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| From | Career Records <eldeluxe@bridgeband.com> |
| Subject | The Who By A Landslide |
| Date | Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:12:58 -0600 |
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Some of you might know where I stand on this issue...
Old, mid period, later, live... it was all pretty fccing great.
1968 was the real transition. It was interesting to see them finding
their legs with the longer jamming tunes. By 1969 they seemed at home
mixing up the short tunes, and the long extrapolations.
But I feel the same way about the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Beach Boys...
I can move through their whole catalog with out much problem.
Some of my favorite Beach Boys songs are the corny early ones that some
people don't care for. I played Surfer's Rule on my radio show this
week!
Thing is while the Who's material changed and evolved, their energy on
stage was the same... No band I have ever seen could do the what the Who
did, in 1967 or 1976. There were even flashes of the old sounds when
Kenny Jones was in the band or even Zak, while JOhn was still standing.
As for Leeds, I always thought it was a pale shadow of the gig my pals
taped at the Fillmore West i '69! Too bad they didn't tape the first
night, they played two sets, so I got to see Heaven And Hell twice. They
also played a few Tommy songs in the first set, which was really a sound
check. Heaven and Hell and Sparks twice in one night. No I am not
kidding... you should have been there
rs
-- Ronald Sanchez
Director Of A&R
Career Records
www.CareerRecords.com
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