The Who's first album to make it's stereo debut
The Who's classic 1965 debut My Generation album is about to sound
different in your speakers for the very first time.
The album has been remixed for stereo by the original producer and
will be re-released with 17 bonus tracks on August 27, 2002.
Producer Shel Talmy delivered the monaural mixes for the album and
related singles in 1964/'65 and from his last early-1966 session with
the group. But the songs were never mixed to stereo (some were
released later in faux stereo), and producer Talmy retained
possession of the legendary tapes.
Along with the U.S./U.K. original albums' combined 13 selections,
Disc One of "My Generation (Deluxe Edition)," produced by Talmy and
Andy McKaie (the UME Sr. V.P. who pursued the project since 1987),
brings together "I Can't Explain" (the band's debut single), Talmy's
"Bald Headed Woman" and Otis Blackwell's "Daddy Rolling Stone."
Disc Two features never before released are "Instant Party Mixture,"
full-length versions of "The Good's Gone" and James Brown's "I Don't
Mind," an instrumental "My Generation," an a cappella "Anytime You
Want Me" and an alternate take of Eddie Holland's "Leaving Here."
Previously released only on a French EP is an alternate "Anyway,
Anyhow, Anywhere."
Other bonuses are from The Who's first soul-soaked sessions: Brown's
"Please, Please, Please" and Bo Diddley's "I'm A Man" made it onto
the original album, but Brown's "Shout And Shimmy," Garnet Mimm's
"Anytime You Want Me" and Martha and the Vandellas' "(Love Is Like A)
Heat Wave" and "Motoring" would only be released later, as would
"Lubie (Come Back Home)," a cover of a Paul Revere and The Raiders
song. Presented too are "My Generation" and "A Legal Matter" in mono,
with guitar overdubs. |
