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The Who - Bootlegs - Live:

1964 - Dance To Keep From Crying - LP - B	1964 - The High Numbers Live 1964 - CD - B
1964 - The Who Remembers The High Numbers - CD - B	08/06/65 - Mods A Go Go - CD - B
08/06/65 - Who's Back - CD - C+	08/06/65 & 1965 Live Tracks(+) - Who's Zoo - LP - B
1965 - The Very Best & Rariest Of Shindig - CD - B	06/02/66 - Who Are The High Numbers - CD - C-
10/25/66 - Club Nalen - CD - D+	06/18/67(+) - Crossing The United States - CD - B+
06/18/67(+) - Old Originals Played By WHO'm - LP - B	06/18/67 - Who Meets The Animals - CD - B+
06/18/67 - Monterey Pop Festival 1967 Vol 1 - CD - A	07/23/67(+) - Cry Blue Murder - CD - D
1967(+) - Who Are Those Masked Men? - CD - B

Title/Format/Rating/Source: Dance To Keep From Crying - LP - B - Audience

Date/Location/Venue: 1964 - London, UK - Marquee Club

Year & Country Issued/Label: 1983 - Denmark - Marquee

Comments: To my knowledge, this was the first release of a High Numbers concert. The source is a fairly decent audience recording. The same concert has been subsequently booted.

Track Listing: Dance (To Keep From Crying), Young Man Blues, Long Tall Shorty, Pretty Thing, Here, Instrumental #1 (You Really Got Me), Instrumental #2 (Green Onions), Blues Medley (Smokestack Lightning/Money)

Title/Format/Rating/Source: The High Numbers Live 1964 - CD - B - Audience (with studio tracks)

Date/Location/Venue: 1964 - London, UK - Marquee Club (possibly Railway Club 10/20/64)

Year & Country Issued/Label: 2005 - Japan - Yellow Dog

Comments: Another CD version of the High Numbers Marquee Club concert, with previously unreleased High Numbers studio tracks Decent sound quality for the High Numbers' live tracks, although the tape source has the highs cutting in and out and it sounds like some noise reduction was used. "Here "Tis" is off-speed.

The studio tracks are from a high quality soundboard source (with some noise reduction) and completely instrumental. While certainly an interesting find and certainly noteworthy from a historical point of view, without Roger on vocals (he does play harmonica on some of the tracks), I found the recordings somewhat boring (sorry!). In the "Instrumental Jam", you can hear elements of "Magic Bus" from "Live At Leeds" and in the last track ("Unknown Instrumental") you can hear elements of "Elephants" (Pete's demo from "Scoop 3")

Track Listing:  Live High Numbers: I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying, You Really Got Me, Young Man Blues, Green Onions, I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying,  Instrumental, Long Tall Shorty, I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying, Pretty Thing, Smokestack Lightning / Money, Here 'tis
Studio: Smokestack Lightning, Walking The Dog, Unknown Instrumental, I'm A Man, Instrumental Jam, Memphis Tennessee, Unknown Instrumental

Title/Format/Rating/Source: The Who Remembers The High Numbers - CD - B - Audience (with some studio tracks)

Date/Location/Venue: 1964 - London, UK - Marquee Club

Year & Country Issued/Label: 1999 - USA - Head

Comments: A CD version of the High Numbers Marquee Club concert, with added High Numbers studio tracks and alternate takes of "A Quick One While He's Away" from The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus. Decent sound quality for the High Numbers' live tracks (considering the rarity of the source). Don't bother for the rest of the tracks.

Track Listing: Studio: I'm The Face, Zoot Suit, Leaving Here, Here 'tis
Live High Numbers: Dance To Keep From Crying, You Really Got Me, Young Man Blues, Green Onions, Improvisation, Long Tall Shorty, Pretty Thing, Smokestack Lightning / Money, Here 'tis
Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus: A Quick One While He's Away, A Quick One While He's Away, A Quick One While He's Away

Title/Format/Rating/Source: Mods A Go Go - CD - B - Audience (with studio tracks)

Date/Location/Venue: 08/06/65 - London, UK - Richmond Athletic Grounds

Year & Country Issued/Label: 1998 - Japan - Mods

Comments: Mostly a studio release, with 2 tracks from the 1965 Richmond Jazz Festival.

Track Listing: Great Shakes (commercial), Pinball Wizard (demo), Young Man Blues (studio), The Kids Are Alright (unedited), I Can See For Miles (demo), Magic Bus (demo), Dogs (demo), Rael (partial demo), Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (Richmond Jazz Festival), Shout (Richmond Jazz Festival)

Title/Format/Rating: Who's Back - CD - B+ (studio track rating) - Live tracks, C+

Year & Country Issued/Label: 1988 - Italy - Back Trax

Comments: Studio tracks are from BBC sessions (see Maximum BBC for best source), live tracks from Richmond Jazz Festival, August 6, 1965

Track Listing: Live Tracks: Daddy Rolling Stone, I Can't Explain, My Generation
Studio Tracks: Good Lovin', Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, The Good's Gone, My Generation, A Man With Money, Just You 'N' Me, Leaving Here, Substitute, Dancing In The Streets, I'm A Boy, Boris The Spider, See My Way, Pictures Of Lily, Summertime Blues, Daddy Rolling Stone, I Can't Explain, My Generation

Title/Format/Rating/Source: Who's Zoo - LP - B - Audience

Date/Location/Venue: 08/06/65 - London, UK - Richmond Athletic Grounds & 1965 Shindig TV

Year & Country Issued/Label: 1974 - USA - Trade Mark Of Quality

Comments: This 2 LP set pre-dated any official rarities compilation, by including most of the known "b" sides and "hard to find" tracks - and in very good sound quality. While all the studio tracks are available commercially, and the live tracks available on various CD releases, you can't beat the great cover!

Track Listing: Studio: I'm The Face, Zoot Suit, Bald-Headed Woman, Daddy Rolling Stone, Anytime You Want Me, Shout and Shimmy, I'm A Man, Waltz For A Pig, Batman, Bucket "T", Barbra Ann, Disguises, Circles, I'm A Boy, In The City, I've Been Away, Heat Wave, The Last Time, Under My Thumb, Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand, Dogs, Dogs Part Two, Here For More, Heaven and Hell, When I Was A Boy
Shindig TV: Daddy Rolling Stone, I Can't Explain, My Generation
Smothers Brothers TV: I Can See For Miles
Richmond Jazz Festival:, Anyway, Anywhere, Anyhow, Shout

Title/Format/Rating/Source: The Very Best & Rariest Of "Shindig!" - CD - B - Video Tape Dub

Date/Location/Venue: 1965 - UK - Shindig Television Show

Year & Country Issued/Label: 2001 - USA - Hercules

Comments: A various artists compilation of performances from the Shindig TV Show. The Who tracks are kinda neat, and although just a few, this is sort of worth having. The sound is pretty clean.

Track Listing: Who Tracks: Daddy Rolling Stone, I Can't Explain (version #1), My Generation, I Can't Explain (version #2)

Title/Format/Rating/Source: Who Are The High Numbers? - CD - C- Audience

Date/Location/Venue: 06/02/66 - Grona Lund, Stockholm, Sweden - 1964 - Marquee Club, London, UK - 10/25/66 - Club Nalen, Stockholm, Sweden - 03/11/67 Marquee Club, London UK

Year & Country Issued/Label: 2002 - Unknown - Pirate Records/HiWatt

Comments: Great cover! This is an interesting CD due to the rarity of the 2 Swedish concerts and their track lists. Pretty amazing to have a live version of "Barbara Ann" and "A Legal Matter" from 1966! The Marquee Club is a dub from the usual sources. Unfortunately, the sound quality <of the Swedish material> is pretty poor - but listenable. The 06/02/66 show sounds better than the 10/25/66 show, but "Barbara Ann" is cut short and the source tape wobbles a bit. The last track (the 2nd "My Generation") does not exist on this CD, although credited!

Track Listing: 10/25/66: Heatwave, Dancing In The Streets, Barbara Ann, So Sad About Us, Substitute, The Kids Are Alright, I'm A Boy, My Generation
Marquee Club 1964: Dance To Keep From Crying, Young Man Blues, Long Tall Shorty, Pretty Thing, Here 'Tis, You Really Got Me, Green Onions, Spoonful, Smokestack Lightning, Money
06/02/66: Heatwave, Dancing In The Streets, Barbara Ann, Daddy Rolling Stone, Uptight Outta Sight, A Legal Matter, Substitute, My Generation
Marquee Club 03/11/67: My Generation (Does not exist on CD)

Title/Format/Rating/Source: Club Nalen - CD - D+ Audience

Date/Location/Venue: 10/25/66 - Club Nalen, Stockholm, Sweden

Year & Country Issued/Label: 1996 - UK - Unknown

Comments: Rare material - including a great live version of "The Kids Are Alright" (no drum solo!). Unfortunately, the sound quality is very poor.

Track Listing: Heatwave, Dancing In The Streets, Barbara Ann, So Sad About Us, Substitute, The Kids Are Alright, I'm A Boy, My Generation

Title/Format/Rating/Source: Crossing The United States - CD - B+ - Soundboard

Date/Location/Venue: 06/18/67 - Monterey County Fairgrounds, CA - Monterey Pop Festival, 1965 Various Sources, 1967 Smothers Brothers (Lip syncs), 04/06/68 New York, NY - Fillmore East

Year & Country Issued/Label: 1993 - Italy - Black Panther

Comments: Since the Monterey material has been released officially and all the other material on this disc can be found elsewhere, there isn't much of a point to this CD - other than the pretty cover. The sound quality is actually not as good as some of the sources that it attempts to copy from.

Track Listing: Monterey Pop Festival: Substitute, Summertime Blues, Pictures Of Lily, A Quick One While He's Away, Happy Jack, My Generation
Live 1965 (Common Sources):  Daddy Rolling Stone, I Can't Explain, My Generation
Smothers Brothers TV '67: I Can See For Miles, My Generation
Fillmore East '68: A Quick One While He's Away, Easy Going Guy

Title/Format/Rating/Source: Old Originals Played By WHO'm - LP - B - Soundboard

Date/Location/Venue: 06/18/67 - Monterey County Fairgrounds, CA - Monterey Pop Festival, BBC Studio tracks

Year & Country Issued/Label: 1984 - Unknown - Unknown

Comments: This was a nice album when it was first released, but made obsolete over time with the official release of the Monterey Pop box set and much better BBC CDs.

Track Listing: BBC Studio: Just You And & Me, Leaving Here, Man With Money, Dancing In The Streets, Jingle Bells, You Rang?, Baby Don't You Do It, Boris The Spider,
Monterey Pop Festival: Substitute, Summertime Blues, Pictures Of Lily, A Quick One, Happy Jack, My Generation

Title/Format/Rating/Source: Who Meets The Animals - CD - B+ - Soundboard

Date/Location/Venue: 06/18/67 - Monterey County Fairgrounds, CA - Monterey Pop Festival, Animals tracks (non-Who)

Year & Country Issued/Label: 1990 - Germany - Document

Comments:  Decent mono soundboard, but obsolete after the official release of the Monterey box set.

Track Listing: Summertime Blues, Pictures Of Lily, Happy Jack, My Generation

Title/Format/Rating/Source: Monterey Pop Festival Vol. 1 - CD - A - Soundboard

Date/Location/Venue: 06/18/67 - Monterey County Fairgrounds, CA - Monterey Pop Festival, (non-Who) tracks

Year & Country Issued/Label: 1989 - Japan - Black Panther

Comments:  Excellent soundboard recording.

Track Listing: Summertime Blues, Pictures Of Lily, Happy Jack, My Generation

Title/Format/Rating/Source: Cry Blue Murder - CD - D - Audience

Date/Location/Venue: 07/23/67 - Dallas, TX - Memorial Auditorium, 08/24/68 - Oklahoma City, OK -  Wedgewood Village Amusement Park

Year & Country Issued/Label: 1996 - Japan - Countdown Factory

Comments: Rare concert material, very poor sound quality.

Track Listing: Oklahoma City '68: Substitute, I Can't Explain, Boris The Spider, A Quick One While He's Away, Magic Bus
Dallas '67: Intro, Substitute, Summertime Blues, Pictures Of Lily, So Sad About Us, Love Hurts, Boris The Spider, Happy Jack, I'm A Boy, My Generation

Title/Format/Rating/Source: Who Are Those Masked Men? - CD - B - Soundboard

Date/Location/Venue: 1967 Beat Club, Germany & 1967 Marquee Club, London, UK, 04/06/68 - New York, NY - Fillmore East

Year & Country Issued/Label: 1998 - USA - Unknown

Comments: The Fillmore East section of this CD is among the best of the Fillmore boots. However, the "bonus tracks from the Beat Club & Marquee Club, while soundboard in source are very "scratchy" sounding, making the rare performances difficult to enjoy.

Track Listing: Fillmore East '68: Summertime Blues, Fortune Teller, Tattoo, Little Billy, I Can't Explain, Happy Jack, Relax, A Quick One, Easy Going Guy, Shakin' All Over, Boris The Spider, My Generation
Beat Club '67: I'm A Boy, Heatwave, Happy Jack
Marquee Club '67: So Sad About Us, My Generation

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