The Who "A Quick One" cover

[JoJo]

I'm posting this one because there are some weird things going on here..

Valis, when did you say this one was released? Late '66, right?

A small one here, and then click on the link for a large version, so it doesn't run off the sides.



www.jojoplace.org/Shoebox/Valis/QuickOne/thewhoq1big.jpg

[Valis]

Haha

you dare me for a reply,
well first of all the textballoon upper right says "THINK whatever áppened to Happy jack", and the song in a miraculous way points to the real shining JPM and also in a dark way about a happy jerk (Bill) who fell into the superprize (clearly visible in all 67 footage), and later on gotto deal with all the anger of the rest of the band.

For the rest, what about the Sgt. Pepper moustache, the robot/human fce, the Beatle Bill on the total right of the picture.

I'll send Joe some more stunning scans from this release, but please check the lyrics, and also to their b-sides of that period at www.thewho.net/

I am totally convinced that a lot of artists close to the Beatles also released clues. If something like that happened around you would it not also be a supreme source of (veiled) inspiration.

At the moment The Who and The Floyd are very revealing to me.

but more 'Oo here to come

"You didn't hear it
You didn't see it.
You won't say nothing to no one
ever in your life.
You never heard it
Oh how absurd it
All seems without any proof."-1921, The Who

All Love Jan

[JoJo]

Another gem from the Beatlefan magazine. An article has the two authors of the book "Drugs, Divorce and Slipping Image", discussing the time of the filming of Let It Be when George gets angry and walks out.

(Issue vol 16, #4)

He (John) states clearly and firmly"If George doesn't come back by Monday, we'll get Eric Clapton. I don't care." Paul and Ringo aparently don't take him seriously. John is quite serious about it. He makes a further comment at the end of the day, joking "I'll get Eric or Jimi" meaning Jimi Hendrix or whoever. Anybody can come in and fill in for George. George doesn't matter. That's pretty much the attitude he seems to take.

and..

There's a very odd moment after George leaves, John starts playing the Who song "A Quick One While He's Away". The title is obviously ironic. After playing a brief bit of it, John says, "Take it George," so apparently he's not very broken up about George's absence.

Or... it reminds him of another argument, one in which someone walked out on and never returned? John's sense of the cruel irony? (speculation of course)

I also believe these guys don't get it at all, what John was hinting at..

And speaking of arguments, this song I posted a while back mentions an argument, saying the "song lyrics tell it all". www.jojoplace.org/Shoebox/MissHimSongs/BalladOfPaul.mp3

Don't know which lyrics suggest that. (?)

The lyrics to A Quick One:

www.lyricsfreak.com/w/who,-the/146438.html

Hmm I wonder..is that something someone said right after he saw Paul for the last time? And it became a private..not joke so much as a darkly ironic inside thing?

[ReallyReallyDead]

Valis said:

"You didn't hear it
You didn't see it.
You won't say nothing to no one
ever in your life.
You never heard it
Oh how absurd it
All seems without any proof."-1921, The Who

"I heard it!
I sawr it!
I won't say nothing to no one
never in my life!
I heard it!
How absurd it all seems without any proof!"

[JoJo]

A video: Youtube

"Whatever 'appened to 'appy Jack?"

Happy Jack

[TotalInformation]

Who is that with the word balloon?

[Doc]

jojo said:

A video: Youtube

"Whatever 'appened to 'appy Jack?"

Happy Jack

Great songs; they sound great. Great performers. Excellent.

That song, "A Quick One", has a section, section two, goes like this:

II. Crying Town

Down your street your crying is a well-known sound
Your street is very well known, right here in town
Your town is very famous for the little girl
Whose cries can be heard all around the world.

A famous street? In a famous town?
Famous for the "cries" (singing) of "the little girl"(euphemism, even Lennon used it)

and this website:

www.mathew.st/

has this as the google info line:

(qoute) Web site and live webcams of the world famous Mathew Street in Liverpool, UK - Birthplace of the Beatles.

Paul's tenor helped make the Beatle's famous all around the world, thanks to the radio. Liverpool became known all around the world.
Also, the" screaming of girls", plural, reacting to the Beatles, is still quite famous.

[lili]

A QUICK ONE WHILE HE'S AWAY

I. her mans been gone

Her mans been gone
For nearly a year
He was due home yesterday
But he aint here

Her mans been gone
For nigh on a year
He was due home yesterday
But he aint here

Ii. crying town

Down your street your crying is a well-known sound
Your street is very well known, right here in town
Your town is very famous for the little girl
Whose cries can be heard all around the world

Iii. we have a remedy

Fa la la la la la
Fa la la la la
Fa la la la la la
Fa la la la la

We have a remedy
Youll appreciate
No need to be so sad
Hes only late

Well bring you flowers and things
Help pass your time
Well give him eagles wings
Then he can fly to you

Fa la la la la la
Fa la la la la
Fa la la la la la
Fa la la la la
Fa la la la la la
Fa la la la la la

We have a remedy
Fa la la la la la la
We have a remedy
Fa la la la la la la
We have a remedy
Fa la la la la la la
We have a remedy
Fa la la la la la la

(spoken)
We have a remedy.
We have!

Little girl, why dont you stop your crying?
Im gonna make you feel all right

Iv. ivor the engine driver

My name is ivor
Im an engine driver

I know him well
I know why you feel blue
Just cause hes late
Dont mean hell never get through

He told me he loves you
He aint no liar, I aint either
So lets have a smile for an old engine driver
So lets have a smile for an old engine driver

Please take a sweet
Come take a walk with me
Well sort it out
Back at my place, maybe

Itll come right
You aint no fool, I aint either
So why not be nice to an old engine driver?
Better be nice to an old engine driver
Better be nice to an old engine driver

V. soon be home

Well soon be home
Well soon be home
Well soon
Well soon, soon, soon be home

Well soon be home
Well soon be home
Well soon
Well soon, soon, soon be home

Come on, old horse

Soon be home
Soon be home
Soon
Well soon, soon, soon be home

Well soon
Well soon, soon, soon be home

Well soon be home
Soon be home ...

Vi. you are forgiven

Dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang

Cello, cello, cello, cello, cello, cello
Cello, cello, cello, cello, cello, cello
Cello, cello, cello, cello, cello, cello
Cello, cello, cello, cello, cello, cello

I cant believe it
Do my eyes deceive me?
Am I back in your arms?
Away from all harm?

Its like a dream to be with you again
Cant believe that Im with you again

I missed you and I must admit
I kissed a few and once did sit
On ivor the engine drivers lap
And later with him, had a nap

You are forgiven, you are forgiven, you are forgiven ... (ad lib)

A Quick One (Happy Jack) (1966.) Who's second album.

If this album was released in 1966, I don't think that it's about PID. It might be a nod to the degeneration of Paul's relationship with Jane.

[JoJo]

Another version of the cover:

[lili]

I always thought that " Won't Get Fooled Again" might have New World Order implications.

WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya !?

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the party on the left
Is now the party on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss


From the wikipedia:

Like many songs, the meaning has been debated by listeners for a long time. One interpretation is that it expresses disenchantment with the counterculture and supposed "revolution" of the 1960s. For this reason, the song was banned in South Korea until the emergence of democracy there in the early 1990s; copies of Who's Next sold there omitted it. The song's final lines are "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss," which many take to be an expression of dissatisfaction with the results of the revolution. In an April 2006 editorial for Time magazine, retired Lieutenant General Greg Newbold referenced the song, calling it an "antiwar anthem" that "conveyed a sense of betrayal by the nation's leaders, who had led our country into a costly and unnecessary war in Vietnam".