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Does anyone here listen to the Who?
They had a song out in the summer of 1972 called "Join Together." It was another song intended to be used for Lifehouse; that project was intended to be the Who's second rock opera following 1969's Tommy (a concept album about a deaf, dumb and blind boy). However, complications arose so much that the original concept was abandoned in favor of a straightforward (but well-received) album called Who's Next, released in late July 1971.
The instrumentation of "Join Together" at the open consists of a Jew's harp (which is actually done on an ARP synthesizer) and two different big harmonicas: the bass harmonica and the chord harmonica, both played by guitarist Pete Townshend. In the promo video for the single the Jew's harp is played by both Roger Daltrey and drummer Keith Moon; the bass harp is played by bassist John Entwistle until the moment his bass guitar track comes in, at which point he picks up the bass.
During the break and as the song fades out, Townshend plays flute-like synthesizer runs (although on the 1994 box set Thirty Years of Maximum R&B it mentions the use of an actual recorder in the credits). The 30 Years mix also has the ending flute part coming in one bar early (as opposed to the song's other appearances), and for some reason it crossfades into the next track, "The Relay."
~Ben
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