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Introduction
During the mid 1970’s, I regularly listened to music by The Who on LP vinyl records. In particular, ‘Tommy’, ‘Who’s Next’, ‘Quadrophenia’, and ‘The Who by Numbers’. In 1975 I saw the movie, ‘Tommy’ in quadraphonic sound at a movie theatre along the Atlantic Ocean in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I also saw The Who in concert on 11 March 1976 at the Madison Square Garden in New York. I was 14 then, and I became quite fascinated and inspired by the way Pete Townshend, songwriter and guitarist in The Who, played guitar. Pete Townshend's style of guitar playing, both rhythm and lead guitar, are impressive to me. So, I took private guitar lessons and minored in music and drama in high school. With regular practice, I learned to play on acoustic guitar a few excerpts from the original 1969, ‘Tommy’ by The Who, such as ‘Overture’,’ Amazing Journey’, and ‘Pinball Wizard’ when I was around 15.
Eventually, I learned to play the entire rock opera. Between the years 2001 and 2002, I finally had the opportunity to further my guitar studies, as I acquired the sheet music to the entire collection of songs by The Who and the double CD (compact disc),’ Tommy’. From the 4 booklets of sheet music, ‘The Who Definitive Guitar Recorded Version' and the original 1969 Tommy recorded on CD (compact disc), I learned to play all 24 compositions from ‘Tommy’.
Left: Lorraine Juhl with The Who Definitive Collection - guitar recorded Version.
Left: Lorraine Juhl with sheet music ‘Amazing Journey’ words and music by Pete Townshend, and double CD (compact disc) ‘Tommy’ by The Who. Photo June 2023.
SONG SET I PLAY BY THE WHO
SONG SET I PLAY BY THE WHO
I play from the sheet music in The Who Definitive Collection guitar recorded version along with The Who's original albums. There are many songs from The Who I enjoy playing.
With regular guitar practice I have learned to play the following song set written and composed by Pete Townshend, who is the songwriter and guitarist in The Who:
Tommy:
Overture (It's A Boy)
Acid Queen
Amazing Journey and Sparks
Pinball Wizard
I'm Free
We're Not Gonna Take It (including See Me, Feel Me and Listening To You
Quadrophenia:
The Real Me
I'm One
5:15
Sea And Sand
Dr. Jimmy
Who's Next & Who's Next - Life House:
Baba O' Riley
Behind Blue Eyes
The Song is Over
I Don't Even Know Myself
The Who By Numbers:
Squeeze Box
They Are All In Love
Blue Red and Grey
Who Are You
New Song (Pete's Vocal Version)
Meaty, Beaty, Big And Bouncy:
I Can't Explain
The Seeker
Substitute
Odds And Sods:
Pure And Easy
Too Much of Anything
Now I'm A Farmer
Empty Glass, 1980 by Pete Townshend in the Who:
Let My Love Open The Door
Left: Lorraine Juhl with music sheets 'Baba O' Riley' , music and words by Pete Townshend and CD (Compact Disc) 'Who's Next' by The Who. Photo August 2023.
May 2002
Song Set I Play from Tommy by The Who,
Overture
It's a boy
You didn't hear it
Amazing Journey
Sparks
Eyesight to the blind
Christmas
Cousin Kevin
The acid queen
Underture
Do you think it's alright
Fiddle about
Pinball wizard
There's a doctor I've found
Go to the mirror boy
Tommy can you hear me
Smash the mirror
Sensation
Miracle cure
Sally Simpson
I'm free
Welcome
Tommy's holiday camp
We're not gonna take it
I chose to play The Who's Tommy on guitar, which for me is a challenging composition to learn, for actually several reasons. Not only did I especially like Tommy, I also really enjoy classical music, orchestra music and rock music. To me, Tommy seemed to contain all of these genres of the music I loved. And it could be played on an acoustic guitar so easily.
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