Disclaimer: This is the music in my head. It happens to
all of us, it’s a scientific fact: the music that hits us when we are young
becomes our music forever. There were bands in later years that were arguably
as “good” as the Who and Cream, but that will never matter much to those of us
who lived our teens and early twenties in the 1960s. Those bands are our bands.
This 1970 Isle of Wight show is the Who at the height
of their power. They are still playing with the ferocious Banzai Charge
attitude of their earlier shows, but by this time they are presenting their
songs with a slightly greater acknowledgment of the niceties of technical
proficiency.
“Slightly greater . . .” For Keith Moon, the
acknowledgment is the slightest of them all. Here, as always, technique and
timekeeping take a back seat to fun, excitement, and propelling the music forward
at maximum volume.
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