This five-minute piece, which opens Tommy and foreshadows its thematic and musical themes, was an afterthought. Image Credit: Jack Robinson/Hulton Archive/Getty …It sounds just like a duck, doesn’t it?” It was inspired, Townshend has said, by “me riding around in the mobile caravan I’ve bought.” Capturing the feel of driving in an air-conditioned auto, leaving the “police and the tax man” behind, the track featured another of Townshend’s early forays into technology: his acoustic guitar run through what he called “one of the original crude guitar synthesizers. This exuberant Townshend-sung track was originally intended for a car-chase sequence in Lifehouse but ended up on Who’s Next. Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Since their return, this song has been appearing in their shows for years. “Rock & roll will never die,” Daltrey sings. In the album’s liner notes, Townshend thanked Texan keyboardist John “Rabbit” Bundrick, who became an ancillary member of the band at the time, for “help and inspiration on ‘Another Tricky Day.'” But the sentiment is pure Who, a defiant yet complex tune about music’s enduring power amid life’s problems. Though the song was never released as a single, the Who shot a video for “Another Tricky Day,” a highlight of the otherwise lackluster Face Dances. “Another Tricky Day” (‘Face Dances’, 1981).It concludes with a fury of acid-rock guitar that would launch some of the Who’s more explosive onstage jams during their extensive tours in 1967 and ’68, though it soon left their live set. Written just prior to Townshend’s first LSD experience, this uncharacteristic slice of paisley power pop echoes the Beatles’ advice for trippers – “Turn off your mind, relax and flow downstream” – from “Tomorrow Never Knows.” “Relax” is reminiscent of the material Syd Barrett was recording with Pink Floyd, featuring a Hammond organ (played by Townshend) rising and falling tranquilly in the background. “What’s interesting in our group is that the roles are reversed,” Townshend said. According to Townshend, it was also Jimi Hendrix’s favorite Who song, which shouldn’t be all that surprising. Never released as a single, it still became the group’s most requested live song. “I loved John, obviously, for his eccentricities.” The first song Entwistle wrote for the Who bowled the band over, highlighting his dark, absurdist sense of humor and distinct playing style. “He was a very strange fellow,” Townshend said of Entwistle. Image Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty “Boris the Spider” (‘A Quick One’, 1966).
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