lunes, 17 de diciembre de 2018

Pete Townshend - "Rock is dead - Long live Rock!" (1st part) (The Acetate Tape).



This album that I bring you now, is the reconstruction of the demo tape that served as a reference for the sessions held by “The Who” between May and June 1972 at the Olympic Studios, with the sound engineer and producer Glyn Johns of what should have been the new studio album that year entitled: "Rock is dead-Long Live Rock!”, which was abandoned because it resembled, according to its creator, Pete Townshend, to "Who´s next".

After the publication of this latest work, on August 14, 1971 and his subsequent world tour, Pete Townshend assured that he would never embark on another conceptual album, because, the truncated "Lifehouse" project, almost ended with your mental health.

But you can never say that of: "never say, never again"; because during the months of January to March, Pete was alternating family life with his home studio recording, reviewing discarded material, and experimented with other new songs.

Little by little, a new concept of rock opera was formed in his mind, about life in a rock band, which he soon identified as his own, and thus, unwittingly or not, one song after another, under a common plot; it became in the materialization of a demo tape that began recording on April at the Eel Pie studios with:“Long Live Rock (demo #3). "Join Together", "The Relay", "Put The Money Down," and “Love Reign O'er Me” (demo #2),

Side A: (20:11)

1. Relay.(4:15).
2. Get Inside.(3:09).
3. Women´s Liberation.(5:01).
4. Love Reign O´er Me.(3:59).
5. Long Live Rock!.(3:46).

Side B:  (19:23)

1. Is It In My Head.(4:12).
2. Put The Money Down.(5:50)
3. Can´t You See I´m Easy.(2:57).
4. Join Together (In The Band).(6:23).

Tape that served as a claim to reunite the band once again. So in the month of May, The Who started that new project  at the Olympic studios, alternating with the Ramport Studios. Bit.ly/72aCtw But,that is another story,that we will continue with a second part and a new reconstruction of: "Rock is dead – long live rock” by The Who. At the moment enjoy with this advance.