Pete Townshend / Live in Concert 1985 – 2001

Seven rare and out-of-print concerts by Pete Townshend will be issued in a new 14CD box set called Live in Concert 1985-2001.

These were originally only available via Pete’s website Eel Pie and there was only one run of each CD, meaning they all quickly became collector’s items.

The live shows include Pete Townshend’s Deep End band, live at Brixton Academy in 1985, featuring featuring David Gilmour on guitar; a live full rendition of Pete’s album Psychoderelict recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1993 (during Pete’s only full solo tour); an intimate show from The Fillmore in San Francisco in 1996 around the time of his first solo compilation album CoolWalkingSmoothTalkingStraightSmokingFireStoking; and a Shepherd’s Bush Empire gig from late 1998. Two nights at London’s Sadlers Wells Theatre in early 2000 was the only time a full ‘Life House’ show was attempted and finally, the box ends with two shows from La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego in the summer of 2001.

Pete Townshend summed up his feelings about trying to balance solo recording and performing with The Who with this statement: “I always have too much to do, too much responsibility, and not enough time. I have to live enough life to provide me with inspiration and context for my songs, I have to then spend enough time in my home studio finessing songs so they feel worthy of my band (The Who), then I have to re-record them with that band, then speak eloquently about them to the media, justifying my creative divergences, then I must tour endlessly behind the new music, continuing to celebrate the old stuff as well, and then start all over again. The idea that I would do all that for The Who and then do it for myself as well is simply plain insane. And yet for a while I tried. It didn’t go well. One career is enough.

The audio has been newly remastered by Jon Astley, and the box set is presented as a deluxe CD-sized box (with inner ‘drawer’) and includes a 26-page hardcover book with sleeve notes by Matt Kent, a new exclusive Pete Townshend interview, and rare photos and images of memorabilia.

Live in Concert 1985-2001 will be released on 26 July 2024, via UMR.

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Tracklisting

Live in Concert 1985-2001 Pete Townshend /

• 14CD box
  • CD 1: Brixton Academy 1 & 2 November 1985
    1. Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand
    2. Won’t Get Fooled Again
    3. A Little Is Enough
    4. Secondhand Love
    5. That’s Alright Mama
    6. Behind Blue Eyes
    7. The Shout
    8. Harlem Shuffle
    9. Barefootin’
    10. After The Fire
    11. Love On The Air
    12. Midnight Lover
    13. Blue Light
    14. I Put A Spell On You
    15. I’m One

  • CD 2: Brixton Academy 1 & 2 November 1985
    1. Driftin’
    2. Magic Bus
    3. Save It For Later
    4. Eyesight To The Blind
    5. Walkin’
    6. Stop Hurting People
    7. The Sea Refuses No River
    8. Boogie Stop Shuffle
    9. Face The Face
    10. Pinball Wizard
    11. Give Blood
    12. Night Train
  • CD 3: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York 7 August 1993
    1. Intro
    2. English Boy
    3. Meher Baba M3
    4. Let’s Get Pretentious
    5. Meher Baba M4 [Signal Box]
    6. Early Morning Dreams
    7. I Want That Thing
    8. Intro : Outlive The Dinosaur
    9. Outlive The Dinosaur
    10. Gridlife
    11. Flame [Demo]
    12. Now And Then
    13. I Am Afraid
    14. Gridlife 2
    15. Don’t Try To Make Me Real
    16. Intro : Predictable
    17. Predictable
    18. Flame
    19. Meher Baba M5 [Vivaldi]
    20. Fake It
    21. Intro : Now And Then [Reprise]
    22. Now And Then [Reprise]
    23. Baba O’Riley [Demo]
    24. English Boy [Reprise]

  • CD 4: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York 7 August 1993
    1. Pinball Wizard / See Me Feel Me / Listening To You
    2. Let My Love Open The Door
    3. Rough Boys
    4. Behind Blue Eyes
    5. The Kids Are Alright
    6. Keep Me Turning
    7. Eminence Front
    8. A Little Is Enough
    9. You Better You Bet
    10. Face The Face
    11. Won’t Get Fooled Again / Let’s See Action
    12. Magic Bus
  • CD 5: Fillmore 30 April 1996
    1. Let My Love Open The Door
       
    2. English Boy
    3. Drowned
    4. The Shout
    5. I Put A Spell On You
    6. Cut My Hair
    7. Sheraton Gibson
    8. I’m One
    9. Heart To Hang Onto
    10. Parvardigar
    11. A Legal Matter
  • CD 6: Fillmore 30 April 1996
    1. A Friend Is A Friend
    2. I Am An Animal
    3. All Shall Be Well
    4. Slit Skirts
    5. Eyesight To The Blind
    6. Driftin’ Blues
    7. Now And Then
    8. Rough Boys
    9. I’m A Boy
    10. Magic Bus
  • CD 7: The Empire 9 November 1998
    1. On The Road Again
    2. A Little Is Enough
    3. Pinball Wizard
    4. Drowned
    5. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
    6. You Better You Bet
    7. Behind Blue Eyes
    8. Baby Don’t You Do It
    9. English Boy
    10. Three Steps To Heaven
    11. Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand
    12. Sheraton Gibson
    13. Substitute
    14. I Am An Animal
    15. North Country Girl
  • CD 8: The Empire 9 November 1998
    1. (She’s A) Sensation
    2. A Friend Is A Friend
    3. Now And Then
    4. Let My Love Open The Door
    5. Who Are You
    6. The Kids Are Alright
    7. Acid Queen
    8. Won’t Get Fooled Again
    9. Magic Bus
    10. I’m One
  • CD 9: Live Sadler’s Wells 25 & 26 February 2000
    1. One Note
    2. Purcell (Quick Movement)
    3. Teenage Wasteland
    4. TIme Is Passing
    5. Love Ain’t For Keeping
    6. Goin’ Mobile
    7. Greyhound Girl
    8. Tragedy
    9. Mary
    10. I Don’t Even Know Myself
    11. Bargain
    12. Gettin’ In Tune
    13. Pure And Easy
    14. Baba O’Riley – Orchestral
  • CD 10: Live Sadler’s Wells 25 & 26 February 2000
    1. Baba O’Riley
    2. Hinterland Rag
    3. Behind Blue Eyes
    4. Let’s See Action
    5. Sister Disco
    6. Relay
    7. Who Are You
    8. Join Together
    9. Won’t Get Fooled Again
    10. Tragedy Explained
    11. The Song Is Over
    12. Can You Help The One You Really Love?
  • CD 11: La Jolla Playhouse 22 June 2001
    1. Pinball Wizard
    2. Let My Love Open The Door
    3. Heart To Hang Onto
    4. Cut My Hair
    5. Slit Skirts
    6. Drowned
    7. Greyhound Girl
    8. Tattoo
    9. The Sea Refuses No River
  • CD 12: La Jolla Playhouse 22 June 2001
    1. Saint James Infirmary
    2. Eminence Front
    3. Won’t Get Fooled Again
    4. Behind Blue Eyes
    5. Won’t Get Fooled Again (Electric)
  • CD 13: La Jolla Playhouse 23 June 2001
    1. Pinball Wizard
    2. Let My Love Open The Door
    3. Heart To Hang Onto
    4. Cut My Hair
    5. Slit Skirts
    6. Drowned
    7. Greyhound Girl
    8. Tattoo
    9. Collings
    10. Eminence Front
  • CD 14: La Jolla Playhouse 23 June 2001
    1. Sheraton Gibson
    2. Won’t Get Fooled Again
    3. I’m One
    4. Behind Blue Eyes
    5. Driftin’ Blues
    6. Eyesight To The Blind
    7. Won’t Get Fooled Again (Electric)