The Who - Search for Lost Recordings

Video for sure and most likely audio as well.

 

I've almost given up on it. Even *if* it happens, someone will screw it up. We've yet to get the complete Leeds performance in proper sound quality. If only a complete version could sound as good as the HD tracks recent issue...or whatever it was.

Rather than a live compilation, how about a box set with complete shows?!

 

I'm totally in for that!

Rick A.

 

It may well be true that it undercut their creative momentum, but I think it was important to the band in that it ensured their financial well-being. By all accounts, that movie made the band a s******d of money. It's hard to blame them too much for actually wanting to have some security.

 

Nothing would not have been embarrassing.

 

Any live shows from 1967-70 should have a nice live box set. They were the best live band during those years there has to be some awesome shows I would think
to make a nice box set.

 

True, although then you wonder why they relentlessly toured in '75 and '76, ostensibly behind a new album (By Numbers) with basically a greatest hits/Tommy set list. I've read that those tours were done to ensure John and Keith could pay their bills since they spent the most and made the least from the Who (Pete was rich via his songwriting royalties and Roger was smarter with his money). By all accounts, including Tony Fletcher's definitive Moon bio, Moon was dead-ass broke and in debt for most of the 1970s.

 

Yep, just like Led Zeppelin where Jimmy Page has been promising a live box set from all eras of their career since the 1980s...the closest we got (and probably ever will get) to it was the live DVD in 2003. But for the Who to not have some retrospective live release (unless you wanna count View From a Backstage Pass) is criminal. I'd take even ONE archive release (SF '71, FFS!) and shut up for my complaining all eternity if they're not gonna open the vaults up.

I mean, you listen to something like this (at maximum volume, of course) and are blown away and then wonder why they don't release it...

 

Couldn't agree more with that sentiment. At first, I was puzzled as to why Universal would choose to release a show from '82 instead of SF '71 or another Moon-era show, until I saw that it will be on blu-ray and dvd. I suppose the label thinks they can market an archival video release better than a mere audio release. I don't have a problem with this release, except that shouldn't be a high priority when multi-track recordings remain in the can from the Moon era, as well as the 1979 US tour with Kenny Jones.

 

I think the '79 US shows multitacks are incomplete........if the Chicago DVD is anything to go by.
but they could probably make a full show/2CD's from the various recordings.

 

Hell didn't The Who do well over 200 shows in North America alone in 1967? They had to record some of them?

 

There's at least the two 1968 Fillmore shows. The 1968 Austrailian shows are supposedly lost. And there are several two track shows from 1969 tour. Tanglewood 1970.

 

What Fillmore East material was rejected?

 

April 5th and 6th. The 6th being heavily bootlegged. Great sound.

There was a picture somewhere showing these recordings in The Who's vaults.

 

there is a recent bootleg that claims to be from the master tape.
would anyone know if the track listing is the same as [most of] the other earlier versions?
can anyone post a sample of it?

 

Substitute and Pictures of Lilly which opened the shows are missing from the April 6th boots I've seen. The 5th show includes everything plus C'mon Everybody from Eddie Cochran. I believe the bootlegs are from the master tapes.

 

Are you sure? It always seemed like they were from an acetate.

 

I'm tired of the Tommy era stuff. We need the 1971 San Francisco set.

 

Chicago and both nights in Philly were multitracked. But those 79 and 80 shows had those horns. I'd rather have a 1981 soundboard, preferably near the end of the tour.

 

I can't say I'm 100% sure but, had read somewhere the boots were made from the master recordings. So I could be wrong.

 

Any Moon era other than 1969-70 would be nice.

 

Massive Who fan but i can't see the point of releasing a show from 1982 from the 'greatest live rock n roll band in the world' when apparently there is a hoard of live material from their prime period, i won't be buying it.

 

I might nominate this for the first show I would like released.Maybe we can hope for a series of concerts on vinyl,like the one for The Rolling Stones.

 

Recording a band like the Who's live performances in those days was a decidedly expensive (and cumbersome) undertaking (e.g., hauling around multitrack tape machines/mixers, paying an engineer, etc.). And since Decca wasn't even sending promo copies of Who singles to the major US trade magazines, it's doubtful they had it together enough to professionally record any of their concerts.

 

I thought The Who had The Pye Mobile recording studio?