Hit The Tone | Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who (Pete Townshend) | Ep.70 | Thomann

Welcome to Hit The Tone ! In this video series, I’ll be showing you how to nail the playing and the sound of your favourite songs ! From guitar to amp selection, through a step by step lesson of the song at hand. Let me know which riff or intro you want me to cover in the comment section and I’ll get you sorted asap!
This episode covers the introduction of the song Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who!
Hope you enjoy and see you next week :)
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Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 : Intro and playing
0:43 : Presentation and Guitar setup
2:59 : Amp and pedal setup
4:21 : The SOUND
5:11 : The Lesson
5:26 : The fretting hand
6:07 : The picking hand
7:37 : Conclusion
7:59 : Outro playing
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[@nickofzo]

If I am correct, Townshend used a Gretsch 6120.

[@soulagent79]

I think on the orginal recording Pete played a hollowbody Gretsch 6120, which was his favourite guitar in the studio for many years.

[@msmoniz]

Yup. Into a 59 Fender Bandmaster combo. Majority of Who's Next electric guitars was this gear combination. A SG or anything with P90s into a Marshall will sound great for this song, but it ain't gonna hit the tone of the album version considering how different the gear used is.

[@slimkickens]

@@msmoniz yeah, his tone is way too thick and distorted to be the album tone. It has the sonic character, but there are subtleties that you can't get without filtertrons, a hollow body, the volume pedal, or the weird ohmage of the 3x10 bandmaster.

[@jumpboy29]

@@msmoniz Pete Townshend said recently his live rig was also used on Who's Next, so it's Hiwatt-SG combined with Bandmaster-Gretsch rig on studio recording W

[@timschneider8513]

With isolated SG it sounds like a perfect ACDC song

[@1967DIF]

Agree!

[@1967DIF]

And the same "V" shape later brought B.T.O. to a hit! ¤ "You Not Seen Nothing Yet"

[@slesher84]

Finally my favorite English band!

[@guitarifuldexter6366]

I love these Hit the Tone videos. Even if I do never have the gear to get the tone. 🤘🎸

[@KanariasLibre7]

Now a video about sound like Noel Gallagher in early Oasis, please!

[@nicolas.grisanti]

XD great intro! and great tone! Love the SG.

[@cindygigliotti3538]

I love that song‼️

[@GabiOprea]

Great job! this is a very very good serie! Love it!

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

Thank you so much Filip! //G

[@szrnkabela]

Yeah! Do you do a Who week after the Pink Floyd week? 😃 I would definitely like to see how Julia plays the John Entwistle basslines of this song! 🤩

[@davidvanberkel5599]

Great video 🔥👍

[@dennisg69]

I have a mid '70s SG with PAFs, and plugged straight into a Fender Blues Jr. I'm still able to get as close or closer to Townshend's tone. I've been tempted to get a more "Townshend accurate" SG with P-90s but I love the one I have.

[@boomerbassmeme]

CSI Thomann's YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Nice Guil! 😎👍

[@Steven_SK]

Nailed it....

[@markbass354]

COOL!!!

[@kmichaelp4508]

YyyyyyyyyeeeeeaaaaaaaHhh!! Love that story. I saw them 5 , yes 5 times in my lifetime. From 1970-?🤐

[@Raja_Sahin]

This is the official Every breath you take for the next episode of hit the tone button! Please like it!!!

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

Liked 😁//G

[@Raja_Sahin]

@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses cheers mate ur the best!!!🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS! You guys created such incredible instruments for our ​@/diykitchallenge​, it was beyond impressive and accordingly hard to choose winners, but here they are : tho.mn/DIYkt . Congratulations to you all and to all the participants!

[@PooNinja]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgggg. Wait was that 2 pts flash powder and 8 pts black powder..🥁💥😱... and The Who has tinnitus... Ery body in the first 5 rows too. Marshall 812 backbreaker cabs available by special requests only.

[@louismulder5382]

Can you teach “ Lankini’s juice “ from the band Live? Would be very cool and appriciated. Greetz from the Netherlands.

[@ArturBrzozowski444]

"We can't crank Marshalls. It's an office. People are working here" *Few episodes later* "Ouuu yeah! Marshall Watts are the loudest Watts"

[@msmoniz]

Sound great, but still no where near the actual tone from the record since he used a Gretsch 6120 into a cranked 59 Fender Bandmaster for the actual tone on all of Who's Next electric guitar parts.

[@jumpboy29]

Pete townshend said in a recent interview with Sweetwater he also used a Hiwatt with a P90 sg on Won't get Fooled again...so the recorded guitar is two different rigs overdubbed. So all this time, the gretsch into a bandmaster was only half the story

[@danielcates6247]

Could you please do an episode on Pantera - Dimebag Darrell - Revolution is my name.

[@jcdelas]

Great video, greatest intro jajaja i wish I could experience those108dB one day, I cannot pass 3 on my 10W amp with 6" speaker or neighbors will comply (sad) By the way, Eurovision is comming, Hard Rock Hallelujah jajaja

[@joermnyc]

I believe Paul McCartney has said that “Helter Skelter” was his attempt to be louder than The Who. I’m not sure if The Who minded.

[@realdocloco]

Actually his attempt to be "wilder" than the "I Can See For Miles" era The Who - and wilder it was! "Who's next" came much later (three years later)

[@joermnyc]

@@realdocloco I know working up to Who’s Next, Pete almost drove himself crazy with his Lifehouse project.

[@realdocloco]

This is not the studio tone ( as people said, Gretsch+Bassman) nor the live tone (SG Special - or Les Paul Deluxe - with Hiwatt amps) but that's close enough for rock'n roll as they say 😉. I recently bought a little Hiwatt T20/10 and that's much closer if you dime that clean channel.

[@fretfanaticno1]

6:50 dude are you talking about Snowhall Amneville by any chance?

[@pauldncn1]

Hah love this One comment though I’m sure “hit the tone” is hereditary It showed through the dead guys jeans 😁😁😁 Thanks G

[@TheBonesReaperShow]

Thomanns: Guillaume? G: Oui? Thomanns: Do the scream during the video. G: Non Thomanns: say voo plate? G: Haha, tre non Thomanns: pretty please G: Imbecile, non!

[@phenixreturns]

take a P90 dude !

[@stanislavmigra]

Nothing plexi like gunned plexi. Pedals are mostly too gainy and too compressed. Great sound and great play. Much love

[@AndrewAHayes]

Ballroom Blitz by The Sweet (although I prefer the version by The Damned), it is criminal not to learn the guitar parts for this song

[@klausfritsch4350]

This is weird, I was playing WHO songs yesterday and thought that I would propose Won't Get Fooled Again here. Weird.

[@ViktorStockmann]

Haha, the intro 😂😂

[@ragnadrabinowitz7629]

the guitars pete used to record "won't get fooled again" is well-documented... a gretsch 6120 through a fender bandmaster, both gifted from joe walsh. the tone here, though nice (for the right song), isn't really like the tone on the actual recording. it's too "AC/DC-ish" for me. i think the overdrive is more old school than that. as for pete's tone on "live at leeds", that sound is as much about the room and the ambient reverb, as it is about the guitar and amp he was using (hiwatts and an SG).

[@jumpboy29]

Pete townshend said in a recent interview with Sweetwater he also used a Hiwatt with a P90 sg on Won't get Fooled again...so the recorded guitar is two different rigs overdubbed. So all this time, the gretsch into a bandmaster was only half the story

[@ragnadrabinowitz7629]

@@jumpboy29 Townshend always seems to be retconning the who's history every time I read a new interview.

[@MirkoKroGuitars]

haha very cool intro :D love it

[@Kawabxl]

Next episode « cream cat's squirrel » Please, pretty please 🥺 ?

[@markolukin4331]

What about the rest of the song? Huh?

[@1967DIF]

There´s actually 7 chords...

[@khktgnk57]

CSI:Miami beste 😂

[@papapowpow7735]

....."while your down there"..

[@paulvcarter]

He used a Gretsch on the track - Joe Walsh helped him find the tone. Read up

[@CathodeRayNipplez]

Cool. Have any links to that?

[@aprilkurtz1589]

Townshend invented the Marshall stack, he had two cabinets, and one night, he stacked them.

[@kiereluurs1243]

Wow, just like that?!

[@aprilkurtz1589]

@@kiereluurs1243 That is the story that Marshall and Townsend have told.

[@realdocloco]

Nope - he asked Jim Marshall for ONE giant 8x12 cab and when Jim told him his roadies would complain, Pete answered "They'll get paid". Two weeks later, he was back at the shop and asked for something smaller 😂. They decided to cut the giant cab in two and stack them and the rest in history.

[@alwaysright3718]

Sorry but you aint even close to how Pete played this song....

[@kevdalley599]

Talked more than he played guitar

[@jamesonpace726]

Guessing you were 15 in 2000 & Daltry would have been in his 50's or 60's...? Also, it's the "Isle of Wight", not "Right" but you rock on m'laddie, rock on...!

[@kiereluurs1243]

Check pronunciation of CAJON on Forvo instead of the ign0rant American 'cahon' . While there: check Juan, José, ...

[@kiereluurs1243]

"What's up everybody?" Do you really want to know, or is it just a void cliché?