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Friday, March 12, 2010

More Who!!

Does anyone out there remember when Top of The Pops really meant something? 7.30pm on a Thursday night heralded the almost beginning of the weekend, only one more day of school then freedom for a whole 48hrs.

You'd had your fill of Grange Hill, you'd had your dinner and it was time to settle in for a half hour of God only knows what. Maybe Kate Bush in her Babushka gear, maybe The Smiths outraging dads the land over with bunches of flowers and hearing aids, The Jam singing "Town Called Malice" with Paul Weller in a kitchen apron, Iggy pop pulling the heads of doll's, pan's people dancing to "In the Summertime" in frighteningly short shorts as your dad sent you out of the room to ask your mum something, Dave Lee Travis, Jimmy bloody Saville...Ohh I could go on.

Well of course you could spend your life reliving it all on Youtube and in a recent interview it sounded like that's exactly what Johnny Marr is doing with himself these days, but for all you TOTP fans of old and even older, here's the Mighty Who doing "Won't Get Fooled Again".

Imagine this bunch of psychopathic looking hairies blasting out on a frigid Thursday December evening in 1971..Sure as hell beats the pants of what passes for pop music in "The Industry" (says it all really) these days. Kid's of today are getting fooled and they don't even know it. Oh God I sound like some 40 year old!! Enjoy...
The Who, "Won't Get Fooled Again"

Thursday, December 10, 2009

The Who – The Seeker.

Despite the dodgy  sound quality..this is a great clip from 1971 of The Who at their hairiest best. The Seeker is a bit of a lost Who classic in my mind. I mention it in conversation and people tend to look at me blankly, I mean they do that anyway, but more blank than usual! Anyway. It's a great track, love those sarcastic lyrics... Strangely for The Who, they all look really fit and healthy here, even Keith. Great seeing the boys doing their thing. Enjoy.