Any Fans of The Who?

[KingLouieLouie]

Obviously I'm one of the most avid fans of The Who if there ever is/was one...
I've been listening to them for most of my life and I could never "grow tired" of their music.....

One song I can't stop listening to recenetly is "The Ox"

Click on this link to check it out, especially if you've never heard of it before..
http://a420.v8383d.c8383.g.vm.akama...d.akamai.com/8512/wmp/1/129/20599_1_11_04.asf

I bet you would never have ventured to guess that this song was recorded in 1965?....Yes...1965!!!!! I mean, you'd figure it was even performed at least w/in the past 10-years.... Just the sheer explosiveness of Keith Moon drums, how John "The Ox" Entwistle taking bass-playing to newer heights, and Pete Townshend's innovative use of guitar/feedback...Nicky Hopkins just causing mayhem on the piano....One of the best instrumentals ever recorded...

http://www.thewho.net is probably the best site entirely devoted to them...

Who else here loves The Who?

 

[Bob Chebat]

I'm definitely a fan of The Who, probably not to the extent you are, but I never turn them off.

I saw them at the ASU Activity Center in 1980, I believe it was the Face Dances tour? Anything that happened between 1978 and 1982 is a foggy blur, so if that was not the tour, please correct me.

That was a weird night. There was a monsoon that blew in and knocked the power out in the middle of My Generation, about an hour into the show. The building was without power for a couple of hours, but Pete Townsend came out with a megaphone and told those of us who stayed that we would see the entire show when the power came back on. He also kept the crowd entertained by sweeping the stage and doing some other antics from time to time.

The bummer was that they would not let us out of the building during the outage, if you left the building, you could not come back in. It got hot in there REAL fast.

This was also not long after the trampling incident in Cincinatti. I remember having to convince my mother that that did not happen at every Who concert. Parents can be so dumb sometimes.

 

[Cardinal Bob]

hee hee

I got a great boot of The Who doing "Quadrophenia" live at Madison Square Garden from 1996. It was a radio broadcast and the sound is clear as day. I love Quadrophenia!

 

[Bob Chebat]

I bet you would never have ventured to guess that this song was recorded in 1965?....Yes...1965!!!!! I mean, you'd figure it was even performed at least w/in the past 10-years.... Just the sheer explosiveness of Keith Moon drums, how John "The Ox" Entwistle taking bass-playing to newer heights, and Pete Townshend's innovative use of guitar/feedback...Nicky Hopkins just causing mayhem on the piano....One of the best instrumentals ever recorded...

All I can say is, WOW! What a jam, and almost 40 years old. You just don't hear stuff like this anywhere these days. Thanks for the link.

 

[justAndy]

....

"Quadrophenia" is a brilliant album, great storytelling.
The scream that Daltrey unleashes in "Won't get fooled Again" is the best ever.
Entwhistle played a lot of horns on Who songs - too bad he couldn't stay away from the booger sugar...

 

[KingLouieLouie]

I'm definitely a fan of The Who, probably not to the extent you are, but I never turn them off.

I saw them at the ASU Activity Center in 1980, I believe it was the Face Dances tour? Anything that happened between 1978 and 1982 is a foggy blur, so if that was not the tour, please correct me.

That was a weird night. There was a monsoon that blew in and knocked the power out in the middle of My Generation, about an hour into the show. The building was without power for a couple of hours, but Pete Townsend came out with a megaphone and told those of us who stayed that we would see the entire show when the power came back on. He also kept the crowd entertained by sweeping the stage and doing some other antics from time to time.

The bummer was that they would not let us out of the building during the outage, if you left the building, you could not come back in. It got hot in there REAL fast.

This was also not long after the trampling incident in Cincinatti. I remember having to convince my mother that that did not happen at every Who concert. Parents can be so dumb sometimes.

You should feel very fortunate to have seen them in concert (even if it was after Moon's death)..... I would be the 1st to admit that they should have stopped recording after Keith's death and now to have continued touring after "The Ox's" death....Just an injustice really....Although, that's definitely an excellent memory you shared......

Yes, it would have been the 'Face Dances" tour....the best songs from that album are "You Better, You Bet" and "Another Tricky Day".......

I was between 2-3 years-old when that incident happened in Cincinatti, but I remember watching that one episode of WKRP in which they dedicated the entire show to that tragedy.....

hee hee

I got a great boot of The Who doing "Quadrophenia" live at Madison Square Garden from 1996. It was a radio broadcast and the sound is clear as day. I love Quadrophenia!

I wonder how that '96 performance sounds like!

"Quadrophenia" and "Whos Next" are my 2 favorite Who albums..... They were both ahead of its time....Those songs are just very compelling and generates all sorts of emotions....that "I Cant Explain" (sorry for throwing a Who title in) the impact they both have on me.....

All I can say is, WOW! What a jam, and almost 40 years old. You just don't hear stuff like this anywhere these days. Thanks for the link.

Youre welcome....No problem in sharing that song with anyone or anything else recorded by them....This link right here:
http://cdzlimited.org/rock/S_Z/who.html ranks high up there since it contains most of their catalogue (wish it included all of "The Who Sing My Generation" and "Who By Numbers"), but both those albums are somewhat represented on the compilations..... "Odds & Sods" and "Thirty Years" are a must to check-out since they consist of the rare recordings (some that werent released before that).....

"Quadrophenia" is a brilliant album, great storytelling.
The scream that Daltrey unleashes in "Won't get fooled Again" is the best ever.
Entwhistle played a lot of horns on Who songs - too bad he couldn't stay away from the booger sugar...

Have you ever seen the movie "Quadrophenia"? I agree about the scream on "Wont Get Fooled Again", but also the lyric..."Meet the new boss[font=arial, helvetica, ms sans serif]...Same as the old boss" .....What a way to end a classic album....

Entwistle was just amazing.... not just with his bass and horn playing... but his witty/hysterical lyrics.... "Boris The Spider", "Whiskey Man", "My Wife", "Heaven & Hell", "Success Story"..(just to name a few) are just awesome..
I could go on and on, but dont want to bore anyone further......
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[KingLouieLouie]

Okay... I just read that The Who plan on releasing in early spring of '05 their first studio album consisting of newer material for the first time since 1982s "It's Hard"......

As one of the true die-hard fans of the band...one would think I'd be excited? Absolutely not! Yes, it would be interesting to hear newer Pete Townshend compositions (lyrics) and how Roger Daltrey will interpret/convey them with his vocals, but without Moon (yes, they recorded 2 albums after his passing) and especially now minus "The Ox"....I think it's a complete total outrage....

I guess I'm too a musical purist to tolerate something such as this......It's about time The Who just allow all of their fans to remember those "glory days" opposed to potentially marring them now.....

 

[SECTION 11]

I'm a Who fan, definately.

 

[FischerKing]

who?




shawn

 

[O]

New Who Recording

For you KLL.

New Who in Queue
(E! Online, 11/12/2004 3:00 PM)

By Josh Grossberg

New Who in the works? We've heard that one before.

But this time, Pete Townshend says we won't be fooled again. Maybe.

After a lot of talk and no action, the band's guitarist and creative mastermind confirmed that he and the Who's other surviving member, singer Roger Daltrey , are finally making good on their promise to record a new Who studio album that could be on track to release next spring.

In a post on his www.petetownshend.co.uk Website, Townshend dispells rumors that the untitled disc, the British rockers' first collection of new tunes since 1982's It's Hard, would be a concept album in the vein of Tommy or Quadrophenia.

Instead, Townshend reveals that he and Daltrey have been working on new tracks and they will get together next month to rehearse.

"If we move ahead from there, we may have a CD ready to release in the spring," Townshend writes.

Then again, Townshend has been talking about a new Who album since 2000, so excuse us if we're skeptical.

Townshend has tentatively titled the long-gestating project Who2, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that there are now only two remaining in the group after the deaths of original drummer Keith Moon, who succumbed to an accidental drug overdose in 1978, and bassist John Entwistle, who died of a cocaine-fueled heart attack in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2002.

Townshend did not mention whether he and Daltrey will try to salvage a bass line Entwistle recorded shortly before his death.

Once the album is wrapped, Townshend says, "we will tour with the usual band in the first half of 2005."

Daltrey and Townshend spent much of 2004 tooling around the world to mark the band's 40th anniversary and promote the Who's latest greatest hits compilation, Then and Now: 1964-2004, which featured two new cuts, "Real Good Looking Boy" and "Old Red Wine."

The duo was backed by veteran session player Pino Palladino on bass and Zak Starkey , Ringo Starr 's son, on drums.

Meanwhile, Townshend, 59, is continuing work on his autobiography, Who He?. He had hoped to follow in Bob Dylan 's footsteps and first put out memoirs of his early years. But his arrest on suspicion of kiddie porn possession, which he was ultimately cleared of after getting a wrist slap by the British government, made him rethink those plans.

"My autobiography now offers me the chance to lay down my life story and place recent events in proper context," says Townshend. "I have had a long and lumbering life--this book will take time."

Just like that new Who album.

 

[azdad1978]

who?




shawn

 

[KingLouieLouie]

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7241483/thewho?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single1

The Who on Exhibit

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame mounts huge "Tommy" show


Tommy, the Who's 1969 rock opera, is the subject of the largest exhibit ever dedicated to a single work at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Tommy: The Amazing Journey, which opens today, fills two floors of the Cleveland museum with guitars, handwritten lyrics, poster art and concert footage. "You'll hear and feel this exhibit," says its designer, Matthew Smith. "It will rock and feel like a concert."

Pete Townshend conceived Tommy -- the story of an abused "deaf, dumb and blind kid" so good at pinball that people come to think he's a prophet -- as a cautionary tale about false idols. The album reached Number Four in the U.S. and stayed on the charts for nearly a year on the strength of songs like "Pinball Wizard," "I'm Free" and "We're Not Gonna Take It." The exhibit traces Tommy through its various incarnations as a movie, a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, a London Orchestra production and even a ballet. "Tommy brought rock a kind of critical respect it had never received," says curator Howard Kramer.

Townshend lent the Hall of Fame revealing early manuscripts. A draft of the "Sally Simpson" lyrics shows that Townshend originally named the album's title character Danine. The exhibit also features excerpted recordings from an hours-long interview that Rolling Stone editor and publisher Jann S. Wenner conducted with Townshend in 1968, when Tommy was still in the works. "Fans get to see the creative process at its earliest moments," says curator Craig Inciardi.

The Amazing Journey promises a visceral experience. The first floor is set up to resemble a pinball machine, with display cases in the shape of bumpers. A mock stage on the second floor displays the band's Tommy-era costumes and instruments, including the Gibson J-200 guitar Townshend used to write "Pinball Wizard"; above the stage, footage from the band's legendary 1970 Isle of Wight show will play on a twelve-foot screen.

Other highlights include correspondence from Townshend -- such as a letter sent to Tommy film director Ken Russell, suggesting that Lou Reed, Tiny Tim and Frank Zappa be cast -- and Keith Moon's silver Premier drum kit, played at Woodstock. Particularly rare is the Gibson SG guitar that Townshend played onstage in 1968. "In those days," says New York collector David Swartz, who donated it, "Pete broke most of them."


BILL WERDE
(Posted Apr 07, 2005)

 

[jstadvl]

I liked

the way the Starkey kid filled in for them at one point, on drums. the sound was much fuller than with Jones.
No one can replace Entwistle, what a bass player!
But, it would be cool to see where townsend's head is at musically nowadays.
I don't know if Roger's vocals can hold up.

 

[ajcardfan]

But, it would be cool to see where townsend's head is at musically nowadays.
I don't know if Roger's vocals can hold up.

I heard he's really been into "Jackson 5" and "Thriller" type of stuff.

I kid, I kid......


I'm a really big Who fan as well. I had scads of cassettes, taped myself off my best friend's big brother's ablums, I that listened to all the time in middle school and high school. I've seen both "Quadrophenia" and "Tommy" double digit times, although it's been a long time since I've seen either movie.

I wouldn't go see them live now though. It's just too sad of a money grab without Entwhistle. I'd go see Zeppelin, though!

 

[KingLouieLouie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4587055.stm

Who film-maker hunts for footage
The Who in 2002
Who fans are being asked to contribute footage of the British rock group for a new feature-length documentary.

Surviving members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey will appear in the film, called My Generation: Who's Still Who.

"We are especially interested in never or rarely seen footage," said director Murray Lerner. "Bootleg material is welcome, however shocking or exotic."

The documentary will include previously unreleased material of the band at Monterey in 1967 and Woodstock in 1969.

"This documentary will be candid and up-front about the many daring, revolutionary and dramatic exploits of the band," said Lerner.

The director's previous projects include Listening to You, a record of The Who's appearance at the 1970 Isle of Wight rock festival.

Lerner's film will chart the band's rise from schoolboys to rock stars and explore the untimely deaths of drummer Keith Moon and bassist John Entwistle.

Last year Townshend and Daltrey announced they were planning to record a new album under the working title Who2 - their first full studio album in 23 years.

Daltrey, 61, was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to music in the New Year Honours.

 

[KingLouieLouie]

http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/19802384

Townshend Trashes Who Doc

06/02/2005 5:16 PM, E! Online
Josh Grossberg

For Pete Townshend, the kids are all right. But a certain film about the kids isn't.

The Who mastermind is distancing himself from an in-the-works documentary about the legendary band by Oscar-winning filmmaker Murray Lerner and Spitfire Films, criticizing the project's creative direction.

A press release issued by Lerner and Spitfire last week hyped My Generation: Who's Still Who as the "definitive and authorized record of one of the most influential and highly regarded rock groups of the 20th century." It also stated that both Townshend and Who frontmant Roger Daltrey agreed to provide archival materials and music from their catalogue for the feature film, which is slated to hit theaters sometime in 2006.

"Roger, Pete and all of us are very proud to be working with Murray Lerner," said Bill Curbishley, whose company Trinifold Management manages the Who. "Our ambition is that this film will have all the epic qualities, energies and excitement of a great Who album. We have assembled a great team and look forward to getting to work."

All, that is, except for Townshend.

In a May 28 diary entry on PeteTownshend.com, the 60-year-old guitarist took issue with the press release, denying that he was a producer on the flick and stating that the real "driving force" behind My Generation was Daltrey, the Who's managers and Spitfire honcho Nigel Sinclair.

Townshend also lashed out at Lerner for "trying to create some controversy" after hearing the director lay out his vision for the documentary in a recent interview.

"There will be very unusual stuff, hopefully that never was seen before," Lerner told Reuters last week. "We're looking for material like fights between them, on and off the stage, unruly fans that make it difficult, weird incidents on the stage, interviews with ex-wives and girlfriends."

Lerner even set up a Website, TheWhoMovie.com, where fans can submit their own band memorabilia, including photos and footage.

The filmmaker is no stranger to the Who, having shot the famed concert The Who--Live at the Isle of Wight 1970. He also scored an Oscar nomination for Festival, a documentary chronicling the Newport Folk and Jazz Festival that featured Bob Dylan's historic first electric performance. Lerner eventually won the Oscar for another music-oriented doc, From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China.

"I'm going to try and put you in another world that almost smacks of...science fiction," he added. "I'm doing something like an opera...I'm going to play around with stylizing interview voices that change into music and back."

Apparently worried the Who's history will play out like a soap opera-like production, Townshend threatened to withhold Lerner's access to the band's recordings unless the filmmaker focus more on the music.

"I am the one in the Who family who writes science fiction musicals and operas, and my music--Who music--is not a commodity I will make unconditionally available to filmmakers. My entire mission is to preserve the integrity of Who music, and I'd rather offer it to sell soap than have it turned into a 'soap' by Lerner," said the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer..

Neither Lerner nor reps for Spitfire could be reached for comment.

Spitfire also has in the pipeline Martin Scorsese's documentary on Dylan titled No Direction Home: Bob Dylan.

Meanwhile, still no word yet when the Who will release that long-promised new album, the British rockers' first batch of original tunes since 1982's It's Hard. The album will be their first without both drummer Keith Moon, who succumbed to an accidental drug overdose in 1978 and was replaced by Kenney Jones on It's Hard, and bassist John Entwistle, who died of a cocaine-fueled heart attack in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2002.

 

[KingLouieLouie]

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/st...o?pageid=rs.NewsArchive&pageregion=mainRegion

The Who to Play Live 8
Veteran rockers will join U2, Coldplay and Pink Floyd in London

The Who will perform at the London edition of Live 8, to be held July 2nd in Hyde Park. They join a star-studded lineup that already includes U2, Paul McCartney, Madonna, Elton John, Sting, Coldplay and a one-off reunion of Pink Floyd.

The Who, who haven't performed in nearly a year, now consist of founding members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, with drummer Zack Starkey, bassist Pino Paladino and keyboardist John "Rabbit" Bundrick.

Townshend is currently juggling a number of projects, including an autobiography entitled Who He?, as well as a long-planned solo project, The Boy Who Heard Music. This activity, unfortunately, has once again delayed a new Who album, provisionally entitled Who2.

"Roger has done what he calls sketch vocals on several tracks I produced and the results are very exciting," Townshend writes on his online diary about the band's first album in twenty-three years. "But I feel I can't tour any more with the Who without a new record."

Also in the works is My Generation: Who's Still Who, a feature-length documentary about the band. Directed by Murray Lerner, who documented the band's famed performance at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival, the film is due in 2006.


ANDY GREENE
(Posted Jun 13, 2005)

 

[KingLouieLouie]

Oh lord... I'm more mixed than ever regarding the Who in terms of them still touring and recording a new studio album...

Originally...the music purist was extremely against them continuing without the Ox (and of course it hasnt been the same since Moon died), however, watching Daltrey and Townshend perform live together during Live 8 made quite a favorable impression on me....

True..Daltrey cannot hit those high-notes that he was able to generate on a regular basis, but his vocals are still pretty much still more than adequate and Townshend might have lost a step, but didnt he still manage to rock for someone in his 60s? I was actually quite amazed since it seemed he mellowed quite a bit over the past 10-15 years... He just went out there putting on quite a clinic which still makes many other's jaws drop.....

And I shouldnt forget to praise both Zack Starkey and Pino Paladino... Obviously.. they're not (and no one could be) Moon and the Ox, but they actually did a quite admirable job considering the standards they might be compared against..... Also, "Rabbit" on "Who Are You?" sounded just as good as he did when he supplied the keyboards during their '79 tour......

Again....I would love for them just to allow the legacy they already created/achieved during the height of their "hey-day" to be with they should be remembered by without anything tarnishing it, however, just to hear Daltrey and Townshend collaborate on something entirely new (for the first time really since '82) is just too damn intriguing enough to probably pass-up.....

 

[devilalum]

Saw them at SDS in 81 was about 15' away when John Cougar got nailed with a beer bottle.

 

[KingLouieLouie]

The following are interviews of the Who recorded over the past couple years that should Pete & Roger very introspective about the band during their "hey-day".... The last 4 clips show how much of genius that Townshend is...

The Who's Pete Townshend Interview (his take on their Isle of Wight concert):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SARMUL9PGzc&search=the who

The Who's Roger Daltrey Interview (him being retrospective about the 1979 "Kids Are Alright" documentary):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U-2fQ60eQU&search=the who


The next 4 is an '03 interview of Townshend discussing the original recording and the '03 remixing of "Tommy"... you gain a sense of his musicial genius right here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzrwEYSqjeo&search=the who
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJjHkDfQxnc&search=the who
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWMcFQEQ7mQ&search=the who
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_Ekkk1l3w&search=the who