The Who - Live at Leeds

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To see the Who at the tail end of the Sixties was to experience the very best that live rock could ever offer, anywhere in the world. Like all bands that met as teenagers and managed to say together through thick and thin, playing on stage became second nature to the Who – at lease when they did it regularly. On their best nights a sixth sense seemed to take over the tiller and lead them and their audiences toward a kind of rock nirvana that most bands can only dream about.
Accordingly, Live At Leeds is the best live rock album of its era. It was designed to showcase the rough and ready in-your-face rock band that the Who had been before rock operas side-tracked their principal writer. As John Entwistle uttered in disgust, “Some people think the band’s called ‘Tommy’ and the album’s called The Who.” Live At Leeds, recorded at Leeds University on February 14, 1970, put a stop to that.
Here was a live band capable of outperforming all the competition with breathtaking panache. The result, says Pete Townshend, was “the sound of a tremendous machine working almost by itself, that incredible chemistry we had in the Who, and that we kept up right up until Keith Moon dropped dead.”
In it’s original form designed to look like a bootleg with a printed warning that scratches weren’t the fault of your record player, Live At Leeds reached #3 in the UK album charts and reached #4 in the US
Excerpts taken from the Live At Leeds liner notes.