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why we love the who

#3
There aren't enough hours in the day for me to enumerate the reasons I love The Who.

People look at me funny though, when I tell them that Tommy is my least favorite Who album. You see, to me, any band without Keith Moon isn't the (bloody) Who, now is it? No offense to Kenny Jones or Zak Starkey (who are each tremendously talented drummers in their own right), of course.
 
#6
Beyer160 said:
There aren't enough hours in the day for me to enumerate the reasons I love The Who.

People look at me funny though, when I tell them that Tommy is my least favorite Who album. You see, to me, any band without Keith Moon isn't the (bloody) Who, now is it? No offense to Kenny Jones or Zak Starkey (who are tremendously talented drummers in their own rights), of course.
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What does Keith Moon's death have to do with you not liking Tommy? Keith Moon recorded Tommy.

And I don't see exactly what more anybody would want out of John Entwistle - do you honestly want him flailing around like Townshend? :scowl:
 
#9
For my money, PT is one of the top 5 songwriters in rock history- Paul & John, Ray Davies, Mick & Keef, Bob Dylan, and Pete- very few have been able to match them, none to my knowledge has bested them. Neil Young, maybe.

But none of them, not even Keef, looked so damn cool onstage. On another board, there was a discussion about "Guitar Hero"- I posted a pic of Pete doing the classic '70s power slide, and wrote "THIS is a (bloody) guitar hero, you wanks!"
 
#10
Where'd it go? I never did'nt get an argument over the raw balls of the WHO in full cry. Nobody got it!.Then after the tragedy of 911, and the Concert for NY? I got buried in "Now I see what you meant!!" "Baba" and Won't get Fooled" are the perfect examples of roaring late full band WHO tunes. Love'em miss 'em Always respect them What a band. Much praise, not enough words.
 
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RED5 said:
Nobody got it!.Then after the tragedy of 911, and the Concert for NY? I got buried in "Now I see what you meant!!"
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I watched that with my hand on the mute button, expecting a "Live Aid" style trainwreck... and they blew me away. Yeah Roger's voice is shot, but I had no idea they could still do that. Now that John's gone though, I think it really is over, which is a shame.
 
#15
No better band ever existed on this planet, IMHO. I'm still mad that they called Pino instead of me, but it's not like I was on anybody's top 100 bassists list or anything...

Me: "Hello"
Pete: "Yeah, hi, Scott, this is Pete Townshend."
Me: "Hi, Pete! What can I do you for?"
Pete: "Well, we kinda need a new bassist right now to go on tour and Roger and I were thinking you might be interested."
Me: "I sure am interested! Tell me, how did you come to call me?"
Pete: "We heard you play a mean bass in a couple of classic rock cover bands in VFW's, Legions, Eagles and Elks clubs all over southern Minnesota."
Me: "True enough - western Wisconsin and northern Iowa, too! When do you want me to meet up with you?"

...yeah, right, it COULDA happened!...
 

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