Tune of the Week: The Who

We’ll pick up the energy here with The Who really going off in a television studio setting. Here they do their first rock and roll opera, “A Quick One (While He’s Away), a predecessor to their classic “Tommy” long player. It would seem this is before excess became much of an issue for their members. Energy positively seethes through Townsend and Moon. I think they were perhaps trying to make an impression amongst the amazing group of musicians in the studio: Brian Jones-era Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Taj Mahal, Mitch Mitchell and John Lennon with Yoko to name a few! You may recognize the end of the song from a particularly memorable scene from the film “Rushmore”, or maybe you saw this back in the day in the Who clip film, “The Kids are Alright”. If you didn’t YOU ARE FORGIVEN.