I talked to Bill Sagan on the phone about 4 years ago and he said that they were restoring the Who's legendary Bill Graham produced concert archived film Tanglewood 1970. I was wondering if someone from the Bill Sagan WG camp can tell us how this project is going? When will the video streaming site be launched if it is indeed going to happen.

 

Cheers, Mike S

I would love to hear what the latest information is too, with this concert in particular, and with the video vault, in general. While The Who are still active, and playing to capacity audiences all over the world, and their music is in the public eye all over film and television soundtracks, vault releases like Tanglewood, would probably sell alot more if released to the public sooner than later. Here's hoping there may be some good news regarding this film from Wolfgangs Vault, for both Who fans and the Vault. Tommy turns 40 in 2009; be nice if a new Tanglewood dvd could commemorate that - in tandem with the current Who Touring Machine...

Derrick

 

I just think there is such a market for all of these artists on this site to sell this material.  Look their studio material has been remastered, reissued, and marketed to death.  Vault releases are the new frontier for all of these guys: The Who, Led Zeppelin, Cream etc...

Well, what was thought to happen in 2008 with regards to potential video releases hasn't happened, more discouraging is there's even no updates or information about any of it.

I agree with Derrick, it's quite disappointing on the no reply on these questions.

 

Mike S

I don't know where to begin. I just found this thread while searching for the Who Tanglewood concert. I didn't know there were two. I saw them at Woodstock and then again the following year at Tanglewood. They had just concluded a big US tour of doing Tommy. They were scheduled to leave the country and all of a sudden WBCN announces that there will be a surprise concert at Tanglewood this evening -- The Who doing a farewell performance of Tommy! What! This was like around two hours before the concert. We were in the Boston suburbs so we had to fly to get there and get in. I remember my mother saying to us "No flying boys". Heh-heh. So we got there before they came on and were treated to perhaps the most fervent performance of Tommy they ever did live. Now there are two points I'd like to make here. What I am finding  floating around as the 1970 Tanglewood performance couldn't be because I distinctly remember Roger Daltrey wearing his white buckskin fringed cape, not blue denim bells and white shirt. This must be the 1969 Tanglewood concert I guess. The comments at http://tinyurl.com/mf94ub state that the band was kind of pissed off and were not at all happy about being there so maybe they didn't dress up.  Maybe they thought of it as a 'dress' rehearsal for Woodstock days later. Second, I remember there was a big screen color video projection of the concert being shown simultaneously at the show. So someone out there probably has the original high quality tape! Maybe you can be instrumental in finding it and making it available for the first time.  How cool that would be.

The film of The Who at Tanglewood has to be the 7/7/70 show just by virtue of a couple of songs that they play- in particular, "Water" and "I Don't Even Know Myself" were not written/performed until 1970. Additionally, Townshend states that Jethro Tull was on the bill with them- that's the 1970 show.

The film is of the 1970 Tanglewood Who concert.  I was at both the 1969 show and the 1970 show.  No recording of any kind appears to exist of the 1969 show, which is a great shame, since it preceded the Woodstock festival by a few days.  I recall The Who taking the stage in a state of grim ferocity that was far different than the very happy headliners you see in the 1970 film.  In 1969, they seemed determined to scorch the earth that the Airplane would dare to trod upon later that night.