Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

I'm in the studio with Andy Green and Rob Sheffi.

And 50 years ago ago at the University of Leeds, the Who went on stage and played a concert

that was immortalized on the album Live at Leeds, which is one of the greatest live

albums of all time, at the very least.

Some say it's the greatest.

It's definitely one of the most amazing live documents ever made for sure and we thought we'd use

that to talk more broadly about some of the greatest live albums ever made that

was by the way they played that concert the same day that Black Sabbath's debut

album was released if just it was a big very heavy day in England but to start we

actually have Bob Pridden who recorded Live at, was on tour with the Who for 50 years, was at

every Who Show for 50 years, and we have them with us. Bob, are you there?

Oh yeah, yeah, I'm here.

Welcome.

You captured this concert at Leeds and you were telling Andy that as Pete wrote in his book,

you had also recorded a bunch of concerts previously and Pete told you to go home and

listen to all of them and tell him what you what you thought right? Yeah.

Well yeah. Well, yeah, he did that. I think I got through about the first 10 and it was just a mind-boggling and thinking a bit about, I don't know, a lot.

And Pete said to me, did you make any notes? I said, no.

They said, well, destroy them.

So we did destroy them, but a few did survive because they were in Beach Studio Library where he must have listened to some of them anyway. They surface, but not many.

And then after this tragic destruction of tapes of the Who in their prime, they went on to play the show at Leeds and

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