Fantastic post and background story of the concerts, I visited that spot of that famous photo when I went to New York for the 2015 Forest Hills show, striking monument and park area. Politics not allowed on SHF, but was anyone as shocked as I was when I first heard the Fillmore boot and Pete's remarks after A Quick One that a certain person who shot a certain person was forgiven. In today's cell phone video era, a remark like that would have been headlines and scandal from a white rock star about a black leader and icon. It is Pete however, sometimes sufferer of foot in mouth disease.
I always thought that 1968 was the first year they really made the states a priority and for the most part they never looked back. And even though financially it wasn't very lucrative, I think Roger (Daltrey) said it took them 6 weeks of touring here just to make a profit, by the end of the year they did became one of rock's top live attractions.
I can see why they used that number on TKAA soundtrack, it was the highlight of the show for me, albeit in edited form.
They should have decided to release both concerts. One-CD best of both nights, 2 CD deluxe with both concerts.
I actually posted about that remark up thread a ways, but the post fell victim to the sweeping 'great purge' that happened earlier (wasn't pleased about that at all). But yeah, forgiveness is great to a point, but some acts are simply unforgivable. That was definitely one of them.
Audience member Eric Rosen : The Who were fantastic. I liked it when they busted everything up. Townshend walked to the top of the stage, held his guitar like a lance and ran into his amplifiers. It was unbelievable! He picked up the mike stand and rammed it across the guitar. It was the most incredible thing I had ever seen! Moon picked up his big bass drum and made believe he was going to throw it into the audience. They were wild then.
There must be some reason that Bob Pridden only worked on the tapes from the 6th, if in fact that's true. That's all I'm sayin'.
They decided to only release the concert on the 6th, and Pridden got it ready for release. That's why he only worked on those tapes (that we know of).
Dr Feelgood' Stupidity the album was released in 1976; in my post I said why there's not a great live album from heydays of pub-rock 1973-1975, although pub-rock was primarily a live phenomenon. By the way, in the first half of the Seventies i.e. in the heydays of the genre, the sound of English pub-rock was hard to be captured nicely on vinyl even when the material was recorded in the studio. It was recorded perfectly for the movie. Nobody deny that. But it have nothing to do with original 1970 Woodstock 3xLP album which sounds crappy. Including The Who, which sound on that LP can't be even compared with the sound of Live at Leeds which sounds great even today - only due to fortuity. Probably you don't know, but "The Two" recorded an entire concert in the same space i.e. in that refectory of the University of Leeds, at the UK leg of their Endless Wire tour, and a live album was announced by the band as "Live at Leeds 2" as well, but it wasn't released because Daltrey & Townshend weren't satisfied at the end with the sound of recorded material; and it's 2006! Live at Leeds is the only one The Who's live album that was officially released while The Who were recording & touring with both Moon & Entwistle, just because all other recorded material from the same era sounds more of less poor in comparision with the greatness of Live at Leeds which still to be the best Rock / Hard Rock live album ever released.
The CD is less than £7 on Amazon UK, this doesn't seem right to me. Are we sure this release is legitamite?
There's a reason, but where The Who (or rather, the people who handle reissues for them) are concerned, it's never safe to assume it's a good reason.
Yes, I think that was agreed about 25 pages back. And, at the risk of repeating myself, when was it ever established that price and sound quality were aligned with each other?
That's a fair point. I've pre-ordered it anyway & am hoping that it's official & has better sound quality than the bootlegs. £6.50 isn't exactly much of a gamble.
For the record (ha!), the album was recorded in Sheffield on 23rd May 1975 and Kursaal on 8th November 1975, thus fitting the original premise of your post. Anyway, this is a diversion - the point being that capturing loud live music on tape was not that difficult to do in the early 70's, which has been answered by several others on this thread.
Whichever show it happened to be [Nashville or Cleveland.........as per the fanzine] it's unclear wether they acquired the tape. It just mentions it was being investigated.
It makes me wonder if the missing 2 songs are a circumstance of vinyl economics? Possibly a 4th disc would have been necessary. But that doesn't explain why they're not on the CD. Maybe they don't want to appear to be money grabbing by offering different track listing across the formats.
Forgivness is unconditional. Townshend was newly spiritual at that time and seeing that forgiveness is looked at from a big picture viewpoint in spirituality. If someone isn't on that path then an idea like this will sound very foreign or even misguided but it isn't. If people knew all the influences that led to certain acts they might see that they can even relate to someone who does something like this. It's having compassion about not knowing the whole story.
