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| From | Career Records <eldeluxe@bridgeband.com> |
| Subject | Re: The Early Who By A Landslide |
| Date | Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:40:27 -0600 |
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I think you are confusing the outfit and hairdo with confidence. Takes a
lot of confidence to wear a bouffant and high heels.
Having seen them twice pre-Tommy, I gotta say he was a powerful singer
then.
Also if you take the Woodstock image, you might have it wrong too. I
always found Rog to be a pretty humble and sometimes tongue tied guy.
Actually pretty funny when he wanted to be.
At the first '76 Winterland show, there must have been some problems
with the monitor. Rog smashed his mic on the stage, and then got made
when it stopped working. Pete chided him and pointed out that's what
happens when you break your gear. Rog then ran across the stage and
tried to drop kick one of the big side fill speakers. If it have fallen
over, it would have crushed the little guy.
I'm one of those "early fans" who heard Can't Explain on the radio of
some TV show, and then spent ages trying to find a copy. Wasn't that
easy. What ever album I'm listening to is my Favorite Who Album Of The
Moment...meher baba taught me that.
rs
rob@splitsville.com wrote:
>......
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>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').
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>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.
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>We're All Forgiven,
>Rob
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>>----- ------- 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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>>
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