In '70 when they played The Met Opera House for Tommy (I saw them 3xs pre-Tommy, then once Tommy at the Filmore East) they opened with this - Heaven and Hell. Nearly knocked outta my seat sonically speaking! So powerful!
Wait. Entwistle is great and arguably the musical glue since Keith was more about the fills but at a live show, it’s Pete, Roger and Keith with 99% of the visible energy. Entwistle couldn’t have made himself any more invisible with that blacked out suit. The comments of every Who live show points out this apparent disrespect to Entwistle but it seems to me it suited him just fine to lay back in the dark and put down the groove. There’s no I in team people. Or in The Who. They’re phenomenal, particularly in this era, in my opinion, where they were raw and tight at the same time.
if you're a musician but sometimes feel down about the music and think about quitting, just play that song and feel all of your will of being a rock musician coming back.
From 68 to probably 73 Pete Townshend's guitar tone was the best! Eddie Van Halen was a huge fan tried to capture that tone.. The Who Live.. Second Too None!!!
Once the hardest working band in show business. This is a great clip, I had forgot about this movie's existence, and I've never seen the whole thing through. Note to self...
Agora eu sei de onde o flea se inspirou pra usar uma roupa de esqueleto,um gênio se inspira em outro,rip John entwistle,uma triste perda pro mundo da música,pelo menos agora deve estar só vendo seus discípulos crescerem no baixo
I'll try and explain this the best way I can: In music over the centuries there are these little snippets of pure magic that would dwarf the drivel of which we hear in a lot of modern pop culture today. That chord and vocal change at 1:47 ("And we have eternal life and Never die") is one of those moments. Some of you may understand where I'm coming from with this and some of you won't of course......
It was said that they started with this song because it was a good song to test the volume levels and make sure everything was working properly. Then so when they moved on to more familiar material it sounded good. great song i think its a perfect opener!
Best concert lead-off song ever? 1) It rocks! 2) It's a classic Who curveball, with John singing first! How many bands would dare have their third singer start a concert? 3) Because it's John's song, it so well reflects the balance/tension within the band, with its multiple songwriters and singers, with John's preeminent musicianship, Roger's insecurities (although he was coming into his own quite nicely at this point), Pete fitting in.
Today marks 20 years since John left us for the big gig in the sky :-( I've been looking for footage of this song where the camera actually focuses on him but do you think I can find it? God it annoys me that Roger, Pete and Keith got all the attention, talented as they are. John was a bloody genius and he's always overlooked in live footage. Having said that, this is a fabulous performance!
A bit like Steve Hackett when he was with Genesis . John probably kept everyone else grounded. 😊.. This epic song really shows off John’s brilliant voice..
I never noticed the reverse crowd scene at the beginning. That's strange. I love the little things in the DVD; That cymbal mute at 3:25 here is just genius by Keith, his necklace that says "My Name Is Brandy", John getting smacked by a whirling Roger mike, Pete cranking up the Hiwatt amp on this song's solo, Pete complaining about having to tune up on stage. The purchace was worth every penny. The Who were the best here; the band at their summit.
I'd would disagree in that their Who's Next Tour was their summit and they still reached many instances in concerts after that that hit peak performance! (I know I was there! 🙂 )
I know no other footage of a rock performance of this level, and of a song that good, where the cameras would miss the lead singer altogether. What a shame...
I have the deluxe edition of "Leeds" that you are referring to. They alternated between "Heaven and Hell" and Can't Explain. Pete enjoyed Heaven and Hell because it allowed him to warm up. One of Ox's best and this is a great version (topped only by the Leeds version)
It's very hard to tell from the DVD because of the heavy editing but John looks OK in the first song but later, maybe during Summertime Blues, he's got a nasty gash on his nose. I've never heard Roger's mike swishing around like I can in this DVD as he swings it past the cymbals. There's also a great scene of a roadie trying to replace the right bass drum head mid song while Keith pounds away. He was probably the best drummer I ever saw. Anaheim Stadium 1970, the year I graduated High School.
This is the best live footage of the Who that i've ever seen, and I've been looking for a long time. They are on fire right here... The new Lerner footage of Isle of Wight is now the "bible" of live Who, in my opinion. If anyone knows of better stuff please let me know. best regards..... BzB
No john was sooo soft spoken, make you cry when he spoke, this song like my wife and cousin ernie, were his his bass skills rival geddy lee and les claypool.agree?
Does it get any better than this? 600,000 people, the Who taking the stage at 2 a.m. and rocking the shit out of the audience. This could never be duplicated today.
john entwistle: spends hours writing this song
camera: focuses on literally all of the other members but him
john entwistle: am i a joke to you?
The Who, ‘68-‘71, were an absolute force of nature - brutal!
Best band on the planet then
It was especially glorious to see them during that time - power, beauty, and splendor!
One question was asked when neil peart attempted at their concert
Was neil goin to have this kind of stamina?
*78
Definition of "Live Rock n Roll!"
This is what rock and roll is all about, agreed my friend?.
This is the perfect example of what rock is all about. Its maximum rock and roll.
The Who should never be forgotten. Not now, and not 500 years from now. No other band has what they've had. True rock personified.
"A nice rock and roll band"!
THE BEST ROCK AND ROLL BAND
Totally nice
From Sheppard's Bush
Love the name of them limey towns🇺🇸🇺🇸
Dry English humour. :)
better than nice
These guys totally gave you something to hear and watch. Very kick ass rock!!
The Who were on top of their game right here in their prime. Friggin awesome!
John Entwistle's bass line gives me shivers... He was at his best in this show. It's just awesome.
The Ox, best bass player ever!
Keith was a machine. Never stopped... with anything. Poor bloke burnt out too early and realised it.
Ladies and gentlemen a nice rock and roll band from Shepherds Bush, London…The Who! Thank you very much. 🫶🏽
Was this not one of the most incredible openings to a concert you have ever seen or heard!?!?!
In '70 when they played The Met Opera House for Tommy (I saw them 3xs pre-Tommy, then once Tommy at the Filmore East) they opened with this - Heaven and Hell.
Nearly knocked outta my seat sonically speaking! So powerful!
There's no one that can work a Mic stand and cables like Roger. Even when he's not singing, he's still on fire.
love pete and roger but wish john 'the ox' 'the architect' entwistle had got more camera footage on this one. epic :)
Yeah! That skeleton suit is awesome!
Especially since it's his song.
Amen to that!
Wait. Entwistle is great and arguably the musical glue since Keith was more about the fills but at a live show, it’s Pete, Roger and Keith with 99% of the visible energy. Entwistle couldn’t have made himself any more invisible with that blacked out suit. The comments of every Who live show points out this apparent disrespect to Entwistle but it seems to me it suited him just fine to lay back in the dark and put down the groove. There’s no I in team people. Or in The Who. They’re phenomenal, particularly in this era, in my opinion, where they were raw and tight at the same time.
What an awesome display of the power they created. Flat out rocked it! Moon and Entwistle are fantastic!!
O THE WHO NOS PALCOS ERA SIMPLESMENTE ARRASADOR ! GRANDE BANDA !
"A nice rock'n'roll band from Shepherds Bush, London..." Woooooaaaahhhhh!!!!
Poor John...Needs more camera time
if you're a musician but sometimes feel down about the music and think about quitting, just play that song and feel all of your will of being a rock musician coming back.
akenji47 Thats what ive been feeling lately and i bought the who live at leeds record the other day and your right it has brought a lot of will back
This and The Kids Are Alright are amazing films
That is true. This concert gets me so stoked
This is the way to start a concert! They took "no prisoners" on stage!
John and Keith inspire me so much! They're amazing
Why can't we eternally see The Who at this stage of their lives? Our's, too, for that matter. They're Electric!
Because that's the way it is...:)
From 68 to probably 73 Pete Townshend's guitar tone was the best! Eddie Van Halen was a huge fan tried to capture that tone.. The Who Live.. Second Too None!!!
They just tore it right up when they played. Blown away by these guys forever.
Angus Young was big fan too
RIP john & keith - long live roger and pete
The more I listen to this song the more I LOVE IT!!!!
I think this was the best live rock band ever.Long live The Who .Just wish Keith was still here to enjoy it!its just not the same without you!
Best Drummer Ever!
This is pure heavy metal!
Never been a band like them!
Once the hardest working band in show business. This is a great clip, I had forgot about this movie's existence, and I've never seen the whole thing through. Note to self...
perfect introduction to a fantastic Rock Show!!!
The Who's performance on stage is unbeatable till today!!!
i absolutely adore them!
LOVE THE OX!
There’s not a heavy Metal band that played with this much power. The who are the kings in my book!
Yeah, I've yet to see a better rock performance than this. This whole concert has been my favorite.
@johnoberle9750 yes! I've been to Ozzfest, seen many groups. The Who could blow them all off the stage !!
This and Zep's RAH show the same year are probaly the two best rock concerts in the whole history of mankind.
Underrated song! One of their best!!
Nice rock and roll band?. Super grandiosa e poderosa banda da historia do rock.
Every band should play this good at 2 in the morning.
Just got the Live at Leeds CD with all the extra songs on it. AMAZING!!! The Who fuckin' ROCK!!!
Leeds imho was a sub-par show... Wight was the superior performance.
how the heaven and hell these four guys could be so talented in what they do?
The Who,Beatles,Led Zeppelin,minhas 3 bandas favoritas
as minhas tbm
If there was just 1 thing I could go back in time to see it would be this Concert... Incredible Intro!!
Deep Purple, The Who, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath.
This time of Rock n Roll will never be equiled.
Best Rock 💪 ever
The Who es la mejor banda de Rock de todos los tiempos y también soy mega fan de John Entwistle. Wow!!!!! excelente video!!!!!
Very raw and very loud
Agora eu sei de onde o flea se inspirou pra usar uma roupa de esqueleto,um gênio se inspira em outro,rip John entwistle,uma triste perda pro mundo da música,pelo menos agora deve estar só vendo seus discípulos crescerem no baixo
awesome song and one of their best concerts, and i love the way keith comes out haha
You dont see Rock Bands Like This Anymore!Long Live The Who.
Best live band ever❤
oh my this is incredible. simply amazing, these guys were so innovative, so talented, so cool.
Incredible in every way. PLAY IT LOUD!
Well said. Long live Keith, long live John, long live The Who!
I'll try and explain this the best way I can: In music over the centuries there are these little snippets of pure magic that would dwarf the drivel of which we hear in a lot of modern pop culture today. That chord and vocal change at 1:47 ("And we have eternal life and Never die") is one of those moments. Some of you may understand where I'm coming from with this and some of you won't of course......
I couldn't quite describe like you, but yeah - it's Powerful and Poignant at the same time.
Look at how they burn on stage.Wow.
Full On Maxima R & B band!!💨💨💨💨
It was said that they started with this song because it was a good song to test the volume levels and make sure everything was working properly. Then so when they moved on to more familiar material it sounded good. great song i think its a perfect opener!
Heaven and Hell and Can't Explain were their best openeners
Best concert lead-off song ever? 1) It rocks! 2) It's a classic Who curveball, with John singing first! How many bands would dare have their third singer start a concert? 3) Because it's John's song, it so well reflects the balance/tension within the band, with its multiple songwriters and singers, with John's preeminent musicianship, Roger's insecurities (although he was coming into his own quite nicely at this point), Pete fitting in.
And one hard rocking pop song.
I love John's voice, decent bassist too. ( ;
Today marks 20 years since John left us for the big gig in the sky :-( I've been looking for footage of this song where the camera actually focuses on him but do you think I can find it? God it annoys me that Roger, Pete and Keith got all the attention, talented as they are. John was a bloody genius and he's always overlooked in live footage. Having said that, this is a fabulous performance!
Woaaah, you're right. 20 years! sigh
i dont think he wanted the attention...long live john best bassist ever
A bit like Steve Hackett when he was with Genesis . John probably kept everyone else grounded. 😊.. This epic song really shows off John’s brilliant voice..
Keith is out of control!
John is THEE BEST BASS PLAYER EVER!! Love his vocals too!
Wild that their opener during their peak years was an Entwistle song.
that place was fuckin rockin'
I never noticed the reverse crowd scene at the beginning. That's strange.
I love the little things in the DVD; That cymbal mute at 3:25 here is just genius by Keith, his necklace that says "My Name Is Brandy", John getting smacked by a whirling Roger mike, Pete cranking up the Hiwatt amp on this song's solo, Pete complaining about having to tune up on stage. The purchace was worth every penny.
The Who were the best here; the band at their summit.
I'd would disagree in that their Who's Next Tour was their summit and they still reached many instances in concerts after that that hit peak performance! (I know I was there! 🙂 )
Best drummer EVER!!!
I know no other footage of a rock performance of this level, and of a song that good, where the cameras would miss the lead singer altogether. What a shame...
Gooooodness, this explosive performance would destroy bands even today
I have the deluxe edition of "Leeds" that you are referring to. They alternated between "Heaven and Hell" and Can't Explain. Pete enjoyed Heaven and Hell because it allowed him to warm up. One of Ox's best and this is a great version (topped only by the Leeds version)
i have this whole concert on dvd. Its fuckin awesome.
A Band with a good songwriter, with a great songwriter!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck sake !....how good is this ?....just jaw dropping, what a band
class as always
amazing song, john's songs are amazing. keith is unbeleivable here!
R.I.P JOHN and KIETH (7/9/78-30 YEARS)
I would give this approximately 80 bajillion likes if I could. #kony2020
Best Rock band ever!
my best song!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT
This song is so perfect
Sin dudarlo the who parte de la santísima trinidad del rock británico
that fucking bass is unbelievable
This is Keith Moon’s best night on drums do F’N on!
It's very hard to tell from the DVD because of the heavy editing but John looks OK in the first song but later, maybe during Summertime Blues, he's got a nasty gash on his nose.
I've never heard Roger's mike swishing around like I can in this DVD as he swings it past the cymbals. There's also a great scene of a roadie trying to replace the right bass drum head mid song while Keith pounds away. He was probably the best drummer I ever saw. Anaheim Stadium 1970, the year I graduated High School.
This is the best live footage of the Who that i've ever seen, and I've been looking for a long time. They are on fire right here...
The new Lerner footage of Isle of Wight is now the "bible" of live Who, in my opinion. If anyone knows of better stuff please let me know.
best regards..... BzB
This is one of the best things I've ever seen...
No john was sooo soft spoken, make you cry when he spoke, this song like my wife and cousin ernie, were his his bass skills rival geddy lee and les claypool.agree?
0:40 yeeah The Who! that girl knows
grandissimi
Moon was just manic on the drums.
Brutal...absolutely brutal stuff!
I totally agree, Roger Daltrey and Robert Plant, best two rock voices of the seventys
Magic.
Keith Moon - goddamn.
John Entwhistle, i bow down to you.
pure rock and roll !!!!!!!!
Keith moon is a GOD on Drums and John Enwhistle is a GOD on Bass!!
Queen were big in the 70´s. but they really took off in the 80´s
E P I C ! ! !
Does it get any better than this? 600,000 people, the Who taking the stage at 2 a.m. and rocking the shit out of the audience. This could never be duplicated today.
i got the live at leeds cd best damn thing ive ever heard just utterly brilliant
In the language of Moon, hi-hat means crash cymbal
awesome bass
These guys are the fucking kings. Bar none.