That lyric is NOT "Jerrold, Jerrold, Jerrold," it's "'cello, 'cello, 'cello." They wanted a cello there when they recorded it in the studio, but couldn't afford one, so they used the sound of the word to fill in the space and it became standard during their live sets.
Pete Townshend saw the Rolling Stones doing a soundcheck once and saw Keith Richards doing the windmill move with his arm and thought he played guitar like that. It turns out Keith was just limbering up and Pete mistook it for a playing technique. It became his signature from then on.
The Rock and Roll Circus was something The Rolling Stones put together and invited a lot of the big bands at the time. At the end you see Brian Jones whistling. Brian was one of the original Rolling Stones who, unfortunately, died from an OD and drowned in a pool, probably shortly after this was made.
Don't read too much into the lyrics of this one, my friend. It's Pete Townshend's first attempt at writing a long form, opera-like piece. Something that really hadn't been done much in popular music at the time. The story is supposed to be silly, just to offset the possible pretentiousness of writing a rock opera. Later, Townshend goes on to write the rock operas "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia." Those are mature pieces of rock-art and deserve some attention to the lyrics. I hope you explore them.:)
The "circus" stuff is because this is from a 1968 concert film called "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus", with a bunch of bands that were friends with the Stones, like The Who, Jethro Tull (with Tony Iommi, who went on to found Black Sabbath on guitar!), Taj Mahal, etc.
Also, a "Girl Guide" is the British equivalent of the Girl Scouts in the U.S. - presumably of high school age in this song, and the "we" of the "we'll soon be home" is the girl guide's man and his horse.
This is the composer’s (guitarist Pete Townshend) early attempts at writing a long form piece (the term now known as rock opera). One of the band’s mangers at the time was the son of classical conductor and quire familiar with classical music and opera. Pete was becoming less interested in composing standard pop tunes and didn’t know how to write a seven minute song that told a singular story. That band manager (Kit Lambert) told Pete that if he couldn’t write a seven minute song just write a few songs that were
That lyric is NOT "Jerrold, Jerrold, Jerrold," it's "'cello, 'cello, 'cello." They wanted a cello there when they recorded it in the studio, but couldn't afford one, so they used the sound of the word to fill in the space and it became standard during their live sets.
Pete Townshend saw the Rolling Stones doing a soundcheck once and saw Keith Richards doing the windmill move with his arm and thought he played guitar like that. It turns out Keith was just limbering up and Pete mistook it for a playing technique. It became his signature from then on.
The Rock and Roll Circus was something The Rolling Stones put together and invited a lot of the big bands at the time. At the end you see Brian Jones whistling. Brian was one of the original Rolling Stones who, unfortunately, died from an OD and drowned in a pool, probably shortly after this was made.
Don't read too much into the lyrics of this one, my friend. It's Pete Townshend's first attempt at writing a long form, opera-like piece. Something that really hadn't been done much in popular music at the time. The story is supposed to be silly, just to offset the possible pretentiousness of writing a rock opera. Later, Townshend goes on to write the rock operas "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia." Those are mature pieces of rock-art and deserve some attention to the lyrics. I hope you explore them.:)
The "circus" stuff is because this is from a 1968 concert film called "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus", with a bunch of bands that were friends with the Stones, like The Who, Jethro Tull (with Tony Iommi, who went on to found Black Sabbath on guitar!), Taj Mahal, etc.
I don't think it's jerald is it? I used to hear jello, but apparently it's something else that I can't quite remember yet.
Also, a "Girl Guide" is the British equivalent of the Girl Scouts in the U.S. - presumably of high school age in this song, and the "we" of the "we'll soon be home" is the girl guide's man and his horse.
This is the composer’s (guitarist Pete Townshend) early attempts at writing a long form piece (the term now known as rock opera). One of the band’s mangers at the time was the son of classical conductor and quire familiar with classical music and opera. Pete was becoming less interested in composing standard pop tunes and didn’t know how to write a seven minute song that told a singular story. That band manager (Kit Lambert) told Pete that if he couldn’t write a seven minute song just write a few songs that were
The ''windmill'' was Pete's thing. But he did say that he would often rip off his thumbnail doing it.
He's not aware of Keith Moon? Man, I'm old!