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I know this has absolutely nothing to do with Quadrophenia, but check THIS one out!
It's horrible. Sounds and looks like an "Instituteofbass" instructor showing off in front of his students. Coke makes you do evil things...
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With the Who, he played the bass. On his solo records, and performing with his own band, he played the bass guitar. Even his early solo stuff has that trebbly bass sound. This is from 1971.
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With the Who, he played the bass. On his solo records, and performing with his own band, he played the bass guitar. Even his early solo stuff has that trebly bass sound. This is from 1971.
With The Who live, in later years, he played the super-trebly bass guitar. I saw numerous shows where there was basically no bass whatsoever.
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I know this has absolutely nothing to do with Quadrophenia, but check THIS one out!
It's horrible. Sounds and looks like an "Instituteofbass" instructor showing off in front of his students. Coke makes you do evil things...
My fellow Bowie freak Nikolai:-) ! For once?? Awe...thanks! I am doing better thanks, foot is still on the mend, but I am walking and dancing, so life is good. Hope you are well!Quote
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To me, Tommy always was better live. Their live versions had much more power, less pomp and circumstances. The album Tommy underwhelmed me for what I had been expecting. And this is something The Who often had a hard time with, replicating their on stage power on vinyl. Tommy's production is very tame, and in fact I really don't think it sounds a lot like The Who, more like them trying to replicate Abbey Road's sounds... The record has very little of Townshend's incendiary electric leads, and is more acoustic and orchestral, that just doesn't have the punch that I wished it had. Again, listen to their version of I'm Free live, it is stunning, especially from the Kelburn DVD. AMAZING! And so much better than the studio recording. Quadrophenia has the power and punch that I expect from The Who, with a more developed and emotive story that resonates more with the confusion and angst of youth, and adult (paradise lost). Not only a very interesting and relevant story. But performed and produced with a punch of aggression, even on the gentler acoustic numbers. Brilliant! And their musicianship was arguably at their peek. Keith is tightly locked in with Entwistle, and Entwistle not only did the bass, but all the horns on the disc! INCREDIBLE! For me there is so much to discover on Quadrophenia that it always surprises me to hear some new nuance or allusion that is powerful and emotional. I also love how the themes repeat themselves embedded within various songs, then to glide back to the main riff of the song. Brilliant, and far more operatic than Tommy. And this is a complete statement! Who's Next is brilliant, but seems a bit fragmented, and too short. I am always wanting more and baffled that they didn't put Pure And Easy and The Naked Eye on it.
Whitey, for once, I have absolutely nothing to disagree with you about. Spot on. About both albums. Hope you're well, man.
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To me, Tommy always was better live. Their live versions had much more power, less pomp and circumstances. The album Tommy underwhelmed me for what I had been expecting. And this is something The Who often had a hard time with, replicating their on stage power on vinyl. Tommy's production is very tame, and in fact I really don't think it sounds a lot like The Who, more like them trying to replicate Abbey Road's sounds... The record has very little of Townshend's incendiary electric leads, and is more acoustic and orchestral, that just doesn't have the punch that I wished it had. Again, listen to their version of I'm Free live, it is stunning, especially from the Kelburn DVD. AMAZING! And so much better than the studio recording. Quadrophenia has the power and punch that I expect from The Who, with a more developed and emotive story that resonates more with the confusion and angst of youth, and adult (paradise lost). Not only a very interesting and relevant story. But performed and produced with a punch of aggression, even on the gentler acoustic numbers. Brilliant! And their musicianship was arguably at their peek. Keith is tightly locked in with Entwistle, and Entwistle not only did the bass, but all the horns on the disc! INCREDIBLE! For me there is so much to discover on Quadrophenia that it always surprises me to hear some new nuance or allusion that is powerful and emotional. I also love how the themes repeat themselves embedded within various songs, then to glide back to the main riff of the song. Brilliant, and far more operatic than Tommy. And this is a complete statement! Who's Next is brilliant, but seems a bit fragmented, and too short. I am always wanting more and baffled that they didn't put Pure And Easy and The Naked Eye on it.
Whitey, for once, I have absolutely nothing to disagree with you about. Spot on. About both albums. Hope you're well, man.
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Yeah I got the Deluxe Leeds box set, that is already out of print. I thought it was very well done, nice package and great to have all the discs and the original vinyl. The Hull show is good, but the fact that Entwistle's bass was overdubbed from the Leeds, combined with some rougher Daltry vocals, leaves me to conclude that they were right to release Leeds! But some of the Tommy stuff on Hull is better than Leeds...
I have also read about those archive live releases and was really waiting in anticipation...I hope they still do it though!
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Yes, I liked the re-releases with the bonus material. Especially Who's Next Deluxe and The Who Sell Out deluxe. Both very well done. And I love the Vic show on Who's Next. Awesome. That is another reason i am so excited by the Quadrophenia release, as they didn't ever re-release that with bonus tracks. And strangely, with their re-release program I became reaquainted with It's Hard, which I thought was a rather weak effort, but then listening to it again, and the live bonus tracks, it is a damn fine album. I especially like A Man is A Man. And Cry if You Want live.
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Yeah, I agree, actually there are serveral very good songs on It's Hard, Emmenance Front, Cry if You Want, I've Known No War, A Man is a Man... But I especially like the live version of Cry if You Want.
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Tatters, I love your posts, but I completely disagree with you. Tommy was bettered in the form of Who's Next. For me, Quadrophenia was the pinnacle, and better in many ways than Who's Next. Who By Numbers, while not better than Quadrophenia, was a very solid release and very different from Quadrophenia, so not worse, just different. Who Are you was a fantastic album! But again not better than Who By Numbers, but different. Face Dances, as Nikolai stated, suffered from some dreadful production, but the material was fantastic with some very dark writing from Townshend. And then It's Hard, which I feel has gotten a bum rap in some ways. WHile I will admit not as solid as the albums before it, it still had some merits. And I for one was thrilled with Endless Wire! I thought it was fantastic with some of the old Who magic on it.
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Endless Wire was a superb album. Compare it to Bigger Bang!
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i'm a great who fan (1964-1972), ! but i think this album is not so good..
sorry, but that makes you not a great who fan
Or not a great music fan. I'm sure he/she/them/it was more comfortable listening to GHS/IORR, i.e., the dulcet tones of the Stones slowly starting to p-ss their legacy away! Quadrophenia, while ridiculously overblown in parts, is probably the last great art rock record.
what makes something an art rock record?