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Pete Townshend - Roundhouse, London 4-14-1974

Track listing:
  1. The Seeker 7:53
  2. Big Boss Man 3:57
  3. Substitute 5:26
  4. Amoreuse 5:41
  5. If I Were A Carpenter 2:58
  6. Happy Jack 2:38
  7. Tattoo 3:25
  8. Join My Gang 2:36
  9. Behind Blue Eyes 3:52
  10. Goin' To New York 3:46
  11. My Generation Demo's I And Ii 2:14
  12. North Country Girl 4:42
  13. Corrina, Corrina 4:15
  14. No Face, No Name And No Number 3:22
  15. Let's See Action 3:41
  16. Pinball Wizard 3:04
  17. See Me, Feel Me 1:46
  18. My Generation I 5:23
  19. Magic Bus 2:48
  20. My Generation Ii 3:25

Notes

Lineage: ??? > EAC (Secure) [No Log, Sorry] > WAV
Very Good/Excellent Audience Recording.


The two versions of My Generation are demos, played through the P.A. for the audience. There's a simple lyric change in Magic Bus: "...I'm so nervous I guess it shows. Don't say a thing about my great big nose..."

Dave Marsh wrote about Pete's first solo-concert: "On April 14, 1974 (Easter Sunday), Townshend played a solo gig-the first of his career, for the Camden Square Community Play Centre ... Meant to be a quiet afternoon's entertainment, the solo show was blown out of all proportion when the press got word of it. Townshend spent a panicky week's preparation, then came out and did a fairly casual show using electric and acoustic guitars, piano, some synthesizer tapes and the original "MY GENERATION" demo as he ran through a set that also included 'The Seeker', Jimmy Reed's 'Big Boss Man', 'Substitute' and 'Pinball Wizard'. Despite a drunken heckler, the show was well-received and Pete was surprisingly confident." (Dave Marsh, Before I Get Old - The Story of the Who, page 442).