"A Quick One" may have been longer, but this one ended up being the real monster. Right from the start, there is a synth loop that I had to recreate. I haven't gotten into doing loops at all, so I had to go ahead and play it for a minute or so. Then there were two other keyboard parts, piano, both acoustic and electric guitars, lots of vocals, and crazy drums.


This song was on their last album (before the one they did last year), done in 1982 and was after drummer Keith Moon died. Kenney Jones replaced him, and was clearly very competent, but had nowhere near the level of talent that Moon had. I mistakenly believed this would give me an easier time emulating the drums. Alas, I needed 23 separate tracks to create the entire drum sound. This is compared to the 26 that were needed for "Behind Blue Eyes" (done with Kelli on "Lost Interest"). It is, in fact, the drum beat that makes the song what it is, in my opinion, so I was more than happy to work it all out. I was finally able to sing in a lower register, partly due to the fact that Roger Daltrey sang it a bit rougher, with more energy, and because my attempts at the higher register were just too strained. I think I ended up with some of my better piano work here (my talents here are a distant second to the guitar), and was very pleased with the overall result.