Holy Crap! It's The Who Live From 1967

 

This is how it all went down.

I decided to listen to Pete Townshend's "Scoop," the 1983 collection of demos and oddities. The first song on Side One is an acoustic demo of "So Sad About Us," one of my all time Who faves. I checked the liner notes to be sure this was indeed a demo from 1966 and not something Pete recorded years later while noodling in the studio. Yes, it was from 1966. Pete also mentions in the notes that the song was recorded first by The Merseys, something I was not aware of.

So, I dial up The Merseys' version on YouTube and I wasn't impressed. But the first YouTube comment I see is this, "There is a version of this song live from The Beat Club where it is introduced as a song by The Merseys."

Okay. What? A live version of "So Sad About Us" from 1967? Talk about not getting memos.

And now that we are all caught up, behold The Who, live in 1967, on The Beat Club.