The Who Dr. Jimmy Live (Philly 1973)

[RogellParadox]

my favourite banda, my favourite album, my favourite music!!!

[finylvinyl66]

Quadrophenia was pretty hard to pull off live but they did it fine on this date. I'd seen the Who in the summer of '71 (which, in my opinion, was about their peak) and could tell that Keith Moon was starting to go downhill, but it was always great to see him. Saw them again during their "farewell tour" in '82 and it was nowhere near as good as this.

[finylvinyl66]

I believe I was at this gig. Lynyrd Skynyrd opened and it was quite a night.

[MegaCokamo]

@finylvinyl66 wow thats awesome man.

[thewhochilipeppersU2]

I have some footage from this show on my channel that I shot myself!

[stephencellucci]

Rodgers horse,but still great!

[gerrycroninlfc95]

this sums up rock

and the best song on the album

[li4m]

One of my favorite songs... Beautiful.

[GreenhouseEffectGE]

All of the versions of this that i have heard on here are really good ,...we all heard so much bad about the 1973, 74 era who tours - and they're not soundin' bad at all on youtube today ,...

[dersh65]

Question: How can you beat the Who?

Answer: You can't.

[mrmixelplx]

I was there.  Long live Rock

[dersh65]

Great Stuff!! This is epic!!!!

[rg3rbick]

the entire concert audio is at wolfgangs concert vault. google it.

[LongHairRocker27]

i never heard of that site

its great thanx

[eameece]

I played this track thousands of times. A soundtrack for my life. It was made available on a bootleg album called "Decidedly Belated Response," named after the wait the recorder endured for some correspondence from Pete. The "argument" at the start was not included though!

[eameece]

The ending to this performance is the most transcendent moment in their career; a great moment in music history.

[blondtele]

Please post more!

I believe PT was also drinking heavily on this tour and there were numerous battles with Daltrey... saw this philly show as a 17 yr old and The Who was the center of my universe for many years afterwards... I also taped the King Biscuit broadcast and it remained a prized posession until lost sometime during college years

[JohnFPorcaro]

Townshend was ticked about something, just listen how he just drops the intro, then starts going off on somebody.

He had such a temper back then.

[nhenshall]

I think Townshend was going off about the backing tape being slow to start, he makes a jibe at Bobby Pridden, their road manager, in charge of rolling the tape. I saw an interview where Pridden says he always got the blame for things going wrong and the backing tapes were pretty tempramental in those days. It cant have been easy !!

[Exilemainstreet]

Exactly, nhenshall. Pete says "if it don't come together shortly, you're gonna be our straight (?) man again Pridden."

[hansieh]

yeah, that's exactly what he says....lol.

Referring to the gig i think in Glasgow earlier that year, when things went wrong and Townshend dragged Bobby over the Mixing desk and put him on front of the stage, then started ripping the tapes up and finally stormed off stage. Big T Temper!

Pridden actually wanted to quit after that, but Townshend apologized for the whole incident the day after.

On stage the band really needed Pridden. He was for an important part responsible for their stage sound.

[Exilemainstreet]

hansieh, I remember reading that story somewhere. We'll never see a band like the Who again. It was lightning in a bottle.

[loyaldude10]

You should read about Roger's violent temper back in the early-mid 1960s

[longliverock1973]

my dad was at this concert he's sooooo LUCKY

[Headbanger142]

Great song! Great album! Too bad Roger's voice went in some points. It was going good at the start.

[Exilemainstreet]

Why is Townshend authorizing song after song to be used for commerials in the US?

He's ruining my life.

[roccadaricci]

It's called making money.  What' wrong with that?

[amorrisseyprodromou]

people bitch about their favorite bands "selling out". i dont like it, but they have to make money and in my opinion, if the band has anything more than just concerts and albums, then their selling out, but its not a big deal. it doesnt really matter all that much. its still good music. im just putting that opinion there

[zzzxxyy]

There is a big difference between selling your music to certain enterprises (like the classic rock and R&B musicians do),and selling your music rights away as you work on your record, like today's musicians do. That's my take.

[phinest20]

Agreed. Of coarse they did put out an album called Sellout and it is not about selling out a concert.

[BarryDennen12]

Sell, sell, sell. A lot of my favourite songs are used in ways I don't approve of, but then I have the option of not buying into that. I don't drink Pepsi, so when Britney/Pink/Beyonce raped that song, they didn't get any extra benefit from me because of it.

I say more power to the artist. If I were in a position to sell out, I bloody well would!

[DarthMurray]

The Who Sell Out.

[billiey61]

he owns the who .that's why .he wrote everything ,and so on .nothing more .

[rockingmods]

PEACE AND LOVE FOR EVEYONE!

[TadRapidly]

@rockingmods Peace and Love to you, brother. Blessings to Baba Pete.

[averysensiblename]

The whole album (& prob later live performances) is on a torrent. Just search for it. Might be bundled with a whole bunch of other stuff tho!

[BuddyT]

Very good audio quality.

[forsakensamael]

awesome song ...

cant find it on limewire tho :(

[dockaiser]

We want more !! (please)

[Jgirlstrawberry]

Yeah, post the whole album, please!

[li4m]

Is Keith hitting the hi-hat ? No kidding !!

Thanks for posting man, that's great

[CasperSoenderby]

Please post the whole album!

[Tondars]

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