tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960772098173697898.post2377277526952574157..comments2024-03-22T14:01:26.256-07:00Comments on Just Backdated: THE WHO AT AMSTERDAM, 1969Chris Charlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05459094285776329847noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960772098173697898.post-11312792489053252018-08-15T05:07:26.495-07:002018-08-15T05:07:26.495-07:00Share great information about your blog , Blog rea...Share great information about your blog , Blog really helpful for us . We read your blog , share most useful information in blog . Thanks for share your blog here .<br /><a href="http://depressieamsterdam.nl/" rel="nofollow">depressie amsterdam</a>gibsonherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11924228229369739485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960772098173697898.post-66890182917827051482017-01-13T02:06:06.266-08:002017-01-13T02:06:06.266-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960772098173697898.post-46573006939716691472014-08-11T06:20:07.927-07:002014-08-11T06:20:07.927-07:00Any from '69-70 really. I have quite a few fro...Any from '69-70 really. I have quite a few from three CDs I was given which are simply titled 'American Soundboard '69', and the playing is magnificent, though I'm not sure which specific concerts they are. In this era The Who as a live act reached a peak that they never really surpassed in my opinion, not that they didn't try and, of course, even afterwards they were far better than everyone else. John once said that the final tour they did with Keith, in 1976, was their best but I'm not sure I believe him. Chris Charlesworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05459094285776329847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960772098173697898.post-81459240536078649022014-08-11T06:15:03.204-07:002014-08-11T06:15:03.204-07:00Somewhere I still have the two-disc bootleg CD set...Somewhere I still have the two-disc bootleg CD set (in one of those old double-wide jewel boxes) of the Amsterdam show that I bought in 1992 for something like $65. It was revelatory--very little Moon-era live material was available at that time, and the only live version of "Tommy" to be had was on the "Join Together" boxed set. Those of us in diapers in 1969-70 had certainly read about the impact of such vintage live performances of "Tommy", baby boomers proclaiming that we had misssed out on the opportunity to hear the Who transform a wonderful, but horribly muddy-sounding, studio album into something considerably more sublime, but the prospects of ever hearing such material seemed bleak in an era when Pete was claiming that all recordings from that tour had been destroyed.<br /><br />Thus, for latecomer Who fans such as myself (who had bought all of the studio albums and tracked down the import-only b-sides) any historical insight into Who during the era prior to the release of the "Thirty Years Of Maximum R & B" boxed set in 1994 was gained entirely through the bootlegs that circulated--studio outtakes and BBC tracks such as "Fortune Teller", "Early Morning Cold Taxi" and "Good Lovin'" were, stripped of all context in the pre-internet age, were essentially "new" recordings to be compiled, collected and played, the listener's enjoyment only enhanced by their illicit nature--to be exposed to such treasures was a privilege, the owners fandom raised to a degree above those to whom he or she chose to make cassette copies.<br /><br />This is why for me, even today, at a time in which no fewer than four reasonably full-length live performances of Tommy from 1969-1970 have been officially released, the Amsterdam show remains special. For starters, it was in stereo. If played through headphones (no earbuds in Grampa's day), Entwistle was in one's left ear and Townshend was in the other. I remember hearing Pete comment in an interview somewhere about how he and Keith used to compete for audience attention while the Ox never bothered even trying; yet this is one recording in which, with the visual element removed, the competition seemed entirely between John and Pete to see which one of the could outplay and outlast the other. In the end, it was a draw.<br /><br />I still have that fat jewel box somewhere, but I haven't played the discs in years. Something tells me I should. I just looked it up on the internet--the $65 I spent to buy that CD set in 1992 works out to $110.42 in today's dollars. Am I kicking myself in hindsight, realizing that if I'd merely been patient and waited another 15-20 years, I could have downloaded and owned the show for free?<br /><br />No.Hankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17227847180364346899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960772098173697898.post-19094890387010054702014-08-10T11:59:52.280-07:002014-08-10T11:59:52.280-07:00Really well said, Chris. As I was born in 1969, t...Really well said, Chris. As I was born in 1969, the bootlegs and reviews of these Who shows are my only way to get any feel for their brilliance. Since numerous soundboards have turned up, its obvious Bob Pridden didn't have the ' bonfire' we were told about, lol. I recently grabbed a bootleg, from Philly at the Electric Factory October of 69. It's incomplete ( as are many of those surviving Tommy tapes). But I'm telling you, the beginning of Tommy that night is simply staggering. I may be a homer ( since its my hometown ), but that bootleg has got to be close to the peak of the Who's ability. Curious, what are your half dozen or so ' must have' Who shows? Ed Murphynoreply@blogger.com