Sea Refuses No River
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2010
- Pete Townshend and The Deep End - Sea Refuses No River
15. song of the greatest concert ever!
This video is recorded from a Laserdisc which should be the highest quality source currently availabe. Unfortunately, there is no DVD :( Just second hand VHS or Laserdiscs.
If you like it, go and buy a CD - it's called Pete Townshend's Deep End Live!
It does not contain all song from this concert, only 12 of them (be careful to buy the version with 2 bonus tracks).
(C) Copyright Eel Pie and Atlantic video.
I hope the guys from Atlantic will die in pain for not releasing a DVD.
I grew up on The Who and Pete Townshend's music thanks to my dad and this song is my theme song.
I think Pete was at the peak of his singing abilities in this period, he sounds SO f-ing good! And the lyrics of this song..damn!
For me, Pete is not talking
about waterways! He is
singing about rivers of
thought coalescing in the
Sea of Collective Human
Consciousness for the
betterment of all
humanity! ❤
PEOPLE STOP HURTING
PEOPLE!
Townshend is a bloody genius. It's true.
Well said.
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i concur
One of the greatest songs Pete Townshend ever wrote. Amazing lyrics and just great music.
Pete Townshend IS GOD!!!!
AMAZING
I agree. Way up there. Exquisite
Pete Townshend is not God.
He is, however, singing about God - in one of the most beautiful songs he's written, and he's written a lot of moving songs! It's rare for a musician of his caliber to offer a sense of hope.
Think I'll have this played at my funeral. Seems appropriate.
40 years after hearing this song for the first time, it still delivers. Still brings me to the door where a persistent knocking can be heard. I am grateful for this song. Thanks to Pete Townshend, the other great musicians playing here, and the one who posted this live version.
Just might be Peter's greatest song. Stunning live performance.
It just might be Pete's best song.
This deserved a standing ovation for Pete and the entire ensemble's impassioned performance. The guy playing harp (harmonica) matched the maestro's sensitivity exquisitely. Heartfelt/heartwrenching rendition.
bass player romps all over the place
Peter Hope Evans on harp
One of the (many) great things about John Entwistle was that, unlike so many bass players who jump and dance around while trying to call attention to themselves, "Thunderfingers" stood there like a rock.
@@mikec6617 Considered by some to be the world's greatest harmonica player. Hence why he's in Petes band.
One of my favorite Pete songs. He said that a lot of the people in the 1989 band wanted him to play it but he said it was too painful.
it was a heart felt admission of being a Junkie..That lp got me thru alot myself.
I remember being richer than a king
The minutes of the day were golden
I recall that when the joint passed 'round
My body felt a little colder
But now I'm like a sewer channel
Running lime and scag
Let me get at the master panel
Let me at my stack
The sea refuses no river
And right now
This river's banks are blown
The sea refuses no river
Whether stinking and rank
Or red from the tank
Whether pure as a spring
There's no damn thing stops the poem
The sea refuses no river
And this river is homeward flowing
I have seen a trace of strain
In other's eyes, not spoken
I must admit that I enjoyed their pain
But this time it's me that's broken
I demand for you and His
This must be the time
When we decide what freedom is
Turn water into wine
For the sea refuses no river
We're polluted now
But in our hearts still clean
The sea refuses no river
We tried not to age
But time had it's rage
We're washed over the stones
From babies into clones of the mean
The sea won't refuse this muddy river
Won't deny the sulfurous stream
There was a fool in a dressing robe
Riding out the twilight hour
Lonely and cold in an empty home
Trying to assess his power
But now he's like a stream in flood
Swollen by the storm
He doesn't care if he sheds his blood
Let him be reborn
The sea refuses no river
Remember that
When the beggar buys a round
The sea refuses no river
And rain fills the gutters
No time for stutters
This is our chance
To sing and to dance and to clown
The sea refuses no river
And rivers were sprung to drown
The sea refuses no river
No pecking code
Respected for the damned
The sea refuses no river
Whether starving and ill
Or strung on some pill
Just 'cos you own the land
There's no unique hand plugs the dam
The sea refuses no river
And the river is where I am
The river is where I am
the lyrics in this song are absolutely incredible, "when we find out what freedom is, turn water into wine".
Truly a great song in the annals of rock history, and another by the great Townshend. He deserves to be on the Mount Rushmore of composer/performers of Rock music, pure art.
David Gilmour on lead guitar, a close second to Pete himself on the studio release. Untouchable.
Una obra maestra este disco.
What an awesome live version
I first heard this on his solo 'chinese eyes' album. 1982?
"We're washed over stones from babes into clones of the mean" WOW.
Pure poetry
cindy mendez mooney that's for sure I love this song never heard him do it live great I love daltrey version too
Note to self. If I ever want David Gilmour in my band, know that he's not going to learn the solos from the record. Let me state for the record, I love David Gilmour and this song is up there with Townshend's best work.
So great. I'd never seen this video. Listened to the album for several hours yesterday.
I believe this is from the white city sound track . Great movie. Was initially released in VHS. Pity it never became available digitally. The entire concert is crazy good.
Was it on there? It was a live album around '86, after White City. But, mercy, even the outtakes from these shows ... Pete had them posted on his site for a while. These guys did HARLEM SHUFFLE different than, but equal to, anyone who has ever done it.
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Great. Love daltrey version too
It's just.., it's just ~ you know.., brilliant. Perfection (minus Gilmour solo).
fucking beautiful song, & a great version of it, too...
Such a iconic song!
Townsend's a musical genius
Some people think that this is Pete's "Springsteen-influenced" song --- whether or not that is true, this song is SO epic and wonderful
Pete himself described it as just that in Rolling Stone magazine back when the album that this song came from came out in 1982. All The Best Cowboys have Chinese Eyes.
@@markvaught672 It does have the power and honesty of the best of Bruce's songs but stands alone in its own light and it never grows old.
This would have been a great song for the It's Hard who record. Along with Slit Skirts, one of the 5 best songs Peter wrote.
Townshend also wrote "Something in the air" performed by Thunder Clap Newman.
He didn’t write it, he did produce the record and play bass on it though.
from a world far above…
My favorite offAll the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes.
Class Tunage xx
l just lovebyou
Amazing this only has 6,261 views (half a dozen or so of which are my own)!
In the dictionary,The photo found next to the word class is of Dave Gilmour
Phenomenal song and performance, but why is the harmonica player wearing a Mao suit??
does cameraperson know who that is on the red fender guitar?
David Gilmour
Is Pete wearing eyeshadow and eyeliner?
Joe Montana on drums lol
Don Ward Simon Phillips, now drummer for ToTo.
and he's great
@@standelong3421 i know it was Simon , was just commenting on his jersey
!For The -----------Sea Refuses No River! ;-))
Who is in the band 🤔
Heroin accepts all who will have her
Well my Son,
No unique hand
Plugs the dam
Never thought I'd have to say this about Gilmore but his solo was just plain bloody awful, the song just dissapeared into a black hole for a minute while he diddled around on what sounded to me like accompaniment for under the vocals; a complete 'non solo'. In fact, for the first few bars I don't think his guitar was even turned up for the solo (could be Gilmore, could be sound engineer)
If I didn't love this song so dearly it wouldn't matter but this has been an important song to me since 1982. Townshend's solo on the original album is so stunningly powerful, so harmonically 'Townshend' that it simply warrants nothing other than a straight copy of the original. Sorry David but to my ears you fell very short of the mark on this one.
WOW was the guitar solo weak...WEAK...WEAK....compared to the one Pete plays on the studio version.
The one on the record is shit as well.
the musical bridge? It's not really meant to be a solo, I think
That entire section is ill conceived.
if you say so... is that a recognition that it's not a solo?
@D B Pete played the solo on the original record. Gilmour played on "Give Blood" and "White City Fighting"