Listening to The Who's 1971 singles compilation "Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy" today (after not having listened to the band in a long time), I have especially felt the rush and explosiveness of Keith Moon's singular drumming. On "I Can See for Miles" (1967), Moon provides the thunderous background to the chorus; on "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere", his tom-tom playing during the instrumental break creates space for guitarist Pete Townshend, bassist John Entwhistle, and session pianist Nicky Hopkins to make fragmented, proto-psychedelic sounds that must have been rare on the pop charts when the song (only the second single the band released) spent eleven weeks in the UK Top 40 in 1965. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 16 December 2024)
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