WHAT WAS IT LIKE BACK THEN? 🎵 The Who MY GENERATION Reaction
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@thetheRedundant 2 жыл бұрын
You gotta understand how revolutionary “hope I die before I get old.” was in 1965. It was like giving the middle finger to the establishment. It epitomized the punk rock ethos before the term “punk rock” ever came along.
@mikecaetano 2 жыл бұрын
Ironic today considering that Roger Daltrey turned 77 in March and Pete Townshend turned 76 in May.
@maraboo72 2 жыл бұрын
And Keith Moon who died young covered "When I'm 64" by The Beatles.
@scottallencarr 2 жыл бұрын
@@mikecaetano My, my, so true!!!
@gregorybrown3272 2 жыл бұрын
Minor correction : the term "Punk Rock" was around in the 60's, and where I grew up, we used that term to describe The Who.
@MadSlantedPowers 2 жыл бұрын
And the lyrics almost sound like he is about to say an F you with "Why don't you all f-fade away."
@klaptongroovemaster 2 жыл бұрын
In 1964, the Beatles were singing, "I wanna hold your hand." The Stones were singing, "I wanna get in your pants." The Who was singing, I wanna burn your f****ng house down." The stutter is imitating a side effect of amphetamines (speed). The Who were the first big rock band to destroy their equipment at the end of the show. In the 70s, the Who were responsible for the passing of ordinances for maximum decibels allowed at concerts. They were THAT loud. When you listen to the Who, headphones are not the way to go. It should be on regular speakers cranked up so loud you feel it in your chest. Headphones that loud would hurt. A thumping car stereo would work too, but turn up the midrange too.
@valentinazampe 2 жыл бұрын
🖤
@ianpark1805 2 жыл бұрын
Yes! Yes! Exactly this! The other bands wanted to seduce you but The Who wanted to (musically) kick you in the guts!
@robertprice6830 2 жыл бұрын
Yep
@johntremmel3949 2 жыл бұрын
I seen The Who in 1989 at the Houston astrodome they blew the doors off to date they were the only band to conquer the astrodome 👊
@craigplatel813 2 жыл бұрын
That's right.
@Souldoubtrocks 2 жыл бұрын
The great John Entwistle on bass.
@vinniedixon1140 2 жыл бұрын
Great bass player known as The Ox
@klaptongroovemaster 2 жыл бұрын
This bass solo changed what a bass solo cold be. No one was doing anything this cool back then.
@Captainslow556 2 жыл бұрын
Thunderfingers
@MarcoNegrisEye 2 жыл бұрын
The GREATEST John Entwistle 😜
@djC653 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I just commented above how I never really realized all the bass solos in this. So awesome
@johndrx165 2 жыл бұрын
This was 1965. The Who were probably the greatest live rock act in the late 60's to early 70's. Outstanding energy and dynamics.
@conureron3792 2 жыл бұрын
Bachman Turner Overdrive has a great stutter song: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!
@ronaldmilner8932 2 жыл бұрын
100%!! Brad & Lex should do BTO!
@77tml 2 жыл бұрын
David Bowie Changes.
@bostonvair 2 жыл бұрын
Yes, both of these songs along with Elton John's "Benny and the Jets!"
@adamwehri 2 жыл бұрын
That played today at work when and it was a total flashback today. Hadn’t heard that song in a good 15 years
@MadSlantedPowers 2 жыл бұрын
Also "My Sharona", which they just reacted to. Definitely agree they need to check out some BTO.
@davidhapka5410 2 жыл бұрын
John Entwistle laying down one of the most iconic bass lines ever 🎸😎
@clivecwc8102 Жыл бұрын
You took the words right out of my mouth, Dave. May you me well. May you be happy. 🙂🙏🙂
@wade6166 2 жыл бұрын
“My Generation” was written entirely by Who guitarist Pete Townshend, who recorded a few demos of the song on his own. The second and third demos featured Townshend using stuttering vocals. In his 2012 autobiography Who Am I, Townshend asserted: “Chris picked up on a stutter on my vocal on the second demo, so I played him John Lee Hooker’s ‘Stuttering Blues.’ Roger had been experimenting with stuttering on stage ever since Sonny Boy Williamson Jr had joined us on harmonica at our first Marquee dates; Sonny Boy used a stutter rhythmically when he sang. Before I completed the third demo we experimented until the stutter became exaggerated and obvious.” Of course, famed blues guitarist John Lee Hooker was a person who stuttered and was profiled in a Celebrity Corner article for the Stuttering Foundation newsletter entitled “B.B. King and John Lee Hooker: Blues Legends Have Many Things in Common.” Hooker’s 1953 classic “Stuttering Blues”, which inspired Townshend to use stuttering vocals in the demo of “My Generation”, is considered to be a self-parody.
@thancrow 2 жыл бұрын
R.i.p. Keith Moon, one the craziest and greatest drummers.
@johnl6944 Ай бұрын
And John Entwistle, one of the best bass players.
@hilarywilliams1909 2 жыл бұрын
Someday when you have 15 minutes to listen to how rock should sound, find the live at Leeds version of this. These guys could play the hell out of their instruments!
@stephenbrough8132 2 жыл бұрын
I remember walking around Leeds, seeing posters saying "THE WHO LIVE IN LEEDS" - and thinking "I don't care where they live". I must have been one dumb mf...
@kevinmclaughlin1092 2 жыл бұрын
If they are brave enough to react to LIVE AT LEEDS, then they should also react to HEAVEN AND HELL & AMAZING JOURNEY/SPARKS. Those two are great examples of the power, speed, and ferocity that made The Who the best live band ever. 🔥🔥🔥
@roberttaylor5997 2 жыл бұрын
@@stephenbrough8132 And the Beatles live at the BBC.
@MadSlantedPowers 2 жыл бұрын
The one I like is "Young Man Blues" at Isle of Wight.
@colindebourg9012 2 жыл бұрын
Summertime Blues from the same concert !
@zappafan1176 2 жыл бұрын
As a drummer I loved playing this when it was released. At the time, Keith Moon was considered the fastest 18 year old drummer in the world.
@edh3709 2 жыл бұрын
The stutter is meant to sound like a kid on speed. Definitely caught some flack but it worked. Cheers!
@JoeBlow_4 2 жыл бұрын
No it wasn't. Pete Townshend said he put the stutters in “My Generation” because both he and Roger Daltrey were “huge fans of John Lee Hooker and Johnny Cash, both of whom occasionally stuttered.”
@edh3709 2 жыл бұрын
@@JoeBlow_4 "Roger Daltrey sang the lead vocals with a stutter, which was very unusual. After recording two takes of the song normally, The Who's manager, Kit Lambert, suggested to Daltrey that he stutter to sound like a British kid on speed." Just what I read.
@gandhialwaysleavesanonion679 2 жыл бұрын
I thought i read that it was to imitate the people on TV back then being drugged up or something similar to that
@JoeBlow_4 2 жыл бұрын
@@edh3709 From the autobiography: “My Generation” was written entirely by Who guitarist Pete Townshend, who recorded a few demos of the song on his own. The second and third demos featured Townshend using stuttering vocals. In his 2012 autobiography Who Am I, Townshend asserted: “Chris picked up on a stutter on my vocal on the second demo, so I played him John Lee Hooker’s ‘Stuttering Blues.’ Roger had been experimenting with stuttering on stage ever since Sonny Boy Williamson Jr had joined us on harmonica at our first Marquee dates; Sonny Boy used a stutter rhythmically when he sang. Before I completed the third demo we experimented until the stutter became exaggerated and obvious.” Of course, famed blues guitarist John Lee Hooker was a person who stuttered and was profiled in a Celebrity Corner article for the Stuttering Foundation.
@JoeBlow_4 2 жыл бұрын
@@edh3709"In his memoir Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story, Roger Daltrey addressed the use of stuttering vocals in “My Generation”. “I tried to follow him and I stuttered on the first line. Next take, I corrected it, but Kit popped out and said, ‘Keep it. Keep that in.’ Pete had a long ‘fffff’ in the demo. ‘Why don’t you all ffffffffade away?’ But it wasn’t a stutter. Not until Kit came out and said keep it. ‘Keep that blues stutter.’ And it worked. To me, it wasn’t a sign of weakness. It wasn’t a slip of the tongue.” Later he commented, “….we were all in the mood for a bit of aggression. We were in the mood to tell everyone to f-f-f-fade away. So the stutter stayed.”
@steveparker8065 2 жыл бұрын
Teenage angst and attitude set to 100% in this magnificent teenage rebellion anthem. Glad you enjoyed it, loved the reaction. Please try 'Love reign o'er me' by them!
@steveparker8065 2 жыл бұрын
@Papa B People have different tastes, which is the polite way of saying you're wrong, I was a Punk but still appreciated Mod music especially The Who. ;)
@pulsarlights2825 2 жыл бұрын
@@steveparker8065 Steve Harris always said Punk sucks, I guess he wasn't so polite....
@steveparker8065 2 жыл бұрын
@@pulsarlights2825 Steve Harris benefited musically from Punk as did Maiden and I was a punk, metalhead and thrasher back in the day. Eddie has a punk hairstyle on a few of the covers too :)
@cyrus2728 2 жыл бұрын
@Papa B i dont like all their stuff but reign o'er me is my favourite.followed by the mcvicar soundtrack.
@faustusgood8194 2 жыл бұрын
They came out of mod culture. The stuttering was him emulating someone hopped up on pills.
@chaipup7045 2 жыл бұрын
The British Mod scene had already started, they just tapped into it.
@crescentfreshbret 2 жыл бұрын
@@chaipup7045 Yeah, in the story Pete Townshend wrote in the liner notes of The Who album, Quadrophenia, he had the main character describe him as “a skinny geezer with a big nose who twirled his arm like a windmill and wrote some good songs about mods but wasn’t one.” That’s always made me wonder if the mods never actually considered The Who genuine mods.
@BrunoWingerter 2 жыл бұрын
I've always though he wanted to imply some bad words there. Like that one part: "Why don't you all F... Fade away"
@caro2233 2 жыл бұрын
that one was obviously it
@johnharkness7114 2 жыл бұрын
Wonder if that lead to the use of 'fade away' in other songs: Rolling Stones' 'Give Me Shelter" Dead "Not Fade Away" a Band song that I'm forgetting now...?
@craigplatel813 2 жыл бұрын
Not fade away is a buddy Holly song from 57. The deaf started playing in their shoes about 68.
@joyfulzero853 2 жыл бұрын
I wonder why?
@jamesredman1263 2 жыл бұрын
@Bruno Wingerter Exactly what I always thought as well
@markdraine3571 2 жыл бұрын
Check out the Smothers Brothers appearance of them performing this in 67...Moon blows up his drum kit and the fire gets Townshend on his hair a bit .
@kenransom560 2 жыл бұрын
Aside from The Who's EXTREME volume , that incident also contributed to Pete's long time ear & hearing issues .
@827dusty 2 жыл бұрын
Remember this was 1965. The very beginning of the Baby Boomer generation, ( anyone born between 1945 and 1965 )that was anti-establishment, and sayings like "Never trust anyone over 30". The who were singing about rebelling against the norms of society, and so forth. It was the start of the "Classic Rock" era of Rock and Roll. Marijuana, LSD, Hash, "Magic mushrooms were about to energize the crazy 1960s. Vietnam war was just getting going, race riots across America etc. The 1960s were both wonderful, and Horrible for different reasons. America, lost her innocents in the 1960s. One thing is for sure, the greatest music (not just rock) came out of the 1960s, regardless of genre. Why do I say all of this? Because I was one of the kids that grew up in that period. Great music, great girls, and also very sad with the war, and the assassinations' of MLK, John F Kennedy, and his little brother Bobby Kennedy. Don't forget Woodstock, and The Moon landing. I told you a lot of stuff happened in the 60s. Thanks
@JasonSmith-jr7jh 2 жыл бұрын
Please don't make me into a baby boomer! I've been a Generation Xer my whole life. For what seems like 50 years, Baby Boomer's were ALWAYS considered 1946-1964. The past couple of years, though, they seem to want to move the hold demographic ahead 1 year, and minus a year for the start. ☮️
@mikebutler5409 2 жыл бұрын
Seen The Who several times- they often close their shows with "Can't Explain", and it still blows me away today. GREAT song!
@littlechap100 2 жыл бұрын
The stutter is a representation of a side effect of amphetamine. Speed.
@chetzar 2 жыл бұрын
Yep, it was the drug of choice among the mods at the time.
@littlechap100 2 жыл бұрын
@@chetzar Yep.
@bobcorbin3294 2 жыл бұрын
French Blues, blues or leapers. The sound of a pilled up Mod.
@TheWhanfried 2 жыл бұрын
Not drugs. He was a stutterer.
@bobcorbin3294 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheWhanfried he was just playing the character of A pilled-up mod. He said amphetamines screwed up his voice but the other three indulged and it caused some friction later on.
@fttcoop5341 2 жыл бұрын
They still stand up. God bless the Who.
@Mr_Incognito113 2 жыл бұрын
You really need to see these guys performing this live to get the full flavour
@botabob 2 жыл бұрын
Randy Bachman had a great song with a stutter - check out BTO's You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
@stephenbrough8132 2 жыл бұрын
Even better if introduced by Smashy n Nicey - the Harry Enfield and (name escapes me) characters - exagerated versions of Radio one DJ's. ("does a lot for charity ...") harry enfield smashey and nicey chart rundown kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8CRfsSrktCwe2w.html (worth waiting for the number one - BTO)
@jhall2224 2 жыл бұрын
Agreed, Bachman Turner Overdrives Ain't seen nothing yet, probably the best stutter song of all time.
@lantose 2 жыл бұрын
That song was an accident, as Randy Bachman was basically making a joke about his younger brother Garry who had a stuttering issue when he recorded it as a joke! Later, after presenting the original to his producer, he didn’t like it and Randy said he’d made another version that he shelved, gave it to him and loved It……..it went to number one in the US and Canada, I believe, in the first week!
@botabob 2 жыл бұрын
@@lantose - that's my understanding of the songs origins - cheers
@lantose 2 жыл бұрын
@@botabob Yep, that’s a crazy story I read some years ago! Have a great day!
@kennethjacobs2963 2 жыл бұрын
I was 10 in '65 living at Ft Meade, Md. Digging the Rolling Stones, Kinks, Beatles, Dylan, Who, Byrd's, Yardbirds and whatever else was on the radio. And playing Wiffle Ball. Good times
@billkant849 2 жыл бұрын
I was 18. I mostly remember the 70's.
@chriscapablanca3491 2 жыл бұрын
The Who, lots of good stuff, Love Reign O're Me is a classic and really shows Pete's songwriting ability
@joyfulzero853 2 жыл бұрын
Great rock performance by the whole band
@mikenastasi8927 2 жыл бұрын
The Who are one of the greatest and most influential bands of all time. The scope of their influence is vast. They were revolutionary. I believe this was 1965. This paved the way for Black Sabbath & Led Zeppelin.
@paulstewart6203 2 жыл бұрын
Always enjoy your guys reactions, another great who song is 'Behind Blue Eyes',
@johntremmel3949 2 жыл бұрын
From the late 70s through the 80s the WHO were arguably the best live act in the world of rock music
@tomski120 2 жыл бұрын
Omg awesome. You gotta listen to "love reign o'er me" it'll knock your socks off 😎
@cartoonerystudios 2 жыл бұрын
The stuttering is a weird "inside joke" for Mods, (a kind of style movement kids in England in the early Who days, and they loved the Who and considered them the Mod band). Anyway, Mods took speed pills a lot. Just the drug available for kids to take at the time. And one of the effects was a lot of people would stutter, because their heart was racing from the speed. So this was just kind of a joke for the Mods.
@shifterbbr1986 2 жыл бұрын
If you’re gonna do the Who, you need to check out “The Seeker” it’s an awesome tune.
@murraystevens9438 2 жыл бұрын
Saw The Who in 1968 in Saskatoon SK Canada. Was two bodies from the front of the stage. Still maybe the best concert of my life! Keith Moon livexwas incredible, Pete Townsend windmilling and leaping around, Roger Daltrey flinging his microphone…and when they trashed their gear during My Generation it brought out something primal and visceral in all of us in the crowd. Saw them again 50 years later in Saskatoon. Only Roger and Pete left but they out on a terrific show. Pete still plays with anger. Their closer, Won’t Get Fooled Again, was rock at its finest.
@cuebj Жыл бұрын
Best comment ever on KZfaq! Envy from me. Saw them a few times in 1970s, eg Charlton Athletic's old Valley ground
@WMWMW0MWMWMW 2 жыл бұрын
"I hope i die before i get old" Best line ever.
@chaipup7045 2 жыл бұрын
most ironic
@solentbum 2 жыл бұрын
When Roder Daltrey was interviewed recently about that line he replied that he wasn't old yet.
@mikeyaureliush9017 2 жыл бұрын
It's rubbish, and HE DID NOT DIE.
@i.marchand4655 2 жыл бұрын
I'm still trying to live by it. I mean, I'm pushing 70 by now, but I'm still trying to keep a young attitude. No idea if I'm successful with that, but I try.
@thomasmanning829 2 жыл бұрын
It was my generation. Music was crazy, creative, fun, and so dang diverse. We really had it all. It was darn good too.
@s.mcpherson6354 2 жыл бұрын
My brothers are much older than I am, and they got to go to a relatively small venue to hear The Who open up for Herman's Hermits.
@ALD56 2 жыл бұрын
"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive for another deliberately stuttering song - that's also a banger.
@russbillington6291 2 жыл бұрын
Great tune, I first heard the Who in 1979 when I was a kid and got to see the movie by the who called Quadrophenia. Managed to see them live in the mid 90s in Manchester UK performing the music from the same movie.
@robingannaway8262 2 жыл бұрын
As a kid standing on the plate of my 'mod 'uncle's Vespa as he took me for a spin, his duffle coat and him sneaking the Vespa into Nan's garden shed late at night.
@locuacidadsindiluir1696 Жыл бұрын
I don´t know, directly, about the 79 concerts, but, definitively YOU WERE LUCKY TO CATCH THEM AT THEIR MID 90s QUADROPHENIA TOUR. I saw a couple of those concerts in London (96 & 97) and both were absolutely astounding (Entwistle being still alive, and in the best shape possible; Zak Starkey killing it on Drums; and Pete & Roger still relatively young &, thus, still at their prime. And an un-matched set, comprised of the best album they have, played in its entirety, plus many of their other classics).
@russbillington6291 Жыл бұрын
@@locuacidadsindiluir1696 great shout with the drummer, I couldn't remember who was on drums for that tour, I still have the ticket stub and program somewhere, most likely in the sleeve of the quadrophenia album..
@2011littlejohn1 2 жыл бұрын
There was a huge change in the 60's of a generation which adopted the ideas of many 50's writers both music and literature. A questioning of established mores. Many of the things you now take for granted were pioneered at this time - acceptance of pre marital sex, gender equality, sexuality, ethnic group etc. The Who are just expressing that. The music is highly influenced by 12 bar blues - although not a standard 12 bar it uses many blues licks. The destruction of their equipment according to Pete Townsend the guitar player happened by accident. He says he used to be frustrated at his standard of playing in a small club and banged his guitar on the ceiling - during one such performance the neck broke - the crowd went wild - so he kept that in and developed it further. As for speed - in those days we could buy it legally at the chemists (pharmacy) they were diet pills we called them purple hearts 4 of them - and you were set for the night.
@bjhellstream 2 жыл бұрын
Imagine how f***ing hard this was in the sixties. Blew my mind.
@davebiggers3150 2 жыл бұрын
Brad, back then it was many of youth out running around the neighborhoods just cutting up, maybe little fist fights once in awhile but mostly just listening to music, smoking weed,drinking beer cruising in hot rods, mostly we dressed in blue jeans tee shirts and Chuck Tayler Converse.The Arcades and teenage clubs were big back then and every neighborhood had some kinda sport game going on in sand lots or just vacant lots.More to it but it was a great time to be young
@bowtangey6830 2 жыл бұрын
1965. That is some fine drumming.
@t.r.1708 2 жыл бұрын
Thx! There are a lot of stuttering songs! Benny and the Jets, Katmandu, Changes, Jive talkin, etc! -Terry
@alrivers2297 2 жыл бұрын
Bad to the Bone, You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet
@rickb.4168 2 жыл бұрын
Listening to this without watching the band exploding everything on stage, at the end. Is like losing your virginity while wearing a Wellington boot.
@geraintlumley6432 2 жыл бұрын
What a fabulous analogy 🤣
@rickb.4168 2 жыл бұрын
@@geraintlumley6432 😁
@jamesredman1263 2 жыл бұрын
😄
@hongfang2508 2 жыл бұрын
That last chaotic bit is where the Who would literally destroy their instruments and amps in live shows.
@karmannghiaman1041 2 жыл бұрын
The greatest rock & roll band of them all!
@CJReaper666 2 жыл бұрын
Lex rocking' a Slayer shirt! "ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US!" (And The Who kick ass too...)
@debbieplato5107 2 жыл бұрын
This is from the 60's. My generation where the generation gap was the biggest between parents and their kids. It was the start of the hippie generation.
@creepyaxe 2 жыл бұрын
I saw them do this live on the Smothers Brothers Variety Show in 1967
@jdovma1 2 жыл бұрын
This song has been in commercials and movies for like the last 50 years. It was the song that every 30 and 40 something got hyped off when I was a kid in the 80s. lol
@jimepp1492 2 жыл бұрын
Came out in '65. Part of the huge musical revolution of the British Invasion. Us Boomers just realized how big an influence we could be! As the lyrics in another popular song of the time said "They got the guns but we got the numbers".
@hughgabbard5116 9 ай бұрын
This is the only video I have seen by this duo where Lex was not smiling but this was only during the song.
@garywilliams1948 2 жыл бұрын
1965….born in the 40s. This was the anthem of The Mods , a youth culture that worshipped RnB and Soul, dressed stylishly modern , became mobile by riding cheap Italian scooters and found energy and aggression with amphetamines ….pills, uppers call them what you will !
@rogerduffey1428 2 жыл бұрын
I was impressed with your quick answer! I bet you also have a quick wit!! Thats priceless as you travel thru life!
@Camothor10 2 жыл бұрын
I adore the “why don’t you all f-fade away” because it almost sounds like he’s gonna say “fuck off” or something
@stolemymaize 2 жыл бұрын
If you enjoy The Who, I highly recommend the song 5:15. It is THE "fattest" sounding song ever made. Piano and horn section.
@EdoAntRo 2 жыл бұрын
Here's the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gpd7odN70aeroWQ.html
@Champaign1117 2 жыл бұрын
YES! I so agree Inside & outside
@1bigrowdy 2 жыл бұрын
Live at Leeds My Generation Medley. .The Who live is a worthwhile experience
@stevenspringer1599 2 жыл бұрын
this is another reason to listen to the Live at Leeds album Lex got it right again, the '50s she describes is what we all represented by 'my generation' came from and is why the music and the social actions seemed so radical 'at the time'...
@DanSolo871 2 жыл бұрын
Summertime Blues on LAL is awesome.
@diamonddog439 2 жыл бұрын
The original teenage rebellion! The beginning of the rest of music history! The Who live. The loudest. The most badass. The rockingest best live band ever to be invented! W w w watch them l l l live. You will be blown away🕺🏻
@mmurphy53 2 жыл бұрын
The Who are one of a kind - they have a lot of wit and sarcasm and POWER - remember how old this song is.......
@nooffencealan9135 Жыл бұрын
I saw The Who live in 2017. They introduced this song "and now one for the old age pensioners here".
@dirkdigital 2 жыл бұрын
Something to consider. The Who was quite the innovator of "concept albums", an entire album of songs with an underlying theme. Two of The Who's titular albums, "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia" are examples of this particular long form of music. Others are Pink Floyd's "The Wall", "Joe's Garage Acts I-III" by Frank Zappa, and The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". It would be fun to see a live stream where you tackle an entire album.
@fastnbulbouss 2 жыл бұрын
Tommy and Quadrophenia came out a few years after Freak Out....
@dirkdigital 2 жыл бұрын
@@fastnbulbouss Yea, I though about bring up Freak Out instead of Joe's Garage only because I think Joe's Garage might be more accessible to those just getting into Zappa...but that's just me.
@papacarl2002 2 жыл бұрын
🤘🏼🎧🤟🏼 Yeah!! F-F-f-f- FANTASTIC- y’all should absolutely checkout live clip with Keith Moon going nuts on drums and John Entwistle stoically standing still, but absolutely tearing up the bass lines like no other. Oh yeah, Pete & Roger are pretty fun to watch too!
@steveparker3652 2 жыл бұрын
Lex nailed it again!
@foxman1546 Жыл бұрын
It was about throwing off tradition and getting in the zone with mind blowing sound played loud.
@JoeBlow_4 2 жыл бұрын
Pete Townshend said he put the stutters in “My Generation” because both he and Roger Daltrey were “huge fans of John Lee Hooker and Johnny Cash, both of whom occasionally stuttered.”
@franklinzappa7043 2 жыл бұрын
Rock N Roll at it's very Best by One of the Greatest Bands ever. Great Live !!!!🎸
@citizenkane4831 2 жыл бұрын
Magic bus from the 60´s with the Who is also a great one. Liste to that
@markhopkins222 2 жыл бұрын
Saw The Who in Atlanta Ga great musicianship's
@KH-ol6qz 2 жыл бұрын
Great energy on stage
@frugalseverin2282 2 жыл бұрын
The vast majority of the time when I watch a music reactor I want them to be listening to the studio version; but with The Who I encourage you to watch a concert performance. They were the best live band in the world in their prime which was late '60s through 1978 when drummer Keith Moon died. He has to be seen to be believed. Guitarist Pete Townshend was also a riveting performer, windmilling his arm and leaping off of amps. Singer Roger Daltrey could spin his microphone with deadly accuracy. Bass player John Entwistle was like a rock, never moved but he was imposing.
@gastrickbunsen1957 2 жыл бұрын
I think the stuttering was leading up to the line "why don't you all f-f-fade away" on first hearing people automatically assumed he was going to sing fu"k off. Which he did live. It was 1965 and was the first UK pop/rock song to have a bass solo.
@scatton61 2 жыл бұрын
1970s 6th form school dance classic along with a can of woodpecker cider. Also Rebel Rebel from Bowie, No Satisfaction from the Stones and Jeff Beck - Hi Ho Silver Lining
@dukewellington3174 2 жыл бұрын
Roger Daltrey sang the lead vocals with a stutter, which was very unusual. After recording two takes of the song normally, The Who's manager, Kit Lambert, suggested to Daltrey that he stutter to sound like a British kid on speed. Daltrey recalled to Uncut magazine October 2001: "I have got a stutter. I control it much better now but not in those days. When we were in the studio doing 'My Generation', Kit Lambert came up to me and said 'STUTTER!' I said 'What?' He said 'Stutter the words - it makes it sound like you're pilled' And I said, 'Oh… like I am!' And that's how it happened. It was always in there, it was always suggested with the 'f-f-fade' but the rest of it was improvised."
@gbzorro 3 ай бұрын
Love you guys and your vids!
@peterfromgermany2431 2 жыл бұрын
So many Hits, so many Great Songs. From the 60‘ to the 80‘. And Live a Sensation!
@USCtrojanFootball1 2 жыл бұрын
John Entwistle, "My Generation" was the first bass player to play lead guitar in a rocknroll song.
@fredkrissman6527 2 жыл бұрын
The song was released in 1965, not in the '70s. I read that Roger Daltrey actually DID have a stutter problem when he was a much younger kid... But, in the case of this song, someone in the band suggested trying a stutter to fit the then-evolving tune better! The line "Hope I die before I get old!" became a 60s anthem, underlining "the generation gap" between the rising hippie kids and their straight mainstream padres.
@wallacemarty 2 жыл бұрын
There was a movie called Quadrophenia produced by the Who and a character had a stutter so that's why it's in the song. The movie was all about young people (Mods on scooters) , you'd have to be British to understand it.
@fredkrissman6527 2 жыл бұрын
You have that backwards, IMO, @@wallacemarty... My Generation was released long before Quadrophenia (movie release date 1979!) was even a gleam in Pete Townsend's eye! It IS true that MyGen was a ode to the Mod subculture though...
@CharlesDunkley 2 жыл бұрын
John Entwistle on bass and Keith Moon on drums. I don't know if there's ever been a better combo than those 2 men. My absolute favorite bass/drum pairing.
@andyallan2909 2 жыл бұрын
John McVie and Mick Fleetwood / John Paul Jones and Bonzo two name but two.
@CharlesDunkley 2 жыл бұрын
@Joe Brandon fantastic choices! And very high up on my list.
@CharlesDunkley 2 жыл бұрын
@@andyallan2909 Jones and Bonham are probably second on my list. McVie and Mick, now that's a fantastic pairing for sure! Fleetwood Mac's overall musicianship is impeccable.
@karmannghiaman1041 2 жыл бұрын
Sly and Robbie or Aston "Family Man" and Carlton Barrett perhaps; although from this genre i'm thinking Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker?
@cuebj Жыл бұрын
@@andyallan2909 and, of coursre, Starr and McCartney, Watts & Wyman. Impossible to say who was or is better and each pairing very distinct. I'd concede that Moon - Entwhistle was the most distinctive since JE was the lead instrument and Moon productively (most of the time) chaotic as opposed to disciplined
@davidlincoln78240 2 жыл бұрын
Man this bring back memories. Supposedly Roger Daltrey stuttered on purpose to express frustration with being young and dealing with the establishment.
@MundoDragon 2 жыл бұрын
The story behind the stuttering, according to the producer and Roger Daltrey, was that when he was reading the lyrics to the song after Pete handing them to him, he was reading them so fast, that he was stuttering when he read them. The producer liked it and asked him to try singing it like that. The rest is history. Also, I do believe this was in a car commercial at one point and maybe even Pepsi, the choice of a new generation.
@KelsaRavenlock 2 жыл бұрын
They really like the counterculture songs to sell corporate merch.
@peters7025 2 жыл бұрын
Saw them twice at Charlton in the Early 70s. One of those concerts was supposedly the loudest ever recorded for many years.
@theseeker4642 2 жыл бұрын
This was recorded on post WWII Britain, when the young folk had parents who had no youth because they were fighting in the war & rationing was still in place years after WWII. They couldn't relate to the freedom their kids had. The stutter is intended ! Drummer is Keith Moon, Bass the great John Entwistle, guitar & song writer Pete Townsend, singer Roger Daltrey. Came out early 60's.
@barriehull7076 2 жыл бұрын
"My Generation" is a song by the English rock band the Who, which became a hit and one of their most recognizable songs. The song was named the 11th greatest song by Rolling Stone on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It became part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and is inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value. The song was released as a single on 29 October 1965, reaching No. 2 in the United Kingdom (The Who's highest charting single in their home country along with 1966's I'm a Boy) and No. 74 in the United States. "My Generation" also appeared on The Who's 1965 debut album, My Generation (The Who Sings My Generation in the United States), and in greatly extended form on their live album Live at Leeds (1970).
@jcarrickzilla 2 жыл бұрын
You two are covering the gambit! This is my generation of music...the stutter was to emulate a guy on speed...Stones, Zep, Who...Hendrix! You rolling!
@lennycook206 2 жыл бұрын
You both look about as impressed as a guy watching paint dry
@laredolassoo 2 жыл бұрын
For being so removed from the time, this was great analysis.
@randallpetersen9164 Жыл бұрын
Daltrey had a real stutter but it was mild and controlled. After he stuttered slightly on one take, he was encouraged to let it out throughout to the song, to sound like a kid on speed. It also made it easier to slip in the 'Why don't you all fffff-' reference (we were not expecting 'fade away'.)
@joshuamasserant8215 2 жыл бұрын
The Who's 5th album, (Who's Next) 1971. Is actually my #1 favorite rock album of all times. The best songs are : Baba O'Riley Bargain Song Is Over Getting In Tune Behind Blue Eyes Won't Get Fooled Again
@kathleenarchacki7875 2 жыл бұрын
Yup .this is my generation ...wild
@flibber123 2 жыл бұрын
It still sounds explosive, even today.
@garybaxter3871 2 жыл бұрын
It's fun to watch your reaction to songs I grew up on. And Lex is as cute as button.
@robrobert9541 2 жыл бұрын
There's another stutter song, but this one's from the 70s. Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO) had a song from 1974 called You Ain't See Nothin' Yet. The singer Randy Bachman did the song as a tribute to his brother who had a bad stutter. ""You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" was written by Randy Bachman. In , writer Dave Marsh called the song "a direct steal from The Who", but "an imaginative one." The chords of the chorus riff are very similar to the ones used by The Who in their song "Baba O'Riley", and also, the stuttering vocal is reminiscent of "My Generation". Bachman insists that the song was performed as a joke for his brother, Gary, who had a stutter, with no intention of sounding like "My Generation". They only intended to record it once with the stutter and send the only recording to Gary." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain%27t_Seen_Nothing_Yet_(Bachman-Turner_Overdrive_song)
@hii-rr9uj 2 жыл бұрын
the 60s were amazing
@stephenlf706 2 жыл бұрын
Mods and rockers. Mods had nice haircuts, wore flash clothing and rode around on scooters. Rockers wore leather jackets and Levis, had short back and sides haircuts and rode motorcycles. The Who were kind of a combination of both. Flash and rock.
@cspaikido 2 жыл бұрын
I heard interviews with Pete Townsend the writer of the song. He has said a lot of the teenagers that were at the clubs were hopped up on speed and it would cause them to stutter when they spoke.
@joetori8356 Жыл бұрын
The first punk band!
@sumonjamal1653 2 жыл бұрын
Kids back in the 60's who were on drugs 😂 were always stuttering their words when they were high... That inspired the stuttering on this track. The Who had the explosive rhythm section of Keith Moon (drums) & John Entwistle (bass) ... both have since passed away (R.I.P.) When The Who performed 'My Generstion' on US TV in the late 60's... Keith Moon pulled the legendary stunt - at the end of the song, The Who trashed their instruments... Moon loaded his bass drum w/ enough gunpowder (without telling anyone) that his drums exploded in the TV studio, inuring both him and guitarist Pete Townshend😮
@brianjacob9084 2 жыл бұрын
"Ain't seen nothing yet" by Bachman Turner Overdrive was a number #1 hit (I think) with a bigtime stutter, great song too!
@normansmithers4465 2 жыл бұрын
the stutter was taking the piss out of elderly critics: the 60's was FANTASTIC!, BTW!!
@bostonvair 2 жыл бұрын
This song was 1965. Other great stuttering songs you should react to: Bachman Turner Overdrive, "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," David Bowie, "Changes," and Elton John, "Benny and the Jets."
@f.murphy8340 2 жыл бұрын
The stutter is a nod to how speed pills (greens) used to make them stutter when they were really high.
@crecland 2 жыл бұрын
The Who... "love reign o'er me" great song
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