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Originally Posted by tesla69

I wish they would release their set from Woodstock. It is incredible and my GEN20 copy doesn't even sound very good. The short piece they releaed on The Kids Are Alright is just a tasty teaser of this band at their heaviest. The Who took the Jeff Beck Group slot (but only after the Jefferson Airplane signed on, as they were the biggest band around at the time and The WHo didn't want to be left behind, I think the Jeff Beck Group was having internal problems.).

Check out the 2 Jeff Beck Group albums for some excellent 60's UK blues. Rod Stewart sounds great and the musicianship is killer.

Its hard for us to understand how bands like Jeff Beck and the Who changed everything when they started showing up at gigs with guitar stacks and PAs, up to that time bands played on little amps. of course that later allowed promoters to put bands in enormous stadiums with huge stacks of amps that sounded like shit. But lots of money was to be made...

Those first Jeff Beck Group albums have always interested me a lot, but there has always been many other albums...but I think in the near future I will listen them! I think you also like the Faces, I have only Ooh La Laa, but also have a great interest of other bands albums.

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Originally Posted by Mortte Jousimo

Small Faces or Faces? ;-) I don't think have anything by either band actually...

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Originally Posted by foreverasskiss

So Sad About Us is the only song I like
other than that..........vomit

Why?

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Originally Posted by tesla69

Small Faces or Faces? ;-) I don't think have anything by either band actually...

I mean Faces. Stewart was singing into it (I think there was maybe some other same members as in the first Jeff Beck Group). Someone has said Faces was "punkier" version of the Rolling Stones and I agree that even I read Ooh La Laa is the softest album of them.

I have heard also just a few songs from Small Faces, it is also on my "list" of the bands need to check-in.

Your love for the who is surprising! Certain posters, at least.

A band I loved when I was younger, and then stopped listening to for whatever reason.

I've been re-discovering bands from my teens lately (early misfits, ramones, doors, etc. SY even) so I'll have to dive back into the Who.

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Originally Posted by DeadDiscoDildo

Well, I have been suprised that Who thread didn´t get more attention here. I think if there hadn´t been the Who, there wouldn´t have also been SY.

Or Nirvana for that matter.

or punk.

for sure

But at the same time....

the horrendous pirotechnics of the 80s probably wouldnt have existed either.

I really enjoy some early Who stuff, and I like The Who Sell Out quite a bit. They were pretty badass in the beginning, but most of what they did really doesn't appeal to me at all. First few records I can dig, though.

I just have been wondering, how many here have properly listened Tommy, Who´s Next or Quadrophenia? I have doubts many haven´t listened It´s Hard or Endless Wire at all. I think those 80-2000 albums have much more positive aggressive energy than any album of "so-called punk bands" like Bad Religion, Therapy?, Green Day or Offspring (Here´s great example from It´s Hard):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSP_Zs7Nr7o

Of course if someone don´t honestly like the later Who-production, it´s ok, but I think it´s very stupid if someone don´t like it for that reason because most of the sixties band made not so good material later.