A Quick One, While He's Away- The Who (Bass and Guitar Cover) Rock and Roll Circus Version

Before Bohemian Rhapsody, A Day in the Life and Paranoid Android, The Who released a 9 minute long mini-opera in 1966: six different movements contained in a song.
It was a predecessor to their later rock opera albums Tommy and Quadrophenia.

The story is about a young girl whose lover leaves for almost a year. While he's gone, her friends set her up with Ivor the Engine Driver. The lover returns to find Ivor sleeping with his girlfriend. She confesses, and he ultimately forgives her

In 1968 the Who were invited to perform at the Rolling Stones upcoming film The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. The Who performed A Quick One While He’s Away live. (John Lennon performed Yer Blues with the Dirty Mac at this show too). The Stones felt upstaged and decided not to release the movie until 1996. My cover is based on this live version

Prior to this December 1968 show, Pete Townshend was mainly using a Fender Stratocaster, Marshall or Sunn amplifiers, and a Marshall Supa Fuzz pedal. By the Rock and Roll Circus performance in December 1968 he moved to his famous Gibson SG Special guitar. He would use this as his main guitar live until 1973, and in the studio until 1972. For this performance he used a Sound City L100 amp, essentially a Hiwatt CP103. For fuzz he used a Shaftesbury Duo Fuzz, which was an early incarnation of the Univox Super-Fuzz

Like Townshend, bassist John Entwistle used many instruments throughout his career. From 1968 to 1972 he exclusively used Fender Precision basses live. For the Rock and Roll Circus he used his favorite 'Frankenstein' Precision bass, which was comprised of parts from several different Fender basses. He also used the Sound City/Hiwatt L100 amp in 1968

For this cover I'm using my original 1970 Gibson SG Special. This is running into my Analogman King of Tone overdrive pedal and my Wattson FY-6 Fuzz. The FY-6 is an exact copy of a Univox Super Fuzz. You hear me turn on the fuzz pedal at 6:27
My amp is a 1965 Fender Bassman

My bass is a 1978 Fender Precision with '62 Reissue pickups. This is also running into my 1965 Fender Bassman

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