I'LL TIP MY HAT
TO THE
NEW CONSTITUTION
TAKE A BOW
FOR THE NEW REVOLUTION
SMILE AND GRIN
AT THE CHANGE
ALL AROUND
PICK UP MY GUITAR
AND PLAY
JUST LIKE YESTERDAY
THEN I'LL
GET ON MY
KNEES AND PRAY
Largo 1973
documents the final show
from the
Quadrophenia tour
in 1973.
This sold out show
at the Capitol Centre
outside of Washington DC
is another recently
surfaced document
from
the King Biscuit Flower Hour
in the same excellent sound quality
as the Philadelphia tape.
There has been discussion
about whether or not material
from this show as used
in the original broadcasts,
but the best sources say
that only the
Philadelphia tape
was used
and nothing from
the Maryland show.
Three songs,
“The Punk And The Godfather,”
“5:15″
and
“Won’t Get Fooled Again”
are included on
View From A Backstage Pass
released in 2007
through the
band’s website site.
After the intensity
of the Philly show,
and the intensity
of the entire tour,
they deliver a
somewhat shorter
and more
laid back performance
in this show.
“Substitute,”
which opened the show
the previous night
is dropped
and they begin with
“I Can’t Explain.”
”These are some of our old favorites”
Roger Daltrey begins
before they go into
”Summertime Blues.”
After the song there is
the first of several episodes
where the band have to
do crowd control in the venue.
Townshend says,
“Can you move back a wee bit.
Because three or four people
are apparently under there somewhere.”
Daltrey continues by saying,
“there’s plenty of room for everybody.
It’s a long show.”
Townshend interrupts by saying,
“It’s a long haul.”
“And we all got to get there together”
Daltrey says before
introducing
John Entwistle for
“My Wife.”
They play a long eight minute jamming version
of the bassist’s song
before ending first oldies set
with
“one which is probably the oldest
we play of our own.
And it means as much to us today
as when we first did it.
My Generation!”
The hour long Quadrophenia set
is briefly introduced by
Daltrey saying,
“We’d like to carry on with
a selection from our
latest album
Quadrophenia.
And we say a selection
because we started off
with the whole bloody lot
which didn’t work.
And we got it down to
what it is now,
a series of flashbacks
to a time in England
that we call the mods,
which is really just kids,
and kids all over
are the same.
Anyway,
this is what we got it down to.”
They don’t bother with the
”I Am The Sea”
introduction,
but rather
just launch into
“The Real Me.”
Townshend also doesn’t give
the long expository
for his song but rather says,
“It will probably be a big help
if everybody at the count of three
took just that much
of a step backwards,
just a tiny bit.
Easy otherwise
everybody will fall over.
File that person under D.
This song’s called
‘I’m One.’”
And Daltrey introduces
“5:15″ with,
“Now listen, really,
we’ve got a lot of problems
at the front here.
Can you people in the back hear it?
There’s about a couple of
hundred kids there
getting crushed.
Fucking stupid, innit?”
It is apparent that the audience
is distracting the band
as they deliver this
demanding material
and there isn’t as much
enthusiasm as in
previous performances.
“Here’s a song about sitting on the beach.
And he’s looking at the sea…
There’s a kid looking at the sea
and he realizes how big it is,
which perhaps you people
in the back don’t realize
how many of you are pushing
on this lot.
So how about it?
Please, everybody
take a step backwards
and we’ll all have a good time.
That’s how he feels,
the sea’s so bloody big
and he’s so little.
The song is called
‘Drowned.’”
Townshend plays several interesting riffs
on the guitar during
the ten minute
long jam session.
“Bell Boy”
is introduced as
“a killer…
the bellhop played by
Mr. Keith Moon.”
Moon is great as always
and he changes the lyrics
to reflect their stay in Montreal
the previous week:
“I’ve got a good job
and I’m newly born /
You should see me
dressed up
in my uniform /
I work in a hotel
all guild and flash /
remember Montreal
where the hotel
we smashed.”
The suite ends with
“Reign O’er Me”
with Daltrey having difficulty
hitting the high notes.
Afterwards he says,
“As you probably know
this is the last gig
of our American tour
and we’ve had our ups
and our downs,
but it’s been bloody worth it.
For the people who say
we aren’t coming back,
this is for them.
Because I can assure you,
we fucking are.
Won’t Get Fooled Again.”
They deliver a powerful version
with much more bite
than the preceding night.
The tape runs out
five minutes into
“See Me, Feel Me”
with no ending
nor any hint
of an encore.
Both this and Spectrum 1973
are very special releases,
limited to two hundred copies,
and present some
of the best
live Who music
to surface since
the Houston 1975 tape
several years ago.
TRACKLIST
CD 1
I Can't Explain
My Wife
My Generation
The Real Me
The Punk And The Godfather
I'm One
5:15
CD 2
Sea And Sand
Drowned
Bell Boy
Doctor Jimmy
Love Reign O'er Me
Won't Get Fooled Again [*]
(patched In)
Pinball Wizard
See Me, Feel Me
(Fades Out)
Keith Moon
(The Who)
Interview 1973
[Reelin' In The Years Archive] [*]
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