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Interesting - I think Glyn Johns was involved in the Keith moon track too...
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Here you go Track 3 .......Bill Wyman...........Play It Loud
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Beelyboy
oh my goodness. keith moon. holy furrgggginggg moly. jeezume crow. good golly miss molly. oooooh.
all fills all the time? not really. listen how solid and ON TOP of the BEAT he always is.... !!!!! tho ALWAYS punctuating BOILING all the time, exploding at will...
recorded so long ago but so well. wow! this is a gift. totally can't think of even what this thread is about this is too awesome....
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When Charlie hits the big THUMPA-THUMPA and Keith plays that little lick, right before Mick starts singing "Ooh, the storm is threatening", the hairs on my arms stand up - even after all these years. Those few seconds are as good as anything ever put on record, imo.
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I think he was also amazing on Quadrophenia. His playing on The Real Me, along with Entwhistle, is jaw dropping. The way those two work together on that song is incredible.
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Beelyboy
oh my goodness. keith moon. holy furrgggginggg moly. jeezume crow. good golly miss molly. oooooh.
all fills all the time? not really. listen how solid and ON TOP of the BEAT he always is.... !!!!! tho ALWAYS punctuating BOILING all the time, exploding at will...
recorded so long ago but so well. wow! this is a gift. totally can't think of even what this thread is about this is too awesome....
He's solid and on top of the beat on this track Beely, but Glyn Johns has spoken about how difficult it could be to get Keith to play steady and in time through a whole song. I remember reading an interview where Glyn explained how he used to have to signal Keith by hand when a major change or something was coming up. Otherwise, he'd likely miss it and ruin the take, at least drum wise. In that interview, Glyn was speaking about Who's Next and Won't Get Fooled Again when talking about the hand signals. When to come in, and when to speed up or slow down if he was losing the time/beat.
Townshend too has spoken at how they struggled so much with Keith's playing, live and in the studio, and how there were things he wanted to do musically with the Who but couldn't, because Keith was rather limited in his abilities. He was great at playing like Keith Moon, but if it called for something different, not so much. A lot of the Who's songs were worked around Keith, and there were things Pete had to just not do because of him. And it wasn't always because he was too f-ed up. It was also because that's just how he was. Very erratic. When Keith was on, he could be a genius and the Who could reach another level some bands only dream of. But if he was off, well, it could be another story.
He wasn't much of a jammer either. There's a reason you don't hear stories of Keith sitting in with other people at after hours clubs and whatnot, like a lot of his peers. Part of it was he was more interested in booze and chicks than finding a post-show jam. But part was also because he wasn't the best at just sitting in with other players and jamming on whatever. He was too non-traditional a player to supply your basic solid beat for a jam session.
Having said all this, I also remember reading how critically claimed his drumming on Tommy was. Tommy was not the best sounding album, and it was really pieced together in areas. Many feel it was Keith's outstanding drum work that really brought and held the album together. I think he was also amazing on Quadrophenia. His playing on The Real Me, along with Entwhistle, is jaw dropping. The way those two work together on that song is incredible.
Keith and Charlie both are probably my two favorite drummers of all time.
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bustedtrousers
I think he was also amazing on Quadrophenia. His playing on The Real Me, along with Entwhistle, is jaw dropping. The way those two work together on that song is incredible.
My favourite Who album, infact for me that album is up there with the best of them, maybe even the best of the best when you just sit and listen to it... The writing, playing and production is excellent! Most importantly it's chock full of emotion!
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Here you go Track 3 .......Bill Wyman...........Play It Loud
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71Tele
Sounds like direct injection. No sustain and very narrow coloration. They must have eq'd it when mixing.
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71Tele
Sounds like direct injection. No sustain and very narrow coloration. They must have eq'd it when mixing.
Pictures show that circa 1967 - 1969 atleast they tended to record bass with both di box and a mic, note there is mic bleed from Keith's guitar on this isolated bass track.
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71Tele
Hmm, if there is amp tone there is almost no presence at all. Bill usually got a fairly meaty growl out of his amp. The guitar bleed may have been on the tape. Just my conjecture.
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crumbling_mice
Excellent, be nice if some members of the bands around today listened to this and then they might just realise what rock drumming is all about.
if a drummer these days would play like this he would get fired or beat detective to death. not only the timing is too off for today but also some fills are stylistically not so nice. he could have done better, today they would edit better takes together.
Exactly why rock drumming today is so boring and predictable. He couldn't have done "better" at all, except in some weird world where technical exactness trumps feel. Personally I don't want to listen to music from that world. I'm glad we have this instead.
crumblingmice says "...today THEY (caps mine) would edit better takes together..."
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surely so. who put the engineers in charge of the artists tho?
who put the button pushers into producer chair when they didn't make any of at the pre production meetings or necessarily "GET" what the artists are about and about to put down. i KNOW ur right mice. but just saying...a lotta bloodless crap pop music (including most of the fake rock music) these last hi tech years...
...they miss the heart and soul and of course worship great MOMENTS of PEOPLE PLAYING TOGETHER>>>> the tension, the impact of personalities and sounds and holding it together, reading each other...doin' what it takes to make it work TOGETHER. as this was meant to sound....
...i like the technology, but i will never ever let it get ahead of what the magic is...the magic is what it's ALL about...yes i record w click tracks dammit...everyone wants to be a nasa scientist instead of just STFU and wait and see if someone wants them to push a button...turn something on....a good engineer should know two things chiefly. how to make a good cup of coffee. how to listen (and/or shut up).
Take out the bit about making some coffee, I'd agree with every thing you just said. We are talking about music performed in the studio by people not cyborgs or terminators! Eddie Kramer was and is one of the best recording engineers out there to me. An old school guy that LISTENED to what was being done.
Charlie's drum track is excellent and real. The Swing and Jazz references are dead on target too!