Four viewer opinions:
- The DRUMS in this song, along with the rest of it make it another timeless WHO CLASSIC !!!
- excellent, simply excellent, i'm speechless!
- truly incredible daltrey vocals
- was at this concert, in SF, 14 years old, flat against the stage on Pete's side, 15 feet from his HiWatts. Literally changed my life.
Howard’s thoughts:
Here’s Pete really loosing his temper with parts of the audience. Possibly rightly so. I have many live versions of this track and this is the most exciting one. PT was never more compelling than when:
- he was hoping mad
- using an SG with twin P-90s into ...
- highly modified (mid-range distortion boost) Hi-Watt 100-watt heads driving
- multiple 4 x 12 cabinets
Just listen to those demolition power chords; my phrase incidentally! No foot pedals. Little if any effects. As an aside, I saw them a few weeks earlier at The Rainbow. This youtube clip captures the sound as I remember it after all these years. I saw them 17 times subsequently.
They remain the ultimate power trio plus one power vocalist. The sound pressure level was like a physical assault. Predominantly a bloke audience it was, in a sense, a curious sort of belonging; curious because I never consciously join anything. And yet somehow …… Truth be told they were in my late teenage years and early manhood the ultimate trip for me. I miss them.
Editor – you’ve done it again! Terrific version! Listening to this performance sent me scurrying to my CD collection as I knew it was somewhere in there, and yes, it is on disc 3 in the ‘Thirty Years of Maximum R & B’ boxed set, bought many years ago at vast expense. Better sound quality than YouTube, naturally.
They were MY band too – and the first proper gig I went to: 1965, Orpington Civic Hall, just after the release of their first album. Couldn’t hear for three days afterwards. Cost me 5/- to get in, that’s 25p in old money. Doesn’t sound much, I know, but in those days you could buy a house in the suburbs of Manchester for 50p…..in fact…I think you still can!