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| From | rob@splitsville.com |
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| Date | Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:46:28 -0400 |
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The R&R Circus performance has the advantage of familiarity, as we've all watched and been amazed by it hundreds of times. Even the inferior, abridged and sped up VCR version of it is spectacular, never mind the full-blown, cleaned up DVD version.
Still, Daltrey is less than a 25%-er- I'll take a howling, mic-twirling, confident, post-Tommy Roger with Pete prowling and leaping throughout stage left any day. They're truly operating on four cylinders.
>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: :audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Sent: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:19:30
>
>
>Hey everyone!
>
>This has been a most enjoyable thread.
>
>The Who have LONG been a huge favo(u)rite of mine
>.....hell, I even launched my career as a
>"journalist" over thirty
>years ago
>in order to commemorate the band's 1975 Toronto
>concert
>(with my fake Official Who Tour Programme,
>aka Pig Paper No. 1,
>which almost got me busted outside the venue that
>night by an irate MCA
>rep)
>(though I later heard Roger and even Pete quite
>appreciated my literary
>efforts on their behalf).
>
>
>I thought Greg Sager's post especially
>was not only spot-on indeed,
>but serves as a damn near ideal encapsulation
>of the band's entire career
>
>....and not just because he realizes "Surfin' Bird"
>is indisputably
>the most perfect r 'n' r song ever recorded
>(not to mention a very strong candidate for
>First-Ever Power Pop Song
>...at least a year before, well, "I Can't Explain,"
>correct??!)
>
>
>nevertheless,
>Though while I can appreciate their stadium rock
>years
>("Who's Next"),
>and "Who By Numbers" remains my all-time
>second-fave Rock Star Mid-Life
>Crisis elpee
>(after "John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band" of course)
>it's the early (Sixties) Who
>that should continue to amaze, amuse, and inspire
>most all of us the
>most:
>
>as has already been said,
>Just take one look at the band's "Rock and Roll
>Circus" performance,
>as therein lies perhaps THEE quintessential rock
>'n' roll performance:
>Each member, each note, each leap and laugh,
>utterly crazed, conflicted, yet somehow still
>seamlessly complimentary
>with, to, and even against one another.
>There are absolutely NO passengers on this ride!!
>
>Perhaps Tony Fletcher sums it all up best in his
>"Moon" biography
>when he states
>"In the Truly Great Band, the sum is always worth
>more than its
>individual parts"
>
>(which reminds me to keep out of The Great New Cars
>Debate),
>
>
>Gary "NP: 'Who?' by The Mayflowers, I kid you not"
>Pig
>
>
>
>
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