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Fact #155859

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Short story:

The Who enter Odyssey Studios, London, England, UK, Europe, and record You Better You Bet for the album Face Dances.

Full article:

John Entwistle (bassist, The Who) : The one we did with Bill Szymczyk, Face Dances, we’d do the backing tracks in groups of three. We’d do three and then take a break and then do three more of the same thing. I think that the backing tracks took us ages for that album. Then he’d take a group of three of the best ones and cut them to little pieces and stick them back together again. I mean, the tape would go ‘round and it would be stripped, editing bits out. It was kind of a strange way of doing it for the Who.

It was Kenney’s first album with us as well. And we were doing stuff like, "I prefer that bit because of the bass and there’s a good drum break there. I want that bit." It just seemed an incomplete way of recording. Those are the only ones that took any length of time. We were usually real fast. Most of the time, with the exception of when we were doing stuff like Won’t Get Fooled Again or Baba O’Riley, we were playing to tapes then. Usually when we went in we’d hear the song for the first time the day we recorded it.

You Better You Bet is a good stage number. But to tell the truth, the last two Who albums are a kind of blank. By the time we were recording them, personalities were clashing. There were different ideas of music policy. General backbiting. People not agreeing with each other. Roger and Pete always had differing opinions about everything, but myself and Keith would make our minds up and usually, things went in the way that myself and Keith wanted, so we never got into four-piece arguments, luckily. After Keith died, those were the hardest times...
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