The Who - Overture from Tommy acoustic cover

[escrotumus]

Skills! Bravo man. Best on YT.

[peter3922]

@escrotumus Thank you very much,

[oberfour1]

This beautiful Gibson Jumbo is in worthy hands.

Pete Townsend himself would love this. Great playing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[peter3922]

@oberfour1 Thanks! Mind you it is difficult to sound bad with such a great guitar.



[binocularbard]

@peter3922 dude, dont discredit yourself. this song is raping my patience. my rock emsamble class is performing the whole tommy album in 2 months and this song is the only thing thats getting to me. the song is so random.

[youenjoy00myself]

Nice playing, but where was the long acoustic guitar break? That was always my favorite part of the overture...also, just one thing, the 2nd to last chord at the end of "It's a Boy" is Em, not D. But otherwise it was perfect.

[patkar01]

been a who fan for 30 years...very nice ...you are extremely talented.

[peter3922]

@patkar01 Thank you, very kind.

[paulakanoodles]

nice work.

[AKartoons]

Brilliant! you nailed it. I created animation for this song for the teenage cancer trust concert at the Royal Albert Hall 2011. Been to the last two Daltrey performances of Tommy( Albert Hall and Indigo,O2), they are one tight band and you are up there with them.

Peace

[peter3922]

Thanks!! Loved the animation (saw it at the Albert Hall gig)...great work.

[hoosierteacher]

At 2:03 I'm thinking "How is this guy going to pull off Touch Me Feel Me, my favorite part of the overture?" Strumming the guitar with no ability to sustain the notes like an electric guitar, how does one pull it off? Well you did, and I thank you for the excellent cover. Well Done!!!!

[peter3922]

Thanks!



[kanzosupremo]

Very nice. This is actually one of my favorite who songs, and this cover is AWESOME, because it feature my favorite instrument in this song

[thewhostommy]

i have 90 copies of "TOMMY"..marching band version, london symphony, electric (moog)..and other weird versions.....YOU PLAY TOMMY BEAUTIFULLY!!  After following Tommy for 30 years..I Finally found a great guitarist!!!! Keep on "tommying" out!!!

[peter3922]

Thanks for the compliment !

[themrtatty]

Talent!

[12stringsforme]

1:10 that's 3 Steps to Heaven by Eddie Cochran.

[zzyoman]

nice job man , i like ure gibson, what type is it, is it the same one tht townsend uses?

[peter3922]

@zzyoman Cheers! Yes its the same SJ200...my pride and joy!

[zzyoman]

@peter3922 nice one

[cshargeit]

great... except the first note falls from c to b flat... epic fail.

[sephyboy09]

That was fucking beast!

[4runner39]

@sephyboy09 YEAH it was

[Natokowsky]

not bad. should be A major @ 1:14. and theres parts at the end missing.

[SJOERD21345]

nice

[brandinator22]

not very good

[jakandjakesjams]

by the way peter, thanks heaps for the awesome cover, it really showed me what the tabs of this song couldn't. cheers!

[Herreken]

This is even better than the live Who performances I've seen on Youtube. Any chance on you posting tabs?

[peter3922]

@Herreken Thanks! Im afraid I never learned tab. I did this from ear and watching vids.

[Mortary1]

just amazing

[lafeuille1]

champion du monde l'ami!! superbe!!!!!!!!

[peter3922]

Merci!

[letsgosteelers89]

You made that your bitch. Best cover on youtube for sure.

[peter3922]

Thanks!

[neibobber]

5-stars =+++++ thanks..hey kiss the sky ,why so mean,? did the girl you used to love pass you by? the one from the yellow house?I see you.

[KissTheSky321]

This sucks, you could have (and should have) left the strumming patterns and chords the same....but nooooooooo you have to be "unique" and change em around and what not. Utterably horrible

[peter3922]

No idea what you are talking about. Please put a demonstration on your page of you playing it so I understand what you are going on about.

[jkllad]

I don't even know what he means by "unique." You sound like Townshend live! It's great. I played bass to it.....

[peter3922]

Thanks very much for the compliment!

[KissTheSky321]

@peter3922 ok i will record a video to demonstrate, sorry for the haiting in the earlier comment, I was tired and frustrated at all the misrepresentation this song gets on youtube :P

[jakandjakesjams]

@KissTheSky321 Hey dude, the joy of guitar is that everyone plays it differently, if we all sounded the same it would be fucking boring and a waste of time :-)

[peter3922]

@jakandjakesjams thanks for the great comment. I agree as well, there are no rules on what is the correct way to play something, everyone hears songs differently and should play how they want. Pete Townshend never played anything the same way twice and I think he would be the last person to tell anyone the "correct" way to play any of his songs. Music would be very dull if no one experimented with it!

[Pookie4435]

As one of the women who saw the Who do ,"Tommy" in 1970..You have done a great job....:-)

[sallysimpson7]

wow! two of my musical loves rolled up together into one...Tommy and Acoustic Guitar!

Thank you, you did this amazingly!!!

[88888Rob]

Great work--fun to listen to! I can pretty much do "Sparks" on a 12-string-not perfectly though!

[4runner39]

phenominal rythym playing dude..how do you move your right hand that fast??

[ConteMascetti72]

hats off! great work with your right hand (as pete does)

any tabs? ^^

[sbamkmfdmdfmk]

I'm sure already aware at this point but the intro's slightly off. The second chord should go right to the C/Bb, not a C/B. By the way, LOVE the vids you're doing with garethnh. Fantastic stuff!

[modfather1965]

Brilliant!  So many chord changes and strumming patterns... Townshend is a genius. You play him well.

[Woody263]

It's like listening to the original! Very accurate - I wish I could play this :(

[jkllad]

That was so cool- love acoustic!

[felazz1]

dude youre awsome:D 5 stars!!

have you got the tab for me?

[kingdom777866]

Thats a shame.. cos theres nothing wrong with you playing, i love the who!

is your guitar "the classic"?

I have a J200 its what they call the "True

vintage" i would hate it to sound crap through bad mic's ect..

dont know about you.. but its the best thing ive ever bought in my life!!

[kingdom777866]

Dont know if its your setup.. but its the

worst sounding j200 ive ever heard?

Is it a Gibson or epiphone?

[peter3922]

It a Gibson. Its probably more to do with the fact I recorded the video on a very cheap camera. Sounds great in the room.

[rsaathoff]

That was absolutely awesome! Pete's Genius came through with this Opera composition. I've been working on playing some of these pieces from Tommy for a while and you make it look so easy. Nice job. Loved the Sparks rendition also.

[peter3922]

Thanks very much! yeah it was only until I started to learn these pieces that I realised Townshend was a great guitarist as well as composer

[mullinator7]

i know most of this song exept for the intro here, ive got a bit of it, but is there any chance you could do a lesson video? or just send me the chords? it would help a lot

[Herreken]

Wow, that was great.

[xKaCh2012x]

awesomeness!!!! love it! I wish I played guitar!

[grimyjeeves]

Really good - liked it a lot mate

[indochine092]

that's just......amazing

[scodug]

if you don't play out, you're nuts! you must...that was freakin awesome!

[peter3922]

Thanks!

[TheSlip67]

I also bought a guitar instead of a car. I continued to drive the 1985 Ford Granada that burned a quart of oil with every half tank of gas to buy the 1987 Pete Townshend limited edition signature Rickenbacker. The car is gone, but the guitar sounds great! BTW: Sounds great.

[ElFlakoRompanTodo]

exellent, it would be better if you put some silents in the see me feel me part but it is still great!

[garethnh]

Nice one Pete. That's a beautiful sounding guitar.

[peter3922]

Cheers Gareth. It was getting a car or the Gibson and the guitar won. Its worth having to walk everywhere!