When I was a kid my brother told me about a friend of his who attended a Who concert. I can’t recall the city, it was a long time ago. Roger Daltry was playing the harmonica and when he was finished the song he threw the harmonica into the audience into the waiting hands of my brother’s friend. He framed it and mounted it on his wall and never tired of telling that story.
Apparently I am not allowed to make a music reference to American Woman’s origins (banned word(s)). But I will say Van Morrison had the perfect voice for Gloria.
My older brother had all these bands in his collection when I was a kid. I’m grateful he introduced me to all these bands. Van Morrison may not have been as well known without Them.
When I was a kid (1970s) it was bikes all day with my friends and then we would play hide and seek at night in the front yards of homes on the block. We would need to wait until it was dark enough to play which in the Summer in Northern Canada is between 10:30 and 11:00 pm. We had to be really, really quiet to allowed to play at that time of night. That was so much fun.
Pete Townsend’s windmill strum is epic. Catching it live on film would be amazing. I’ve only seen it in documentaries.