Did anyone else find this part a little sad? Even if you didn't listen to The Who, you could tell the Keith was out of the energy he had in the earlier years. You could tell that the drugs he was taking had to do some part to his lowering energy. Man, Keith went way too early.
share& on the other hand pete seems wired. It is a kind of forced performance. But I think we're lucky to even have it - the director insisted on a new performance segment and that's why it's there.
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To think that keith would be dead only weeks after this performance is really very sad,as mentioned he seemed to be turning the corner and we can only guess as to what might have been.
Its hard to imagine him growing old and grey so the only memories we have are of him in his prime.Long live the legend that is "Moon the Loon"
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it was a very sad thing to see that..and to even talk about moons later life.
but as neil young says, "It's better to burn out than to fadeaway"
At the start of baba o'reilly keith is pretending to hit drums, i.e practiseing for and getting into the rythem for the song, so when the drums kick in he is reved up ( this is my interpretaiton though, im not saying he was thinking this exact thing at the time)
the reason there is no sound coming from the drums is because he wasnt hitting them, this is quite obvious, if you rewatch it you will notice that no drums or cymbals are being hit.
i dont know where u heard that the drumming had to be overdubbed for this performance but i wouldnt use the start of this song as evidence.
I noticed also in Won't Get Fooled Again that the usual drum sequence alongise the synth, just before the big yell and the leap, was lax. on record it's sharp and bang on -
diddle-iddle-um--diddle-iddle-um--diddle-iddle-um----------
diddle-iddle-um--diddle-iddle-um--diddle-iddle-um-pum-pum----------
diddle-iddle-um--diddle-iddle-um--diddle-iddle-diddle-iddle-um--diddle-iddle-um--diddle-iddle-etc building-up to the climax.
At the Shepperton show, Moony's intervention was late and he just went straight into the continuous build-up instead of leaving the gaps.
If you actually listen to a studio/album version of a WHO song and then listen to the live version, you will find that the live veresion can vary DRAMATICALLY in the way it sounds
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does anyone know where I could find footage of the whole concert that this song and "won't get fooled again" was in?
shareI love it when The Who played "sloppy". It is the raw energy of their live performances with warts and all that make The Who the greatest live band in the history of rock and roll.
shareActually, I thought the "Baba O'Riley" performance was superb. And the "Won't Get Fooled Again" at Shepperton (which ends the film proper) is one of the greatest, most dynamic rock n roll song performances of all-time.
shareFor some reason Pete seems to be pissed off...
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