In 1964, the Beatles were singing, "I wanna hold your hand." The Stones were singing, "I wanna get in your pants." The Who was singing, I wanna burn your f****ng house down." The stutter is imitating a side effect of amphetamines (speed). The Who were the first big rock band to destroy their equipment at the end of the show. In the 70s, the Who were responsible for the passing of ordinances for maximum decibels allowed at concerts. They were THAT loud. When you listen to the Who, headphones are not the way to go. It should be on regular speakers cranked up so loud you feel it in your chest. Headphones that loud would hurt. A thumping car stereo would work too, but turn up the midrange too.
You gotta understand how revolutionary “hope I die before I get old.” was in 1965. It was like giving the middle finger to the establishment. It epitomized the punk rock ethos before the term “punk rock” ever came along.
“My Generation” was written entirely by Who guitarist Pete Townshend, who recorded a few demos of the song on his own. The second and third demos featured Townshend using stuttering vocals. In his 2012 autobiography Who Am I, Townshend asserted: “Chris picked up on a stutter on my vocal on the second demo, so I played him John Lee Hooker’s ‘Stuttering Blues.’ Roger had been experimenting with stuttering on stage ever since Sonny Boy Williamson Jr had joined us on harmonica at our first Marquee dates; Sonny Boy used a stutter rhythmically when he sang. Before I completed the third demo we experimented until the stutter became exaggerated and obvious.” Of course, famed blues guitarist John Lee Hooker was a person who stuttered and was profiled in a Celebrity Corner article for the Stuttering Foundation newsletter entitled “B.B. King and John Lee Hooker: Blues Legends Have Many Things in Common.” Hooker’s 1953 classic “Stuttering Blues”, which inspired Townshend to use stuttering vocals in the demo of “My Generation”, is considered to be a self-parody.
No it wasn't. Pete Townshend said he put the stutters in “My Generation” because both he and Roger Daltrey were “huge fans of John Lee Hooker and Johnny Cash, both of whom occasionally stuttered.”
@@JoeBlow_4 "Roger Daltrey sang the lead vocals with a stutter, which was very unusual. After recording two takes of the song normally, The Who's manager, Kit Lambert, suggested to Daltrey that he stutter to sound like a British kid on speed." Just what I read.
@@edh3709 From the autobiography: “My Generation” was written entirely by Who guitarist Pete Townshend, who recorded a few demos of the song on his own. The second and third demos featured Townshend using stuttering vocals. In his 2012 autobiography Who Am I, Townshend asserted: “Chris picked up on a stutter on my vocal on the second demo, so I played him John Lee Hooker’s ‘Stuttering Blues.’ Roger had been experimenting with stuttering on stage ever since Sonny Boy Williamson Jr had joined us on harmonica at our first Marquee dates; Sonny Boy used a stutter rhythmically when he sang. Before I completed the third demo we experimented until the stutter became exaggerated and obvious.” Of course, famed blues guitarist John Lee Hooker was a person who stuttered and was profiled in a Celebrity Corner article for the Stuttering Foundation.
@@edh3709"In his memoir Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story, Roger Daltrey addressed the use of stuttering vocals in “My Generation”. “I tried to follow him and I stuttered on the first line. Next take, I corrected it, but Kit popped out and said, ‘Keep it. Keep that in.’ Pete had a long ‘fffff’ in the demo. ‘Why don’t you all ffffffffade away?’ But it wasn’t a stutter. Not until Kit came out and said keep it. ‘Keep that blues stutter.’ And it worked. To me, it wasn’t a sign of weakness. It wasn’t a slip of the tongue.” Later he commented, “….we were all in the mood for a bit of aggression. We were in the mood to tell everyone to f-f-f-fade away. So the stutter stayed.”
Someday when you have 15 minutes to listen to how rock should sound, find the live at Leeds version of this. These guys could play the hell out of their instruments!
I remember walking around Leeds, seeing posters saying "THE WHO LIVE IN LEEDS" - and thinking "I don't care where they live". I must have been one dumb mf...
If they are brave enough to react to LIVE AT LEEDS, then they should also react to HEAVEN AND HELL & AMAZING JOURNEY/SPARKS. Those two are great examples of the power, speed, and ferocity that made The Who the best live band ever. 🔥🔥🔥
Teenage angst and attitude set to 100% in this magnificent teenage rebellion anthem. Glad you enjoyed it, loved the reaction. Please try 'Love reign o'er me' by them!
@Papa B People have different tastes, which is the polite way of saying you're wrong, I was a Punk but still appreciated Mod music especially The Who. ;)
@@pulsarlights2825 Steve Harris benefited musically from Punk as did Maiden and I was a punk, metalhead and thrasher back in the day. Eddie has a punk hairstyle on a few of the covers too :)
Wonder if that lead to the use of 'fade away' in other songs: Rolling Stones' 'Give Me Shelter" Dead "Not Fade Away" a Band song that I'm forgetting now...?
Remember this was 1965. The very beginning of the Baby Boomer generation, ( anyone born between 1945 and 1965 )that was anti-establishment, and sayings like "Never trust anyone over 30". The who were singing about rebelling against the norms of society, and so forth. It was the start of the "Classic Rock" era of Rock and Roll. Marijuana, LSD, Hash, "Magic mushrooms were about to energize the crazy 1960s. Vietnam war was just getting going, race riots across America etc. The 1960s were both wonderful, and Horrible for different reasons. America, lost her innocents in the 1960s. One thing is for sure, the greatest music (not just rock) came out of the 1960s, regardless of genre. Why do I say all of this? Because I was one of the kids that grew up in that period. Great music, great girls, and also very sad with the war, and the assassinations' of MLK, John F Kennedy, and his little brother Bobby Kennedy. Don't forget Woodstock, and The Moon landing. I told you a lot of stuff happened in the 60s. Thanks
Please don't make me into a baby boomer! I've been a Generation Xer my whole life. For what seems like 50 years, Baby Boomer's were ALWAYS considered 1946-1964. The past couple of years, though, they seem to want to move the hold demographic ahead 1 year, and minus a year for the start. ☮️
Even better if introduced by Smashy n Nicey - the Harry Enfield and (name escapes me) characters - exagerated versions of Radio one DJ's. ("does a lot for charity ...") harry enfield smashey and nicey chart rundown ua-cam.com/video/1ZaKaz-jLK8/v-deo.html (worth waiting for the number one - BTO)
That song was an accident, as Randy Bachman was basically making a joke about his younger brother Garry who had a stuttering issue when he recorded it as a joke! Later, after presenting the original to his producer, he didn’t like it and Randy said he’d made another version that he shelved, gave it to him and loved It……..it went to number one in the US and Canada, I believe, in the first week!
@@chaipup7045 Yeah, in the story Pete Townshend wrote in the liner notes of The Who album, Quadrophenia, he had the main character describe him as “a skinny geezer with a big nose who twirled his arm like a windmill and wrote some good songs about mods but wasn’t one.” That’s always made me wonder if the mods never actually considered The Who genuine mods.
I was 10 in '65 living at Ft Meade, Md. Digging the Rolling Stones, Kinks, Beatles, Dylan, Who, Byrd's, Yardbirds and whatever else was on the radio. And playing Wiffle Ball. Good times
The stuttering is a weird "inside joke" for Mods, (a kind of style movement kids in England in the early Who days, and they loved the Who and considered them the Mod band). Anyway, Mods took speed pills a lot. Just the drug available for kids to take at the time. And one of the effects was a lot of people would stutter, because their heart was racing from the speed. So this was just kind of a joke for the Mods.
Saw The Who in 1968 in Saskatoon SK Canada. Was two bodies from the front of the stage. Still maybe the best concert of my life! Keith Moon livexwas incredible, Pete Townsend windmilling and leaping around, Roger Daltrey flinging his microphone…and when they trashed their gear during My Generation it brought out something primal and visceral in all of us in the crowd. Saw them again 50 years later in Saskatoon. Only Roger and Pete left but they out on a terrific show. Pete still plays with anger. Their closer, Won’t Get Fooled Again, was rock at its finest.
@@TheWhanfried he was just playing the character of A pilled-up mod. He said amphetamines screwed up his voice but the other three indulged and it caused some friction later on.
The Who are one of the greatest and most influential bands of all time. The scope of their influence is vast. They were revolutionary. I believe this was 1965. This paved the way for Black Sabbath & Led Zeppelin.
Great tune, I first heard the Who in 1979 when I was a kid and got to see the movie by the who called Quadrophenia. Managed to see them live in the mid 90s in Manchester UK performing the music from the same movie.
As a kid standing on the plate of my 'mod 'uncle's Vespa as he took me for a spin, his duffle coat and him sneaking the Vespa into Nan's garden shed late at night.
I don´t know, directly, about the 79 concerts, but, definitively YOU WERE LUCKY TO CATCH THEM AT THEIR MID 90s QUADROPHENIA TOUR. I saw a couple of those concerts in London (96 & 97) and both were absolutely astounding (Entwistle being still alive, and in the best shape possible; Zak Starkey killing it on Drums; and Pete & Roger still relatively young &, thus, still at their prime. And an un-matched set, comprised of the best album they have, played in its entirety, plus many of their other classics).
@@locuacidadsindiluir1696 great shout with the drummer, I couldn't remember who was on drums for that tour, I still have the ticket stub and program somewhere, most likely in the sleeve of the quadrophenia album..
There was a huge change in the 60's of a generation which adopted the ideas of many 50's writers both music and literature. A questioning of established mores. Many of the things you now take for granted were pioneered at this time - acceptance of pre marital sex, gender equality, sexuality, ethnic group etc. The Who are just expressing that. The music is highly influenced by 12 bar blues - although not a standard 12 bar it uses many blues licks. The destruction of their equipment according to Pete Townsend the guitar player happened by accident. He says he used to be frustrated at his standard of playing in a small club and banged his guitar on the ceiling - during one such performance the neck broke - the crowd went wild - so he kept that in and developed it further. As for speed - in those days we could buy it legally at the chemists (pharmacy) they were diet pills we called them purple hearts 4 of them - and you were set for the night.
"My Generation" is a song by the English rock band the Who, which became a hit and one of their most recognizable songs. The song was named the 11th greatest song by Rolling Stone on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It became part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and is inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value. The song was released as a single on 29 October 1965, reaching No. 2 in the United Kingdom (The Who's highest charting single in their home country along with 1966's I'm a Boy) and No. 74 in the United States. "My Generation" also appeared on The Who's 1965 debut album, My Generation (The Who Sings My Generation in the United States), and in greatly extended form on their live album Live at Leeds (1970).
1970s 6th form school dance classic along with a can of woodpecker cider. Also Rebel Rebel from Bowie, No Satisfaction from the Stones and Jeff Beck - Hi Ho Silver Lining
this is another reason to listen to the Live at Leeds album Lex got it right again, the '50s she describes is what we all represented by 'my generation' came from and is why the music and the social actions seemed so radical 'at the time'...
Something to consider. The Who was quite the innovator of "concept albums", an entire album of songs with an underlying theme. Two of The Who's titular albums, "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia" are examples of this particular long form of music. Others are Pink Floyd's "The Wall", "Joe's Garage Acts I-III" by Frank Zappa, and The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". It would be fun to see a live stream where you tackle an entire album.
@@fastnbulbouss Yea, I though about bring up Freak Out instead of Joe's Garage only because I think Joe's Garage might be more accessible to those just getting into Zappa...but that's just me.
Brad, back then it was many of youth out running around the neighborhoods just cutting up, maybe little fist fights once in awhile but mostly just listening to music, smoking weed,drinking beer cruising in hot rods, mostly we dressed in blue jeans tee shirts and Chuck Tayler Converse.The Arcades and teenage clubs were big back then and every neighborhood had some kinda sport game going on in sand lots or just vacant lots.More to it but it was a great time to be young
The song was released in 1965, not in the '70s. I read that Roger Daltrey actually DID have a stutter problem when he was a much younger kid... But, in the case of this song, someone in the band suggested trying a stutter to fit the then-evolving tune better! The line "Hope I die before I get old!" became a 60s anthem, underlining "the generation gap" between the rising hippie kids and their straight mainstream padres.
There was a movie called Quadrophenia produced by the Who and a character had a stutter so that's why it's in the song. The movie was all about young people (Mods on scooters) , you'd have to be British to understand it.
You have that backwards, IMO, @@wallacemarty... My Generation was released long before Quadrophenia (movie release date 1979!) was even a gleam in Pete Townsend's eye! It IS true that MyGen was a ode to the Mod subculture though...
🤘🏼🎧🤟🏼 Yeah!! F-F-f-f- FANTASTIC- y’all should absolutely checkout live clip with Keith Moon going nuts on drums and John Entwistle stoically standing still, but absolutely tearing up the bass lines like no other. Oh yeah, Pete & Roger are pretty fun to watch too!
The Who's 5th album, (Who's Next) 1971. Is actually my #1 favorite rock album of all times. The best songs are : Baba O'Riley Bargain Song Is Over Getting In Tune Behind Blue Eyes Won't Get Fooled Again
This was recorded on post WWII Britain, when the young folk had parents who had no youth because they were fighting in the war & rationing was still in place years after WWII. They couldn't relate to the freedom their kids had. The stutter is intended ! Drummer is Keith Moon, Bass the great John Entwistle, guitar & song writer Pete Townsend, singer Roger Daltrey. Came out early 60's.
The vast majority of the time when I watch a music reactor I want them to be listening to the studio version; but with The Who I encourage you to watch a concert performance. They were the best live band in the world in their prime which was late '60s through 1978 when drummer Keith Moon died. He has to be seen to be believed. Guitarist Pete Townshend was also a riveting performer, windmilling his arm and leaping off of amps. Singer Roger Daltrey could spin his microphone with deadly accuracy. Bass player John Entwistle was like a rock, never moved but he was imposing.
Pete Townshend said he put the stutters in “My Generation” because both he and Roger Daltrey were “huge fans of John Lee Hooker and Johnny Cash, both of whom occasionally stuttered.”
1965….born in the 40s. This was the anthem of The Mods , a youth culture that worshipped RnB and Soul, dressed stylishly modern , became mobile by riding cheap Italian scooters and found energy and aggression with amphetamines ….pills, uppers call them what you will !
This song was 1965. Other great stuttering songs you should react to: Bachman Turner Overdrive, "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," David Bowie, "Changes," and Elton John, "Benny and the Jets."
Came out in '65. Part of the huge musical revolution of the British Invasion. Us Boomers just realized how big an influence we could be! As the lyrics in another popular song of the time said "They got the guns but we got the numbers".
I think the stuttering was leading up to the line "why don't you all f-f-fade away" on first hearing people automatically assumed he was going to sing fu"k off. Which he did live. It was 1965 and was the first UK pop/rock song to have a bass solo.
This song has been in commercials and movies for like the last 50 years. It was the song that every 30 and 40 something got hyped off when I was a kid in the 80s. lol
the who were a great band. in the 60s there was massive changes around the world.the summer of love with the hippies.you had the beatles,the stones and the who doing rock,pink floyd doing psycadelic rock leading into the 70s the greatest era of all time for music
This came out in the 60's. Ya'll should really do a live video version of The Who playing their songs. There is so much footage of them and you'll really get a feel not only for them, but the whole genre of Rock in that decade.
I heard interviews with Pete Townsend the writer of the song. He has said a lot of the teenagers that were at the clubs were hopped up on speed and it would cause them to stutter when they spoke.
The original teenage rebellion! The beginning of the rest of music history! The Who live. The loudest. The most badass. The rockingest best live band ever to be invented! W w w watch them l l l live. You will be blown away🕺🏻
Bachman Turner Overdrive has an excellent song called “You Ain’t Seen Nothin Yet” that features the singer stylistically (as Lex eloquently put it) stuttering.
Man this bring back memories. Supposedly Roger Daltrey stuttered on purpose to express frustration with being young and dealing with the establishment.
John Entwistle on bass and Keith Moon on drums. I don't know if there's ever been a better combo than those 2 men. My absolute favorite bass/drum pairing.
@@andyallan2909 Jones and Bonham are probably second on my list. McVie and Mick, now that's a fantastic pairing for sure! Fleetwood Mac's overall musicianship is impeccable.
@@andyallan2909 and, of coursre, Starr and McCartney, Watts & Wyman. Impossible to say who was or is better and each pairing very distinct. I'd concede that Moon - Entwhistle was the most distinctive since JE was the lead instrument and Moon productively (most of the time) chaotic as opposed to disciplined
This is from the 60's. My generation where the generation gap was the biggest between parents and their kids. It was the start of the hippie generation.
"Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" by Bachman Turner Overdrive is another great rock song known for the "stutter style" . Randy Bachman originally sang it with the stutter to make fun of his younger brother who did have a legit speech impediment and the song was released that way on the album even though it was not intended to be sung that way for real.
To hear The WHO in full flight, check them out Live, one of the all time great live acts for energy and power. Try them on Live at Leeds, the My Generation jam lasts 15 minutes and is one of Rock's finest moments. The entire video for live at Killingworth is also worth a look at them not long before Keith Moon's tragic passing and is a good retrospective on their classic era. Enjoy! 🎸
I'm still trying to live by it. I mean, I'm pushing 70 by now, but I'm still trying to keep a young attitude. No idea if I'm successful with that, but I try.
The story behind the stuttering, according to the producer and Roger Daltrey, was that when he was reading the lyrics to the song after Pete handing them to him, he was reading them so fast, that he was stuttering when he read them. The producer liked it and asked him to try singing it like that. The rest is history. Also, I do believe this was in a car commercial at one point and maybe even Pepsi, the choice of a new generation.
Now foward on just 5 years and check out the jawdropping video of "Young Man Blues" live at the Isle of Wight and see far they went and how big a kick they gave music 👍
There's another stutter song, but this one's from the 70s. Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO) had a song from 1974 called You Ain't See Nothin' Yet. The singer Randy Bachman did the song as a tribute to his brother who had a bad stutter. ""You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" was written by Randy Bachman. In , writer Dave Marsh called the song "a direct steal from The Who", but "an imaginative one." The chords of the chorus riff are very similar to the ones used by The Who in their song "Baba O'Riley", and also, the stuttering vocal is reminiscent of "My Generation". Bachman insists that the song was performed as a joke for his brother, Gary, who had a stutter, with no intention of sounding like "My Generation". They only intended to record it once with the stutter and send the only recording to Gary." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain%27t_Seen_Nothing_Yet_(Bachman-Turner_Overdrive_song)
Roger Daltrey sang the lead vocals with a stutter, which was very unusual. After recording two takes of the song normally, The Who's manager, Kit Lambert, suggested to Daltrey that he stutter to sound like a British kid on speed. Daltrey recalled to Uncut magazine October 2001: "I have got a stutter. I control it much better now but not in those days. When we were in the studio doing 'My Generation', Kit Lambert came up to me and said 'STUTTER!' I said 'What?' He said 'Stutter the words - it makes it sound like you're pilled' And I said, 'Oh… like I am!' And that's how it happened. It was always in there, it was always suggested with the 'f-f-fade' but the rest of it was improvised."
Unlike in America, in England after World War Two there was very little victory. Germany had bombed and rocketed and sent V1 and V2 missiles at England the entire war. Almost 90% of the English merchant and cargo ships were sunk. It took England literally 50 years after 1945 to fully recover. They were living in depression era times for two generations. The kids who grew up during World War Two or were born shortly after it had very little hope of achieving as much as their parents or much at all. So you had a much larger case of us and them between the generations. The Who were part of the Mod movement. Which rode around on scooters. Because you didn't need alot of money to buy a cheap scooter and England has different driving laws than here in the US. So post World War Two in the US and we had this huge economic boom. The kids were riding motorcycles and driving cars. Everyone was buying a new home. There was no rationing going on, like during the depression or the war. This was not the case in England. The Who were a product of that. Heavy Metal grew up out of the desperation around the coal/iron/steel industries in the midlands of England. Counter Culture against the establishment was born. New thinking, new thoughts, etc. Musically they are all so talented. Vocally amazing. And their songs were amazing at all levels. But they came from a different subset than most English bands at the time and were at the fore front of what became the punk rock attitude. But thanks for the great reaction and keep them coming. Chris
Kids back in the 60's who were on drugs 😂 were always stuttering their words when they were high... That inspired the stuttering on this track. The Who had the explosive rhythm section of Keith Moon (drums) & John Entwistle (bass) ... both have since passed away (R.I.P.) When The Who performed 'My Generstion' on US TV in the late 60's... Keith Moon pulled the legendary stunt - at the end of the song, The Who trashed their instruments... Moon loaded his bass drum w/ enough gunpowder (without telling anyone) that his drums exploded in the TV studio, inuring both him and guitarist Pete Townshend😮
Another song with a stutter that was a big hit was Bachman Turner Overdrive's You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. I think Roger Daltry was just emphasizing his youth with the stutter. And, yeah, nobody wanted to get as old as 30.
Daltrey had a real stutter but it was mild and controlled. After he stuttered slightly on one take, he was encouraged to let it out throughout to the song, to sound like a kid on speed. It also made it easier to slip in the 'Why don't you all fffff-' reference (we were not expecting 'fade away'.)
There was a movie with the soundtrack by The Who in 1979 that basically captures every feeling that this song portrays to this song called Quadrophenia cut from the 1973 album of the same name. You might want to check it out to get the feeling of what it was like for That Generation, I say that, as I am a bit short to say my.
In 1964, the Beatles were singing, "I wanna hold your hand." The Stones were singing, "I wanna get in your pants." The Who was singing, I wanna burn your f****ng house down." The stutter is imitating a side effect of amphetamines (speed). The Who were the first big rock band to destroy their equipment at the end of the show. In the 70s, the Who were responsible for the passing of ordinances for maximum decibels allowed at concerts. They were THAT loud.
When you listen to the Who, headphones are not the way to go. It should be on regular speakers cranked up so loud you feel it in your chest. Headphones that loud would hurt. A thumping car stereo would work too, but turn up the midrange too.
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Yes! Yes! Exactly this! The other bands wanted to seduce you but The Who wanted to (musically) kick you in the guts!
Yep
I seen The Who in 1989 at the Houston astrodome they blew the doors off to date they were the only band to conquer the astrodome 👊
That's right.
You gotta understand how revolutionary “hope I die before I get old.” was in 1965. It was like giving the middle finger to the establishment. It epitomized the punk rock ethos before the term “punk rock” ever came along.
Ironic today considering that Roger Daltrey turned 77 in March and Pete Townshend turned 76 in May.
And Keith Moon who died young covered "When I'm 64" by The Beatles.
@@mikecaetano My, my, so true!!!
Minor correction : the term "Punk Rock" was around in the 60's, and where I grew up, we used that term to describe The Who.
And the lyrics almost sound like he is about to say an F you with "Why don't you all f-fade away."
“My Generation” was written entirely by Who guitarist Pete Townshend, who recorded a few demos of the song on his own. The second and third demos featured Townshend using stuttering vocals. In his 2012 autobiography Who Am I, Townshend asserted: “Chris picked up on a stutter on my vocal on the second demo, so I played him John Lee Hooker’s ‘Stuttering Blues.’ Roger had been experimenting with stuttering on stage ever since Sonny Boy Williamson Jr had joined us on harmonica at our first Marquee dates; Sonny Boy used a stutter rhythmically when he sang. Before I completed the third demo we experimented until the stutter became exaggerated and obvious.”
Of course, famed blues guitarist John Lee Hooker was a person who stuttered and was profiled in a Celebrity Corner article for the Stuttering Foundation newsletter entitled “B.B. King and John Lee Hooker: Blues Legends Have Many Things in Common.” Hooker’s 1953 classic “Stuttering Blues”, which inspired Townshend to use stuttering vocals in the demo of “My Generation”, is considered to be a self-parody.
The great John Entwistle on bass.
Great bass player known as The Ox
This bass solo changed what a bass solo cold be. No one was doing anything this cool back then.
Thunderfingers
The GREATEST John Entwistle 😜
Yeah I just commented above how I never really realized all the bass solos in this. So awesome
Bachman Turner Overdrive has a great stutter song: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!
100%!! Brad & Lex should do BTO!
David Bowie Changes.
Yes, both of these songs along with Elton John's "Benny and the Jets!"
That played today at work when and it was a total flashback today. Hadn’t heard that song in a good 15 years
Also "My Sharona", which they just reacted to. Definitely agree they need to check out some BTO.
This was 1965. The Who were probably the greatest live rock act in the late 60's to early 70's. Outstanding energy and dynamics.
The stutter is meant to sound like a kid on speed. Definitely caught some flack but it worked. Cheers!
No it wasn't. Pete Townshend said he put the stutters in “My Generation” because both he and Roger Daltrey were “huge fans of John Lee Hooker and Johnny Cash, both of whom occasionally stuttered.”
@@JoeBlow_4 "Roger Daltrey sang the lead vocals with a stutter, which was very unusual. After recording two takes of the song normally, The Who's manager, Kit Lambert, suggested to Daltrey that he stutter to sound like a British kid on speed." Just what I read.
I thought i read that it was to imitate the people on TV back then being drugged up or something similar to that
@@edh3709 From the autobiography: “My Generation” was written entirely by Who guitarist Pete Townshend, who recorded a few demos of the song on his own. The second and third demos featured Townshend using stuttering vocals. In his 2012 autobiography Who Am I, Townshend asserted: “Chris picked up on a stutter on my vocal on the second demo, so I played him John Lee Hooker’s ‘Stuttering Blues.’ Roger had been experimenting with stuttering on stage ever since Sonny Boy Williamson Jr had joined us on harmonica at our first Marquee dates; Sonny Boy used a stutter rhythmically when he sang. Before I completed the third demo we experimented until the stutter became exaggerated and obvious.”
Of course, famed blues guitarist John Lee Hooker was a person who stuttered and was profiled in a Celebrity Corner article for the Stuttering Foundation.
@@edh3709"In his memoir Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story, Roger Daltrey addressed the use of stuttering vocals in “My Generation”. “I tried to follow him and I stuttered on the first line. Next take, I corrected it, but Kit popped out and said, ‘Keep it. Keep that in.’ Pete had a long ‘fffff’ in the demo. ‘Why don’t you all ffffffffade away?’ But it wasn’t a stutter. Not until Kit came out and said keep it. ‘Keep that blues stutter.’ And it worked. To me, it wasn’t a sign of weakness. It wasn’t a slip of the tongue.”
Later he commented, “….we were all in the mood for a bit of aggression. We were in the mood to tell everyone to f-f-f-fade away. So the stutter stayed.”
Someday when you have 15 minutes to listen to how rock should sound, find the live at Leeds version of this. These guys could play the hell out of their instruments!
I remember walking around Leeds, seeing posters saying "THE WHO LIVE IN LEEDS" - and thinking "I don't care where they live". I must have been one dumb mf...
If they are brave enough to react to LIVE AT LEEDS, then they should also react to HEAVEN AND HELL & AMAZING JOURNEY/SPARKS. Those two are great examples of the power, speed, and ferocity that made The Who the best live band ever. 🔥🔥🔥
@@stephenbrough8132 And the Beatles live at the BBC.
The one I like is "Young Man Blues" at Isle of Wight.
Summertime Blues from the same concert !
Teenage angst and attitude set to 100% in this magnificent teenage rebellion anthem. Glad you enjoyed it, loved the reaction. Please try 'Love reign o'er me' by them!
@Papa B People have different tastes, which is the polite way of saying you're wrong, I was a Punk but still appreciated Mod music especially The Who. ;)
@@steveparker8065 Steve Harris always said Punk sucks, I guess he wasn't so polite....
@@pulsarlights2825 Steve Harris benefited musically from Punk as did Maiden and I was a punk, metalhead and thrasher back in the day. Eddie has a punk hairstyle on a few of the covers too :)
@Papa B i dont like all their stuff but reign o'er me is my favourite.followed by the mcvicar soundtrack.
As a drummer I loved playing this when it was released. At the time, Keith Moon was considered the fastest 18 year old drummer in the world.
John Entwistle laying down one of the most iconic bass lines ever 🎸😎
You took the words right out of my mouth, Dave. May you me well. May you be happy.
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Check out the Smothers Brothers appearance of them performing this in 67...Moon blows up his drum kit and the fire gets Townshend on his hair a bit .
Aside from The Who's EXTREME volume , that incident also contributed to Pete's long time ear & hearing issues .
R.i.p. Keith Moon, one the craziest and greatest drummers.
And John Entwistle, one of the best bass players.
I've always though he wanted to imply some bad words there. Like that one part: "Why don't you all F... Fade away"
that one was obviously it
Wonder if that lead to the use of 'fade away' in other songs: Rolling Stones' 'Give Me Shelter" Dead "Not Fade Away" a Band song that I'm forgetting now...?
Not fade away is a buddy Holly song from 57. The deaf started playing in their shoes about 68.
I wonder why?
@Bruno Wingerter
Exactly what I always thought as well
Remember this was 1965. The very beginning of the Baby Boomer generation, ( anyone born between 1945 and 1965 )that was anti-establishment, and sayings like "Never trust anyone over 30". The who were singing about rebelling against the norms of society, and so forth. It was the start of the "Classic Rock" era of Rock and Roll. Marijuana, LSD, Hash, "Magic mushrooms were about to energize the crazy 1960s. Vietnam war was just getting going, race riots across America etc. The 1960s were both wonderful, and Horrible for different reasons. America, lost her innocents in the 1960s. One thing is for sure, the greatest music (not just rock) came out of the 1960s, regardless of genre. Why do I say all of this? Because I was one of the kids that grew up in that period. Great music, great girls, and also very sad with the war, and the assassinations' of MLK, John F Kennedy, and his little brother Bobby Kennedy. Don't forget Woodstock, and The Moon landing. I told you a lot of stuff happened in the 60s.
Thanks
Please don't make me into a baby boomer! I've been a Generation Xer my whole life. For what seems like 50 years, Baby Boomer's were ALWAYS considered 1946-1964. The past couple of years, though, they seem to want to move the hold demographic ahead 1 year, and minus a year for the start. ☮️
Randy Bachman had a great song with a stutter - check out BTO's You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Even better if introduced by Smashy n Nicey - the Harry Enfield and (name escapes me) characters - exagerated versions of Radio one DJ's. ("does a lot for charity ...") harry enfield smashey and nicey chart rundown ua-cam.com/video/1ZaKaz-jLK8/v-deo.html (worth waiting for the number one - BTO)
Agreed, Bachman Turner Overdrives Ain't seen nothing yet, probably the best stutter song of all time.
That song was an accident, as Randy Bachman was basically making a joke about his younger brother Garry who had a stuttering issue when he recorded it as a joke! Later, after presenting the original to his producer, he didn’t like it and Randy said he’d made another version that he shelved, gave it to him and loved It……..it went to number one in the US and Canada, I believe, in the first week!
@@lantose - that's my understanding of the songs origins - cheers
@@botabob Yep, that’s a crazy story I read some years ago! Have a great day!
They came out of mod culture. The stuttering was him emulating someone hopped up on pills.
The British Mod scene had already started, they just tapped into it.
@@chaipup7045 Yeah, in the story Pete Townshend wrote in the liner notes of The Who album, Quadrophenia, he had the main character describe him as “a skinny geezer with a big nose who twirled his arm like a windmill and wrote some good songs about mods but wasn’t one.” That’s always made me wonder if the mods never actually considered The Who genuine mods.
Seen The Who several times- they often close their shows with "Can't Explain", and it still blows me away today. GREAT song!
I was 10 in '65 living at Ft Meade, Md. Digging the Rolling Stones, Kinks, Beatles, Dylan, Who, Byrd's, Yardbirds and whatever else was on the radio.
And playing Wiffle Ball. Good times
I was 18. I mostly remember the 70's.
Always enjoy your guys reactions, another great who song is 'Behind Blue Eyes',
If you’re gonna do the Who, you need to check out “The Seeker” it’s an awesome tune.
The stuttering is a weird "inside joke" for Mods, (a kind of style movement kids in England in the early Who days, and they loved the Who and considered them the Mod band). Anyway, Mods took speed pills a lot. Just the drug available for kids to take at the time. And one of the effects was a lot of people would stutter, because their heart was racing from the speed. So this was just kind of a joke for the Mods.
The Who, lots of good stuff, Love Reign O're Me is a classic and really shows Pete's songwriting ability
Great rock performance by the whole band
Saw The Who in 1968 in Saskatoon SK Canada. Was two bodies from the front of the stage. Still maybe the best concert of my life!
Keith Moon livexwas incredible, Pete Townsend windmilling and leaping around, Roger Daltrey flinging his microphone…and when they trashed their gear during My Generation it brought out something primal and visceral in all of us in the crowd.
Saw them again 50 years later in Saskatoon. Only Roger and Pete left but they out on a terrific show. Pete still plays with anger. Their closer, Won’t Get Fooled Again, was rock at its finest.
Best comment ever on UA-cam! Envy from me. Saw them a few times in 1970s, eg Charlton Athletic's old Valley ground
The stutter is a representation of a side effect of amphetamine. Speed.
Yep, it was the drug of choice among the mods at the time.
@@chetzar Yep.
French Blues, blues or leapers. The sound of a pilled up Mod.
Not drugs. He was a stutterer.
@@TheWhanfried he was just playing the character of A pilled-up mod. He said amphetamines screwed up his voice but the other three indulged and it caused some friction later on.
The Who are one of the greatest and most influential bands of all time. The scope of their influence is vast. They were revolutionary. I believe this was 1965. This paved the way for Black Sabbath & Led Zeppelin.
Thx! There are a lot of stuttering songs! Benny and the Jets, Katmandu, Changes, Jive talkin, etc! -Terry
Bad to the Bone, You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet
"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive for another deliberately stuttering song - that's also a banger.
Great tune, I first heard the Who in 1979 when I was a kid and got to see the movie by the who called Quadrophenia. Managed to see them live in the mid 90s in Manchester UK performing the music from the same movie.
As a kid standing on the plate of my 'mod 'uncle's Vespa as he took me for a spin, his duffle coat and him sneaking the Vespa into Nan's garden shed late at night.
I don´t know, directly, about the 79 concerts, but, definitively YOU WERE LUCKY TO CATCH THEM AT THEIR MID 90s QUADROPHENIA TOUR. I saw a couple of those concerts in London (96 & 97) and both were absolutely astounding (Entwistle being still alive, and in the best shape possible; Zak Starkey killing it on Drums; and Pete & Roger still relatively young &, thus, still at their prime. And an un-matched set, comprised of the best album they have, played in its entirety, plus many of their other classics).
@@locuacidadsindiluir1696 great shout with the drummer, I couldn't remember who was on drums for that tour, I still have the ticket stub and program somewhere, most likely in the sleeve of the quadrophenia album..
They still stand up. God bless the Who.
You really need to see these guys performing this live to get the full flavour
It was my generation. Music was crazy, creative, fun, and so dang diverse. We really had it all. It was darn good too.
From the late 70s through the 80s the WHO were arguably the best live act in the world of rock music
There was a huge change in the 60's of a generation which adopted the ideas of many 50's writers both music and literature. A questioning of established mores. Many of the things you now take for granted were pioneered at this time - acceptance of pre marital sex, gender equality, sexuality, ethnic group etc. The Who are just expressing that. The music is highly influenced by 12 bar blues - although not a standard 12 bar it uses many blues licks. The destruction of their equipment according to Pete Townsend the guitar player happened by accident. He says he used to be frustrated at his standard of playing in a small club and banged his guitar on the ceiling - during one such performance the neck broke - the crowd went wild - so he kept that in and developed it further. As for speed - in those days we could buy it legally at the chemists (pharmacy) they were diet pills we called them purple hearts 4 of them - and you were set for the night.
My brothers are much older than I am, and they got to go to a relatively small venue to hear The Who open up for Herman's Hermits.
Omg awesome. You gotta listen to "love reign o'er me" it'll knock your socks off 😎
If you enjoy The Who, I highly recommend the song 5:15. It is THE "fattest" sounding song ever made. Piano and horn section.
Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/L1KnpJlAGq0/v-deo.html
YES! I so agree
Inside & outside
"My Generation" is a song by the English rock band the Who, which became a hit and one of their most recognizable songs. The song was named the 11th greatest song by Rolling Stone on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It became part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and is inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value.
The song was released as a single on 29 October 1965, reaching No. 2 in the United Kingdom (The Who's highest charting single in their home country along with 1966's I'm a Boy) and No. 74 in the United States. "My Generation" also appeared on The Who's 1965 debut album, My Generation (The Who Sings My Generation in the United States), and in greatly extended form on their live album Live at Leeds (1970).
1970s 6th form school dance classic along with a can of woodpecker cider. Also Rebel Rebel from Bowie, No Satisfaction from the Stones and Jeff Beck - Hi Ho Silver Lining
this is another reason to listen to the Live at Leeds album
Lex got it right again, the '50s she describes is what we all represented by 'my generation' came from and is why the music and the social actions seemed so radical 'at the time'...
Summertime Blues on LAL is awesome.
I was impressed with your quick answer! I bet you also have a quick wit!! Thats priceless as you travel thru life!
Something to consider. The Who was quite the innovator of "concept albums", an entire album of songs with an underlying theme. Two of The Who's titular albums, "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia" are examples of this particular long form of music. Others are Pink Floyd's "The Wall", "Joe's Garage Acts I-III" by Frank Zappa, and The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". It would be fun to see a live stream where you tackle an entire album.
Tommy and Quadrophenia came out a few years after Freak Out....
@@fastnbulbouss Yea, I though about bring up Freak Out instead of Joe's Garage only because I think Joe's Garage might be more accessible to those just getting into Zappa...but that's just me.
Brad, back then it was many of youth out running around the neighborhoods just cutting up, maybe little fist fights once in awhile but mostly just listening to music, smoking weed,drinking beer cruising in hot rods, mostly we dressed in blue jeans tee shirts and Chuck Tayler Converse.The Arcades and teenage clubs were big back then and every neighborhood had some kinda sport game going on in sand lots or just vacant lots.More to it but it was a great time to be young
The song was released in 1965, not in the '70s. I read that Roger Daltrey actually DID have a stutter problem when he was a much younger kid... But, in the case of this song, someone in the band suggested trying a stutter to fit the then-evolving tune better!
The line "Hope I die before I get old!" became a 60s anthem, underlining "the generation gap" between the rising hippie kids and their straight mainstream padres.
There was a movie called Quadrophenia produced by the Who and a character had a stutter so that's why it's in the song. The movie was all about young people (Mods on scooters) , you'd have to be British to understand it.
You have that backwards, IMO, @@wallacemarty... My Generation was released long before Quadrophenia (movie release date 1979!) was even a gleam in Pete Townsend's eye! It IS true that MyGen was a ode to the Mod subculture though...
Saw The Who in Atlanta Ga great musicianship's
🤘🏼🎧🤟🏼 Yeah!! F-F-f-f- FANTASTIC- y’all should absolutely checkout live clip with Keith Moon going nuts on drums and John Entwistle stoically standing still, but absolutely tearing up the bass lines like no other. Oh yeah, Pete & Roger are pretty fun to watch too!
So many Hits, so many Great Songs. From the 60‘ to the 80‘. And Live a Sensation!
The Who's 5th album, (Who's Next) 1971. Is actually my #1 favorite rock album of all times. The best songs are :
Baba O'Riley
Bargain
Song Is Over
Getting In Tune
Behind Blue Eyes
Won't Get Fooled Again
This was recorded on post WWII Britain, when the young folk had parents who had no youth because they were fighting in the war & rationing was still in place years after WWII. They couldn't relate to the freedom their kids had. The stutter is intended ! Drummer is Keith Moon, Bass the great John Entwistle, guitar & song writer Pete Townsend, singer Roger Daltrey. Came out early 60's.
The vast majority of the time when I watch a music reactor I want them to be listening to the studio version; but with The Who I encourage you to watch a concert performance. They were the best live band in the world in their prime which was late '60s through 1978 when drummer Keith Moon died. He has to be seen to be believed. Guitarist Pete Townshend was also a riveting performer, windmilling his arm and leaping off of amps. Singer Roger Daltrey could spin his microphone with deadly accuracy. Bass player John Entwistle was like a rock, never moved but he was imposing.
Rock N Roll at it's very Best by One of the Greatest Bands ever. Great Live !!!!🎸
Saw them twice at Charlton in the Early 70s. One of those concerts was supposedly the loudest ever recorded for many years.
Listening to this without watching the band exploding everything on stage, at the end. Is like losing your virginity while wearing a Wellington boot.
What a fabulous analogy 🤣
@@geraintlumley6432 😁
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"Ain't seen nothing yet" by Bachman Turner Overdrive was a number #1 hit (I think) with a bigtime stutter, great song too!
Pete Townshend said he put the stutters in “My Generation” because both he and Roger Daltrey were “huge fans of John Lee Hooker and Johnny Cash, both of whom occasionally stuttered.”
1965. That is some fine drumming.
1965….born in the 40s. This was the anthem of The Mods , a youth culture that worshipped RnB and Soul, dressed stylishly modern , became mobile by riding cheap Italian scooters and found energy and aggression with amphetamines ….pills, uppers call them what you will !
I saw them do this live on the Smothers Brothers
Variety Show in 1967
Live at Leeds My Generation Medley. .The Who live is a worthwhile experience
This song was 1965. Other great stuttering songs you should react to:
Bachman Turner Overdrive, "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," David Bowie, "Changes," and Elton John, "Benny and the Jets."
Came out in '65. Part of the huge musical revolution of the British Invasion. Us Boomers just realized how big an influence we could be! As the lyrics in another popular song of the time said "They got the guns but we got the numbers".
I think the stuttering was leading up to the line "why don't you all f-f-fade away" on first hearing people automatically assumed he was going to sing fu"k off. Which he did live.
It was 1965 and was the first UK pop/rock song to have a bass solo.
This song has been in commercials and movies for like the last 50 years. It was the song that every 30 and 40 something got hyped off when I was a kid in the 80s. lol
Lex rocking' a Slayer shirt! "ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US!" (And The Who kick ass too...)
You two are covering the gambit! This is my generation of music...the stutter was to emulate a guy on speed...Stones, Zep, Who...Hendrix! You rolling!
The greatest rock & roll band of them all!
the who were a great band. in the 60s there was massive changes around the world.the summer of love with the hippies.you had the beatles,the stones and the who doing rock,pink floyd doing psycadelic rock leading into the 70s the greatest era of all time for music
This came out in the 60's. Ya'll should really do a live video version of The Who playing their songs. There is so much footage of them and you'll really get a feel not only for them, but the whole genre of Rock in that decade.
I heard interviews with Pete Townsend the writer of the song. He has said a lot of the teenagers that were at the clubs were hopped up on speed and it would cause them to stutter when they spoke.
The original teenage rebellion!
The beginning of the rest of music history!
The Who live. The loudest. The most badass. The rockingest best live band ever to be invented!
W w w watch them l l l live. You will be blown away🕺🏻
Bachman Turner Overdrive has an excellent song called “You Ain’t Seen Nothin Yet” that features the singer stylistically (as Lex eloquently put it) stuttering.
Man this bring back memories. Supposedly Roger Daltrey stuttered on purpose to express frustration with being young and dealing with the establishment.
Saw The Who live. Keith Moon was a genius drum player!
The first punk band!
John Entwistle on bass and Keith Moon on drums. I don't know if there's ever been a better combo than those 2 men. My absolute favorite bass/drum pairing.
John McVie and Mick Fleetwood / John Paul Jones and Bonzo two name but two.
@Joe Brandon fantastic choices! And very high up on my list.
@@andyallan2909 Jones and Bonham are probably second on my list. McVie and Mick, now that's a fantastic pairing for sure! Fleetwood Mac's overall musicianship is impeccable.
Sly and Robbie or Aston "Family Man" and Carlton Barrett perhaps; although from this genre i'm thinking Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker?
@@andyallan2909 and, of coursre, Starr and McCartney, Watts & Wyman. Impossible to say who was or is better and each pairing very distinct. I'd concede that Moon - Entwhistle was the most distinctive since JE was the lead instrument and Moon productively (most of the time) chaotic as opposed to disciplined
It was about throwing off tradition and getting in the zone with mind blowing sound played loud.
This is from the 60's. My generation where the generation gap was the biggest between parents and their kids. It was the start of the hippie generation.
Imagine how f***ing hard this was in the sixties. Blew my mind.
"Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" by Bachman Turner Overdrive is another great rock song known for the "stutter style" . Randy Bachman originally sang it with the stutter to make fun of his younger brother who did have a legit speech impediment and the song was released that way on the album even though it was not intended to be sung that way for real.
To hear The WHO in full flight, check them out Live, one of the all time great live acts for energy and power. Try them on Live at Leeds, the My Generation jam lasts 15 minutes and is one of Rock's finest moments. The entire video for live at Killingworth is also worth a look at them not long before Keith Moon's tragic passing and is a good retrospective on their classic era. Enjoy! 🎸
"I hope i die before i get old"
Best line ever.
most ironic
When Roder Daltrey was interviewed recently about that line he replied that he wasn't old yet.
It's rubbish, and HE DID NOT DIE.
I'm still trying to live by it. I mean, I'm pushing 70 by now, but I'm still trying to keep a young attitude. No idea if I'm successful with that, but I try.
Great energy on stage
The story behind the stuttering, according to the producer and Roger Daltrey, was that when he was reading the lyrics to the song after Pete handing them to him, he was reading them so fast, that he was stuttering when he read them. The producer liked it and asked him to try singing it like that. The rest is history. Also, I do believe this was in a car commercial at one point and maybe even Pepsi, the choice of a new generation.
They really like the counterculture songs to sell corporate merch.
Now foward on just 5 years and check out the jawdropping video of "Young Man Blues" live at the Isle of Wight and see far they went and how big a kick they gave music 👍
The Who are one of a kind - they have a lot of wit and sarcasm and POWER - remember how old this song is.......
There's another stutter song, but this one's from the 70s. Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO) had a song from 1974 called You Ain't See Nothin' Yet. The singer Randy Bachman did the song as a tribute to his brother who had a bad stutter.
""You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" was written by Randy Bachman. In , writer Dave Marsh called the song "a direct steal from The Who", but "an imaginative one." The chords of the chorus riff are very similar to the ones used by The Who in their song "Baba O'Riley", and also, the stuttering vocal is reminiscent of "My Generation". Bachman insists that the song was performed as a joke for his brother, Gary, who had a stutter, with no intention of sounding like "My Generation". They only intended to record it once with the stutter and send the only recording to Gary." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain%27t_Seen_Nothing_Yet_(Bachman-Turner_Overdrive_song)
Roger Daltrey sang the lead vocals with a stutter, which was very unusual. After recording two takes of the song normally, The Who's manager, Kit Lambert, suggested to Daltrey that he stutter to sound like a British kid on speed. Daltrey recalled to Uncut magazine October 2001: "I have got a stutter. I control it much better now but not in those days. When we were in the studio doing 'My Generation', Kit Lambert came up to me and said 'STUTTER!' I said 'What?' He said 'Stutter the words - it makes it sound like you're pilled' And I said, 'Oh… like I am!' And that's how it happened. It was always in there, it was always suggested with the 'f-f-fade' but the rest of it was improvised."
Unlike in America, in England after World War Two there was very little victory. Germany had bombed and rocketed and sent V1 and V2 missiles at England the entire war. Almost 90% of the English merchant and cargo ships were sunk. It took England literally 50 years after 1945 to fully recover. They were living in depression era times for two generations. The kids who grew up during World War Two or were born shortly after it had very little hope of achieving as much as their parents or much at all. So you had a much larger case of us and them between the generations. The Who were part of the Mod movement. Which rode around on scooters. Because you didn't need alot of money to buy a cheap scooter and England has different driving laws than here in the US. So post World War Two in the US and we had this huge economic boom. The kids were riding motorcycles and driving cars. Everyone was buying a new home. There was no rationing going on, like during the depression or the war. This was not the case in England. The Who were a product of that. Heavy Metal grew up out of the desperation around the coal/iron/steel industries in the midlands of England. Counter Culture against the establishment was born. New thinking, new thoughts, etc. Musically they are all so talented. Vocally amazing. And their songs were amazing at all levels. But they came from a different subset than most English bands at the time and were at the fore front of what became the punk rock attitude. But thanks for the great reaction and keep them coming. Chris
Kids back in the 60's who were on drugs 😂 were always stuttering their words when they were high... That inspired the stuttering on this track.
The Who had the explosive rhythm section of Keith Moon (drums) & John Entwistle (bass) ... both have since passed away (R.I.P.)
When The Who performed 'My Generstion' on US TV in the late 60's... Keith Moon pulled the legendary stunt - at the end of the song, The Who trashed their instruments... Moon loaded his bass drum w/ enough gunpowder (without telling anyone) that his drums exploded in the TV studio, inuring both him and guitarist Pete Townshend😮
That last chaotic bit is where the Who would literally destroy their instruments and amps in live shows.
Another song with a stutter that was a big hit was Bachman Turner Overdrive's You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. I think Roger Daltry was just emphasizing his youth with the stutter. And, yeah, nobody wanted to get as old as 30.
Daltrey had a real stutter but it was mild and controlled. After he stuttered slightly on one take, he was encouraged to let it out throughout to the song, to sound like a kid on speed. It also made it easier to slip in the 'Why don't you all fffff-' reference (we were not expecting 'fade away'.)
I adore the “why don’t you all f-fade away” because it almost sounds like he’s gonna say “fuck off” or something
John Entwistle, "My Generation" was the first bass player to play lead guitar in a rocknroll song.
Magic bus from the 60´s with the Who is also a great one. Liste to that
Love Reign Oer Me, Who Are You, The Real Me, 5:15, Behind Blue Eyes, Join Together, The Punk and the Godfather...the list goes on and on and on....
For being so removed from the time, this was great analysis.
I saw The Who live in 2017. They introduced this song "and now one for the old age pensioners here".
There was a movie with the soundtrack by The Who in 1979 that basically captures every feeling that this song portrays to this song called Quadrophenia cut from the 1973 album of the same name. You might want to check it out to get the feeling of what it was like for That Generation, I say that, as I am a bit short to say my.
Listen to the live version from Live At Leeds. It blows this version away.
Just listen to the whole Live at Leeds album. Very loud of course.