The Who - Pictures of Lily

[TheMamsat]

lily oooooh lily!

[DRJVancouver]

THIS IS THE WHO at one time the greatest band ever

[shredmaster100]

this sounds more like the beatles than the who i prefer thier later work from 69 they went heavy

[gaham99]

sound's like he sings "and now my nazi quite so lonly"

[TurKFXI]

Wonderful!!

[deemilieu]

ok, i guess i'm wrong!

[brainndamage]

Entwhistle can play the trumpet and bass at the same time.

[maxepane]

@brainndamage Don't mean to split hairs, but that was a french horn, not a trumpet. Played about the same way, but just a different tone quality than a trumpet. At least you didn't call it a clarinet or something outrageous like that. :)

[RetroGuy5000]

great song by a great band

[bondurango]

Checkout Pete's electric, 12 string, mapleglo Rick. I wonder if he actually recorded this song with that guitar?

[alonenjersey]

Dig John with the serious mutton chops!

[boxferret]

Probably the only song ever written about masturbation...

[mothernaturecockbloc]

@boxferret  Violent Femmes would like a word with you.

[shanehenning26]

great song

[DIRECTORLORD]

And I ask you, "Hey mister, have you ever seen"

"Pictures of Lily?"

[Shaputy]

Check out Keith twirlling his drum sticks when he is supposed to be playing. Pretty good lip syncing for 45 yrs ago - NOT Love The Who but Roger is looking pretty faggy there,

[genuinecowhide]

@Shaputy

dude, keith moons drum sticks never match the drum tracks properly in their music videos, it's just a thing that happens

[mothernaturecockbloc]

@genuinecowhide He never cared to make it look real on mime performance's, watch some of the other ones. He just doesn't give a fuck. Like a boss.

[Snookbone]

What a great band.... I'm especially impressed with John Entwistle's versatility, playing bass AND pretty much any brass instrument. What he played on that horn sounded like random notes, but it was really a huge lip flexibility. I know professionals that struggle with that.

[rhinohouse]

Considering Pete was playing lead AND rhythm at the same time, I think he did pretty well for the times.

[deemilieu]

you spelled 'lilly' rong

[SamthePetrolhead]

You spelled 'wrong' wrong, tosser

[deemilieu]

ha, ha, i know! it was a joke 1

[rukarumel]

yeah sure.

[rockerr12595]

@SamthePetrolhead BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA the made my day

[genuinecowhide]

@deemilieu

that's how it's spelled you dumb fuck

[thebigguyconnor]

@deemilieu no, YOU did.

[Berenueve]

@deemilieu WTF?!?! it's LILY, not LILLY

[MsScarlettWoman20]

The who=amazing classic rock band!

[asmorgan88]

The Who are one of my favorite bands...but I hate when people claim that Pete Townshend is a good guitarist.

[yalcrelyt]

He is. Amazing.

He doesn't have to play ridiculous "shreds" to make great music.

Great song writer too.

[redsoxfan713]

? You don't know much about The Who, do you?

[asmorgan88]

Because I don't recognize Pete as being a good lead guitarist deems me to be uneducated about The Who?

The Who are one of my favorite bands...but I'd never say Townshend is a great guitarist. The Ramones are my favorite ever, but you'd never hear me say that Joey was a good singer, or that Johnny was a great guitarist.

I HATE ZEPPELIN - but never for a minute would I say that Jimmy Page sucked as a guitarist.

Townshend is a good rhythm guy (as seen here), but he SUCKS playing lead.

[BrutusMcCrunch]

Your a stupid ass burgalar. If you don't like the Who:

a)you shouldn't comment here.stick to the jonas brothers or fall out boy pages your used to.

b)your a piece of garbage that is responsible for music's downfall and should be hunted.

Townshend is the only man on earth who came up with the extreme combined with the beautiful and incorporated both into his guitar work so suck it,asshole.

[asmorgan88]

Yes, Townshend DID do that stuff.

But the whole time he was doing it, he was a poor lead guitarist.

[TheOdderOne]

I agree that Townshend is good but personal attacks really have nothing to do with the argument. Townshend was not a traditional lead guitarist, but his combination of rhythm and lead for me makes him my favorite and certainly one of the best. Just because he doesn't jerk off his guitar neck for ten minutes like Frank Zappa doesn't mean he's not good.

[zappatx]

Someone talking about me?

[MrGbh63]

You're uneducated and terribly misguided on so many levels i don't know where to start..... Townsends songs usually sound ok when played by other people in a fairly basic way, but you have the power of you tube to watch and learn. . . his technique and sheer invention is amillion miles ahead of most, whch is precisely the reason he's held in such esteem by other musicians - we're not stupid, you know.

[MrGbh63]

Also by way of example look for the clip of him and the Raconteurs jamming in a caravan at some festival - how they expect him to play and what he actually does are two very different things.

And don't diss my muse!

[Whicol2]

Don't worry....these guys are retarded, man......I hate it when fans are so ignorant that they will deny the obvious truth because of hero-worship. (yet I'd sell my kidneys to meet Townshend and I can admit the truth.)

Pete even admits he's not the most reknowned lead guitarist out there....big deal! He pretty much wrote the BOOK on rhythm guitar, that's his signature style.

Same goes for John Lennon....but lord help ya if you ever say anything remotely critical to a Beatle fan! haha

[asmorgan88]

Very well put.

[rockerr12595]

@Whicol2 I agree, Pete really isn't the greatest lead guitarist, but he has to be one of the greatest rhythm guitarists out there. I agree about Lennon too (and I'm a huge Beatle fan), he was a very good guitarist (try playing his part on "Till There Was You", most of the chords are very hard to play) but he wasn't really a guitar god like an Eric Clapton or a Jimi Hendrix.

[mothernaturecockbloc]

@rockerr12595  Pete wasn't a lead guitarist. He was a rhythm man, John was the lead.

[rockerr12595]

@mothernaturecockbloc never thought about it like that, very true!

[asmorgan88]

The Red Sox suck by the way...

[GazeboLand]

awesome john played french horn!?

[johnflaherty]

Yep. And Pete Townshend suspects that John's bass-playing style probably came from there, the way the fingers work on the french horn, trumpet or whatever.

[dalegrett]

N00b!!!

[yalcrelyt]

He played many different instruments.

Quadrophenia and Who's Next horn = Him.

[scottyj1832]

the horn is Entwistle

[yalcrelyt]

'twas what I said.

[ModRockFactory]

i think it was 1967

[WRannet]

66, in 67 Pete started using Fenders