Pete Townshend On Neil Young's Biggest Problem
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Pete Townshend shared some interesting thoughts about Neil Young in a recent interview with Rolling Stone Magazine.
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Check out this video I made at a famous location used by The Who.
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Let my love open the door. Classic.
Demographics. Folks that liked the Who have had access to retirement money for 15 years. Look for an 80;'s band next. Not that I don't adore the Who. Who's Next is just worth a whole turntable in ones cabin. But, I'd remix the tracks. I think tha story would be why are the lesser tracks so shoddily mixed?
I am in Selvin, IN. Where you at Otis?
Can imagine hearing "Bargain" as a theme for a television series
I'm One and Naked Eye
'Ain't singin' for Pepsi
Ain't singin' for Coke
I don't sing for nobody
Makes me look like a joke
This note's for you'. - Neil Young
Neil Young has made himself look like a joke so many times, I'm surprised it still bothers him.🤡
@@linjicakonikon7666 How do you say you are insecure without saying you are insecure.
@@linjicakonikon7666Neil Young looks like a lot of things but a "joke" is NOT one of those things. Do you know anything about Farm Aid for example? Andi don't feel the need to justify myself or Neil Young to anyone but it's a matter of principle. Neil Young has more Integrity in his pinky finger than most people have in their whole body. ☮️
everybody sings for somebody
@@paulgentile1024& we all have egos that take over from time to time & muck up even a good thing..🤷🏼
I just listened to Rough Mix today. Pete and Ronnie Lane's 1977 album. Fantastic !
My favorite solo album.
@@mattrogers1946 It's being released as a 1/2 speed master LP, along with Empty Glass.
@custom55 I saw that, already in my wishlist.
That is a great album. Ronnie Lane was a special one. Cheers
Yes! A timeless classic. Very underrated.
Freaks and Geeks was a brilliant short-lived show.
I saw the Who's debut at the Fillmore in 1967. It was also the first time I took LSD. That show is permanently impressed on my memory. They did both their albums that were so far released, and they did all their singles, a couple of unexpected covers ("Everybody," by Tommy Roe), and they introduced their brand-new single "Happy Jack". Pete smashed two sonic blue Stratocasters (one at the end of each set), and ended the second set also using a Telecaster in front of his amp just for a feedback drone, while playing the Strat. The opening band was the rather incongruous Loading Zone, and the whole evening was started out with a set by The Cleanliness And Godliness Skiffle Band.
Who's Next was next level for me, as were so many albums released in 1971-72. Tommy was also a fav, but the tightness and every aspect of Who's Next was superlative (accident of conciseness, too, because it was meant to be a rock opera, but the only thing I wish is that Pure and Easy had been on it in its entirety (a little is on the end of Song is Over), as it's so joyous and musically fits.
The Who saved me from my first and only iconic Orange Sunshine trip (not my first or last LSD trip!)... And my 1st time with a psychedelic Pink Floyd (Ummagumma's weird "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered... "). Things were getting very weird, then someone put on The Who's Live at Leeds, and the familiar world came back! In the most pleasurably musical way possible. That's an iconic Who album, showing them at their amazing performance peak. At 70, that's a great memory of my 18yr old life. It was an amazing trip, on amazing LSD, that you can't take anymore, because Sunshine wasn't distributed much past then, thanks to the DEA. So pure and easy, but crazy potent and wondrous. I fear Live at Leeds isn't the same anymore, remixed and auto tuned, as the original sounded like a well worn record, or bootleg, and they packaged it as such. They really were the first punks! But it didn't matter, even on audiophile equipment. Also watch Monterey Pop, a 1968 festival film where they blew every West Coast band completely off the stage, including Janis Joplin, and held their own against Hendrix, who was Pete's, and every other guitar player's, main concern.
I was six in 1967. I saw the Who in Seattle in 1982 with Clash opening. In the Kingdome.
and i saw them in same building but it was the Village theater---the first rock show i ever went to---never did a ballad or slow blues, they sang like angels and then they smashed everything----incredible
@@richierugs6544 Different building- It was the "old" Fillmore in San Francisco.
The Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band?
Please elaborate on every and anything you can recall about this interesting act!!!
Thank you!!!
Pete is a total genius, and he’s written songs and developed themes no one else can even imitate. I love that he’s still working
I would say the same about his guitar playing. Unique and pure genius.
and thinks to freaks and geeks you know who he is
I think I got hooked on the Who with Magic Bus on Live at Leeds....I also loved the whole Who's Next album...one of the great rock albums in my view.
Yes!!! 5 /17/23
This made me think about the times I used to lay awake in my room in 1971 when I was a senior in high school, with a little radio to my ear, waiting for the station to play Won't Get Fooled Again which they did at midnight, every night, for a month or so. That Who's Next album is an absolute ripper. Still love it to this day.
Same here, but I was a year or two younger. Loved every sound, every idea on that record. ‘Black ash from the foundry, hangs like a hood, but the air is perfumed, by the burning firewood’ - the lyric combined with the vocal and guitar created an instant world that’s still with me more than 50 years later. And that’s just one example, I could name 20 more.
I'm still laying awake in my room. I always will
That was me in the mid 90's. I was listening to current stuff, like Green Day, but more than anything I listened to the oldies stations. The music wasn't new, but it was new to me, and I learned so much about music from the 50's through the 80's by listening to the radio. I wonder if kids still listen to the radio like that still... probably not. They probably prefer Spotify and UA-cam these days. But I'll always have a special place in my heart for music on the radio that was written and produced to be played over the radio. A bygone era, I guess.
Otis, I just watched your Pete Townsend interview piece. Something you might find significant is that my cultural awakening took place when I subscribed to the brand new news-mag Rolling Stone in its first year-They sent me as a bonus the interview issue with Pete Townsend. That interview pushed me toward becoming a philosopher/musician.
Now in 2024, retired, I am trying to invigorate my music playing. What I have to do, because of my age, is to rely on music I know best, the music of the 60s-80s Folk/Rock era. It has been embarrassing to prepare the old workhorses, in my mind. But now I see that “no one” knows the old songs-Bob Dylan’s first 8 albums, or the sixties Folk Revival , Tom Paxton, etc. Your podcast confirms my intuition that I can bring the best of Classic 1960s rock and the folk world, and know that I am bringing wonderful songs, new to them, to my audiences. Thank you!
Pete’s the man. He almost single-handedly intellectualized the rock form with Tommy.
Almost is right. Dylan did it first.
@@anotherjoshua not sure how you call early Dylan rock, but I get your meaning.
Tommy was a tank ! Quadrophenia was the numbah !
It's a very adult feeling to realize that, not only did we instinctively back a winner with an eternal sound, no one else had aimed any higher than our guy, our music.
What I love about Neil Young is he’s a great singer songwriter and he doesn’t care what anyone thinks?
Remind me again why his music was removed from Spotify.?
@@paddyt4043 Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify. It was not removed.
@@paddyt4043 Neil Young was not removed from Spotify. He removed his songs from Spotify as a matter of principle.
@@MsTdougherty yes I know that is what was so sad about it , he betrayed what he wrote about his songs by doing that , I had alot of time for him previously to that , I sincerely hope a manager made that decision with out his properly thought out approval...it was all over c19 info ...which is so stupid . I saw his charity gig in san Jose 3 times ,
@@paddyt4043 Paddy you said he was removed from Spotify. You are wrong. He chose to no longer be on Spotify. Paddy Neil Young does not need Spotify.
Neil is one of my favorite musical poets.
'I am an Animal' from "Empty Glass' is my favorite song by Pete Townshend.
One of my favorites too and Exquisitely Bored is more relevant than ever.
It’s a masterpiece. My favorite also. That and I’m One
Pete Townsend definitely a force in Rock music. Who's Next is the still a favorite collection of fine songs 50 years later, and I still am in awe of the Woodstock 69 performance. Love the story of him clobbering Abbie Hoffman. Live at Leeds is a fantastic live album and showcases his talent on guitar, balancing the riffs with the rhythm, and command of the amplifier. one of the finest artists of rock music
he actually slammed Abbie in the waist right off the stage, we were really close to see it
Townsend ranks with Lennon, McCartney, Brian Wilson, or any great rock songwriter you can name. The Who is on the classic rock Mount Rushmore. Pete's only negative, to me, was his guitar smashing phase.
3:44 - Goin' Mobile - hands down. Pete's acoustic riff accompanied by Keith Moon's BALLISTIC drums and then the outro electric guitar solo and MOOG while Keith and John lay down what sounds like a musical thunderstorm. It stands the hair up on my neck every time I hear it. Maybe the fact that Roger sat this tune out was a plus? The whole song sounds like Pete and Keith got together by themselves and said - "Let's write one tune together for just us."
I enjoy a lot of the earlier Who tracks. “I Can See For Miles” is one of my faves.
In 1967, I blew out the speakers in my new Mustang when I Can See For Miles came on the radio, and I cranked the volume to eleven.
The Who is unique in so many ways. Two rock operas. Two movies made based on their albums. From the High Numbers to Moon checking out, there will never be another band that helped pave the way like they did.
indeed. An absolute cornerstone of rock music.
Glad to hear Pete mentions "Strangers", a song Dave Davies (not Ray) wrote for The Kinks and was added as a "bonus" track on the "Agravation" CD. Great song.
My favorite Kinks song
Not long after i got my license, and got my first car on the road, a 66, 6 cylinder Mustang, 3 friends and i piled into my car, and went to see The Kids Are Alright at what used to be called a Midnight Munchee Movie!
Glorious! I taped a number 4 on my Memphis Les Paul the copy the very next day.
"Pure And Easy," is great. Not many songs ABOUT music seem to be very good.
"Love Reign O'er Me" is another one. Beautiful. It totally lives up to the grassndiosity of the priduction and arrangement. But it strips down to voice and guitar really well too.
Neil did compose music for a movie. Just him, old black,and a fender amp. The movie is a bit artsy but, I really like it. It's called Dead Man, starring Johnny Depp. I think that's the way to go. If you wants Neil's music for a movie, have him score it!
Dead Man is an awesome soundtrack by Neil Young… Johnny Depp is cool in the movie…
Journey Through the Past...
I remember there was some great behind the scenes of Sampedro tearing into Jarmusch calling him a dilettante
@@dahlbaker Human Highway....
Pete is a genius. I have been a Wholigan for 20 years (I'm 40) I read his autobiography and play guitar because of him. Petes style is very influence by his jazz banjo playing pre-Who. Freaks ands Geeks is by the another genius...Judd Apatow. Brilliant show that lasted only a short time but with a huge impact.
Same here!
I love Pete's guitar on "Eminence Front", but I think his magnus opus is Love Reign Over Me. That composition has some amazing producing, arranging, and my vote for greatest Rock vocal performance by Roger Daltry.
"People Forget"
The pearl jam cover at the who tribute is an amazing cover. Gave ne a whole new respect for Eddie's vocals
Wow.....excellent, poignant commentary on 2 of the most interesting souls in the music industry! Well done, mate! 👍👏
Went to a Stone Temple Pilots show and overheard a young lady saying she didn't know the opening act Cheap Trick. When they took stage she looked amazed and started to sing along. Between songs she said she used to hear them in the car when she was little. Sometimes we just need reminded.
They live inside of my head!
There is a great video on UA-cam called Neil Young goes record shopping, finds his own bootlegs (1972). It’s worth the watch.
That’s a great video! The clerk’s reaction when Neil tells him he’s gonna take the record without paying for it because “it’s MY music..” and the ensuing call to the record store owner are priceless.
I saw The Who for the 1st time in 1967 when they opened for Herman’s Hermits at Philadelphia Convention Hall
Hey Otis,
I went to my first Who concert in 1970, at Anaheim Stadium in So Cal (home of the Angels). What an eclectic and interesting line up! John Sebastian, solo, on a stool with an acoustic guitar. Blues Image (Ride Captain Ride) and Leon Russell! Incredible show. This was just a year after Tommy came out, so their set list was heavily Tommy. Ridiculously good, not to mention Leon at the top of his game. Aside: i witnessed the worst bad trip I think I’ve ever seen…the young man was in a very scary place…he disappeared into the infield crowd and I often wonder about what happened to him.
John Sebastian!!!! he's the one who tie dyed Roger's cowboy outfit from that tour.
I love Pete’s songwriting and guitar work. I was in Golden Gate Park a few years ago when the Who were playing the Outside Lands festival at the nearby Polo Grounds. I could hear them as clearly as the crowds could inside! They were great. My favorite Who song is A Quick One from the Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus.
YES - Agreed! I was in High School when The Kids Are Alright came out, I just couldn't understand why that version was kept hidden for all of those years.
@@meanmud1 Legend has it the Who were too good and Mick felt the Stones we under par (the Stones went on last, at 3AM (?) and everyone was toast by then).
@@Barry101er Not only that, but they went back months/years later to try to deliver a worthy performance and couldn't - thus they scrapped it for quite a while.
@@meanmud1 Midnight Movie favorite!
I love Young Man Blues from Charlton 1974.
I totally get that an artist would not let their compositions be used in commercials & movies. Neil is dedicated to his vision. No one else’s. Otis - you’d have made a great English Lit major.
Favorite Who song: So sad about us.
Haven’t seen any of these movies or TV shows.
Speaking of music placement in movies, the way Cat Stevens was used in Harold and Maude is one of my favorites. Favorite Who songs- The Seeker with a nod to Boris the Spider (because Entwistle).
Harold and Maude is a true masterpiece.
I’ll never forget the day my high school girlfriend dragged me along to see a matinee,between her and the movie I felt like my whole world view was transformed in a moment.
Pete Townsend
“Brooklyn kids” would be my favorite.
Saw them in Philly
Always do…what you can, with what you’ve got. Always! It’ll go a long way! Never wait for the perfect situation…it’ll never show up! Thanks Otis!
You are awesome Otis. Don't forget it!
Both Pete and Neil are still getting noticed by this latest generation. There are a couple of reasons. The music that is being made today is somewhat reductive and can't easily reach wider audiences because the architecture that used to do that, record co's and radio stations, don't have as much influence. But let's face it: from the birth of R & R till the birth of on line streaming- that was the Golden age of Pop music. Younger generations are finding this music if they want to on streaming services, the world of music is so much bigger than it used to be. We are listening to music differently. Otis, your approach is like a mini musicology course. So glad I found this message in a bottle floating along in the internet. Thank you.
I have to say Eminence Front is probably my favorite Townsend tune but I'd be hard pressed to explain why. I know its not the best thing he wrote but something about it..... I reckon it brings me back that special space & time in my youth. I also feel Live at Leeds is arguably the best live recording ever!!!
I love "Eminence Front" too! The sound of it is very unique and rather hypnotic. The lyrics are very visual too... such as "the spray flies as the speed boat glides" or "the snow packs as the skier tracks." The song also holds a special place for me because some of the lyrics make me think of a birthday party for Kenny Jones that I very fortunately got to attend at the bar in the Hotel Navarro in New York City...
"Come and join the party
Dress to kill
Won't you come and join the party
Dress to kill, dress to kill
Drinks flow
People forget
That big wheel spins, the hair thins
People forget
Forget they're hiding..."
Because Townshend sings it!
One of the “toughest “ riffs ever , sets a mood like no other
EVERY Neil Young composition is sonic cinema
Otis I found your vids late last year and have been privileged to enjoy them since. Your commentary is elemental and speaks from the path of true heart...thank you for sharing!
Otis ,the "Happy Jack" commercial you were thinking of was for the Hummer Vehicle of all things. 😂
We met a 22 year old last year who had never heard of Elvis, and I don't mean Elvis Costello. The fact is that 99.99% of us will never be remembered shortly after we're gone.
Can't resist mentioning that a close friend of mine, Dewar McLeod, recently published a detailed account of the "Tommy" saga: "Tommy, Trauma, and Postwar Youth Culture." Dewar's a history prof who's written a lot on popular culture, but this book also has a strong personal thread -- Tommy was the first album he ever bought and it changed his life.
Sounds like a good book. Wish it was on Audible or Kindle. I'm disabled and can't read a handheld book very easily.
When talking about classics like The Graduate, not only did the music elevate that movie but when you look back on it, the movie elevated that song into the pop culture consciousness. Mrs. Robinson will forever be tied with that movie and vice versa.
Neil Young did allow 'Old Man' to be used in the movie 'Wonder Boys'. Great song and great movie too.
I think Dylan won an Oscar for best song in the Wonder Boys
@@davidkareus8167 yes he did for 'Things Have Changed' 🙂
neil's expecting to fly was used very appropriately in coming home 1978
The Seeker is perfect for the American Beauty movie
My Favorite solo album by Pete Townsend is "All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes". A work of Total Genius! It's like a brutally honest glimpse into Townsend's personal diary. "The Sea Refuses No River" and "Slit Skirts" are my two favorites! Empty Glass...another great record!! I keep thinking Pete is retiring but, like Woody Allen in film, Townsend just keeps emerging. A musical artist can never retire, Right? His guitar playing is I think better than ever now. I believe it was when The Who played the Super Bowl or around then that I thought his guitar playing was better than I had ever heard him play!
I remember the Who on the radio as a kid in the early 70's. Then later I remember sitting and to listening to all of "Tommy" in front of a Sear's bought Lloyd's stereo (8 track and record stacking turntable - ya buddy!), with my Koss headphones on and being blown away with the power of the band, the songs, Pete's incredible guitar work and can't forget Moon's drums playing - wow! the man's rhythm was on the edge of chaos ~ like nobody else. I saw two of their "final concerts" over a period of 10 years ... LOL
I wonder - how many of us ended up with bleeding & torn finger nails trying to imitate Pete's windmill guitar strums on an old acoustic guitar?
Fave Townshend/ Who song: Bargain. It hits like a desperate plea for redemption from a lost soul. It also has one of the most beautiful bridges ever put on record. Yes, it is my desert island Who song!
I agree Ryan, and I've always loved the way Keith Moon wouldn't let the song end, he just keeps playing!
'Bargain' is my favorite, too. I loved 'Who's Next' immediately when I heard it in 1971. I didn't have a record player back then, but two years later I got my driver's license and my dad gave me a van. I put an 8-track player in the van and 'Who's Next' was the first recording that I ever bought. In another couple of years, I went to college and got introduced to good stereo systems and weed. I transcended to another plane of consciousness during the first time that I listened to Bargain through a good stereo and Sennheiser headphones while high on good reef. I've never come back to the previous level. Every time I listen to 'Bargain', I can get right back into that moment. In all music of all ages and all genres, my favorite passage is the coda of 'Bargain', starting at about 4:00. Crank it up!
When Quadraphenia came out, a friend bought 4 Bose speakers, each on a stand. We put that album on and cranked it
Pete Townsend’s”WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN “ a ROCK Masterpiece ! I must say one of the best ever written.TheWhoRocks!!!Thank You Otis! You’re The Man brother!
Baba O'Reiley remains my fave Who track (What can I say I am neither original nor pretend to be) it was used as the theme for CSI: NY (2004-13) a formulaic police show which was hugely successful and did introduce this magnificent song to a new generation. Big Neil Young fan too and I appreciate Pete Townsend joking tribute. He loves the guy too. Really nice video thank you
The song Happy Jack was in a Hummer commercial
Sad
Pete started rock as we think of it, in soooo many ways !!
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Otis, I loved this. So much of it hit me right where I live. There was no one to turn me on to the Who. I discovered them in junior high via the Who's Greatest Hits, the one with the Union Jack on the cover. The perfect album for teen angst, plus it was my secret. Won't Get Fooled Again still sticks with me. Thanks for the message in a bottle.
Love both Neil and Pete. If you wrote the song and still own it do whatever you want with it. Thanks for the very good content. New subscriber here. Thanks
My brother and I covered a lot of who songs in our three piece band back in the early 80’s. I still come back to I’m One as a personal fave. Pete’s solo stuff is also in my top songs list. I am an Animal is a masterpiece for me. Another great video. Thanks.
Pete’s song Drowned from the Secret Policeman’s Ball is unbelievable!
The Who is my favorite band. It’s so hard to pick a favorite. I seem to love them all. But it’s interesting how different time periods sound great in their own way. Like the Pictures of Lily era or the Who’s Next era or the Kenny Jones era. All great music to me. Thanks for posting this video.
I can understand many artists/musicians being wary of their work becoming "product" to hawk some one else's wares. But there are some films where a cleverly curated list of songs both serves the film and reaches a newer audience, eg. Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now. Even the Marvel films have been astute in finding great songs for some of the more memorable moments. Watching the film "Arkansas" turned me onto The Flaming Lips.
"Behind Blue Eyes" is a big fave.
Love me some Pete Townshend and The Who. From their older catalog “Legal Matter” is a favorite with Nicky Hopkins on keys. “I Can See For Miles” and “Substitute” have also been favorites. “Live at Leeds” also has some great songs with “The Fortune Teller” by Mose Alison being a standout. Of course, it’s hard to talk about The Who without mentioning Who’s Next. There are several great songs on Who’s Next aside from “Baba O’Riley” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again”. I love “Getting In Tune” and “Going Mobile”. Townshend’s acoustic playing on “Behind Blue Eyes” is masterful.
My group of friends felt we hit a high note with release of the Who’s, Who’s Next. I also enjoyed Squeeze Box, Magic Bus, and Eminence Front. I was always listening for the sound of Keith Moon when I listened to the Who. John Entwistle’s contribution to bass playing should never be forgotten.
Bob, l sat a few feet from them when they played at a small venue in Liverpool 1971 . They were trying out most of the tracks from ‘Who’s Next’ before going on a major tour. The album hadn’t even been released. Ears were totally blasted , but probably the best concert that l ever attended ..
@@lthompson7625 that sounds fantastic! Very cool memory. Thanks for sharing!
@@wittry2 It gets more memorable Bob. Near the end of the concert the crowd were shouting out for them to play a popular Who live song at the time, ‘ Water’. Keith Moon had a bucket of water near his drum kit. He picked it up and threw it over all of us sitting on the floor near the stage! Claim to fame, Keith Moon drenched me😃
@@lthompson7625 you got Mooned! Great story! Thanks!
Thanks for the pointer to Rough Mix. Gorgeous album!
"Won't Get Fooled Again" is the greatest rock song in history on the greatest rock album in history form the greatest Rock Group in history. (in my HUMBLE opinion).
It's very hard for me to just make a short list of favourite Who songs but basically mono mixes of the early singles, the 1968 Who outtake Melancholia, live Who recordings from '68 - '78, all of Quadrophenia, Imagine a Man and the early 80's outtake It's In You. I also listen to Pete's Who demos on a regular basis. The early 70's Who's Next/ Lifehouse demos are especially phenomenal and in a lot of cases his demos for Face Dances are better or at least rawer than their Who versions.
TV show CSI: Miami intro theme is “Won’t get fooled again” every week in the Eighties. Now in syndication the song lives on. One of my favorite Who songs.
I heard Pinball Wizard when I was 8 years old and loved the sound. Inspired me to learn to play. Got to stand in front of him a few years ago and tell him what an inspiration he has been in my life.
One of the highlights of my life was hearing Pete Townshend talk in admiring terms about a song I wrote that was used in a fan tribute about his novella “The Boy Who Heard Music.” It happened during an episode of the web chat show “In The Attic” on my birthday around 2006. He and I met a few times after that and he even did business with the company I worked for. He’s a wonderful man. He is so great with fans of his music.
Hi OTIS, I look at it both ways and love that Neil Young keeps his music out of movies , how ever he has done sound tracks to some like western with Johnny Depp and Dylan movie also the whole after the gold rush was a sound track music for a movie that never made it for the public, he also used his music in his own movies. Young said he will never use his music in commercials. I respect his right to not let just anyone use his stuff , unless he gives folks the ok.
"Sleeping Dog", "Jools & Jim", "Empty Glass" ... his demos of "Cache Cache" etc. - anytime you have just Pete & a guitar it is magic. And agreed "Strangers" may be the best Kinks song, period.
Really interesting take from Pete. I have a knee-jerk anti-corporate etc, but Mr. Townsend’s take has weight.
Picking a favorite song by The Who is vitually impossible; I can not do it. "Who Came First" is my favorite Pete Townshend album. "Who's Next" was my favorite album by The Who for many years, but I think "Quadrophenia" was The Who at the peak of their prowess, and it has proved to be my favorite over the long haul.
I'm really fond of Rough Mix with Ronnie Lane. Quadrophenia is a masterpiece!
@mattrogers1946 Ronnie Lane joins Pete on "Who Came First." He is featured on "Evolution."
@Matt Powell I've owned that album since the 70s...
How about you?
@@mattrogers1946 Yes, same.
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Pictures of Lily! Too many to choose from! LOVE Pete! Thank you!❤
Please keep doing these, Otis. The Who, Neil Young. Love this. I remember when I got my first guitar, and learned I could slide the E shape up the neck and the heavens opened up as I figured out " I can see for miles". Then the A shape, it was fantastic! That was well over 50 years ago. Still makes me smile to think about that!
Martin Scorcese made a lot of movies with music he chose personoally and was hearing when he imagined the scene. (He was once roomates with Robbie Robertson so that's likely to change your worldview about music.) Music can be a character in a film as you said about the Graduate, Scorcese used it effectively in that way. There are also very shallow uses of music, naturally, but that doesn't detract from the really great applications.
I think the Scorsese->Tarantino style has become so overused it’s lost its power
Your question easily answered : ALL of the Who and Petes work are my favourites
PT has always been one of my fav guitar players/ songwriter/ performer.
Quadrophenia has been one of my favorite Who records since I was a kid. Back then I did a lot of drawing in my room and always had music playing. One day I put that that record on and went on a journey with John Entwhislte and Keith Moon for about two months that took me to the depths those instruments can reach and made me fully understand why bass and drums are so important to rock music and in particular to Pete’s incredible songwriting and storytelling.
To really listen to that one you need to listen front to back with headphones. It’s a double album that begins with various melodic themes and faint voices from the record fading in and out with the wind and the sea and the seagulls all competing for your ear… and then suddenly it explodes into The Real Me and off you go into post-war Britian, the heyday of the mods and the rockers and artists like the Who inventing the sound of rock and roll.
There are Neil Young songs in the movie Eat, Pray, Love. They serve really important purposes in the story, like the real first dance song that wasn’t performed at her first wedding, but imagined to be played in the scene where she is healed of her guilt about breaking up with her first husband…
Pete's rhythm guitar playing is out of this world. Try just the acoustic bit on pinball wizard. Not impossible but incredibly cool. The dexterity the man has is fantastic!
40 year old in the U.K. My generation was used in a advertisement for a ice lolly in the early 90s. My gateway to the who.
Pictures of Lily! Forgot how much I love that tune. Early Who is fantastic.
Reign O’er Me, and Slit Skirts are my favorite Who songs…
The talk about Otis helping a friend with a commercial jingle reminded me of a great song and subsequent movie. I brought the kiddo there recently and got a few pictures in front of the cafe that stands there today.
Fun to find your Melancholy album on ut music. Thanks for calling it out. The backstory adds a lot of context to the listening.
I used to live in Baltimore and DC. Globe Poster is located there. I went to the operation. They make all the Boxer style posters there on sight. I wanted to purchase some stuff and lo and behold they pull out a poster from Neils induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Some dude from the Bay Area consigned a print to sell on his site and store. They told me Neil caught wind of it and basically gave them a cease and desist order. It's a cool print and made to look like the Harvest album cover. I flipped out and started to beg for that print and they kept sayin NO Can Do. Finally after picking out other of their old vintage BLUES,R&B, Soul stuff I went back to the Neil one. The owner was there and I was dealing with him and the rest of the Family. After about two hours of discussion and so on they let me purchase one and I was essentially told to keep my mouth shut about it and enjoy it. So Yeah, Neil has a tight grip on his image, music and so on. Always enjoy your stuff! Thanks! Very Down to Earth.... Also, I am a total Who Freak dating back to Tommy and onward through the 80's. Who's Next?
I like what you said there: “… We all burrow down into the subculture”.
I distinctly remember the iconic Dalton howl and "Wont Get Fooled Again" power riff, rocking some scene where the lead actor of some long running cop show is putting his sunglasses on with attitude.
Thanks for your show that’s always enlightening! I love The Who and Pete and I love Neil Young’s choices. Also, there’s something wonderful I heard in the sea recently about just plain and simple. He doesn’t have to do anything anymore that he doesn’t want to do in essence he said I’ve bought my freedom which is a wonderful place to be, and I imagine as an artist, of course, either way I’m glad I was alive during both of those guys arc of work because some of the crap that is called music today. I just can’t tap my foot or rock my soul with so thanks for my time and thanks for all guys still putting it out .
I'm sorry, but you heard something of interest in the sea? What is meant by the sea?
Sorry again. Who or what are plain and simple. I'm having a rough day. Thank you.
I’m sorry that was a typo something of interest in the show I enjoyed the interviews I’ve seen ofNeil lately
@Scott Salter Gotcha. Thank you my friend.
Otis, you're good, man. just saw' the darker side of me'. I will return to it.
The thing about the early Who hits like Pictures of Lily and I Can See For Miles is how important great vocal harmony was at that point in Rock
❤great video Otis,always enjoy your perspective and presentation . Seen The Who many times. Always a great show. Live at Leeds was a new bloom unto my ever growing lifetime musical bouquet And Neil has a beautiful bloom there too. And it’s beautiful when old music comes alive for the first time to a newer generation. I’ve experienced that with youngers and it’s amazing to me. You know that quality is always quality no matter where it lives.
I LOVED Freaks and Geeks when it first came out... honestly, it was a ground-breaking show, and probably greater than it was popular... although there are plenty of fans. I was in my later teenage years when it came out, and even though it depicted an era that I was not around for, I totally related to it, totally got it. And they made magnificent use of some really stellar songs from the late 70's. I was already aware of The Who, but I'm sure the show hipped me to some great songs/artists that I hadn't heard of before. And you never saw a lot of shows that treated the background music like that, and Pete is totally right.
When the French horns open up on Pictures of Lilly always a fav. Thanks Otis for your 9' Problem song its great
Like the Neil song “This Note’s for You” he tells it how he feels “ain’t singing for Miller, don’t sing for Bud, won’t sing for politicians, ain’t singing for Spuds…this notes for you!”. Plus Neil’s music would be hard to place in a movie…I heard a cover of “For the Turnstiles” in a movie awhile back and it just didn’t really fit…even Neil’s version wouldn’t have fit in it I don’t thank. His music tells stories that movies take hours to tell, so it just wouldn’t really make sense to have Neil’s music in movies and all that, at least that’s how I see it. Maybe the right movie and perfectly placed song, but otherwise I just don’t see how it would work.
My favorite Who song is probably "Behind Blue Eyes." I like the contrast between delicate soft rock and loud hard rock in a single song. I also like the dynamic and style contrasts in the rock opera "Tommy."
"Don't let it bring you down" was used in the movie, American Beauty covered by Annie Lennox.
My 2 fave Who LPs: Live at Leeds and Who by Numbers. Solo Pete: the 4 LPS between 1977 and 1985 are so good- Simon Phillips on drums; the studio bands always great (Pino, Tony Butler, Phil Chen, Chucho Merchan, Mark Brzezicki, Jody Linscott- even Gilmour!)
“I don’t know who they think they are, smashing perfectly good guitars.” John Hiatt
I remember a friend of mine invited me to listen to "Who's Next? in his brothers fiat on cassette. First time I heard it. I think it was 1973. What a classic!
My sister used to play the song Don't Let Go The Coat from one of the 80s Who albums. I loved that at 10 years old because it just sounded good and I love it now because it's a beautiful message . Pete's lyrics are ALWAYS thoughtful . I think Pete was writing brilliant songs at the time, both solo and with the Who. There aren't many true geniuses in rock music but Pete certainly is one in my opinion. Nobody can compose a better middle 8 to catch your ear . He knows how to write an effective, catchy song.
I started with a kmart cassette recorder in 1970. By 1974 me and some buddies went in together and got a used Dokorder 4-track reel to reel. We loved that thing.