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| From | rob@splitsville.com |
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| Date | Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:52:00 -0400 |
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Actually Steve, there's a lot of truth in what you just wrote, as my experience with the intro to The Who is similar to yours. I first came across them in the early 70's via an older brother (and I was a little kid). Meaty, Beaty was the first thing I heard, but then I came across Who's Next and Quad. So it was this 'version' that hit me like a sledgehammer, and it stuck with me ever since. Those sounds and images are pretty powerful.
Only when I got a little older did I have the time and inclination to dig deeper in the Meaty era and pick up the early albums. These, of course, I immediately found to be fabulous.
My only quibble regarding Daltrey is the fact that in the early period he had been booted out of the band for basically beating the stuffing out of Keith and Pete, and he had to swallow his pride in order to return. So I see him (and I'm very possibly wrong) as being a bit too accomodating and maybe SLIGHTLY tentative during this period (I guess this would be the 'middle' of the 'early period').
With Tommy he suddenly became the golden, curly-haired, chest-beating 'face' of the band, or 'Tommy himself' (and the movie only multiplied this by 10), and he grew more confident as a singer and performer. Roger became a force to be reckoned with, which was a bit to Pete's dismay. But I always felt that Roger's increased profile and subsequent emerging talent made them better.
Someone within this string (which has been compelling and enjoyable) stated that they prefer the 'pop to rawk'. I'm the other way around.
But if you put me on a desert island with 'The Who Sings My Generation', 'A Quick One', 'Sell Out' and the early singles, life ain't so bad.
We're All Forgiven,
Rob
>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: :audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Sent: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:23:51
>
>--- 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
>amÂ… 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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