Hit The Tone | Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who (Pete Townshend) | Ep.70 | Thomann

Welcome to Hit The Tone ! In this video series, I’ll be showing you how to nail the playing and the sound of your favourite songs ! From guitar to amp selection, through a step by step lesson of the song at hand. Let me know which riff or intro you want me to cover in the comment section and I’ll get you sorted asap!

This episode covers the introduction of the song Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who!

Hope you enjoy and see you next week :)

Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 : Intro and playing
0:43 : Presentation and Guitar setup
2:59 : Amp and pedal setup
4:21 : The SOUND
5:11 : The Lesson
5:26 : The fretting hand
6:07 : The picking hand
7:37 : Conclusion
7:59 : Outro playing

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[timschneider]

With isolated SG it sounds like a perfect ACDC song

[soulagent]

I think on the orginal recording Pete played a hollowbody Gretsch 6120, which was his favourite guitar in the studio for many years.

[hgostos]

Pete's tone in guitar is almost impossible to copy perfectly especially the Live at Leeds Tone

[nickofzo]

If I am correct, Townshend used a Gretsch 6120.

[ArturBrzozowski]

"We can't crank Marshalls. It's an office. People are working here"

*Few episodes later*

"Ouuu yeah! Marshall Watts are the loudest Watts"

[KanariasLibre]

Now a video about sound like Noel Gallagher in early Oasis, please!

[dennisg]

I have a mid '70s SG with PAFs, and plugged straight into a Fender Blues Jr. I'm still able to get as close or closer to Townshend's tone.
I've been tempted to get a more "Townshend accurate" SG with P-90s but I love the one I have.

[PooNinja]

Wait was that 2 pts flash powder and 8 pts black powder..🥁💥😱... and The Who has tinnitus... Ery body in the first 5 rows too.


Marshall 812 backbreaker cabs available by special requests only.

[szrnkabela]

Yeah! Do you do a Who week after the Pink Floyd week? 😃
I would definitely like to see how Julia plays the John Entwistle basslines of this song! 🤩

[guitarifuldexter]

I love these Hit the Tone videos. Even if I do never have the gear to get the tone. 🤘🎸

[ragnadrabinowitz]

the guitars pete used to record "won't get fooled again" is well-documented... a gretsch 6120 through a fender bandmaster, both gifted from joe walsh. the tone here, though nice (for the right song), isn't really like the tone on the actual recording. it's too "AC/DC-ish" for me. i think the overdrive is more old school than that. as for pete's tone on "live at leeds", that sound is as much about the room and the ambient reverb, as it is about the guitar and amp he was using (hiwatts and an SG).

[Raja_Sahin]

This is the official Every breath you take for the next episode of hit the tone button! Please like it!!!

[nicolas.grisanti]

XD great intro! and great tone! Love the SG.

[Animo]

Thomanns: Guillaume?

G: Oui?

Thomanns: Do the scream during the video.

G: Non

Thomanns: say voo plate?

G: Haha, tre non

Thomanns: pretty please

G: Imbecile, non!

[joermnyc]

I believe Paul McCartney has said that “Helter Skelter” was his attempt to be louder than The Who. I’m not sure if The Who minded.

[kmichaelp]

Love that story. I saw them 5, yes 5 times in my lifetime. From 1970-?🤐

[fretfanaticno]

6:50 dude are you talking about Snowhall Amneville by any chance?

[GabiOprea]

Great job! this is a very very good serie! Love it!

[realdocloco]

This is not the studio tone ( as people said, Gretsch+Bassman) nor the live tone (SG Special - or Les Paul Deluxe - with Hiwatt amps) but that's close enough for rock'n roll as they say 😉. I recently bought a little Hiwatt T20/10 and that's much closer if you dime that clean channel.

[msmoniz]

Sound great, but still no where near the actual tone from the record since he used a Gretsch 6120 into a cranked 59 Fender Bandmaster for the actual tone on all of Who's Next electric guitar parts.