the Untitled.

viniciusmc:

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fuckyeahthewho:

Stonebridge Park Studios, Wembley, December 10, 1968.

This was part of a plan that Pete Townshend and Mick Jagger had been working on for some time, a Rolling Stones/Who tour done as a traveling circus. It was intended for a TV special but was shelved, because The Stones were unhappy with their performance that had come at the end of a very long day’s filming. There’s certainly nothing wrong with The Who’s performance. Three performances of “A Quick One” were shot that day, each better than the last. (info via thewho.net)

HOLD UP.

There are another two takes of A Quick One out there?! To the internets!!

fuckyeahthewho:

“‘They used to think we were purists when we smashed guitars. But we were more commercial then than we are now’ (Keith Moon)” - Record Mirror, April 2, 1966

aquariumdrunkard:

Moon.

It would have been this guy’s 64th birthday yesterday. I had been trying to write a post about him all day, but couldn’t come up with anything that I felt good about. Here’s another shot.

When I started playing drums, I knew who Keith Moon was. But I didn’t know who Keith Moon was, you know? I had no idea he changed the way the instrument is played. I wasn’t even aware of alcohol, or drugs, so I certainly didn’t know he consumed them at the levels he did. I didn’t know he may or may not have killed someone behind the wheel of his Rolls Royce. I didn’t know he had all sorts of emotional problems.

None of that matters though when you listen to him play. People say John Bonham was the better drummer. They’re full of shit. Bonham hits his drums with hammers, he stomps around the kit. Moon dances. He floats. Granted, sometimes he floats heavily, but the man didn’t just play the drums like the drums, he played them like an real instrument. He soared in and around vocal lines, tore apart guitar riffs, and threw in fills where there shouldn’t have been room, and instead of sounding busy or overly technical he sounded like a real human being, and not some drum machine.

I don’t know what else to say, other than I’m not sure if I’d want to see Keith alive today. I mean, of course I would, who are we trying to fool here, but on the other hand it might be sad. I can’t tell you how many other rock and roll heroes I’ve seen who just don’t have it anymore. I think seeing Moonie up there struggling to keep up would be even worse.

Let’s remember him like this, in 1966, as a 20 year old drummer in a rock and roll band, taking no prisoners.

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