#baba o'riley

[balkanparamo]

Teenage Wasteland

[louisupdates]

Louis Tomlinson sings The Who’s Baba O’Riley, FREQUENCY FESTIVAL [16.8.2024] 📸 anamariasari IG story

[dreamings-free]

“On the gig I’m on at the moment - I’m playing with a guy called Louis Tomlinson - we’ve kind of taken some bits from The Who and shoehorned them into some of the songs on this tour so.. we’ve got kinda of a small bit of Baba O’Riley. And then I’m kinda playing elements of this tune we’re about to hear [Won’t Get Fooled Again] within one of the One Direction songs that we play. So I kinda sorta fused.. we kinda fused the original One Direction tune with a bit of The Who and kinda made our own version of it.”

— Steve Durham talking about his influences and about incorporating The Who into Louis’ live set for the Faith In The Future World Tour

Big Fat Five podcast 10/5/24

[jt1674]

[mooncustafer]

Had to courier a package at work

Now I'm going to have the Who stuck in my head all day

[brandonsdrunkagain]

[myimaginaryradio]

Baba O'Riley - The Who

[krispyweiss]

Song Review(s): Grateful Dead - “Baba O’Riley” -> “Tomorrow Never Knows” (Live, July 1, 1992)

While it’s true the expectation of the Grateful Dead’s pairing of “Baba O’Riley” and “Tomorrow Never Knows” turned out to be stronger than the band’s execution, it’s also true that reliving it on video via the Dead’s “All the Years Live” series reminded Sound Bites it was better than the blog’s memory had archived it as being.

The just-released July 1 version in Ohio was the second of two Sound Bites witnessed - the prior one coming earlier in the tour in Washington, D.C. - and it’s actually pretty solid and a rare example of Vince Welnick being in total control of the band. Jerry Garcia is a relative non-factor in this Who -> Beatles twofer as there are no big guitar solos in either song.

Welnick sings lead on both; with assistance from Bob Weir on the latter as Phil Lesh re-creates Fab sound effects with his vocal cords.

“Baba O’Riley” is uncharacteristically rabid for Grateful Dead Land, so much so that Weir jumps and slashes at his axe after the first verse. Lesh, meanwhile, sings with Welnick on the bridge and while vocals are the weak spot in both of these numbers, they’re quite exciting despite the disharmony.

Drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart get a chance to pound away on “Tomorrow Never Knows.” And they take it, launching the band through the “->” and helping to bring the two-pack in for a landing on the a cappella coda that finds Welnick singing a line from “Once in a Lifetime,” just to keep things fresh.

A refreshing surprise, this one. And not the same as it ever was in the Sound Brain after all.

Grade card: Grateful Dead - “Baba O’Riley” -> “Tomorrow Never Knows” (Live - 7/1/92) - B+/B

Read Sound Bites’ previous “All the Years Live” coverage here.

5/30/24

[vedder99]

𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚊 𝙾'𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝙿𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐𝚑, 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟸.

[archivist-crow]

The Who - “Baba O’Riley” (1971)

Fifty-three years ago today, on October 23, 1971, “Baba O’Riley,” the second single from the fifth studio album by the Who, Who’s Next, was released. Originally written by Pete Townsend for a scrapped rock opera to follow up Tommy, the song was then repurposed for the band’s next album as the lead track. Named for and inspired by two of Townsend’s influences at the time—Indian spiritual master Meher Baba and American composer Terry Riley—the song is generally considered among the band’s best and one of the best songs of all time. Though the single was released in a scattering of European countries, it was only released as part of Who’s Next in the UK and the US. Despite this, the song received considerable airplay in both countries and has gone on to become one of the most popular classic rock songs of all time.

[dr-chibbers]

“And Horton bent down, he bent down to the ground. And what was it; oh what did he hear? Why it was sound of the drums and thrums and the guitar did he hear! The drums and strums and voices so clear! The sound of Keith Moon and Pete Townsend did he hear! “The Kids are Alright” and “Baba O’Reily” did did sound, and it felt like Horton could hear the sound “My Generation” through the background! He knew that he knew, deep down in his heart, that this motley, hotly debated sound was all just the start! Oh he had to hear more, and his heart it did soar. What a wondrous, thunderous, trip of a sound, Horton knew he would tour this band all around. He picked up the flower puff, keeping it close and secure, and with that, he took this group out on the road to tour!”

-Horton Hears The Who

[sunny-rants]

ok tell me why I haven’t seen a single Yellowjackets edit to Baba O’Riley by The Who???

[louisupdates]

Louis Tomlinson sings The Who’s Baba O’Riley, SZIGET FESTIVAL 2024 [10.8.2024] via Helen Seamons IG story

[elceeu2morrow]

It's only teenage wasteland [FITFWT 2023 Las Vegas, 7.1.23]

[sunshineandlyrics]

It's only teenage wasteland ..

FITFWT Cardiff, 15 November 2023

[earhartsease]

and then one day during a Who tour in Europe, the beloved synth track starts bibbling but then instead of Pete Townshend shimmering his tambourine, there's a deep rumble and crashing, and up through the destroyed stage comes flying a giant mortar & pestle and the band finally breaks into Baba Yaga O'Riley and nothing is the same ever again

but until then