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| From | "floatingunder" <Steven.Durben@cignabehavioral.com> |
| Subject | Re: The Early Who By A Landslide |
| Date | Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:23:51 -0000 |
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--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, rob@... wrote:
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.
Hi Rob,
It's interesting to me, that you say that, per what I have been
mulling over in my head during this discussion on The Who.
I love the early Who era quite a lot more then mid-period era you
and other's think is them at their best (different stokes). But why
then is it that when I picture The Who in my mind, I see the mic-
twirling Daltrey era Who, not the version I like more? I think, to
state the obvious, it's in part the one I saw live per my age (and
did love seeing them live too, by the way). But, also I had been
thinking, it's the version of them that I've seen many times more
via "The Kid's are Alright" and other clips of The Who in various
films. So, honestly, I feel like I've been exposed to this version of
The Who much, much more then the early incarnation.
I'm not sure how to equate which version was better live in my
own mind (early vs. mid-period Who). Townshend continued to get
bigger and more dramatic and it's hard not to be in awe of that.
Daltrey's more confident, mic-tossing stage antics kind of grow
tiresome to me (again, just my little opinion). But for me, some of
the big live hit songs from the 70's "Won't get fooled again"
or "Long live Rock" and so on, were fun live but they just are not
songs I would actually sit down an listen to (really not so much then
and less so now). Where as I can listen to anything of the singles
and many other songs from the 60's Who. Just my personal take. Again,
there are many songs in the 70's that I think are great by them but
some of the major hits started feeling a bit bloated to listen to for
what I'm looking for. But, again, it's just whatever floats your
boat. I know that there are people on this list that are passionate
about The Who (I'm guessing some more so then I am… different degrees
of passion, perhaps ) and I'm not trying to tarnish or dismiss what
anyone else's truth is about the band.
Steve D
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