FREAKING OUT THE SQUARES, DEFINING MOMENTS . . . . THE WHO "MY GENERATION" LIVE ON THE 'SMOTHERES BROTHERS' 1967 . . . . ALONG WITH JIMI NAPALMING HIS STRAT, ONE OF 'THE' PROTO GIGS OF THE TIME . . . . THE ORIGINAL 'STURM UND DRANG' PIONEERS OF ROCK + ROLL !!!!

I would love to have been fifteen and watching this in front of the telly with my mum and dad back in the day, just to see and hear my dear mother get her freakout on and go into meltdown, this clip still makes the hairs on my sack stand to attention . . . . the song itself is probably the arch statement of defiance for the generation of the time but it's this electric performance of the Greater London Guitar Stealers Guild in cahoots with The Society of Pummeling Pisshead Percussionists live on national t.v that is still a benchmark in the sheer brute power of a three minute rock song.



As Mr Smothers #1 intros the band you can sense an 'attitude' in all the members, even the usually more docile Entwhistle seems to bristle with pent up tension in just wanting to get the fuck under way and rip in . . . . and rip in they did, live, loud and in the face of every 'straight' in the land, when a lot of folk were still attempting to make sense of the Fab Four and the Stones, nobody attacked the stage like this London quartet . . . .

The maniacal Moon on skins, the psychotic windmill, Townshend on guitar, the menacingly brooding presence of Big John on bass and the stuttering, stammering sex panther, Daltrey running amok on vocals and lasso/mic . . . . sheer fucking dynomite !!!! Make no bones about it, this was one of the great, single song performances of the decade . . . . take no prisoners, death by noise !!!

****** READ THE FOOTNOTE IN THE COMMENTS SECTION ON POOTUBE TO SEE THE DAMAGE DONE BY THE OVER AMPED PYROTECHNICS DISPLAY . . . . NOTHING EVER SUCCEEDS QUITE LIKE EXCESS !!!!