You know when I post stuff here, I like to share something rare or deepcut-ish, this is one of those.

66/10/15          Record Mirror: Anti-Love. You won’t find any moon-June romance in songs from the Who. “I suppose you could say that we’re the most unromantic group around.” The speaker was John Entwistle, bass man with the Who and formerly the mystery man of the group. John continued: “We’ve never recorded a real love song. And we couldn’t do it now. It just wouldn’t be our image. The songs that we write, especially Pete, are very unromantic and we somehow can’t image ourselves singing love songs, especially at this stage. I mean, “I’m A Boy” is almost a queer song. I don’t know whether or not singing about love makes any difference to the fans. I don’t think so. But we do have quite a large following of blokes which may have something to do with this anti-love thing.” John’s musical career goes back a long way before the Who. He studied music for many years at school (he has been able to read and write music for thirteen years) and passed several musical examinations. He played in a 200-piece your orchestra at school, and leaned to play several brass instruments very proficiently, including the French horn and the trumpet. “But when I left school, I abandoned a lot of the things I had learned,” he explained. “You see, I had started playing bass at school and it was there that Pete and I started a group. We met Roger who was in the year above us, and we formed the Who – not that we were called that – with another drummer. We left school, and eventually turned pro, and changed drummers and names. Keith joined us just before we became the High Numbers, and we had been playing together, us three, for about three years. Keith fitted in very well though. Recently though, we’ve been experimenting with new sounds, and my musical background has come in useful, I think. I’ve been using French horn on some of the tracks on our new LP. It’s a beautiful instrument. It cost me about £200 and it’s very sensitive. The thing is though, that I can’t keep on playing brass for any length of time. My lip isn’t strong enough yet – when you play brass you have to develop your lip. When I was at school I could play trumpet for any length of time. Now I have to stop after about half an hour.” John has written two songs for the new Who LP. One is “Whiskey Man” and the other is “Boris the Spider”. In fact, all of the Who have written songs for the disc, and all of them are featured singing lead vocal on the LP. The Who are shortly off on a Continental tour, then they will be coming back to Britain for a package show with the Merseys. But they don’t perform as much as they used to. They are all too busy writing songs and thinking up ideas. John doesn’t take so much part in the smashing-up antics of the rest of the group. Does he disapprove? “Oh no. I like all the smashing up. But it’s part of the act. I stand there and look amazed and horrified as the others smash up valuable equipment. Then at the end of the song, on my last note, I adjust the feedback to keep the note going and drop the guitar heavily on the stage. It makes a terrific sound, and that’s the end of the number. I tried to smash my guitar up once, but I couldn’t. I think it’s impossible – I shove it into an amplifier, but it just went straight through and came out the other side. There was hardly any damage done to the guitar at all.” Don’t expect to see John playing any brass on stage though, even though there might be some bigger sounds on their newer records. The Who don’t intend to have brass on stage, and they won’t be having any other musicians on stage with them either. They pay out enough money on replacing instruments, without paying any more musicians … NORMAN JOPLING. (p. 6)

Been falling back into physical media lately. This picture bring back any nostalgia? Also, I couldn't find any information on the iPod cover. (Any information about that would be great) Cheers everyone.

Keith Moon Roger Daltrey John Entwhistle aka Thunderfingers Pete Townshend Kennedy Jones

Great Live Performance.

I've been looking into info on this song and am finding stuff that doesn't seem right, like it might be a mistake, and wanted other opinions. Was this song recorded by The Who in 1964, then again in 1971, then by solo Roger in 1975? Here is some stuff I found on the track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMbRcBOsuyU

https://www.discogs.com/master/911294-The-High-Numbers-Live-1964?srsltid=AU7gw4WbaeCcbLg3-P2cNwNIWcALa4Rosfwzqio3gmMkyLTe8q7mtw5h

https://www.facebook.com/thewho.info/videos/the-who-walking-the-doglive-at-the-young-vic-rehearsal-1971/1094825992974870/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_a_Rock_Horse

this is a promo sticker my brother kept. i recall being in 4th grade and so many older kids in my neighborhood going and i was bummed. i loved the Clash as a
little kid and wanted to see them. would be a bigger Who fan when they came back in 89. what great memories…

We paid a fortune for the VHS format in the 1980s and didn’t get much in return in respect of quality. And the media companies knew this. I’m just looking at this bonus disc sequence where they show the difference between VHS and DVD quality on the Kids Are Alright remaster. DVD clearly much better value when judged on a) purchase price b) quality.

Edit: So many people missing the whole point! I’m talking about value for money. We paid through the nose back then and got ripped off. Lots of people are seemingly turbo nostalgic and grateful for anything despite it being shit on a stick.

Good afternoon! I am currently parting with my entire record collection and I have these Who records available. If you’re interested please message me!

The Who - Face Dances (Record Store Day exclusive blue and yellow vinyl) $19.99

The Who - Greatest Hits (exclusive red vinyl) $23.99

The Who - The Who Sell Out (exclusive odorono red and baked bean orange vinyl) $34.99

Filmed by Peter Goldman and Pete Townshend interviewed by Inga-Lill Palm. "Bucket T" recorded to give Keith Moon a lead vocal with one of his beloved surf/hotrod tunes. Film sold to Swedish television. After it aired there, The Who's "Bucket T" was released as a single and became the group's only #1 single in Sweden.

Your best Who box set and why? Go!

Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry

I love this album. I listen at least once a week. I'm 65 years old and always been a classic rock kind of guy. but,I fell in love with Bluegrass since I live in apalachia now.