Posted on 11/14/2018 6:29:49 PM PST by Rummyfan
Yup. I lived through it. Constantly being forced to believe the Beatles were the greatest thing ever on the planet. how many “Beatles Greatest Hits” weekends on the radio did we have to endure?
“Can you see the real me?”
L
The Who were long time users of Hiwatt amplifiers, but in the very early days they used Marshalls. There were rumors for decades that Jim Marshall (owner of Marshall Amps) got into a fist fight with Pete Townshend over unpaid bills and threw Townsend out onto the sidewalk. Marshall’s son later said it was just a misunderstanding, no fisticuffs, but the story about the fight is more colorful and has remained around all these years.
In any case, Townshend talked Marshall into building 100 watt amplifiers, something Marshall initially wasn’t interested in. He also got Marshall to build huge speaker cabinets with eight 12” speakers (8X12). The cabinets were too heavy to carry and Marshall built smaller 4x12 cabinets that could be stacked on top of each other (with the upper cabinet being angled at the top to look more stylish), thus the classic Marshall stack was born.
Who’s Next. Their greatest album. Tommy defined the rock opera. And only song worth it on Quadraphenia was Love reign o’er me.
When a man is running from his boss
Who holds a gun that fires cost
And people die from being old
Or left alone because they’re cold
And bombs are dropped on fighting cats
And children’s dreams are run with rats
If you complain you disappear
Just like the lesbians and queers
No one can love without the grace
Of some unseen and distant face
And you get beaten up by blacks
Who though they worked still got the sack
And when your soul tells you to hide
Your very right to die’s denied
And in the battle on the streets
You fight computers and receipts
And when a man is trying to change
It only causes further pain
You realize that all along
Something in us going wrong
You stop dancing
I saw the post-Moon concerts. Kenney Jones was nothing exceptional. Ringo Starr’s song Zak was pretty good.
Far too many.
You are right about Entwhistle great bass player, him and Chris Squire the bass player for Yes were terrific and almost unknown. Entwhistle had at least one really good solo album. Yeah l am be old too but l got to see the great bands live.
Accessing that conversation, I think it was both. He just didn’t like CD’s nor mp3’s. The dude is old school. But I do remember him telling us “aUDIO TECHNICA” something which was the model number. A lot of Freepers hate L.A. but street by street, our records stores kick ass..
Oh... Smash Your Head Against The Wall.
“Yeah l am be old too but l got to see the great bands live.”
Me too.
Zeppelin.
Zappa
Yes
Tull
ELP
Stones
Rush
Great days, my friend
L
Great days indeed and for the most part I remember them if you know what l’m saying.
I’m flowing under bridges,
Then flying through the sky,
I’m traveling down cold metal,
Just a tear in a baby’s eye...
Drowned.
That album captured the agony and ecstasy of the teenage years like no other. It became part of me.
I saw The Who in LA at the Forum in 1980 on the 3rd night of 5 sold out shows. Daltrey’s vocal performance was one of the greatest I ever witnessed from a rock band, including having seen Bono/U2 live in 1992 at Anaheim Stadium.
My karaoke machine has 5:15 in it but nobody else knows the song!
Quad & Who’s Next are great...
I would suggest Elvis Costello (Declan MacManus’) bio “Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink” GREAT READ.... or Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No DogsJun 10, 2014
by John Lydon and Keith Zimmerman
“My karaoke machine has 5:15 in it but nobody else knows the song!“
I’m out of my brain on the train.
L
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