The Who | 515 & Sea Of The Sand | Reaction

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[@brianshockledge3241]

Girls of 15 reference is Townshend remembering The Who opening for The Beatles in 1964. The girls would get so excited they pee themselves wetting their seats in the process he said the stench was horrendous. Between sets and before the new audience came in the ushers in the theatre would spray cheap cologne on the seats to try and mask the smell.

[@kentclark6420]

That's gross. They must have had restrooms?

[@daseguin]

@@kentclark6420 That's how crazy Beatlemania was.

[@diverdown631]

​@kentclark6420 have you ever seen how hard and loud girls use to scream. It's a big reason they stopped touring, the P.A systems back then couldn't compete with the screams and the band couldn't hear themselves.

[@nthdegree1269]

True.....Beatlenania was absolutely crazy

[@chrisswash7923]

Absolutely correct

[@dianebrown8046]

LOVE YOU Did this!! I'm 65 & The Who one of FAVS since a Kid !! ...!978 had tickets to concert in Philly Pa to see them...Moon died...concert cancelled...Thought I Never be able to see again....2018-19 Got to see...AFTER Original Concert Cancelled...We held on to tickets A year( or more) after 1st concert cancelled ..Roger had problems...polyps... Had GREAT Time when the concert was rescheduled...since we held the tickets We got Upgrade 6th row center...one of the best & saddest things...20 yr old kid sitting next to us...was Over a year from Original tickets...theKid & his Dad had bought tickets for 1st too...His Dad died before this concert...He got Upgrade too...We sang Pictures Of Lily His Dad's Fav song together...Was Awesome night !!

[@jamietfranklin]

I love your story. Pictures Of Lily is epic.

[@jeffmartin1026]

5:15 - "nowhere is home' - reflecting on who he was (club punk) and how it isn't him anymore - while riding home on the train in the morning. Sand and Sea - he realizes that while nothing ever goes as planned (for him), the sea and the sand are simply "themselves" and everything works out for the best. Just my ideas on what it means.

[@patricknicolucci5073]

John 5:15 The story goes that when the Beatles ride on the train (See A hard days night) that young girls get so excited they would pee themselves, so the train conductors would spray cologne to cover the odor.

[@lesblatnyak5947]

Ooh ooh that smell.

[@davescurry69]

"Faces" and "tickets" as referenced in "Sea And Sand", were terms used by mods to describe members of the hierarchy within the subculture. The "faces" were the leaders while the lowly "tickets" were the followers, basically.

[@DougJables]

John, when you finish this album, you should listen again all the way through. You’ll notice that many of these songs are hinted at in the overture

[@CarolRademacher]

dude they it and rock opera about high school that go to the beach. . go see the movie. so of course they talk about 15 years girl. You need to to do some investigating be you call talk about it a fin’ opera. No lt about when parents were from England WW 2 . Watch the movie.

[@CarolRademacher]

Doesn’t he vet him albums. because he was long hair you don’t no shit. Weird

[@melissaford717]

This album saved me in my teenage years. One of the greatest records ever.

[@johntarnowski9086]

THE*

[@Ben-sq6un]

The best way to enjoy this album is to just pop it in and listen to it, from beginning to end, without worrying about the lyrics. then read up a little, first the original one page story and picture book that came with the album. the story is less important than the musical experience, but some knowledge of certain english 1960's references is helpful.

[@michaelprotheroe3573]

Wartime coat, us army surplus coats, as Jimmy wears on the cover. Essential mod uniform

[@jpirard]

the obsession with fashion was a thing back then, a sense of belonging and peer pressure

[@DocSardo]

Not like it's any different now - amped up 10x by social media.

[@cyclops60]

Yes, every youth movement had it's own uniform, the rockers with the leather bike gear and the mods with the sharp suits and parkers (wartime coats) to keep the rain off!

[@michaelprotheroe3573]

I'm the face if you want it babe is from the Who's first single, when they had briefly changed their name to the High Numbers (another mod term for aspiring faces). The song was pretty much a reworking of Slim Harpo's got love if you want it

[@novanights2chevy597]

Here's a link to I'm The Face: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6i6p5-Orrtga9U

[@michaelprotheroe3573]

A face was a mod who others looked up to. Looked better, dressed better. The mod common herd were called tickets

[@davidpeters44]

"Uppers and downers/Either way blood flows" ... one of my favorite all time lyrics.

[@57too]

The Small Faces were a Mod band and whe Rod (the Mod) joined them, they became The Faces. In England , a "Face" was a noticible person. In Liverpool a noticible person was a "La". Hense the band The Las.

[@robbugman]

I've heard Pete talking about that part of 5.15. He mentioned when The Who were touring England that sometimes they would play a show a day after the Beatles. He said the seats in the theatre smelled like urine. All the young girls would pee in their seats. The next day the ushers would walk around in-between all the seats, splashing the cologne, Au de cologne (Perfume) to cut down on the smell permeating everywhere.

[@user-dp6ve5ng8h]

I'm the face is the who's first single. A remake of got love if you want it.

[@lancevaughn432]

The reference to the Beatles playing in concert, young girls screaming peeing in their panties, the ushers have to spray eau de cologning, to mask the urine smell.

[@chrisswash7923]

For me the best album ever made , its the life and times of The Who , the 60’s , modism, the British post war generation it’s absolutely different class

[@minkhollow]

I have always appreciated the moment in "Sea and Sand" where Jimmy's like 'okay, so it's fine for YOU to be drunk off your asses but not for ME to be getting high as an escape? Sure. Suuuuure.'

[@danloonam1703]

The whole opera surrounds the two major branches of music fans in 1960's London. Mods and Rockers. The Rockers were bikers who wore black leather jackets and other motorcycle-related attire. The Mods rode scooters and dressed in suits and neat clothing. You have to listen to the whole album, in order, to fully understand the brilliance that is Quadrophenia. Same with Tommy.

[@danielb2993]

Great Song! Great album. Glad you are getting to go through the whole album. Cheers!

[@johntarnowski9086]

Greatest album ever

[@diverdown631]

5:15 and the real me are my two favorite Who songs

[@TheKayzieMichelle]

We never knew the words of the songs we loved. We had no idea what it was about. Lol

[@user-so7xu1ge7f]

We're talking about the same man that wrote tommy

[@izzonj]

Jimmy's taking the 5:15 commuter train into the city and taking in the exciting sights and sounds and smells as his drugs kick in. He was a teen, so sexualizing teenage girls was too be expected. This is this only song that was released as a single from Quadrophenia. I remember hearing on the radio back then but I thought it was the Roling Stones.

[@cyclops60]

The train is going to Brighton.

[@timgrady4630]

John Slop , this is definitional brilliance .

[@chaosandcreation4118]

Dont Forget that he's stoned on a train so plenty of imagery and free association.

[@bryanhale5254]

yeah the reference could also be in the context that jimmy is a teenager also as far as the 15 year old

[@MrThumbs63]

Sea and Sand is fantastic.

[@littlejimmy7402]

Mod Slang: Face = A Mod who stands out for the right reasons Ticket = basic Mod Back then with no internet, most of the things somebody would experience would be kind of local. To distinguish yourself, it could be as easy as getting a pair of Levi's jean (from America). If you've ever seen "Mad Men" from AMC. The same kind of culture was going on during the Golden Age of advertising on Madison Ave. Have to stay on top of what's happening.

[@chrismonroe8582]

I can't believe that by this point you haven't hipped to the fact that this a rock opera about a teenager

[@kentclark6420]

I never heard this Who song before.

[@dominicschaeffer909]

Is that Jimmy, or is THIS Jimmy…? It’s ALL JIMMY. Pete wrote 4 themes- one for each member of the Who- that all represent a part of “Jimmy The Mod”

[@jpirard]

The lyrics tell you the imagery he sees on the train. Also he is a split personality, he has 4 sides to him and often sees himself transitioning from one persona to another. The sexually knowing is the teen girls being provocative.

[@bostonwhofan]

In the Quadrophenia movie, Jimmy is completely wasted and out of his mind on the train. He hadn't hit rock bottom yet (Dr Jimmy), but he was getting there.

[@neilsackman4723]

Such a great song, My Wife is another great song.

[@BRIANZ969]

Excellent !!!!

[@CarolRademacher]

You’re on the 15 crazy train to WebbervilleDuh

[@johntarnowski9086]

5:15 - Jimmy tripping on a train ( the 5:15)

[@jordanwhistler9597]

These part of the movie is great

[@RichieG]

Awesome album still

[@tnottolini]

Sea of the sand is not the name of the song. It's Sea and Sand.

[@daseguin]

You wrote Sea of the Sand on both the thumbnail and title. It's Sea and Sand.

[@user-so7xu1ge7f]

Its a rock opra grew up with the who there's a movie

[@marrkhicks]

Nobody named jimmy in this band

[@patrickhughes4914]

"Girls of 15, sexually knowing " First of all, he's a teenager. He's on the train listening to 15 year old girls talking about their sexual experiences. It's his point of view. And, he's also high as fuck.

[@johnwilson2414]

Dude, you really need to watch the film when you are done.

[@chaosandcreation4118]

Fifteen year olds sexualize themselves. Don't be so millennial. The album is genius, you should already understand the story of a guy split into four personalities depending on the drug or drink he's on. Takes place in the fifties when rockers and mods would fight it out over style and music. Watch the movie as it's great in itself.

[@CarolRademacher]

🤔😂😂🤡