![]() Along with the amount of drugs people smoked those days, it was quite a good night. So people sat down on the floor and listened, and by the end, when it came to ‘See Me, Feel Me’ and ‘Listening To You,’ they all just went nuts, completely crazy. That was like keeping the cork in the champagne bottle when you shook it up. I think we did about five days’ rehearsal - I don’t think we did very much more - and when we went out and played it for the first time the reaction was extraordinary because we wouldn’t let people clap for every individual song. There was something about the band, the way we played in those days, there was so much free-form stuff we could add in live performance. The demos that Pete (Townshend) made are very rudimentary, but that’s all we needed, and it allowed us to put our personalities in, especially in the harmonies and the vocal areas which we’d been experimenting with for many years, from the first mini-opera we did two or three years before (1966’s ‘A Quick One, While He’s Away’).”Īs a live piece, meanwhile, Daltrey says “Tommy” “gained a different power altogether. “Pete might have written the top lines of most of the songs, but all of the little bits and intricacies that were all a part of the group’s character belonged to the individuals in the group. “Every bit of music on there was written by a group of people,” the singer explains. The Who’s ‘Quadrophenia’ At 40: Classic Track-By-Track Review.This is a version of the overture from The Whos rock opera Tommy. Roger Daltrey: The Who ‘Might Do Other Things, More Experimental’ After Final Tour The Assembled Multitude was a studio group assembled by Tom Sellers in Philadelphia.
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