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Subscriber Bonus - The Boys Who Heard Music
To celebrate the release of the much-anticipated (amongst connoisseurs) Who’s Next / Life House Super Deluxe Edition, AS SUB takes a deep dive into the murky but nevertheless inviting waters surrounding our Favourite Living Artist
The Who — “Lifehouse Live”
Scorpio (IT) CD
71/04/26 LONDON Young Vic
Lifehouse ‘development’ residency (January-May? 1971)
Pete’s Intro (1:10)
Too Much Of Anything (4:32)
Getting In Tune (7:27)
Bargain (5:52)
Pinball Wizard / See Me Feel Me / Baby Don’t You Do It (15:33)
Water (8:45)
My Generation (3:02)
Road Runner (3:17)
Naked Eye (6:26)
Bony Maronie (3:58)
Won't Get Fooled Again (8:46)
SBD: Mono (B+), off-speed by ~1%.
Notes: AKA ‘Young Vic Blues.’ Now officially released, in its entirety and professionally mixed from the 16-track master recorded on the Rolling Stones Mobile, in the Who’s Next / Life House SDE.
Review: Revelatory 90s bootleg from The Who’s run of experimental shows at the Young Vic theatre space in early ‘71. Pete sounds fairly inebriated from the intro, but what follows is a full-throttled and muscular performance. The mix is weird, with the vocals overly prominent, but there’s no denying the sheer power of the rampaging hard rock on display. As Nik Cohn put it — “Long, Hard & Straight.”
But surely not in every sense of that final word.
