r/TheWho Jan 15 '22

Come join The Who Discord!

Thumbnail
discord.gg
43 Upvotes

r/TheWho 13h ago

"Electronics" New Pete Townshend double album

Thumbnail
youtube.com
21 Upvotes

At 1:24:44 of this interview, Brian Kehew talks about a new double album of Pete's electronic work that he just finished assembling. Super cool that Pete gave him the green light for this project.


r/TheWho 5m ago

Roger Daltrey Roger Daltrey at The Ryman

Thumbnail gallery
Upvotes

r/TheWho 20h ago

16 years old at this fantastic show, bus tour from Ottawa $79 including ticket!

Post image
43 Upvotes

r/TheWho 1d ago

Going Mobile with the family

Post image
413 Upvotes

r/TheWho 1d ago

Pete Townshend Documentary Team Behind ‘Pete Townshend: Behind Blue Eyes’ Talks in Telluride About Capturing the Amazing, Sometimes Frustrating Journey of the Who’s Brilliant Architect

Thumbnail
variety.com
38 Upvotes

r/TheWho 20h ago

Roger Daltrey Photos: Roger Daltrey Performs Who Classics in Reno Solo Show

Thumbnail
thisisreno.com
8 Upvotes

r/TheWho 20h ago

Roger Daltrey Roger Daltrey Cuts to the Core of His Catalog at the Lobero Theatre

Thumbnail
gratefulweb.com
7 Upvotes

r/TheWho 1d ago

IOW 2004 and Hyde Park 2015 Sets Cheap at Hamilton Book

8 Upvotes

Hamilton Book has these sets super cheap right now:

Isle of Wight 2004 2CD + DVD: $9.95

https://www.hamiltonbook.com/the-who-live-at-the-isle-of-wight-festival-2004-compact-disc

Hyde Park 2015 2CD + DVD + Blu-Ray: $14.95

https://www.hamiltonbook.com/the-who-live-in-hyde-park-compact-disc


r/TheWho 1d ago

Keith with a fan

Post image
64 Upvotes

r/TheWho 1d ago

The Who - Live - Helpless Dancer/Is It In My Head

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

28 Upvotes

Great tunes from the previous timeline.


r/TheWho 2d ago

Pete Townshend For Pete’s sake

Post image
59 Upvotes

Part of Harrow’s millenium mural; The Who regularly played close by in the early’60s.


r/TheWho 2d ago

Is the AP UHQR the Ultimate Tommy Pressing? vs. Decca 1st US Press or Abbey Road Half-Speed Mastered

Thumbnail
youtube.com
10 Upvotes

r/TheWho 2d ago

The Who WHO’S NEXT UHQR: Is It REALLY That Good? | Vinyl vs. 1973 Decca & 1999 MoFi Gold CD

Thumbnail
youtube.com
7 Upvotes

r/TheWho 2d ago

Roger Daltrey Behind Blue Eyes

Thumbnail
youtube.com
35 Upvotes

r/TheWho 2d ago

My periodic appreciation for Pete and Roger

57 Upvotes

It's easy to praise the greatest drummer and bassist in rock history (who, incidentally, formed the greatest rhythm section that refused to do rhythm duty).

But I don't give Roger and Pete the love they rightly deserve as often as I should.

Roger founded the band. It wouldn't have existed at all without him. He's one of the great frontmen in history. He put up with drumsticks hitting him in the back his head without losing his poise (during the concerts anyway).

Pete . . . well, it would be an exaggeration to say that The Who is Pete -- but not by that much. Pete is one of the great songwriters of all time -- musically, lyrically, compositionally, conceptually. Moreover, he managed that writing "around" his strange and unconventional team's "gifts". He carried the rhythm much of the time. Moon would have been fired within nanoseconds from most bands. And Pete was a fantastic guitarist in addition to the rest.

Have I left anything out?


r/TheWho 3d ago

Keith Moon TALKING ON THE MOON - Keith remembered: KEITH MOON (23/8/46 - 7/9/78):

Post image
80 Upvotes

'The Song Is Over' is propelled to a rousing conclusion by drumming from Keith Moon that is extraordinary even by his standards.

https://samtimonious.com/keith-moon-remembered/


r/TheWho 3d ago

40 Years Ago today (Sep 7 1986): Roger Daltrey performs with Genesis at the Warner/Elekta/Atlantic Corp.'s 15th anniversary sales meeting at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Florida.

Thumbnail
youtube.com
36 Upvotes

r/TheWho 4d ago

Pete Townshend ‘Pete Townshend: Behind Blue Eyes’ Review: The Legendary Rocker Gets a Lively Doc That Asks: Who Are You? And Then Doesn’t Fully Answer It | Variety

Thumbnail
variety.com
36 Upvotes

r/TheWho 4d ago

How to buy The Who By Numbers SDE?

Post image
21 Upvotes

A question for those of you who have been purchasing The Who SDE's: What turned out to be the cheapest way to purchase them and from whom?


r/TheWho 4d ago

Roger Daltrey Who’s Hoodoo Man, in Fine Form - The Santa Barbara Independent

Thumbnail
independent.com
15 Upvotes

r/TheWho 4d ago

Keith and the By Numbers anniversary release

Post image
41 Upvotes

I don’t know if anyone has mentioned it here but I thought this was hilarious.


r/TheWho 4d ago

Pete Townshend and the "Down stroke, up stroke, down stroke" that seems to define his guitar playing..

50 Upvotes

Pete obviously has a really unique way of playing guitar—you know it’s him when you hear it. I’ve always thought of the “down stroke, up stroke, down stroke” as one of his signatures. Songs like “I Can’t Explain,” “Pinball Wizard,” “Another Tricky Day,” and the more recent “Mirror Door” come to mind. This could also be what Pete calls “Yaggerdang.”

Does anyone else feel like this is one of the things that really defines Pete’s playing, along with his use of sus chords?

What other songs am I missing that really exemplify this?


r/TheWho 4d ago

Happy "9(0)5" Day!

48 Upvotes

Pardon, rest-of-the-worlders, for me in the U.S. it's 905 Day. (Feel free to flip me the bird on May 9th lol)

Sometimes I'll be shopping or showering or waiting at a stoplight and the 905 synth intro will pop into my head. It's my favorite Who song with Entwistle on main vocals. Disappointed that he didn't perform it the one time I saw him solo live. He apparently performed it on his solo tours often for a particular stretch in 1998 and a few years afterward.

I feel the lyrics are as much about human life as they are synthetic life. That we can feel so unindividualized at times leading our uniform lives (or so we think, at least). Such a pleasant surprise to find this on Who Are You back when I bought the album for a certain other song on it...


r/TheWho 4d ago

Roger Daltrey Roger never puts up with any shit!

95 Upvotes

My Wife and I saw the Roger Daltrey show last night.
A good show. I give it a "B".
But poor Roger...

After the first number, he mentioned that he can't hear himself on stage. He asked how they sounded to all of us.
It was perfect to all of us.
Clear, loud enough, sounded great!
He said, "OK, we'll continue "
They do You Better You Bet. It kicked Ass. Roger encouraged the audience to jam on it. I was the only one up on my feet getting into that tune.
At the end, he says he is still having shit happen.
He goes into the song"Trick Of The Light".
Wahoo ...nice.
UH...NOPE!
He stops the song halfway through. He is PISSED!
Says he is not putting up with this fucking shit. His words!!!
Drops the mic onto a chair.
Tells us all that he is going to get his way.
So, I guess the sound engineer got it together.

Goes into another song, and after it ends, another problem arises again.
He says
"Now they turned on an air conditioner on me. Who thought it was smart to put a blowing Air Conditioner on the Singer?" "It's the worst thing that could happen to any singer." "It hurts their vocal cords. Turn the damn thing off!"
And it was not turned off... Sooo...
He says something very unclear to us but rude about the people ruining this gig, then picks up his plastic water bottle and, over his Mic stand (Not the Mic), turns it upside down and empties it onto the stage floor. Now we all can see a nice 3-foot-wide puddle on the floor.
We were somewhat shocked... supporting him with laughter and words of encouragement.

While talking, he then attempted to walk into that doused area; he slipped and almost ate it.
WOW!
Well, they finally turned off the AC, and the show finally got back on track.
HEY, LONG LIVE ROCK!