The Who Wont Get Fooled Again Live 1982
Won't Get Fooled Again is ane of the biggest classic rock anthems of all time. Written by Pete Townshend and released past The Who every bit a unmarried in June 1971, reaching the Britain top 10. Information technology was the final runway on the incredible Who's Next anthology, released August 1971.
The rail was originally conceived for an entirely dissimilar project. Following the success of Tommy, the band'south 1969 double concept album that sent The Who into rock's elite division, Townshend started piece of work on a new conceptual project chosen Lifehouse.
The story was an intriguing one, if a bit abstract. It was designed to evidence how spiritual enlightenment could be obtained via a combination of band and audience. The concept was imagined equally a multi-media exercise, involving a movie and theatrical alive performances in addition to the music. Even the music was to be developed in a new way: through interaction with a alive audience. The problem was that nobody but Townshend fully understood what it was all about thematically, what it would entail, or how the execution really work work.
Lifehouse is set in the near future in a society in which music is banned and near of the population alive indoors in government-controlled experience suits connected through a grid. A rebel, Bobby, broadcasts rock music into the suits, allowing people to remove them and get more than enlightened.
Interestingly, the story describes engineering that would be developed years after. For instance, the grid resembles the net, and people's experiences within the experience suits basically describe a course of virtual reality.
Bobby finds that there is a universal chord that is then pure that information technology has the power to restore harmony and enlighten anyone who hears it. Won't Get Fooled Again was written for the terminate of the opera, when the people are free and looking to overthrow the leadership. Bobby is killed and the universal chord is finally sounded. The main characters disappear, leaving behind the government and army to have at each other.
We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our anxiety
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit down in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the songI'll tip my lid to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Grin and grin at the modify all around
Choice up my guitar and play
But like yesterday
So I'll go on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled once more
Townshend realised that the newly emerging synthesizers would allow him to communicate the ideas he had to a mass audience. He had met the BBC Radiophonic Workshop which gave him ideas for capturing human personality within music. Townshend interviewed several people with general practitioner-manner questions, and captured their heartbeat, brainwaves and astrological charts, converting the result into a serial of sound pulses.
For the demo of Won't Become Fooled Again, he linked a Lowrey organ into an Ems VCS 3 filter that played back the pulse-coded modulations from his experiments. He later on upgraded to an ARP 2500. The synthesizer did not play whatever sounds directly as it was monophonic; instead information technology modified the block chords on the organ equally an input signal.
These type of arpeggiated synthesizer sounds would be used on two songs on the album: opener Baba O'Riley and closer Won't Go Fooled Again, bookending the album with songs featuring this sound – and quite prominently at that. The nerve of in particular opening the anthology with a huge, extended synthesizer intro, was a ballsy move. It was also very unique – non just the sonic quality of the sound itself, but the percussive rhythms that the patterns infused into their songs.
Information technology almost certainly was the first time a major rock band had used a synthesizer like this. Others may have wanted to or would have leapt at the take chances, merely the musical instrument was simply uncommon before Townshend got his hands on 1. Also, very few knew how to work them and they were really difficult to plan. Townshend spent endless weeks holed up in the studio getting to the bottom of this instrument and the new opportunity it offered, putting in time, effort, and pure stamina that others but may not have had.
The demo, recorded at a slower tempo than the version by the Who, was completed past Townshend overdubbing drums, bass, electric guitar, vocals and handclaps. In the Classic Albums documentary for the Who's Next album, Townshend said: "When I did this sound for Won't Get Fooled Again I didn't have the full equipment. It arrived during the making of the demos. By the time I had finished the demos I knew how to piece of work it, but what I did take was a much simpler organ synthesizer. I took the output of the organ and put it through a filter, which is what they call 'sample and hold' – you lot get these random voltages coming out. I suppose I was simply sitting there and playing it for hour after hour, getting into it. The chords I used were very elementary – nigh kind of naïvely simple, but then over again, the terminate issue is extraordinarily harmonically complex."
What many assume to be a loop, is actually a live performance with many subtle variations, making a loop incommunicable.
Townshend's demo of the vocal contains a much more straightforward pulsate and bass blueprint than the ones Keith Moon and John Entwistle would add to the song. "When I outset started playing the drums I tried to emulate Keith, but in the end I thought, f*ck it. I don't actually want to play similar that." He knew that the songs would still get the inevitable and inimitable stamp by the other band members, making information technology into a vocal by The Who rather than Pete Townshend solo.
At a point well into the song, at that place is an organ solo with the same arpeggiated rhythm. "That part is something I couldn't have written on paper," said Townshend. "What's interesting in that location is what happens to the organ. The function has been playing in the background all along, when information technology suddenly becomes a solo. The part is me playing, and it turns into something beautiful and spontaneous. Something very disciplined. I'one thousand simply following it – I did non write it, I follow the music."
That solo spot became a pivotal indicate in the alive shows too, with incredible laser effects casting a spectacular display over the stage, Roger Daltrey'south shadow reappearing in the middle, backed by Keith Moon's incredible percussive piece of work, earlier the band explode back into it – with THAT scream.
Roger Daltrey'southward scream towards the end of the solo, right earlier the "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" section, is simply incredible. It is largely considered one of the all-time recorded screams on any rock song. According to fable, information technology was such a convincing wail the rest of the band, who were lunching nearby, thought Daltrey was having a ball with the engineer. Who biographer Dave Marsh described information technology as "the greatest scream of a career filled with screams".
The lyrics of Won't Be Fooled Once again has as interesting a backstory every bit the music. To fully sympathise everything that went into the song, we need to look at the commune on Eel Pie Island, right almost a place on the River Themes in Richmond, London, where Pete Townshend lived at the fourth dimension. At that place was an active commune on the island at the time, situated in what used to be a hotel. "At that place was like a beloved matter going on between me an them," Townshend said. "They dug me because I was similar a figurehead in a group, and I dug them considering I could encounter what was going on over in that location. At one point there was an amazing scene where the commune was really working, just so the acid started flowing and I got on the end of some psychotic conversations."
In the documentary The History of The Who, Townshend offered more detail on what happened: "When I wrote Won't Become Fooled Again I was a young man with a family. I accept a choice almost what I tin can and cannot exercise, and what I tin and cannot remember. The sensibility of the day was that the artist – the rock musician – was the belongings of the people. Information technology was the musician who should be liberated. This was exacerbated a chip by the fact that I lived correct near a place on the River Themes called Eel Pie Island, which had been taken over by a bunch of hippies and Grateful Dead fans, and the Pig Pen… all that bunch came one day and distributed heroin and LSD. They used to come up and knock at the door and say, "requite the states nutrient"! I'd say okay, and I'll give 'em some food. The next day they were back, and said "give us more food"! I said okay again, and of course the next they were back yet again maxim "give us more than nutrient!" I finally said, "we've run out of food." They went, what? I repeated "nosotros've run out of food." They could not comprehend this. "But… we want more than nutrient!" Later they would come up by and say "give u.s. a motorcar – we want to liberate your auto!" I told a story about them to a friend in one case, and my wife got and so aroused crusade I'd never told her most it. She hates it when she hears things 2d manus, and this i was about one of these guys knocking at the door saying "nosotros've come up to liberate your baby!" I mean… Jesus F*cking Christ. They were wackos. And that was the climate in which I wrote Won't Get Fooled Again. Information technology caused quite a lot of difficulty for me, but I had to recall nigh information technology and I had to stand by it."
The Woodstock festival was also an influence on this song. Almost songs inspired by Woodstock follow the peace and beloved narrative, but Townshend had a very different accept.
The Who played on solar day ii, going on at the ludicrous hour of five in the morning. During their set, the activist Abbie Hoffman came on phase unannounced and commandeered the microphone. Accounts differ on whether Townshend belted him with his guitar, but he certainly did not want to provide a platform for any cause. "I wrote Won't Go Fooled Once again as a reaction to all that," he explained to Creem in 1982. "Equally in, 'Leave me out of information technology; I don't think you lot would be any ameliorate than the other lot!'"
The song has been taken every bit a call to artillery for a number of causes over the years, which is the exact contrary of what its writer had in listen. In The History of The Who documentary, Townshend said, "Strangely enough, information technology'south the kind of vocal which is adopted for many causes, you know. Nosotros take to keep reminding people that this is about our right to stand away from causes. Y'all know, nosotros cull not to exist fooled by your rhetoric, by your politicisation, by your spin. We recollect for ourselves, and we also have the right to opt out. I think what I felt at the time was that I if I had been confronted with people coming to say 'we desire the coin dorsum,' I would just say that you lot can't have it and I'thousand available for rent. If yous don't want to rent me, don't hire me. You can't liberate me – I'g non your property."
The change, it had to come
We knew it all forth
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks merely the same
And history own't inverse
Cause the banners, they are flown in the next state of war
Townshend described the song as one "that screams defiance at those who feel whatsoever crusade is better than no cause." He later said that the song was not strictly anti-revolution despite the lyric "We'll be fighting in the streets", but stressed that revolution could be unpredictable, adding, "Don't expect to see what y'all expect to encounter. Expect goose egg and you might gain everything."
Bassist John Entwistle later said that the song showed Townshend "saying things that really mattered to him, and saying them for the get-go time."
I of the pivotal lyrics to ever come from a The Who song are found at the end of this song.
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
The vocal has often been taken up in an anthemic sense, but these words more than any other should make it clear that it's actually a cautionary piece. Townshend said: "Won't Get Fooled Once more was non a defined statement. It was a plea! It was a plea, because y'all know – in the Lifehouse story, it said; please don't feel because yous've come up to the concert, to this place, that you've got an answer. Please don't brand me on the stage the new boss. Because I'm just the same every bit the guy who was upwards hither before. You lot're in charge."
In looking closer at the Lifehouse story and Won't Get Fooled Again, y'all realise that information technology is not describing utopia. It is much closer to dystopia. The current world order does non work and people are paying the cost for it. The rock opera depicts leadership as a dangerous idea, which may exist some of the reason why it was so hard to pull off. Information technology put along the idea that actions take consequences. The guild of the day back then was that actions and revolutions were supposed to have glorious results – not consequences. Was the world ready for such a bulletin dorsum then? It may have been more convenient to lump it in with the political protestation songs of the era. Some no doubt thought that's what the vocal was almost in any case.
Near of the songs that make upwardly the Lifehouse rock opera reflects a striving to try and make more than of ourselves – to become more conscious, more aware, more consummate equally human being beings. Won't Go Fooled Over again stands out on its own because it carries a potent bulletin of encouraging cocky-empowerment and thinking for yourself. Simply, every bit part of Lifehouse, information technology was part of an even bigger message.
The Who'south start attempt to tape the song was at the Tape Establish on W 44 Street, New York City, on 16 March 1971. Managing director Kit Lambert had recommended the studio to the grouping, which led to his producer credit, though the de facto work was washed by Felix Pappalardi from the ring Mount. This take featured Pappalardi'southward bandmate, Leslie Due west, on lead guitar.
Lambert proved to exist unable to mix the track, and a fresh attempt at recording was fabricated at the start of April at Mick Jagger's firm, Stargroves, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. Glyn Johns was invited to aid with product, and he decided to re-utilise the synthesized organ track from Townshend's original demo, as the re-recording of the role in New York was felt to be junior to the original.
Keith Moon had to carefully synchronise his drum playing with the synthesizer, while Townshend and Entwistle played electric guitar and bass. Townshend played a 1959 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins hollow body guitar fed through an Edwards volume pedal to a Fender Bandmaster amp, all of which he had been given by Joe Walsh while in New York. This combination became his chief electrical guitar recording setup for subsequent albums.
The Stargroves recording of the song was intended as a demo recording, but the end consequence sounded so good that they decided to apply it as the final take. Some overdubs, including an acoustic guitar part played by Townshend, were recorded at Olympic Studios at the end of April. The runway was mixed at Isle Studios past Johns on 28 May.
During this procedure, Lifehouse as a project was abandoned. You could say it collapsed under its own weight, with Townshend never fully being able to explicate the full concept or become others to share his ain enthusiasm for the project. He did not have the strength to bear all the ideas through on his own. Producer Glyn Johns felt that most of the songs they had been working on, including Won't Become Fooled Once more, were then good that it did not affair. The best of them could only be released as a single album of standalone songs. This became Who'south Next.
Without the concept of Lifehouse to provide an overarching context, the songs at present had to stand up on their own legs, providing their own inner pregnant. Won't Be Fooled Over again was meant to provide a climax in the Lifehouse story, only the song would is so powerful in any instance that it ends upwards providing a similar climax to the Who'south Next album.
Roger Daltrey felt that having gone through the initial phases of the Lifehouse project had been very beneficial to the album they ended up with. "If we hadn't been given the risk to at to the lowest degree be working for this kind of ethereal project of Pete's – it was going to exist a concept, a film and this and that – nosotros would accept just gone into the studio with demos and recorded information technology the way all our other albums were recorded. Whereas, this album is a real organic Who album, and it's got much more than of what The Who actually were near. Information technology has much more of our stage presence, because we knew the songs so well."
This is a very good bespeak, and every musician delivered brilliantly. A lot of the songs had been explored in rehearsal a live to an extent that they unremarkably didn't for new material. Whether you focus on the vocals, guitar, bass, or drums, the parts are incredibly well developed. They managed to display the usual levels of virtuosity while fitting information technology in naturally within the song. Nothing sounds overwrought – it but sounds amazing.
The album version runs eight:30. The single was shortened to iii:35 so radio stations would play information technology. The ring was non happy that the vocal had to be edited, and Daltrey has expressed item unhappiness well-nigh it. He recalled toUncut magazine, "I hated it when they chopped it down. I used to say 'F*ck information technology, put it out as eight minutes', but there'd e'er be some excuse near not plumbing equipment information technology on or some technical thing at the pressing plant. After that we started to lose interest in singles considering they'd cut them to bits. We idea, 'What'southward the signal? Our music's evolved past the three-minute bulwark and if they can't accommodate that we're just gonna have to live on albums.'"
The single was released on 25 June 1971, replacing Backside Blue Eyes which the group felt didn't fit The Who'southward established musical mode. It was released in July in the United states of america. The single reached #9 in the Britain charts and #xv in the The states. Initial publicity fabric showed an abandoned cover of Who's Next featuring Moon dressed in drag and brandishing a whip.
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The full-length version of the song appeared as the endmost rails of Who'southward Next, released xiv (US)/27 (UK) August. It fabricated it to #four on the US Billboard charts, going all the manner to #ane in the Britain – the only Who album to exercise and then. Won't Get Fooled Again drew strong praise from critics, who were impressed that a synthesizer had managed to be integrated so successfully within a stone song.
The song would immediately become a mainstay in The Who's live shows, having been function of every Who concert since its release – ordinarily as the set closer and sometimes extended slightly to permit Townshend to smash his guitar or Moon to boot over his drumkit. The group would perform it alive over the synthesizer part beingness played on a bankroll record, which required Moon to article of clothing headphones to hear a click runway, allowing him to play in sync.
Information technology was the last rails Moon played alive in forepart of a paying audition on 21 October 1976, and the last song he e'er played with the Who at Shepperton Studios on 25 May 1978, which was captured on the documentary film The Kids Are Alright.
Several live and culling versions of the song have been released on CD or DVD. In 2003, a deluxe version of Who'south Side by side was reissued to include the Record Constitute recording of the track from March 1971. It also included the earliest known live version from the Immature Vic on 26 Apr 1971.
In its May 26, 2006 consequence, the conservativeNational Review mag published a listing of "The 50 greatest conservative rock songs." Won't Get Fooled Again was ranked song number one. Pete Townsend responded on his blog equally follows: "It is not precisely a song that decries revolution – information technology suggests that we volition indeed fight in the streets – only that revolution, like all action tin have results we cannot predict. Don't expect to meet what you look to come across. Wait nothing and y'all might proceeds everything." Townsend then goes on to explain that the song was simply "Meant to allow politicians and revolutionaries alike know that what lay in the eye of my life was not for sale, and could not exist co-opted into any obvious crusade."
Roger Daltrey has in after years admitted that the frequent airing of the song may have pushed it over the edge for him. "That's the simply song I'one thousand bloody bored shitless with," he toldRolling Stone in 2018. Interestingly, that has non prevented Daltrey from nearly always including the vocal in his solo concerts – equally Entwistle and Townshend always did.
For better or worse, this is the song many will associate The Who with. My Generation was a solid canticle for the 1960s, but they managed to redefine themselves and plant Won't Get Fooled Once more every bit their new anthem for the 1970s onward – and it continues to be timeless.
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