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stonehearted
<<these tours are not The Who, which was something completely different.>>
If Keith Moon were alive today, there is no way he would be playing at the level he did in 1975 or before anyway. Just be glad that Pete and Rog are still willing to tour and celebrate the catalog, and we should be grateful for that while it lasts. Same with the 50% original line-up of the Stones (including Stu), which today is "something completely different" from what it was in 1965, but is still great for what it is nonetheless.
Besides, Keith Moon didn't write the songs--unless you like I Need You and Cobwebs and Strange better than Won't Get Fooled Again, etc.
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DoomandGloomWhat Pete and Roger do is pretty cool. Seen it a number of times... Macca's show is better simply because it's very focused, designed around Paul and the band is stadium smooth. The Stones are a different game, still the legit band. Besides the 3 original members Ronnie and Bobby have been around for 40 years. Tim is a world class musician on B-3 as well sax. Chuck for all the joking round here is the best keyboard player money can buy. The Stones are a better band today than they were 20 years ago, the Mick Taylor cameos would be in comparison if Moon came out in the middle of today's Who show and played Magic Bus. Quad is a classic work of course but the story is still vague after all this time, Tommy, Who's Next, By The Numbers are more easy on the ears. There's been so many times Pete has pissed me off, touring while John's body was still warm, child porn and underage boy accusations, the wining about his hearing loss after 3 decades in front of 4 Hiwatts, loved him when I was a kid but now not so much. The Who are a power trio, later with Rabbit and Kenny Jones they still had some juice but the giant band is something else entirely. When Page and Plant toured they didn't call it Zeppelin because it wasn't and their tour was better because they respected their past accomplishment.Quote
RollingFreakI don't think I liked it more than McCartney, but right? It was such a good show. I waited so long to see them and it was my one splurge concert of the year (since tickets were 150 or so). The Who or whats left was one of the last on my list of legends to check off and I was so beyond happy they didn't disappoint. I didn't think it would suck, but I didn't think it would be as good as it was, and I was so happy to leave the show and be able to honestly tell people Pete and Roger killed it.Quote
Bastion
But it really was one of the biggest surprises I've ever had. Roger and Pete absolutely blew me away; probably one of the best shows I've seen, and in retrospect, I think I enjoyed it more than Macca.
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ab
When Page and Plant toured, they didn't call it Led Zeppelin because John Paul Jones is still with us. Still, their 1998 sets were 3/4 Zeppelin songs, and most of those were in, or close to, the original arrangements.
Daltrey and Townshend can call their act The Who because they're Who's Left. What they trot out is pretty good, but no one's pretending that Entwistle and Moon aren't missed.
BTW, Daltrey's voice is in better shape since his throat was lasered around 2010.
My complaint with the upcoming live Quadrophenia box is that they released a Quadrophenia super deluxe edition in 2011. That edition included a surround mix of only half the album (along with the album in the 1996 mix remastered, 2 CDs of demos, and a single). The upcoming live Quadrophenia box will include a surround mix of the entire original album, less than three years after Townshend claimed some of the original multitracks had gone missing or weren't suitable for surround mixes. The surround mix of the entire original album should have been part of the 2011 box. So this new box is just a correction of an obvious defect in the original box.
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crholmstrom
Watching the blu-ray right now. It's fantastic! Pete has still got it. & Roger keeps his shirt on. There is a God. ><
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Cristiano Radtke
BTW, The Pretty Things are playing in London this weekend, and this is a must-see