Friday, January 14, 2011
The Who - Baba O'Riley
The above video comes courtesy of YouTube and is of The Who performing "Baba O'Riley" at last night's "Concert for Killing Cancer" at the Hammersmith.
Roger Daltrey & Jeff Beck "Mannish Boy"
Roger Daltrey and Jeff Beck performing "Mannish Boy" at last night's "Concert for Killing Cancer." So far the reviews of the show that I have seen from media and fans have been very good.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Royal Orleans - Led Zeppelin
John Paul Jones was born on this date in 1946. The great bassist for Led Zeppelin and nowadays Them Crooked Vultures (with Dave Grohl and Josh Homme) was the supposed "quiet one" in the band.
"Royal Orleans" was a song on Zeppelin's 1976 album, Presence. The song is about a time the band was in New Orleans in the early 1970s and Jones brought a woman from the hotel bar up to his room, unaware she was a transvestite. Both smoked marijuana and fell asleep and unfortunately the transvestite had a lit joint in her hand that eventually set the room on fire. Luckily no one was injured or killed. Jones years later said in an interview that he knew the person was a transvestite and that she actually was a friend of tour manager Richard Cole.
The Who - Sparks (Houston 1975)
My first - and definitely not the last - "Sparks" post of 2011. This one goes back to 1975 and The Summit in Houston, Texas, which Roger Daltrey says is his favorite Who concert. As you can see from the video, Keith Moon and Pete Townshend are absolutely on fire. There is a DVD of this concert, but not an "official" one, which is a shame.
Roger Daltrey On Jools Holland
Roger Daltrey appeared on Jools Holland's "Hootenanny," which is the New Year's Eve celebration of Jools regular U.K. show. Roger sang Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy" with Jools and his R&B orchestra.
According to Wikipedia, "it is a arrangement of (and an "answer song" to) Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man" (which in turn was inspired by Waters' and Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man."
The Who sang "I'm a Man" which appeared on their 1965 album, My Generation. However, that album when released in the U.S. with a different album cover and was called The Who Sings My Generation. Strangely, it did not include "I'm a Man."
Condolences to The Townshends
Pete's mother Betty Townshend passed away last week at the age of 87. There's not too much on the Internet about her except for the video above where she is talking about Pete on an A&E biography. There's also a little bit about her background in the Wikipedia article for her husband, Cliff Townshend, who died in 1986. Cliff was a very successful jazz musician in England before the dawn of rock music.
My condolences go out to the entire Townshend family.
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