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THE WHO: The Definitive Guitar Collection
Guitar Recorded Versions
This four-volume anthology contains over 150 songs from 16 albums.
Each volume includes complete note-for-note transcriptions straight
from the recordings, photos, discography, and a timeline.
Click on a title for details:
VOLUME A-E
Inventory # HL 694970. Book $24.95 (US).
VOLUME F-Li
Inventory # HL 694971. Book $24.95 (US).
VOLUME Lo-R
Inventory # HL 694972. Book $24.95 (US).
VOLUME S-Y
Inventory # HL 694973. Book $24.95 (US).
COMPLETE PACK
(4 Volume Set)
Inventory # HL 699511. Book $59.95 (US).
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The Who
What was it about the Who?
Rock music’s greatest rhythm section drove their sound. On
the one hand you had The Ox, John Entwistle, the stoic one, like
a big anchor on the ground with all these lines attached to it,
the lines being named Pete, Keith and Roger, flying about him
while he held it all down, an immovable object whose fingers did
all the flying, playing those smooth and tough and agile bass
runs that wove their way in and out of every nuance of the song.
And on the other hand you had Keith Moon behind the drums like
a simmering pot of rhythm, always starting to boil over, every
fill threatening to become a drum solo, his meter sometimes off
but his feel always right, like an athlete whose form was all
wrong but who always won.
Out front you had the two dueling personalities. Roger Daltrey,
the singer and front man, the guy who was expected to interpet
it all and make it work, take all of Pete’s quantum rock
‘n’ roll conceptions and say, “Oh, yeah, I can
sing that...” and then do it, from a tender ballad to a scream
in a measure or two, for years, for decades, out on stage, out
in front, making it happen.
And of course Pete Townshend, the windmilling composer, for whom
the appellation rock genius seemed too trite, out there driving
the Magic Bus with his guitar playing that didn’t make you
think “guitar god” but still made you marvel, especially
when you considered that he was the one writing all the songs,
all the songs from mod rave-ups to soaring rock operas, and the
lyrics, and the distorted guitar parts, and the shimmering acoustic
parts, and everything, all of it, had the big stamp of “Pete”
all over it.
Yeah, I think that’s what it was.
-- Barry Houlehen
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