Live at Leeds Again

July 1st, 2006

The Who recently returned to Leeds University, the site where they recorded their Live at Leeds album back on Valentine’s Day 1970. I once wrote that, if an alien came down to earth and wanted to know what rock’n'roll was, then all you had to do was play them Live at Leeds and I still feel that way. If any of my readers happened to live in close proximity to the Echo Tap here in Madison during the mid-90s, then let my apologize for those early mornings when you had to suffer me and my friend Pete singing “Young Man Blues” after bar time. The album provided the soundtrack to my best trip on shrooms that I ever had.

Pete Townshend’s website reprinted a neat preview of the show and BBC Radio 4 also did their own look at the show in preparation.

Reviews of the 17 June show can be found at Pete Townshend’s site as well as the Leeds University site. Here’s the setlist:

Who Are You
Can’t Explain
The Seeker
Substitute
Wire & Glass
Sound Around
Pick Up The Peace
Endless Wire
We’ve Got A Hit
They Made My Dreams Come True
Mirror Door
Baba O’Riley
Let’s See Action
Relay
Behind Blue Eyes
Mike Post Theme
Pinball Wizard
Amazing Journey
See Me, Feel Me
Listening To You

Encores:

Eminence Front
Naked Eye
Won’t Get Fooled Again

Those unfamiliar titles are the new mini-opera from the band, “Wine & Glass”.

If you’d like to get a copy of the show, it will be for sale here.

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