The Who – Let's See Action Oil Well – RSC 102 CD

The Who – Let's See Action
Oil Well – RSC 102 CD

1 Drowned 8:31
2 Bell Boy 4:58
3 Dr. Jimmy 7:31
4 Won't Get Fooled Again 8:35
5 Summertime Blues 3:41
6 Baba O'Riley 5:16
7 Naked Eye / Let's See Action 10:38
8 My Generation Blues 4:24

Note:
All songs by Pete Townshend unless noted
Live in London, UK - May 18, 1974 - Vol. 2

Lineup:
Roger Daltrey – lead vocals, harmonica
Pete Townshend – guitar, keyboards, backing and lead vocals
John Entwistle – bass, backing and lead vocals
Keith Moon – drums, occasional vocals

This album is a digital clone of: "Love Rain O'er Me" - Past Master PM 9005
Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality.  Limited to 200 copies only.
On the front cover Roger Daltrey performing live during a concert at Fête de l'Humanité, la Courneuve, on 9-09-1972.
Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended.

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 © Official released material:
Tracks 7,8 have been released officially in 2007 on View from A Backstage Pass.
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The Who Charlton Athletic Football Club 18th May 1974
Recorded Live at Charlton Athletic F.C., South London, 18 May 1974 at "Summer Of `74" concert. 12 other songs were also performed. Support Acts, in order of appearance: Montrose, Lindisfarne, Bad Company, Lou Reed,Humble Pie, Maggie Bell. The support acts were chosen by The Who.

The Who spent some time considering venues for a big outdoor London concert, and selected Charlton ground because, accordingly to Townshend, it had “particular acoustic qualities” and offered “excellent views of the stage from the terraces.” The concert was intended to have an attendance limit of 50,000 fans, but breakdowns in security resulted in many additional people getting in, and an estimated crowd of 80,000.

The supporting bill was very strong, with Montrose and Bad Company both going down well. This was one of the first appearances of the new Lindisfarne Mk II line-up. Lou Reed and Maggie Bell both played ok, but didn’t go down as well with the crowd as the others. Humble Pie were pure class, with Marriott on his top OTT “my skin is white, but my soul is black” form. They almost upstaged the main act. There was a long wait before The Who took to the stage, and several reports recall an atmosphere of violence.

The show begins
The Who started at 8:45 and played an hour and 45 minute set, starting with “Can’t Explain” and working their way through old classics and some more recent material, including a few from their most recent album “Quadrophenia”.The sound wasn’t that great, even though we had been promised quadrophonic sound, and there were large PA speakers sited around the ground. The Who were excellent, although Pete later admitted that he was drunk and felt that the show wasn’t actually one of their best. To all of us in the crowd it was a great day, and an opportunity to see the best rock band in the world during their prime period. The set included a lot of 60s material, and several songs that I hadn’t seen them play before such as “I’m a Boy” and “Tattoo”. Entwistle performed “Boris the Spider” in his deep bass voice. A lengthy encore included “5:15”, an extended “Magic Bus”, “My Generation”, “Naked Eye”, “Let’s See Action” and the first ever performance of their slow 12-bar blues arrangement of “My Generation”, which is now known as “My Generation Blues”.

Pete didn’t smash his guitar. They performed with a freshness and enthusiasm that they haven’t had for quite some time, and generally acted like the epitome of what a rock and roll band should be…The Who are it; as good as it ever gets, and good as we can expect from anybody.” Pete Townshend admitted (also in the NME): “At Charlton I got completely pissed… I was so happy  to get out of it…. I felt really guilty I couldn’t explode into the exuberant and happy energy our fans did….”
https://vintagerock.wordpress.com/2014/12/25/the-who-charlton-athletic-football-club-18th-may-
1974/


The Who at Charlton 74
Charlton ’74 is one of those bootlegs that must be in your collection even if you’re not so much a Who fan but a fan of bootlegs anyway. Released a multitude of times after a broadcast on the BBC, pretty much since the broadcast was made it has appeared on vinyl bootlegs such as ‘When The Sun Was Going Down’ (no label) to CD boots such as ‘Soccer Rock’ (Past Masters), ‘Boris The Spider’ (The ever dependable Oil Well), ‘Live At Charlton, ’74’ (Midas Touch) and Charlton 1974 – Expanded edition’ (MS) – from very good audience recordings to ’soundboard’, presumably from the BBC broadcast, it became a bootleg staple. None of these boots seem ever to have captured the full event however, mainly taken from partial recordings, the boots have generally been incomplete for the whole Who show.

This new set of recordings expands the experience by giving the full Who selection an airing from a brand new audience recording from close to the stage. We also get two other acts from the day – Some of the earlier acts seem not to have been recorded and the Lou Reed set was captured but the tape was not considered to have been of the best quality and so has been left from the set. The premier on this release is the full Humble Pie set, it has never been booted before and so makes it’s entry point here.

By all accounts the day was a warm one, apparently it rained early on but when the sun shone, the good folk who attended will have done what nearly everybody does at an outdoor concert of this kind and will eventually have been rendered shirtless, a pile of hot pink bodies searing in the English sunshine. To up the ante, those who didn’t make use of the facilities will have smuggled their own booze in and not wanting to have to bring it home again, that will have been drunk in quantities, ending in, what Pete Townshend considered to be one of the bawdiest audiences that they’d played to. Reports vary between whether punches were thrown between the audience members, it tends to depend where you were stood. As noted, Pete’s mood was dark before the band had really kicked off, he was obviously stood to the side of the stage while Humble Pie were playing and felt that the Who were given the budge by this bunch of upstarts, his fists clenching, watching Lou Reed would have tipped his fever a little stronger and the famous Townshend grouchiness would have reared it’s head.
A short introduction precedes them then leads in to a heavy 70’s styled riff before the Who plunge in to ‘I Can’t Explain’.

The quality of the tape doesn’t change even for the bands loudness, each instrument is given space to breathe, Keith’s drums are level best with the rest as he would have wanted – the crowd are once again respectfully noisy but if anything, that gives a little more atmosphere an already psyched gig. There are a few dips in the tape where the tape seems to skip between two to one channel starting with the introduction prior to and while ‘Behind Blue Eyes’ is played (The track is missing from the artwork too, EV!) and continues through until ‘Boris The Spider’ on the first disk and appear at the start of ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ on the second CD. Despite Pete’s grouch – He appears to be chatty enough generally rather than introverted than how his take on it all might suggest – the band are on form. As most of the people present had paid to see the Who (A few to see Lou Reed and Humble Pie too) most were hardly going to turn down the chance to see this mighty band in their pomp and so to fight back against Humble Pie’s might, there’s only forward to go. The set list veers between classic to a small slice of the Quadrophenia tracks which had just reared their heads but the reaction is just as warm in a jumble of people who were more than likely feeling the effects by now.

The set that Empress Valley has created is a very impressive one – A 4 CD set packaged in a fatboy case with holographically printed artwork on the outside with generic but smart printed disks. Promo material and photos from the time are used to neat effect – The only thing lacking are the little misses on the artwork about the Who’s set list and the tracking on the Humble Pie set but they are small misses in between large statements. A positive gem in your Who collection to file against the soundboards.
https://www.collectorsmusicreviews.com/empress-valley-label/the-who-humble-pie-and-bad-company-summer-of-74-empress-valley-evsd-858861/

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