The Who - Amazing Journey/Sparks [Live at Hull 1970]

[@doc31597]

My Dad went to both Leeds and Hull.He got a balcony view for the Hull gig.. Moony was his hero. He went through 2 cases of pale ale .. Whilst playing exceptionally like they all did.. As for loud.. my Dad’s ears were ringing for days .. Pete Townsend said at Hull “ The acoustic sounds here are made for a band like us”.. Think that speaks volumes and more in itself 🤘👌🤘

[@Quickmood]

Thats amazing! What a lucky man! 😎

[@benabbott6031]

the double bass drum attacks, the fills and empty spaces, the crash, boom, sparkle and shimmer and the poetry - this is The Who in 1970 - the greatest rock spectacle of all time

[@soxwina]

YES! For 55 years now I have thought that THE WHO were The best...in their day!

[@austrianpainterinhiding88]

When this shifts from Amazing Journey to Sparks, it's one of the heaviest riffs I've ever heard.

[@davidfoster5906]

Eargasmic!

[@bobbysands6923]

what kills me about this performance and the Leeds concert is the sound of Moon's drums. You can hear every tone, very unusual for the time when most of the drums sounded like mud. As great as everyone was on this, Moon just fffing kills it.

[@junkshin2]

These guys take me to a place that nothing else ever can.

[@KevyNova]

junkshin2 You might say, an Amazing Journey!

[@timothyoconnell4189]

It's just British Rock at it's finest! I love it to death!

[@TheWeightRock]

same here

[@jasonrichards2371]

No others will ever

[@babyshambler]

They give me euphoria.

[@WHOMEWHOYOU]

I was a kid in 1970 when Live at Leeds came out, it actually scare some of my friends, it was what Rock Music was always met to be. Then The Who got even better !!! Life long Fan. Wish I could have been at both nights of those concerts! and The Who played it Loud in those days! WOW !!

[@gordongrant444]

Yes. I remember describing Live at Leeds to my younger brother as violence set to music. And it did scare me in some places, but that's why I loved it.

[@kakstin]

Arguably the post powerful live rock band of all time, leaving even Cream in the dust. The Who circa 1970 were at the kind of plateau most bands could never dream of. Every live version of the 'Tommy' material I've heard blows the studio cuts away.

[@steviea427]

Hi Jimmy. I watched the Who documentary "Amazing Journey" and Pete relayed an awesome story. Pete said that Keith was a genius, John was a genius and that he was on the cusp of becoming one. Roger was just the singer. Roger never felt a "true" part of the band and spent every day expecting to be fired. The Who were bankrupt and the Tommy album was make or break. The band was going to dissolve. When it came time to tour the album Roger asked Pete if he could "be" Tommy. Pete said sure without knowing what Roger meant. Roger found himself in Tommy. Roger found the voice of the Who that he had been searching for. Pete said Roger changed from a thuggish guy keeping closed in on himself to an extraordinary singer that bared himself (chest and all) to the audience and welcomed them in to him. Tommy not only saved the band but saved Roger and allowed him to find his genius. Pete said the band "equalized" when Roger found himself and that was when the Who became an awesome powerhouse. Pete said the band became a "good marriage." Cool Story. Just sayin'. Peace, Steve.

[@shirleyhubbert5547]

this isn't better than Cream live. u can't compare the 2

[@toddmangrum1673]

+shirley hubbert Love Cream! But...no one and I mean no one could match the Who on stage. Jack Bruce always tried to override legendary Eric Clapton in concert making for a lot of jumble. The WHO in contrast, everyone knew their part...John didn't try to dual against Pete. The WHO...greatest live band ever. Jimi Hendrix... 1A

[@lifegoeson2422]

shirley hubbert Yeah what LSD have you been on? The Who completely demolish Cream.

[@johnoberle9750]

Big Heavy Metal fan and none rocked harder than The Who. Most powerfull band of all time. Greatest of the great. On musicianship and performance Deep Purple came close.

[@josephstubel6724]

I have heard this song dozens of times and it still produces the same effect; my jaw hits the top of the desk, I start to giggle and then finally a big smile thinking about Mr Moon's drumming-just incredible.......

[@JohnnyMacalvee-cf7et]

+Joseph Stubel I have listened to this at least 100 times... it is awesome. Between Leeds and Hull about 200 times. One of my favorite songs/medley action.

[@jasonrichards3601]

Sheer raw power that makes the hair on my back stand on edge no one but NO ONE WILL EVER COME CLOSE

[@ballhawk387]

I agree it's unmatched, but Elvis Costello and the Attractions give it a good run for the money at Rockpalast in 1978

[@petebradt]

@@ballhawk387 Putting Elvis fucking Costello in the same sentence with the Who should be a capital offense.

[@RONALDWILLIAMRYAN]

Love the way Townsend's guitar is subtle at the beginning, and then slowly builds to great Who bombast.

[@petebradt]

Entwistle was the POWER in that band.

[@tonym994]

y' know sometimes you think you've heard it all by your favorite band. boy, was I wrong. I had selected tunes from this show before, and was impressed. then came some other distraction, and I never gave the whole tape a listen. this is TheWHO caring about the music .this (w/ some exceptions )probably is their best raging beast of a show. this is the band that had more of a rep in the USA than hit songs .'Pinball Wizard' tho, got lots of airplay as I recall. their ''auto -destruction" rep preceded them. so if u hadn't seen them they were still legend. well, this is what the legend was all about. and they are so on the money jamming here, they are a unit in the mood to play.

[@twinoak1706]

My ears are smiling.

[@jhmusicuk]

The fucking drumming!!

[@bendbadgersteve]

Leeds, Hull, Wight, London, Tanglewood and others-doesn't really seem to matter. This particular passage seemed something the band was always eager to sink their teeth into. Haven't yet heard a "tired" version.Really quite the vehicle to sorta summarize their whole reason to be.

[@ballhawk387]

Indeed. All versions of the era, including those within the "My Generation" jams, have *something* about them. Like one particular 16th note ascending and descending bass figure coming out of the crescendo during the "My Generation" jam and his bass solo in "Sparks" at Leeds. For unmitigated savagery I give the nod to Tanglewood, especially Moonie, but maybe that's because of having the visuals. Moonie's syncopations are *unreal* here. Unmatched for raw rock power and dynamics, must have been mind-blowing to witness in person!

[@adrianselbst6777]

Truly unbelievable. However.. the only version that beats this one is Tanglewood 7/7/1970. And not just because the up close video footage is remarkable. There's more rip roaring from Pete and they screw around more, resulting in the hard improv sections, (before returning to that original Tommy melody) being longer and more inventive. The small space on the stage and in what was basically a big tent in Tanglewood confined their sound so profoundly that it simply cannot be compared to, even by the great Leeds set. During Sparks when the jam breaks and John gives that bubbly bass solo, you can clearly hear keith's snare vibrating with John's bass. This was great. As a whole nothing beats Leeds. But for anyone who loves hearing different version of this wonderful jam wants to hear a version arguably better. Look under chairs. Look under tables. Seek out Tanglewood 1970. Long live The Who.

[@owenbly]

Holy crap...Moon’s drums on this.

[@chopperg1966]

The only way to describe Keith's sound is like firing a machine gun in a thunder storm. There's nothing else like it

[@AndJusticeForMe]

Keith was a hurricane on those drums.

[@RikiNewtonMusicianSongwriter]

The Who - thundering their way thru another bona fide CLASSIC. Thanx for uploading this excellent live selection. Keith Moon’s drumming is just fantastic.

[@doorswhofan]

Absolutely one of the most intense rock instrumentals ever composed ("Sparks" itself, I mean).

[@zebonaut]

To me this is the Door opener to what later wouold become Prog.

[@culls33]

Keith's drums are fuckin monstrous

[@johnreid2512]

Make no mistake about this recording, Keith, Roger, Pete and John were at the top of their game. For being a live recoding the quality is excellent, especially Keith's drums. In Sparks you hear three people who know what they are all doing producing a performance which is totally optimised and could never get better. In short The Who at their very best!

[@joshuamichael8345]

In my opinion, The Who at their best. Keith Moon just goes off!!!

[@kevinurban1963]

id forgotten just how great these cats where

[@k3v1ch]

Brilliant performance...

[@BubbaZen10]

This is the pinnacle.

[@WHOMEWHOYOU]

THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS GREAT LIVE "THE WHO" SONG! COME ON PEOPLE LET'S "THANK THESE FRIENDS OF OURS" THAT TAKE THE TIME TO POST THESE GREAT LIVE "WHO" SONGS FOR US ! ! JUST SAYING, 2 COMMENTS AT THE TIME OF MY COMMENT, AND IT HAS HAD 1,315 VIEWS ! ! THANKS QUICKMOOD ! !

[@walterschoenke7203]

Alice Cooper said that Keith was like an "Octopus" on the drums.

[@WHOMEWHOYOU]

I like.... getting some kind of "High" listening to this..... loud.

[@ballhawk387]

Oh, the POWER!

[@hassledguy]

Keith's best Sparks?

[@77jttown]

None better,awesome, thanks for the post.

[@ThePogle]

i thank you

[@The8347135]

Amazing performance

[@briandavitt9640]

i just added a third subwoofer just for this.

[@tommy8058]

If somebody would ask me why I love the who so much, I would play the Leeds or the Hull version of Amazing Journey/Sparks for demonstration. No words needed. ❤

[@roythomson555]

I thought the Hull tapes couldn't be released as the tape machines failed to work properly, obviously i was wrong!

[@noelmarshall4289]

Think Johns bass wasnt recorded properly and im presuming has been added afterwards for the Hull recording to be released

[@timwestcott361]

Took me a few years pre KZbin to learn the piece on guitar .. now my benchmark / warm up goto. All those D shapes .. never fails. Also dipped back into Sell Out to find the roots of this epic composition

[@RedArrow73]

"He's crazy if he thinks we're coming back again . . ."

[@markbooboo1]

I LOVE THIS BAND AND THIS ALBUM IS FUCKIN MINT !!!

[@RedArrow73]

I thought JAE's signal was lost to the ages from this stop, and that killed the idea of using this show.

[@seanoconnor2531]

re-listen to Leeds and you can taste the difference in bass

[@ballhawk387]

Reportedly 4 songs were, and the engineers managed to somehow fly them in from Leeds and make it work. A testament to the tightness of such an "anarchic" band!

[@TGiannini007]

Sonic fucking heaven.

[@rogerjohnpete1969]

Proto metal

[@Apemopo]

yo WHOMEWHOYOU's right! this is great to have!

[@quezfor]

I love this but flat high E string pedal from 4:45 ....

[@danny6655]

copy that drumming!

[@petebradt]

Or the BASS playing...Long live the OX!!!

[@MrBamcito]

It's quite impossible, Look at Portnoy on his tribute band

[@Quickmood]

@WHOMEWHOYOU You're welcome my friend!!

[@AlldaylongRock]

4:45..... dat bass

[@RockmanYoshi]

Possibly the best version of Sparks but I prefer the bass solo from Wight

[@owenbly]

Entwistle’s bass on the transition between the two songs...on whichever live version. I never thought one note could sound so damn evil. Slays me every time.

[@VX_XI]

The Isle Of Wight version is a f_cking beast of a performance

[@RedArrow73]

JAE missed his lead break!!

[@aoffisher1849]

I think the bass for this was taken from the Leeds show because apparently they forgot to record John’s bass at Hull