Won't Get Fooled Again

Pete Townsend talks about the famous intro sound and how he did it. From the "Classic Albums" TV series.

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• synth
• analog

[Patzeppelin69]

Where did this come from??

[analoghell]

Read the info box.

[aharambol]

Thanx for posting this video, though it's very short. Have you got more of that interview ?

[danakerman]

It shouldn't be so difficult to recreate with modern digital equipment. The principle is fairly simple: Play block chords on with a regular organ sound and feed the sound into a synthesizer running an LFO which controls a VCA (voltage controlled audio). This will create the "square" shaped tremolo heard, and it can be timed to the 1/8th or 1/16th note, as in the song. The output of that signal can then be fed to a VCF (voltage control filter) for the tone sweep.

[pipeandslippersman]

@badboybob1074 the band played along to one of pete's pre-recorded ARP tapes. the tape was created for the demo, with pete playing the songs chords through his Lowry organ and then through the synth as described above... the band actually recorded the song once or twice BEFORE the famed 'who's next' version was recorded, essentially live, in mick jagger's country pile called 'Stargroves' by glyn johns. so: well rehearsed, but very live as you can hear in pete and moon's shout at the end!

[badboybob1074]

I'm actually more interested as to how the song was recorded. Like if they recorded themselves first then dubbed the synthesizer?

[TheJoeyEmilyShow]

That is some trippy shit. Trippier than "In A Gadda Da Vida" by Iron Butterfly.

[JustinC721]

Is that an ARP 2500?

[p47paul]

Check out my channel. The guitar player of The Dirty Cricks converted the synth to guitar on Fooled Again. It sounds so cool.

[3mptyLab]

@johnrozzo Actually Baba O'Riley can be emulated with 2 arpeggiators on an average keyboard (I managed to recreate it using my korg triton extreme... I've also uploaded a crappy video made with my smartphone to show the result).

[paulj0557]

Are the negatives are because it cuts off at the end? Thanks for posting anyway, what is this from and where do I go to see the rest?

[Franquay]

Reminds me of Roger Waters demonstrating DSOM on "Classic Albums" reminiscent of that ERA, "We Won't see that AGAIN" !! (intro A Chord) !!!

[sephardimm]

Hey this little blue rack is an vintage Orban 245E mono to stereo converter, which I still own :-)