![]() ![]() Sound quality: The demos have a little vinyl hiss, otherwise good. ![]() The live material is uneven but fascinating – a 1974 version of Traffic’s “No Face, No Name, No Number” is a real oddity, and there are non-Who appearances from ’81 and ’82, reminders of how busy Pete keeps himself. His demo of “Too Much of Anything” (a Lifehouse song that found its way onto Odds & Sods) is another charmer, skippier and more ethereal than The Who’s take. Some Tommy demos have an edge over the album versions – “The Acid Queen” has an air of unworldly derangement – and to hear them all in one sitting is to realise how fully conceptualised Tommy was before Townshend handed it to the band. Some material here surfaced on official CDs, but Oblique (from 1984) still offers the only chance to hear all the demos Townshend made for Tommy in his industrious summer of 1968, plus engaging live material from the 1970s. Pete Townshend’s diligent trawl through his back catalogue has made many Who bootlegs redundant.
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