Thursday, February 21, 2019

Who Are You - An Evolution

Who Are You is an interesting song to use as a way to compare the playing styles of the various drummers that played live with The Who. Of course, the basic form of the song took shape with Keith Moon still in the band, but it would be his last album sadly. Other drummers managed to put their own style into the music - who did it best? Who? Who?

Early Jam from Oct 1976:


Kilburn '77


The recording session featured in the movie:
Here's a link to the whole film in better quality: https://archive.org/details/TheWhotheKids_are_alrightfilm1979


1979 with Kenny Jones:


1989 with Simon Phillips:


2015 with Zak Starkey