Rating: 5/5
Review:
A very good Who collection
This is a good
record of The Who playing live at the BBC in
the 60s with some great stuff on it, along with some slightly less enduring
tracks.
They were a brilliant live band – one of the finest I've
ever seen – and it shows here. There's
terrific energy and drive, of course, but also real skill and musical
virtuosity; some of the harmony singing,
for example, is excellent. Both Roger
and Pete show what virtuosi they were in their different ways and so does that
magnificent Moon/Entwhistle rocket which propelled them.
The material is varied but good. There are great versions of some of their
best-known songs of the time plus some very welcome recordings of more obscure
album tracks. Things like the cover of
Dancing In The Street don't work so well for me, but overall it's a fine
collection.
The sound quality is pretty good. It's clean and well balanced, although
Entwhistle's bass sounds a bit thin on some of the earliest recordings. The Brian Matthew voiceovers are a little
irritating, but that's the way it was done then and I can live with it. Overall this is a very good Who collection
with a generous number of tracks and I can recommend it.
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