Townshend, Pete - Goin' Mobile Lyrics

".... Watch the police and the tax man miss me...."

Watch the POlice miss me!

Isso me leva de volta aos anos 70.... Programa de Rock na antiga Radio JB

Pete and me have tinnitus probably for the same reasons, Won't get fooled again. Going Mobile. Etc. My favorite bunch of musicians! Thanks for the awesome video!

What-A-Demo

keep me moving. ... superb

Oakland colosseum Grateful Dead opened The Who brought it... goin mobile is the song I remember... Townsend leaping in the air hitting three chords landing on his knees sliding across the stage... the freakin best....

Pete demos goodbye cruel world for awhile

Who's Next is a shit kicking rock album, maybe the best of its kind

make the toast and tea

Hearing this makes me think, hey, what the hell happened to good music nowdays anyway??

As an ad-libbed lyrical suggestion Townshend/Daltrey should've added a "Motherf***er" in there at 3:43 to give the song some 'uncensored' substance against the establishment...a sprinkle of vulgarity is necessity in a good rock song! 😉

AWESOME effin tune right here! I heard it on 97 Rock just a few weeks ago and now it's ingrained and dancing around in my head to the point where I can't stop singing along to it...aloud at random, in the shower, you name it! 😋

Did Roger and the gang release a version of this song with him on lead vocals, because I could've sworn the version that graced my ears just a few weeks back had Daltrey at the helm, I could be mistaken though!

ASS KICKER of a tune nonetheless...keep all us 'diehard' rockers 'mobile' boys! 😋

Was this the intended order Lifehouse or the way he figured it work best in 2000?

What a demo.

superb drumming one which was closely followed on the album cut by KMoon.

Pete was a great drummer but Moony took all the best bits and then took it to a whole different level

Pete takes the lead vocal on the Who's Next version as well.

"I'm sorry, but even though this demo is WORLDS better than almost every other bands fuinal cuts, The Who version is just another world better as well" is what I want to say, but really I just can't.

This is SUCH a great song!! Pete is GENIUS!! Pete's GOD!!

I agree with you but my main point was that his Demos were fantastic, best I've ever heard. I've heard a lot of other demos from other groups/acts from this time period and they're usually pretty awful.

Yes, he has said that he was at his most "Brilliant and Creative" during this period and the others just could not grasp the concept of Lifehouse. Apparently no one could.

Unmistakably Townsend.....one of the greats..

Pete is great!

Pete made the best Demos I've ever heard from that time period. His demos are basically as good as finished product.

Ahead of it's time. These days anyone can plug into a laptop and record and mix fairly cheaply. Demos and a finished product are really one and the same depending on what your producer thinks if you have one you may only have to make a few adjustments.

make the toast and tea

Definitely Pete's best demo. But by making the bold & brilliant decision to drop electric guitar & keyboards, the finished version has the most extraordinary use of synthesizers on any song ever made.

Great version.

I think it shows that Pete already had the whole song fleshed out -- and more. And of course, he could sing and play all the instruments himself. He even had the envelope filter lead idea down. But The Who's recording takes the song to another level, even with Pete still doing the vocals. Moon's drums, as always, simply raise the whole endeavor. Perhaps less obviously, Entwhistle's muscular bass also drives the song, raising it to "Rock" instead of an acoustic demo with some weird effects.

This is truly a sliver of Pete's genius. The Who took it and made it their own. Both Entwistle and Moon tighten the track to where it inescapably, The Who. It shows what they we capable of, as a trio. Add Daltrey, and it was complete and winning combination. And to think they laughed at me in H.S. for not listening to Donna Summer, Michael Jackson, and other dance disco crap. Glad I stuck with ya boys.

screw your HS!

Please, find me ONE person that sings along with the drum part. Please, find me ONE hit song that started out as a drum beat as opposed to vice verse.

Fasima might be a bit extreme, but your comment is downright reckless.

hahaha that could not be more wrong

Yeah, you need to listen to the drum track in the original...

Really shows what Moon added.

I like this better than the original! i'm a pilot and play this song in my head as i fly then blast it when i get in my car to go home!!!

is that a stoned Pete driving a truck on that CD?

amazing!!!!!!!! dont let it stop!!!!

PETE TOWMSHEND IS GOD

can't get enough of this demo! pt is a true genius.