big stud Romeo Tuma wrote: 

love this marvelous song...  this album is in the top ten of all time, and it will be forever...
 
 

I think your hear little slips in organ notes because it's hard hitting precisely with the beat of the note-repeating-staccato-generating-organ-synth-thingee. Perhaps a music techie out there can explain it better, please.

Monumental.

The whole friggin' album. What were they thinking?

Vivaldis four seasons and then the Who -

WIE GEIL IST DAS DENN!!!!!! 

not about this song...but my God, what a segue from Aaron Copland to The Who .... 

 gillespp wrote: 
This!

And now after Aaron Copland's  "Fanfare.."   -  Awesome.

msymmes wrote: 

Everybody on my monolith loves this song.

 Lazarus wrote: 

Chicago-Copeland-The Who, what a goddamn amazing string. Who but Bill can come up with such a perfect lineup.

hilarious!   thanks Mrytle L

Myrtle_L wrote: 

 rdo wrote: 
I really have to disagree with your opinion on the "Woodstock ethos." All sorts of lasting evils are blamed on the 60s freer attitudes and behaviors, an approach that masks or ignores other factors at work in the US. Remember that youth cut loose in the same way before the 60s—say in the 20s—and America didn't suffer as a result. 

The youth culture of the 60s was a response to the rise of consumer culture in the US after the brutal economic austerity of the 30s, the national unity of WWII and the craving for "normalcy" of the 50s. There was a convergence of a demographic bulge (baby boomers), a TV-driven mass media culture of consumption, and a rebellion against political and cultural trends. 

The civil rights, women's rights and anti-war movements came out those demographic, commercial and political trends; apparently you view those efforts positively as do I. But I really don't see "sex, drugs and rock n' roll" (which also developed from those trends) as long-lasting socially or culturally destructive forces. They may not have advanced high culture or deep science, but they were outgrowths of a rebellion against a society that had become outdated, repressive and unrewarding. Experimentation with drugs, relationships and music may have encouraged people to become less religious, patriotic, and respectful of the establishment, but it allowed youth to make its own marks and force American society to adapt to changed times. 

As an undergraduate, I had a professor who bitterly condemned the 60s because students during those years rejected classic works of literature that he had devoted his life to and because he felt the books replacing his favorites were shallow. But people typically don't rebel for just self-indulgent reasons; for them, society was dysfunctional. Did Americans retreat from political and cultural involvement during the "Me Decade" of the 70s? Yes, but that I think was due to disillusionment over Vietnam and Watergate and the tough transition from a manufacturing-based economy to a service-based one with high energy prices and stagflation. I don't blame the craziness of the 60s for all of the selfishness and ennui of the 70s.

Bottom line: whatever you think society lost because of a Woodstock ethos, I believe that far larger political and economic forces caused the losses you're thinking of. 
 

I get it. the Who and U2 are paying you to play their songs on fast cycle. Glad you installed a PSD button.

I heard Townsend remark in a documentary on the Who that Moon was a — I'm not quoting this accurately, but the essence is the same — shitty drummer. 
What?  !!!   Who (no pun) would know better than him? But he had clearly been dissatisfied with Moon, although I can't think of another skin smasher who more exemplifies and excellencifies the rock form than Moon.  

 d-don wrote: 
And my day on a cold snowy morning in Southern Ontario!!!!!
 

After Vivaldi? Only on RP!!! Rock on...this makes my day on a gray, drizzly Oregon morning.

Talk about a segue. Vivaldi/Four Seasons to screamin' nose-thumbin' blow this shit up rock and roll!  Hey Zeus! 

After Vivaldi ?    Bill.  You are good!!!!!

 RobN wrote: 
See the new boss? Same as the old one?

Who else but Radio Paradise could pull off a segue like that.  From Aaron Copeland to The Who.  You ROCK RP! :-)  I want to take this song out behind the barn & get it pregnant!

OK, best transition ever!  Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man > The Who Won't Get Fooled Again. 

FREAKIN RIGHT FOR A FRIDAY AFTERNOON!!!!!!

Just listen to Moon's drums. He must have a third arm. No one plays like him.

And RnR saved my life...this is why.

Whoa - cool segue from "Fanfare for the Common Man"

This could be the signature tune for the Arab Spring.

Ugh. Again?

 rado wrote: 

Right, I was specifically referring the 60s a la Woodstock and "Sex, drugs and Rock and Roll", which had nothing at all to do with the Civil Rights Movement and other social progress that occurred in the 60s.  Civil Rights was a watershed event in the 60s, I agree.  We lost a lot as a society as regards the Woodstock ethos.  I for one cannot stomach it.

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

Everybody in my church loves this song...

 

Nicely done, sir!

A little aside: I just finished Pete's autobiography "Who I Am". If you're a fan, or curious about the roots of this man's music, it's a great read.

Awesome, rock-solid humor... !!!

I'm riding this RP train to end of the tracks....

Roberto

I love your humour Bill & Rebecca!