Well yesterday to be exact that The Who took to the stage at The Valley.
Pretty sure the full concert (highlights of which were shown on BBC a
few weeks later) was on YT at some point
In addition to Pete, Rog, Keith and John, the bill included some
pretty top notch support acts
Humble Pie
Maggie Bell
Lou Reed
Bad Company
Lindisfarne
and
Montrose (who I nearly forgot)
Dave Mason was listed on the poster but didn’t appear
All for – IIRC – £2.50
You try telling that to young people today, etc
Any other AWers there? Sure I can’t have been the only one
Here’s the video of the Who
0:00:30 Young Man Blues
0:06:37 Baba O’Riley
0:12:49 Behind Blue Eyes
0:16:26 Substitute
0:19:31 I’m A Boy
0:22:43 Tattoo
0:25:46 Drowned
0:31:59 Bell Boy
0:37:09 See Me, Feel Me
0:42:22 Magic Bus
0:52:48 My Generation
0:58:32 Naked Eye
1:07:21 Let’s See Action
1:09:08 My Generation Blues
I remember the Who as being brilliant and was surprised when PT dismissed the show as not one of their best
Other standouts for me were Humble Pie and Lou Reed with that wonderful Steve Hunter and DIck Wagner twin-guitar band who recorded Rock and Roll Animal and Lou Reed Live.
Younger bro and self were there.
He, at age of 13, was let off of a school bus, following a field trip to Wales, in central London, to then make his own way to Charlton and find me..
What cd possibly go wrong ?
Of course he got there and we met..
Every act was titanically good..Did Lou have swastikas bleached into his hair ?
Possibly..
The Who were magnificent..
The Pie cemented their rep as one of the great dumb rock n roll bands of all time..
I met Steve Marriott in the George Robey years later and bored him to death about how fab that show was.. Luckily he was bevved to oblivion and understood none of it..He did, however, do Natural Born Bugie..
I was right down the front and IIRC Lou had an Iron Cross dyed in his hair.
I have a vivid memory of what looked like a length of bike chain being chucked at the stage and his effortlessly plucking it out of the air.
Odd to see such an evil-lookíng and sounding band take to the stage midway through a bright sunny afternoon and not lose an ounce of their menace
It’s entirely possible that Steve played the George Robey more than once, but I saw him there in the mid 80s and he was fantastic. We could have been at the same gig.
There weren’t more than 30 or so people in the audience, but he gave it everything, as if he was playing in front of thousands.
A great night’s entertainment.
Was Lou blonde for the show? If so , are you sure Steve Hunter played and not just Dick Wagner? Steve didn’t tour Australia with Dick when Lou was Blonde with the whatever it was shaved in his haircut.
Not 100% sure to be fair, J. Will try and dig out some reviews of the show
Further research indicates neither Dick nor Steve toured. Must have been with Alice Cooper by then.
Saw that site after your earlier post, the only page I can find that mentions the Spring 74 Euro tour just seems to list the tracks at the gigs rather than the band.
Given that it was 50 years ago, quite possible that I was wrong
He was blonde with black swastikas sprayed in. I took an instant dislike to him, (read the fucking room, you twat. Charlton was extensively bombed by Mr Hilter,) and I never took to him after that.
He was peak speed freak then. Thin as a rake. He had a connection so he was getting medical grade amphetamines.
Totally wired.
Sweet were to be on the bill too, but had to pull out due to Brian Connolly not fully recovering from a throat injury. Officially, it was a throat infection, truthfully he’d had his throat stamped on in a fight a few weeks before.
And that was the beginning of his sad demise.
BC’s brother, actor Mark MacManus (best known as Taggart) was also a big boozer and later drank himself to death
Yep, I was at both Charlton gigs.