The Who - Baba O'Riley - Multiple Camera Angles

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The Who rip it all up with Baba O'Riley, recorded live at Shepperton Studios for Jeff Stein's awesome rockumentary "The Kids Are Alright".

These four camera angles are included in the DVD's Special Features. I thought it would be amazing to sync them all up. And it really is.

Also note that I've panned Entwistle's bass to the left channel and full mix to the right. (YouTube might convert all it's audio to mono, however, which would just boost the bass guitar level overall).

Many thanks to my friend Angshu for introducing me to The Who's music. Please do check out my edit of Won't Get Fooled Again as well!

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Cheers ~ Dave
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REGARDING DRUM OVERDUBS:
from "Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon" (Tony Fletcher, 2010).
http://www.amazon.com/Dear-Boy-Life-Keith-Moon/dp/1844498077
taken from Chapter 38:

"Late in August [1978], Keith was called in to CTS studios in Wembley where the soundtrack for The Kids Are Alright had been put together. He needed to overdub some drums to replace his lax playing of 'Won't Get Fooled Again' and 'Baba O'Riley' at the Shepperton concert. There was also a montage of guitar-and-drum destruction from over the years for which the original recordings were ropey, and on which Keith could have some fun.

Pete Wandless, who as house engineer at CTS had spent the past few weeks alongside Cy Längsten and John Entwistle, synching up and improving the footage of the early Who, watched Keith walk in that day. "I could barely recognise him. I knew it was him, but he was very puffy, very slow. He just looked like he was past it. His skin had taken on that pallor people have when they really are not looking after themselves, quite a grayish colour. I was quite shocked when I saw him, because he wasn't the guy I'd been watching on the screen for the last three weeks. Keith was the youngest member of the band and yet he looked ten years older than the rest of them."

Keith couldn't remember Pete's name, which didn't offend the engineer although he thought they'd met enough times over the years and recent weeks. But when Keith began calling Cyrano by a different name too, it was obvious, as Längsten recalls, that "He was gone." (Tranquillised,' thought Wandless.) He kept asking Richard Dorse to bring him more of the pills he said he was taking to cope with his alcohol withdrawal. As far as anyone else could tell, the drugs offered no improvement. At least in the old days when Keith was drunk, he could play. Now he could not even do that.

"He got halfway through, and we had to stop the tape," says Wandless. "He leaned forward resting on his two drum sticks on the toms, and he looked through the glass, like, 'God do I have to do this? It's hard work.'"

"It was pretty sad," recalls Längsten of Keith's persona and performance that day. But eventually they got the Shepperton footage dubbed in all the right places. They moved on to the montage, and "He refused to play a drum solo," recalls Entwistle. It was exasperating. All they wanted him to do was play like he always had done over the years -- a free-form rampage over the drums. Keith started playing and singing Boris Pickett's 'Monster Mash' instead.

But, recalls Langsten, "That was the great thing about Keith. As out of it as he would get, he could always make you laugh. It was hilarious and tedious. He was like that a lot of the time. During the time that it was tedious you would also have tears coming out of your eyes, he was so magical and so special."

Eventually, they got what they needed. Just. He'd made them laugh - though mostly, he'd driven them to despair. Par for the course, perhaps, but still it was pitiful to see him so out of it, so dependent on drugs when he claimed he was getting healthy.
Keith never played the drums again."

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[margieox]

i really love keith moon

[ChroniclesOfSpring]

moonie was fucked... at 3:10 he thinks that's the stop... then hits the snare after the actual stop. it's terrible compared to '71 moonie. no one will ever touch moonie in his prime.

[akademozeppelion68]

awsome, this song is amazing,,,,, i love it

[slotwinski1414]

@atgskater14 perhaps what you guys are mixing up is... NOT Baba... but rather, in WGFAgain, the solo at the end was redone. And that is it. Not the entire song or anything... JUST the solo at the end. If you watch the different camera angles, you'll see that they aren't all the same compared to the 'movie' edited version. Either way, this is him doing the real drums here, and for 99% of the WGFA video as well.

[atgskater14]

@DaveDaranjo

I never said a session man covered for keith but thanks for the message,

[DaveDaranjo]

@kaye789 This Myth is Busted - there was no session man. For more information on this, check out Chapter 38 of "Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon" (by Tony Fletcher, 2010). Or to read an excerpt regarding drum overdubs, just open the Video Description in the above video. I hope this puts this rumor to rest.

[DaveDaranjo]

@atgskater14 I found this video, thanks. The narrator says: "The sound on this film is not Keith's live performance. It is a recording made later in the studio". There is no mention of a session man. I researched this further and found a very interesting passage from Chapter 38 of "Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon" (by Tony Fletcher, 2010). I have posted this excerpt to the Video Description so click above to read it! So, as they say - this Myth is Busted.

[atgskater14]

@DaveDaranjo

Ok for some reason it is not letting me put the link address in this comment however the video that varafies my claim can be found if you type in "Keith Moon Bio" into the search bar and then click on Keith Moon Bio 6, and it is not roger who says this it is the narrator

[DaveDaranjo]

@atgskater14 Hey man, that would be awesome & thanks. If you found the video I would gladly stand corrected! I appreciate new information and hey, I wasn't there in '78 so I really can't know for sure. Hope to hear from ya & take care. :)

[atgskater14]

@DaveDaranjo

I know I have found a video where roger in an interview admits that the drumming on "The Kids Are Alright" movie is studio I'll try to find it for you.

[DaveDaranjo]

That being said I DO remember some talk of John re-doing some of his own basslines for the film remaster. But just getting some sessionist to replace John's or Keith's parts - it's sacrilege!

[DaveDaranjo]

@atgskater14 I dunno man - let's find a link that verifies your claim. As @ChroniclesOfSpring and others mention (I think rightly), what we *hear* is exactly what we *see* Keith do in the video - for instance at 03:10. Would not a sessionist play over the mistake, while the video editor cuts away from the drums to complete the illusion? As a musician, an editor, and as someone who has seen the movie multiple times - I see no evidence to support the "sessionist" theory re: Keith. Sorry!