A friend where I work needed a favor. She had an idea for a presentation that required the old Who song “Who Are You” — but it couldn’t have the swear words in it.
I was in the radio business when the song came out, and there was a short, cleaned-up single version. Not having the single handy, I made one of my own. Although the question should be asked, who am I to touch a Who song?
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Sounds/Wordpress/OCT06/SongEdit.mp3,http://www.dograt.com/Sounds/Wordpress/OCT06/SongOriginal.mp3]On the audio player is my edit, followed by the original. This was transferred from the vinyl LP I bought the week that the album was released in 1978. I don’t think the album is all that great, actually, so I never bought the CD.
Can you tell where the four edits are? The deletion at 4:38 was the trickiest. It’s at 5:34 in the unedited cut.
Yes, of course, “Who’s Next?” which, of course, ties in with the very provocative album photo! Not ONE bad track on that album! Speaking of which, knowing you and Dennis, you’d be sweating bullets if you were only allowed 10 CDs/albums/cassettes, whatever each on a desert island. But wait, you’d just make some killer compilation mp3s on an iPod! Problem solved!
You must mean “Who’s Next,” which we listened to when I dragged you along on a trip to a stereo store in Boston one time. The Desert Island collection idea goes back to some Rock Music critic. I forget which one. Dennis will know. But I’m sure “books for a desert island” must have been an idea many decades before that.
OK, I re-read the post; I was always just familiar with the cleaned-up radio version, since I was still in college in 1978, two years behind my peers.
Man, am I ever naive. There were SWEAR words in it? I guess it’s kind lika “Louie, Louie,” where I couldn’t really understand all the words, or wasn’t really listening. I wasn’t a big fan of this particular song either. However, the album “The Who,” by the Who, is definitely one of my “Desert Island” choices. Ever heard of that program on NPR?