Note: since relocating my old blog to Substack, I’ve been occasionally rescuing and revising posts that got lost in the move.

“One of me best songs I’ve ever written. Quite a fiery Wagnerian piece.”

That’s Pete Townshend about “I Can See For Miles,” the sonic masterpiece that the Who released as a single on October 13, 1967. Recorded during the fall in studios in London, Manhattan, and Los Angeles—at the latter, accessing Gold Star Studios’s echo chamber to achieve the proper menacing reverb on Ro...