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The Who Tour 1972
Tour by The Who
File:The Who 1972 Deutsches Museum concert poster.jpg
Poster for The Who's concert at Munich
Start dateAugust 11, 1972
End dateSeptember 14, 1972
Legs1
No. of shows16
The Who concert chronology

The Who Tour 1972 was The Who's second concert tour for their Who's Next album.

History

After the band's successful tour supporting Who's Next the previous year in the United States and the United Kingdom, they went on a mini-tour of Europe. The set list was very similar to the previous tour's, but with several numbers dropped and only two new songs: "The Relay" and usually, "Long Live Rock" (featuring Roger Daltrey singing the verses instead of Pete Townshend). "However Much I Booze" was also introduced on this tour, three years before its release on The Who By Numbers, but only as a very underdeveloped jam using a different riff and Townshend singing the refrain of "There ain't no way out".[1] The obscure song "Wasp Man" was also played during their concert in Brussels, but with different lyrics.

Live Releases

Live material from 1972 has appeared on the following:

Band members

Typical set lists

The Who live in Hamburg; 12 August 1972.

The tour lasted from August 11, 1972 at the Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany and ended on September 14, 1972 at the Palasport in Rome, Italy.

The concert on August 25, 1972 at the K.B. Hallen in Copenhagen, Denmark was originally scheduled for August 22, but had to be postponed three days in order to create more time to move their equipment to Sweden (for their August 23 concert in Stockholm, Sweden).[2][3]

The setlists here did not differ much from the previous year's setlists, except for "Substitute" and "Amazing Journey" being dropped, with some other songs like "Baby Don't You Do It" and "Sparks" only appearing very few times. "The Relay" and "Long Live Rock" were played for the first time on this tour, while very loose versions of "Wasp Man" and "However Much I Booze" could be heard during the jams following "My Generation" on a couple of occasions. Here is a fairly typical setlist from this tour (actually from a concert in Munich, Germany on September 4, 1972). All songs written by Pete Townshend unless stated otherwise.

  1. "I Can't Explain"
  2. "Summertime Blues" (Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart)
  3. "My Wife" (John Entwistle)
  4. "Baba O'Riley"
  5. "Behind Blue Eyes"
  6. "Bargain"
  7. "Won't Get Fooled Again"
  8. "Magic Bus"
  9. "The Relay"
  10. "Pinball Wizard"
  11. "See Me, Feel Me"
  12. "My Generation"
  13. "Naked Eye"

Encores (only one, at the Ernst-Merck Halle in Hamburg, Germany on August 12, 1972):

  • "Daddy Rolling Stone" (Otis Blackwell)
    • Performed on August 12th.
  • "Sparks"
    • Performed on August 12th, 16th (not as encore) & 21st (not as encore).

There were some set list substitutions, variations, and order switches during the tour. "Shakin' All Over" and "Baby Don't You Do It" were played early in the tour, but dropped soon after. "Long Live Rock" was played sometimes at the conclusions of shows as well. There are some other songs that were played which are not in the above lists:

European Tour dates

References

  1. ^ 25.08.1972 The Who in Copenhagen - "However Much I Booze" jam
  2. ^ The Who Concert Guide: Stories and Reviews on Copenhagen 1972
  3. ^ 21.08.1972 The Who in Copenhagen - Review: Success for the Who - Belongs at the top!

External links

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