On another website I just saw a mention re Who Are You coming soon. This website is going to release a stand-alone blu-ray and mentions (without details) the album will is 'being released in multiple formats' in October. I'd like to see a 'Who By Numbers' set personally (if not a revisit of Quadrophenia - if they they could finish the 5.1) But 'Who Are You' is great news.
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Lots of formats, but the big box is 7 CD + 1 Blu-ray and has a retail of $125.
Tracklist:
DISC ONE:
New Song Had Enough 905 Sister Disco Music Must Change Trick Of the Light Guitar And Pen Love Is Coming Down Who Are You
DISC TWO: Alternate Versions
New Song - Who Are You - Glyn Johns Mix (Previously Unreleased) Had Enough - Who Are You - Glyn Johns Mix (Previously Unreleased) 905 - Who Are You - Glyn Johns Mix (Previously Unreleased) Sister Disco - Who Are You - Glyn Johns Mix (Previously Unreleased) Trick of The Light - Who Are You - Glyn Johns Mix (Previously Unreleased) Guitar and Pen - Who Are You - Glyn Johns Mix (Previously Unreleased) Who Are You - Who Are You - Glyn Johns Mix (Previously Unreleased)
Trick of The Light - Single Version Edit - Glyn Johns Mix (Previously Unreleased)
Guitar and Pen - Who Are You - Glyn Johns Alt Mix (Previously Unreleased) Who Are You - Who Are You - Glyn Johns Single Edit (Previously Unreleased)
New Song - Pete Vocal (Previously Unreleased) Sister Disco - Lost Guitar Mix (Previously Unreleased) Had Enough - No Orchestra (Previously Unreleased) Guitar and Pen - Pete Guide Vocal (Previously Unreleased) Love Is Coming Down - No Orchestra (Previously Unreleased) Who Are You - Early Run Through -Pete Vox (Previously Unreleased)
DISC THREE: Bonus Material
Who Are You - Lost Verse Mix (Previously Released) Guitar and Pen - Olympic 78 Mix (Previously Released) Love Is Coming Down - Early Run Through (Previously Released) Empty Glass - Session Out Take (Previously Released) No Road Romance - Session Out Take (Previously Released) Trick of the Light - Unused Olympic Edit (Previously Unreleased)
Who Are You - Clean Radio Edit
905 - John Entwistle Demo (Previously Unreleased) Had Enough - John Entwistle Demo (Previously Unreleased) Back On the Road - John Entwistle Demo Whistle Rymes album 2005 Wild Horses - John Entwistle Demo Whistle Rymes album 2005 Trick of the Light - John Entwistle Demo (Previously Unreleased) Good Time Coming - John Entwistle Demo (Previously Unreleased)
Who Are You - John and Cyrano’s mix from The Kids Are Alright.
DISC FOUR: Bonus Material - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal
Who Are You - Live with Keith in 1976 (It’s a live try-out) - Toronto Bootleg
The Kids Are Alright - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) Run Run Run - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) Spoonful / Smokestack Lightning - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) I Saw Her Standing There - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) Jam - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) Knocking It into Shape 1 - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) Knocking It into Shape 2 - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) Baba O’Riley - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) Shaking All Over - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) Bell Boy - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) Won't Get Fooled Again - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) Barbara Ann - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) I Saw Her Standing There 2 - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) Drowned - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased)
DISC FIVE: Bonus Material - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal
Baba O’Riley - Shepperton for Kids Are Alright (Previously Unreleased) My Wife - Shepperton for Kids Are Alright (Previously Unreleased) My Generation - Shepperton for Kids Are Alright (Previously Unreleased) Join Together - Shepperton for Kids Are Alright (Previously Unreleased) Who Are You - Shepperton for Kids Are Alright (Previously Unreleased) Won't Get Fooled Again - Shepperton for Kids Are Alright (Previously Unreleased) Sister Disco - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) Music Must Change - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) Won't Get Fooled Again - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased) Who Are You - Shepperton Tour Rehearsal (Previously Unreleased)
DISC SIX: Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, MI, USA 7/12/79
Substitute I Can't Explain Baba O'Riley The Punk and the Godfather Boris the Spider Sister Disco Behind Blue Eyes Music Must Change Drowned Who Are You 5.15 Pinball Wizard See Me, Feel Me
DISC SEVEN: Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, MI, USA 7/12/79
Long Live Rock My Generation I Can See for Miles
Trick Of the Light - Spectrum Philadelphia 10/12/1979
Sparks Won't Get Fooled Again
Jam /Take A Fool Like You - Spectrum Philadelphia 10/12/1979
How Can You Do It Alone Magic Bus Summertime Blues
Dancing in the Street / Dancing Away - Spectrum Philadelphia 10/12/1979 Real Me - Spectrum Philadelphia 10/12/1979
BLU RAY: Steven Wilson Mix
ATMOS
New Song Had Enough 905 Sister Disco Music Must Change Trick Of the Light Guitar And Pen Love Is Coming Down Who Are You
5.1 MIX
New Song Had Enough 905 Sister Disco Music Must Change Trick Of the Light Guitar And Pen Love Is Coming Down Who Are You
STEREO
New Song Had Enough 905 Sister Disco Music Must Change Trick Of the Light Guitar And Pen Love Is Coming Down Who Are You
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I am curious what mix they will reference for Disc One. More faithful to the original - aka 'orginal' MCA CD - or the 96 remix (which I did not care for).
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Really looking forward to this. As a huge Who fan, this wasn't the best way for them to go out (the last 47 years have been a footnote for the band though I still like them and enjoy the new music that they've put out in that time) but it's a pretty good album and this box set looks terrific to me. I could have done without the Kenney Jones stuff since he wouldn't become a member of the band until later in 1978 or '79. I'll listen to it though.
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Technically Who Are You was the last great Who album (it has Keith Moon) and it truly is a must buy box set! When I saw The Who in 1979 they played many of the songs (but Kenny Jones was the drummer at that point). It was always a great sounding album with some great cuts. The title song remains a must hear tour song.
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NoURider wrote:
I am curious what mix they will reference for Disc One. More faithful to the original - aka 'orginal' MCA CD - or the 96 remix (which I did not care for).
Maybe won't know for sure until it's released, since Jon Astley did both the original mix and the 1996 remix. But with the wording of the press release, I'd guess it will be the original 1978 Jon Astley mix.
The initial sessions for the album took place at the band’s Ramport Studios, produced by Glyn Johns and Jon Astley. However, the recording process was fraught with challenges and creative tensions. The Who Are You Super Deluxe Edition finally tells the whole story, featuring, for the first time, the rejected original Glyn Johns mix of the album, a newly remastered version of the released Jon Astley mix and fly on the wall rehearsal sessions from Shepperton Studios, which the band owned at the time. It will also feature a wealth of unreleased material including demos, alternate takes and in the case of standout track “Sister Disco,” a previously ‘lost’ guitar solo rescued from the multi-track tapes by Steven Wilson.
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I'm in for sure. This was my first Who album, so I probably love it a lot more than I would have had I been familiar with what came before. And since Keith died before they could tour, and I saw them a few months after the show in the set, I have no problem with the '79 recordings.
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JosephC wrote:
NoURider wrote:
I am curious what mix they will reference for Disc One. More faithful to the original - aka 'orginal' MCA CD - or the 96 remix (which I did not care for).
Maybe won't know for sure until it's released, since Jon Astley did both the original mix and the 1996 remix. But with the wording of the press release, I'd guess it will be the original 1978 Jon Astley mix.
The initial sessions for the album took place at the band’s Ramport Studios, produced by Glyn Johns and Jon Astley. However, the recording process was fraught with challenges and creative tensions. The Who Are You Super Deluxe Edition finally tells the whole story, featuring, for the first time, the rejected original Glyn Johns mix of the album, a newly remastered version of the released Jon Astley mix and fly on the wall rehearsal sessions from Shepperton Studios, which the band owned at the time. It will also feature a wealth of unreleased material including demos, alternate takes and in the case of standout track “Sister Disco,” a previously ‘lost’ guitar solo rescued from the multi-track tapes by Steven Wilson.
I hope so (original). What is confusing is that there is reference to a Steve Wilson Stereo remix on the Blu, so one would suspect that may be used on the CD - but then again one would suspect they would state - Steve Wilson remix for the CD listing. Will wait and see!
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NoURider wrote:
I guess Who By Numbers will never be? Oh well.
I think about this sometimes. You may remember that when the By Numbers was released in the 1990s or whenever it was, that they included only 3 live tracks as bonus tracks. They may feel that there's not enough good studio stuff to justify a box set. I'm just speculating and maybe, hopefully, next year we'll get a By Numbers box
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From a 2024 New York Times article:
In late 2020, Brian Kehew was working at the venerable Hollywood studio Sunset Sound when the owner asked him to help identify some tapes the Who had left behind. It was not an unusual request for Kehew, who has done tape transfers and mixes on hundreds of archival recording projects over the last 30 years, and serves as a tech and sometime backing musician for the band. He expected to find some overdubs or a safety copy of a master, nothing particularly important. When he got his hands on the reels, he was shocked: The studio was sitting on all the original two-inch multitracks of the group’s 1975 album, “The Who by Numbers,” as well as previously unreleased songs from those sessions. “I immediately contacted Pete Townshend, and we arranged to send the tapes back to England,” Kehew, a blond-haired Southern California native, said in a recent interview at his North Hollywood studio, which was lined with rare, vintage and obsolete tape machines. “The band had been looking for the tapes for years, but this was one place they hadn’t thought to check.”
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wardo wrote:
From a 2024 New York Times article:
In late 2020, Brian Kehew was working at the venerable Hollywood studio Sunset Sound when the owner asked him to help identify some tapes the Who had left behind. It was not an unusual request for Kehew, who has done tape transfers and mixes on hundreds of archival recording projects over the last 30 years, and serves as a tech and sometime backing musician for the band. He expected to find some overdubs or a safety copy of a master, nothing particularly important. When he got his hands on the reels, he was shocked: The studio was sitting on all the original two-inch multitracks of the group’s 1975 album, “The Who by Numbers,” as well as previously unreleased songs from those sessions. “I immediately contacted Pete Townshend, and we arranged to send the tapes back to England,” Kehew, a blond-haired Southern California native, said in a recent interview at his North Hollywood studio, which was lined with rare, vintage and obsolete tape machines. “The band had been looking for the tapes for years, but this was one place they hadn’t thought to check.”
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wardo wrote:
From a 2024 New York Times article:
In late 2020, Brian Kehew was working at the venerable Hollywood studio Sunset Sound when the owner asked him to help identify some tapes the Who had left behind. It was not an unusual request for Kehew, who has done tape transfers and mixes on hundreds of archival recording projects over the last 30 years, and serves as a tech and sometime backing musician for the band. He expected to find some overdubs or a safety copy of a master, nothing particularly important. When he got his hands on the reels, he was shocked: The studio was sitting on all the original two-inch multitracks of the group’s 1975 album, “The Who by Numbers,” as well as previously unreleased songs from those sessions. “I immediately contacted Pete Townshend, and we arranged to send the tapes back to England,” Kehew, a blond-haired Southern California native, said in a recent interview at his North Hollywood studio, which was lined with rare, vintage and obsolete tape machines. “The band had been looking for the tapes for years, but this was one place they hadn’t thought to check.”
Wow! Who By Numbers was the first album I bought new by The Who in 1975 when I was 15 so its very special to me, a deluxe box is always welcome!
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