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Re: Have Who - will party, Jeff Beck w/Keith, The Relay, Lifehouse singles



Actually the Relay was played several times if not quite often in '72
"Danish Treat "the Who Live in Copenhagen Denmark is one example.
Also Berlin 1972  Deutschland Halle, Berlin, West Germany, Wednesday, August
30, 1972
And On the boot Rome Palasport.
We are also supposed to get a BBC version on the Who BBC disc.
andrew w
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil McRevis <legalize@xmission.com>
To: <thewho@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 9:21 PM
Subject: Have Who - will party, Jeff Beck w/Keith, The Relay, Lifehouse
singles


> Nick (in Salt Lake) and I had so much fun our first get-together that
> we are meeting at least once a month to go over Who tidbits and share
> musical enjoyment while downing a few bevvies.  Apparently I have too
> much Who "stuff" to go through in one evening :-).  So we are going
> through it bit by bit until we've heard it all, seen it all, talked
> about it all, and then we'll probably start over!
>
> Y'all know how rare it is to find another fan-atic when it comes to our
> favorite band, so the two of us are like kids in a candy store when we
> get together.  Nick even manages to show this old fart a thing or two!
> This time the musical surprise for me was a Jeff Beck song with Keith
> on drums (the scream before the blast of drumbeats gave it away to Nick
> when he heard it -- very Keith!).  Nick knows the name, but it eludes
> me at the moment; Ed Hanel's discography lists the name of the album
> as 'Truth'.
>
> This time around we spent most of it drinking brews and listening to
> tunes -- a little bit of this and that smattered around from the
> 'unofficial recordings' and the one song I have from the catalog that
> Nick doesn't own yet -- The Relay!  (Its on the boxed set which
> the poor laddie doesn't yet have.)  This is one of my favorite songs,
> but apparently it was never played live?  Can anyone confirm?  The
> guitar sound is unique for Pete.  It sounds like he is processing the
> guitar in some way seems atypical as he usually uses the guitar and
> the amplifier as his only 'processing' after he plucks the note or
> strums the chord.  (Although I note that on the Scoop series he
> discusses various arrangements of processors in his experiments.)
>
> There were 4 singles around Who's Next time that seem to be important
> to Lifehouse and ironically they weren't available as anything but
> singles for quite some time afterwards!  They are:
>
>     A: Won't Get Fooled Again (edited)  B: I Don't Even Know Myself
>     A: Behind Blue Eyes                 B: My Wife
>     A: Join Together                    B: Baby Don't Ya Do It (live)
>     A: The Relay                        B: Wasp Man
>
> Of those eight songs, an amazing 5 would remain unavailable except as
> singles until Wholigans (1981) which included 'The Relay' and 'Join
> Together'.  The remainder wouldn't see the light of day on a
> full-length release until Who's Missing (1985) w/'I Don't Even Know
> Myself', Two's Missing (1987) w/'Wasp Man', and Rarities (? don't have
> that one!) w/'Baby Don't Ya Do It'.  With the exception of 'Baby Don't
> Ya Do It', I believe all these songs have appeared on reissues or the
> boxed set in this latest face lift to the catalog.
>
> The bits that are important to Lifehouse seem to be 'Join Together' and
> 'The Relay' and of course 'Won't Get Fooled Again' and 'Behind Blue
> Eyes', although I thought I heard that 'I Don't Even Know Myself' is
> also part of Lifehouse.  'The Relay' -- a big interconnectedness of
> humanity all relayed together through electronics, etc., -- seems
> pivotal to Lifehouse, but it wasn't included on Who's Next.  (A pity!)
> 'Join Together' -- about joining together with the band in a musical
> confluence -- also seems pivotal to Lifehouse and again, a shame it
> didn't end up on Who's Next.
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