at the Kings Hall Belle Vue Manchester in 1975 as a 15 year old.... been a who fan all the rest of my life
Quadrophenia is such a classic of the classics of Rock, it's a part of one of the best phasis of my life, I love it a lot, great joy to see this images
Quadrophenia was an album I listened to over and over during my senior year of high school. Always takes me back to those days. Pretty much what turned me into a Who fan.
What a perfect band should look like .... the original who members and 5.15 what s track .... fantastic
All right, kids! This is what REAL MUSIC is, not any crap from Kanye, Cardi B, or Arianna Grande. The 70s was the best decade for music. The 60s come at a very close second.
Well, this has been already said by the Bach fans who did not like Mozart.
@@oldfrittenfett1276ffs... that's classical ... chalk and cheese stuff
💯. Music today is trash. The 90s were the last decade for any good music. 70s were definitely the best!
@@ryansmurda1552 I'm with you. You can't beat the music of the 70s. Led Zeppelin owned that decade.
Ok boomer
But I completely agree with you.
Love these guys. When I need energy these are my guys. It hurts me though cause when I was 19 in 1974 my beautiful 15 yr old girlfriend broke up with up with me. I had her for about a month. My 1st true love. No one will replace her. Our 1st kiss was under the plum tree at my house. She played the flute in my band. No lady will replace my first love but they only will comfort me a little
It's a wonder Rodger never took out John or Pete with that microphone! Total control from the master!
he probably popped'em in the head a few times to wake em up.
Great song please check out The Who - Quadrophenia Album Review on my channel
He took out Pete with his fist, though
He did.
@@TheKosmikid how do you think these Mic throwing ideas were invented. Clearly, it was an expression of Mod, Exie-centric, depressing, revolutionary, working class man, macho, violent, puppet master, girl noticing, random thing that happened on the road but worked, idea.
Magic Bus really.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams........................
What a year 1973 was. Looking back then, I was 16 and growing up in London when there was no looking down at smartphones all day long, no supernumerary piercings and tattoos and far less stroppy attitudes and competitiveness from people. Also, women and girls looked far more elegant, wearing mainly skirts and dresses and hardly any boring and drab looking trousers.
It was Pete being angry at playing along to a track for one of the first times, and he felt insulted by the BBC announcers intro lines. So he was like "Hey, I'm Pete Townshend. Fuck this." and smashed stuff while the track kept playing to let the world know he wasn't fake [give or take].
blahblahunicornx Either that ir it had become a boring stunt that they were now expected to do after doing it for donkeys years!
bottom line is - this was their choice - they could have insisted on playing live - but seem to have been too lazy or lacking in confidence to do that..
@@frankzappaspussy7362 nah, not their choice. I remember reading about it back then. I'm not going to skim through my books, but it's probably mentioned in 'Before I Get Old', one of their bio books.
Townshend briefly mentions this in his autobiography:
"On Top of the Pops, I lost my patience and smashed a cherished guitar, a gift from Joe Walsh."
He got pissed off because the BBC engineers turn off his amp as he starts playing the solo near the end
How can you not love Pete Townshend? (and this album).
Well Pete is a genius, just like my idol, Marty Robbins. Pete wrote a song to honor Marty - so cool.
How? Don't get me wrong. The Who is my favorite band and Quadrophenia one of my favorite albums in all of music. But, Pete got more than a bit whiny on this project, verging on Roger Water's level of poor-me-I-was-born-during-The-Blitz navel gazing. But hey, nothing makes good music like psychological trauma.
@@JasonGabler wish we had more whiners like those two legends
Love the way John simply gets out of the way at the end. So cool.
No word could ever describe this
Great song please check out The Who - Quadrophenia Album Review on my channel
One of the best songs ever written. So memorable.
Roger was always one of the better frontmen....
And the best singer in Rock music
Hell ya, and one of the sexiest
It's funny. I've always felt that objectively, Pete is the better singer. And yet...I can't imagine wanting anyone other than Roger to be the primary lead singer of this incredible band, my all-time favorite in rock. What he _does_ with that voice is just masterful. He wreaks such powerful performances out of the voice he has, instead of pretending he's anything other than what he is. So, I love them both and just enjoy the differences. And then, when the two of them combine their voices with the Ox's in harmony, it's one of the most distinctive harmony sounds in rock, and the combination doesn't really sound immediately like any of their individual voices to me. Instantly recognizable, and so very richly textured. Heaven.
@@rocknroller77 You better you bet...THE sexiest! ;)
@@cjhooversd And when the 'Scoop' series of albums were released, whe were again rewarded with different versions with Pete's singing. Great!
The Who at the top top top! of the game. Always great.
Great song ever ever ever
Here's the real story behind this (referenced from pg 236 of the really, really great book "Anyway Anyhow Anywhere - The Complete Chronicle Of The Who 1958-1978")... this was taped on Wednesday October 3, 1973 for the special hour-long 500th edition of Top Of The Pops. The band assumed they would be miming but were actually expected to perform/record a non-mimed performance the day before because of a recent Musicians Union ruling (the band mimed it anyway for the representatives there and went through the motions as it were). Roger's vocals are live day-of the show with the rest miming the "newly recorded backing" (obviously) with the exception of the intro. Noel Edmunds introduces the band and at the fade Pete broke the neck on his Gretsch (the same one used on many Who recordings - it would be repaired and is still in Pete's possession today), kicked over some of Moon's set and then turned to flip-off show producer Robin Nash to demonstrate his view of the BBC as a whole (the previous day's event probably didn't help). The wigs being thrown about were lifted from the BBC prop department. As a result, this segment was cut from the transmission the following evening, but segments can be seen in the end credits for The Kids Are Alright. Pete's gestures here and Moon's behavior in the green room got the group a BBC lifetime ban (one that was lifted not long after a letter of apology was accepted).
Also Keith Moon used a cymbal like a frizby and spun it into the audience luckily without serious consequences !! ( I was a member of the Camera crew )
@@Trigger47W12 that is awesome!!!
That's hilarious. I'll have to read that book.
Clearly Pete was hacked about the situation. His vocals at 0:29 are clearly live because he starts singing before he reaches the microphone and that crescendo can be heard.
Love the band but didn’t like the wrecking of equipment part, unnecessary roughness 😂
What a fantastic bunch of guys. Remember them from the start in the US. Ya, I'm that old. Rock was so good then.
Keith Moon. One off the greatest.
awesome live set
j 'avais 20 ans dans les années 70 , c'était la meilleure expression musicale pour ma génération ....rock on le British Rock! , et merci aux Who , Stones , Purple, Zep , Hendrix et tous ces fantastiques artistes de cette période là qui nous ont offert liberté et énergie avec du solide rock.
Greatest live band
Incredibile band! With the Stones, One of the best rock banda
I love The Who. That is all.
Everybody does.
Wow . What a band!!
RIP Moonie and Thunderfingers....
There wasn't anybody in my high school (late 70s/early 80s), that weren't totally into the Who! Awesome band!
The GREATEST!!!!! GREAAAAAAAAATEST!!!!
Great dynamic band and players !
Happy birthday John Entwistle
He's been dead for over 20 years stupid
A rather ominous figure briefly glimpsed at the end.
right Pete giving JImmy Saville the 2 finger salute ..Bollocks!
Quadraphenia one of the best albums of all time
4:12 ... drums smashed, guitar smashed ... and the backing track keeps going....
Roger must have the patience of a saint!
Classic clip! But a few errors in both the intro by Noel Edmonds and in the comments here.
This was recorded in October 1973, Edmonds states they haven't had a single out in 2 years, but they released both Join Together and Relay in 1972, reading number 9 and number 21 in the UK charts respectively.
Also, although this is a backing track with live vocals (From both Daltrey & Townshend), Pete's guitar is also live for the intro (through the small combo amp in front of his stack) as he makes an absolute howler in the riff around 0.37, and can been seen at around 0.41 turning round and switching the amp off.
The guitar he smashes up is a beautful Gretsch given to him by Joe Walsh and used on Who's Next and Quadrophenia (notably on Won't get fooled again). Luckily it just snapped in half and the neck was able to be repaired and reattached and he still uses it to this day.
Also, The guy doing the intros says he thinks the new album is called Quadrophenia! He did not know?!!!! WOW!!!!
Quite the opposite, Pete Turns the amp ON at 3:23. Then smashes his guitar when the BBC tech cuts the power to his amp.
No, as I said, the intro is clearly live and the amp is on, then most, if not all of the rest is on the backing track. I think your right that Pete tries to turn the amp back on later in the song,then kicks it over and smashes the guitar when the power is turned off@@Tonks143
Too Good .. Just Too Good. Rock N Roll with proper attitude ... Yeahhh 🤘😎
In the words of Pete Townshend : "It's my fucking guitar. Who are you (no pun intended) to tell me what to do with MY fucking guitar?"
Originally, they weren't his guitars. He hadn't paid for them!
Pete must have been upset about the sound not working correctly at the end, it looked like he wanted to get more distortion, perhaps, but he took it out on the equipment and Keith's drums
it wastn't LIVE!
Sensacionais ! Muita energia ! Performance impecável !
Greatest Rock Band ever,….
As John Hiatt sang, “It breaks my heart to see those stars, smashing perfectly good guitars.”
Love Hiatt..but those guitars were replaced by just as good and helped make those stars shine even brighter
Great performance the only thing that ruins it is the bit at the end.
Taped instruments. Live vocals. That is how they did it in those days.
...especially when the drummer couldn't keep a steady beat.
@@belovedone151he heh
Proof that Keith Moon was the GREATEST drummer of ALL TIME!
I would agree with that, even though I'm a massive Beatles fan.
@Rodolfo García By a Million Miles!
At the height of their arena rock power.
A long track for TOTP ❤️loved The Who
authentic looking filming...love the ratty quality...reminds of the era
I love Pete's reaction to lip synching!
I know it's synchronized but man, Roger's singing was top notch!
It's all live.
Not all live. Just the Vocals, some of the guitar parts and maybe the Bass. Everything else (Rhythm Guitar, Drums, Piano and Brass) was playback.
Live vocals backing track recorded at BBC Lime Grove music studio in the afternoon .........I was tracking the Heron crane on the right hand side.
@@davethemusician3182 Vocals definitely and also the opening guitar (delberately?) off key.
@@apathyintheuk265 Likely to let fans know it’s partly live.
elite band.
Beautiful!
Thanks for posting!
The Who were great, this is their best song.
Moons kit should have been at the front f the stage....mesmerising-!!!
I saw them in Orlando Florida with Kenny Jones on drums they were incredible.
THEMS WERE THE DAYS!
Uppers and downers either way blood flows... Quiet storm water!!!
its pete townshend, what do u expect
I remember this so well!
Love Keith's jacket. I'd wear that.
MOOOOOOOOOON, 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁💞💞💞💞💞💞🎶😎👍😎🎶😎🎶😎🎶😎🎶😎,.. RIP,
frickin' awesome! never saw this after 40 years a fan
First time \i ever set eyes on Keith moon drumming. I watched like the first-night audience in Springtime for Hitler. Also realised who Roger Daltrey sang for in his spare time.
Thank you for posting this!!
The performance that turned me on to rock music at the tender age of 14. Great to see it again. Still powerful all these years later.
was it the fake playing that you liked. the who should be ashamed this exists
LOVE The Who! Quadrophenia was and is a classic! Daltry was a powerful. Just listened to "Won't Get Fooled Again" while working in the Garage, came looking for The New Vaudeville Band - "Winchester Cathedral" and ended up here. Not, "dreadfully sorry..." I went the long way.
No miming for the 'oo, live all the way .
they mimed the whole thing! you clearly didn't watch
The Who performs so different to the rest and no way this can be argued away either this song should off been on The Kids are Alright album but in its full length
@jessemaes1990 oh, there's and interview from John Entwistle that he says that Pete loved that guitar, and broke it by accident. He had it fixed and sounded great still. Aparently it was given to Pete by Joe Walsh.
not sure that smashing it on the floor can be called an accident!
4:04 Pete gets upset because the sound engineers on the show cut the power to his amp. That's why he gets angry, smashes up his guitar, and flips off the guys in the booth. I heard it was something about union rules that only vocals could be live on TOTP at the time. You can see him crank up the amp @ 3:22
I remember this well got them banned yet strangely it turned out it was ok for some of the djs to grope the arses of young teenage girls
That's the way, Petey!
Such a great clear voice. Did well even solo, without Townsend's writing.
Watch video, Queen With Tony Iomi And Roger Daltrey I Want It All.
Total badass Roger proves that he is the greatest frontman in rock.
That Pete`s guitar was a Joe Walsh gift to him
So this is the infamous show where Pete smashed the Gretsch that he used to get his awesome tone on Who's Next and Quadrophenia! What the heck made him decide to use it for this - considering he never used it live - and even more importantly, what made him mad enough to smash it?
Oh, is that the one he used for Love Ain't for Keeping?
@@loosilu Yes he used it a lot on the Who's Next album. It was/is a very temperamental guitar that would never stay in tune so was not used on stage. It was given to him by Joe Walsh of The Eagles. Pete was annoyed that they cut the song short so that was the reason for him kicking in the drum set and smashing the Gretsch (which seemed to fall apart very quickly!!)
@@scienceexperimentsforhomee261 Pete got it repaired, and says it plays better AFTER the repair than before!
3:29 lol look at John
Smooth move!
If Queen did`nt exist. These fellas would be King.
Bought the single in the 70,s and that was me done for the next 60 years
JAN 3rd, 2024.....outta my brain....!!!!!
Pete normally initiated the destruction and Keith promptly closed the proceedings.
so they faked playing all their songs? wtf
They performed You Better You Bet in 1981 on TOTP, it's available on here, so they did get asked back.
Clare McCreesh only after the BBC reversed it's own ruling, though.
Love this song & the film Quadrophenia. Phil Daniels was brilliant!!!!
I know they were a "supergroup " but I still think they are underrated.
I think the definition of a 'supergroup' is one that comprises members who have already found fame or at least recognition elsewhere.
They've never been underrated mate.
Definitely.
They are not a super group and they are not underrated either
@@megadave1197 depends what your definition of a "super group" is I suppose but I still think they are underrated. They don't get the props like Zeppelin, Beatles,Stones ect got. Imo
Some drummers would get angry. "Hey, you're breaking my fucking drums!" Moon joins in the destruction.
Some drummers: Hey! You’re breaking my my drums!
Ginger Baker: Break me drums, you die….
Keith Moon:YEEEEAAAAHHH BABY!
Don't u just live the Who ! Great clip. Thank you for posting this !!:-))
Excellent song
Re the guitar smashing: they did Who's Next on the 'Classic Albums' series and Townshend talked the TV audience through it, and showed how while his guitar solo was reaching its crescendo a roadie would slide an old guitar across the front of the stage, and he would pick that up and smash it, then they'd glue it back together and he'd do it again at the next gig.
About as live as it gets on TOTP. Kicking!
Love that this was the year I was born and currently my theme tune for life crap
I want to time travel back to the 70's and make a band solely from Brit rockers called Keith. Who's with?
Keith Richards, Keith Moon, Keith Relf, who else?
@@bendeguzhetyei5004 Keith Emerson
I'd rather make a band with all British rockers named Mick.
Tim Lazar What about one with all British&American rockers named John?
@@bendeguzhetyei5004 let's see, John Lennon, John Mayall, John Bonham, and John Entwistle, we still need a lead guitarist though
Fantastic ❤️