Lifehouse Chronicles (2000)
The 1970 Demos Are Unbelievable!
Pete Townshend’s 2000 6CD online-only box set, Lifehouse Chronicles, has apparently gone out of print. It’s no longer available on Pete’s website, anyway. The Boat posted the first 2 CDs (consisting of those glorious demos) back in ’07. You can read the sell job here and listen to four tracks below (“Goin‘ Mobile,” “Bargain,” “Pure And Easy” and “Let’s See Action”). Here’s the entire box @320. Amazon.
1 – DEMOS
Teenage Wasteland
Going Mobile
Baba O’Riley
Time is Passing
Love Ain’t for Keeping
Bargain
Too Much of Anything
Music Must Change
Greyhound Girl
Mary
Behind Blue Eyes
Baba O’Riley (Instrumental)
Sister Disco
2 – DEMOS CONTINUED
I Don’t Even Know Myself
Put the Money Down
Pure And Easy
Getting in Tune
Let’s See Action
Slip Kid
Relay
Who Are You
Join Together
Won’t Get Fooled Again
The Song Is Over
3 – THEMES & EXPERIMENTS
Baba M1 (O’Riley 2nd Movement 1971)
Who Are You (Gateway Remix – From Shepherds Bush Empire 1998)
Behind Blue Eyes (New version 1999)
Baba M2 (2nd Movement Part 1 1971)
Pure and Easy (Original Demo Reworked 1999)
Vivaldi ((Baba M5 on Psychoderelict) with Hame 1999)
Who Are You (Live and Uncut at the Shepherds Bush Empire 1998)
Hinterland Rag (Piano Rag for Three Hands – Yamaha Disklavier 1999)
Pure and Easy (New Version 1999)
Can You Help the One You Really Love? (Demo 1999)
Won’t Get Fooled Again (Live and Uncut at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire 1998)
4 – ARRANGEMENTS & ORCHESTRATIONS
Townshend: One Note – Prologue
Purcell: Fantasia Upon One Note (Quick Movement)
Townshend: Baba O’Riley
Scarlatti: Sonata K:212
Townshend: Tragedy
Corrette: No. 4 Aria
Corrette: No. 2 Giga
Corrette: No. 6 in D Minor
Corrette: No. 3 Adagio and Allegro
Townshend: Hinterland Rag
Scarlatti: Sonata K:213
Purcell: The Gordian Knot Untied
—Overture
—Allegro
—Air
—Rondean Minuet
—Air
—Jig
—Chaconne
—Air
—Minuet
—Overture (Reprise)
Townshend: Tragedy Explained
Townshend: One Note – Epilogue
Purcell: Fantasia Upon One Note
5 – RADIO PLAY Part 1
6 – RADIO PLAY Part 2
15 Comments
EXCELLENT post! Thanks!
Thank you so much for your continued excellence. Your blog is my first stop every single morning when I log in. Thanks again for all of the great stuff!
JBJr.
Dear Willard,
I add my thanks too for this gem of a post -I have heard a few of Petes so-called demo's and agree with you as to their "finished" quality -extremely impressed too how good a singer he is, Daltry -less
Another magnificent post from your "House"
C
Thanks for sharing this amazing work. Great work as always.
Yay! I had downloaded this on some other blog somewhere, but the bitrate was all over the place. Thank you!
I agree wholeheartedly, too. The first time I heard the demos, it was like being smacked in the face with the realization, "This is the absolute best music he's ever made. Period. End of story."
Okay, maybe I'm not giving the band their due, but these demos are shockingly great.
Shockingly great was my reaction, too.
No one should be surprised at the quality of Pete's demos. He is the heart & soul of the Who. Like Hitchcock, this is all planned out well in advance in his head. He just has the knack to translate what he hears & sees very well. By the time it's officially committed to tape, he's through with it, & it's time to move on. A consummate craftsman & artist.
Still Enjoying 07's Selection so these will be a great bonus amazing how good they are without the full band ..such a talent…They sound stronger than ever as a live band in recent years one of this planets finest sounds Thank you Willard a terrific post still can't to p the Dylan posts you did..ha ha
Regards..ANON
At last, I've got it! Well worth the wait, Thanks again.
Got to add my thank you for this very precious set. The word "emotional" as used by you says it all.
Thank you so much for this holy grail.
I also would like to add that it's weird how Pete can ultimately cover Roger Daltrey's vocals and make it his own.
Actually, it’s the other way around. These are the “original” vocals, Daltry’s are the covers.
The holy bible for Who and Townshend freaks,thanks so lot sire!
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