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Donnebr
I was at the show in Philly tonight. I got tickets on the live nation $20 day. It was a good show tonight. There were plenty of tickets available.
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Woz
The Who at Desert Trip were absolutely awesome. Nothing HMS spouts here was even remotely accurate.
Also, seek out Christiano’s review of the Mexico City show for an honey take on the Who
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timbernardis
When was the last time u saw them, and when and how many since Moon died? And when and how many when it was the original four?
plexi
Saw them only once in 1989 or 1990 and even then - still with The Ox - it just doesn´t felt quite right to me. After Entwistle passed away everything went downhill quickly...
Their Farewell-live-album "Who´s Last" (recorded in 1982) was ripped to shreds by critics (mainly) because of Roger´s voice, but actually this live album is better than any subsequent live release and better by far than anything you can see/hear these days on youtube (even if it´s low quality you can see/hear in what poor condition nowadays they are performancewise).
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bye bye johnny
Review: The Who -- older, but still majestic at Citizens Bank Park
by Dan DeLuca, May 26, 2019
Yong Kim
[www.philly.com]
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Hairball
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bye bye johnny
Review: The Who -- older, but still majestic at Citizens Bank Park
by Dan DeLuca, May 26, 2019
Yong Kim
[www.philly.com]
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Madcap
Good lord HMS give it a rest, you hate the current who we get it! Your schtick is beyond tiresome at this point!
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bye bye johnny
Review: The Who -- older, but still majestic at Citizens Bank Park
by Dan DeLuca, May 26, 2019
Yong Kim
[www.philly.com]
That purple shit freaks me out
wtf
brain waves or synapses breaking? the Who Stroke Out.
Pete's like, "ok this is the last one, I'm not whirlybird-ing @#$%& i'm waving the tour doctor in...
Whoa they shudda checked the stage design stuff with Charles.
Zak looks like he's ready for the downbeat strike on "love me do"
that would be so cool if they did a mini beatle set.
zak could sing the carl perkins stuff; just like pop, if he can't sing;
that's even better. Let's encourage them to keep evolving.
i guess they just need an idea man
wtf with the matrix clowns in front of the brain exploding purple electric shit?
one of them is looking toward the Exit, wondering if he can slip out...
did they do timmy? that was a good one. magic busts was good.
a lot of 'em....see me feel me touch me i'm a cop your under arrest, would be a really courageous
way for Pete to stare down the critics I htink.
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Madcap
Good lord HMS give it a rest, you hate the current who we get it! Your schtick is beyond tiresome at this point!
Exactly, I'm getting tired of reading his rants. He's posted more the last few pages than anyone else! Not sure why The Who would play a baseball stadium instead of the arena in Philly. No wonder there were lots of cheap tickets. They're not gonna sell 40-50k tickets. They're also playing the baseball stadium in Seattle. Key Arena is being renovated right now but they could easily play the Tacomadome or the Amphitheatre there.
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Madcap
Good lord HMS give it a rest, you hate the current who we get it! Your schtick is beyond tiresome at this point!
Exactly, I'm getting tired of reading his rants. He's posted more the last few pages than anyone else! Not sure why The Who would play a baseball stadium instead of the arena in Philly. No wonder there were lots of cheap tickets. They're not gonna sell 40-50k tickets. They're also playing the baseball stadium in Seattle. Key Arena is being renovated right now but they could easily play the Tacomadome or the Amphitheatre there.
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timbernardis
Live recordings, especially on YouTube, are no basis on which to judge them live. You see and hear things live that cannot be duplicated on a recording. Live is the only basis on which to judge them, or any band, really, including the Stones.
plexi
Hearing a live-album is a better way to really hear what kind of shape the singer´s voice is in than standing FOS and getting blown away by deafening sound systems. The live experience touches all senses, by hearing a live album with headphones on you can focus on the singer. Doing that I have to say that Roger (and also Pete) sounds awful on Tommy Live, Hyde Park Live, Glastonbury Live & Quadrophenia live. And he continues to do so in all of the clips I´ve seen of the torso´s 2019-tour. And they nowadays have to play a tape during parts of Won´t get fooled again, what a pity. If Roger can´t live up to the challenge of this song, the torso should no longer perform this song (amongst others).
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timbernardis
Live recordings, especially on YouTube, are no basis on which to judge them live. You see and hear things live that cannot be duplicated on a recording. Live is the only basis on which to judge them, or any band, really, including the Stones.
plexi
Hearing a live-album is a better way to really hear what kind of shape the singer´s voice is in than standing FOS and getting blown away by deafening sound systems. The live experience touches all senses, by hearing a live album with headphones on you can focus on the singer. Doing that I have to say that Roger (and also Pete) sounds awful on Tommy Live, Hyde Park Live, Glastonbury Live & Quadrophenia live. And he continues to do so in all of the clips I´ve seen of the torso´s 2019-tour. And they nowadays have to play a tape during parts of Won´t get fooled again, what a pity. If Roger can´t live up to the challenge of this song, the torso should no longer perform this song (amongst others).
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timbernardis
Live recordings, especially on YouTube, are no basis on which to judge them live. You see and hear things live that cannot be duplicated on a recording. Live is the only basis on which to judge them, or any band, really, including the Stones.
plexi
Hearing a live-album is a better way to really hear what kind of shape the singer´s voice is in than standing FOS and getting blown away by deafening sound systems. The live experience touches all senses, by hearing a live album with headphones on you can focus on the singer. Doing that I have to say that Roger (and also Pete) sounds awful on Tommy Live, Hyde Park Live, Glastonbury Live & Quadrophenia live. And he continues to do so in all of the clips I´ve seen of the torso´s 2019-tour. And they nowadays have to play a tape during parts of Won´t get fooled again, what a pity. If Roger can´t live up to the challenge of this song, the torso should no longer perform this song (amongst others).
They always have. Here's the non-torso in 1977, Moon is wearing headphones so he can hear the tape.
[www.youtube.com]
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timbernardis
Live recordings, especially on YouTube, are no basis on which to judge them live. You see and hear things live that cannot be duplicated on a recording. Live is the only basis on which to judge them, or any band, really, including the Stones.
plexi
Hearing a live-album is a better way to really hear what kind of shape the singer´s voice is in than standing FOS and getting blown away by deafening sound systems. The live experience touches all senses, by hearing a live album with headphones on you can focus on the singer. Doing that I have to say that Roger (and also Pete) sounds awful on Tommy Live, Hyde Park Live, Glastonbury Live & Quadrophenia live. And he continues to do so in all of the clips I´ve seen of the torso´s 2019-tour. And they nowadays have to play a tape during parts of Won´t get fooled again, what a pity. If Roger can´t live up to the challenge of this song, the torso should no longer perform this song (amongst others).
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Deltics
They always have. Here's the non-torso in 1977, Moon is wearing headphones so he can hear the tape.
[www.youtube.com]
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Deltics
They always have. Here's the non-torso in 1977, Moon is wearing headphones so he can hear the tape.
[www.youtube.com]
I don´t want to be offensive, but where´s the evidence for that?
I´d rather think Keith is wearing headphones because of the keyboard (that might indeed come from tape, I don´t know... they had a hidden keyboard-player in 1981, but in 1977 it could have been a tape). I can see no reason for the headphones only because of Roger´s scream... Back then he was easily able to scream like that live... so imo, it´s just the keyboard that comes from tape, not the scream... Nowadays the scream comes from tape at least that´s what I´ve been told...Anyway, that´s my kind Of THE WHO, Keith, Ox and all of them in their prime, a trillion miles away from the lamentably torso of today.
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Deltics
They always have. Here's the non-torso in 1977, Moon is wearing headphones so he can hear the tape.
[www.youtube.com]
they had a hidden keyboard-player in 1981
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bye bye johnny
On this tour "Won't Get Fooled Again" is just Roger & Pete on acoustic. No scream, taped or otherwise.
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bye bye johnny
On this tour "Won't Get Fooled Again" is just Roger & Pete on acoustic. No scream, taped or otherwise.
..how tricky they are
But during the last couple of tours (according to some sources) the torso used a taped scream.
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marianna
The torso? Does that mean what's left of the band, or a nickname for Roger's gym rat upper body (or what it used to look like)?
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marianna
The torso? Does that mean what's left of the band, or a nickname for Roger's gym rat upper body (or what it used to look like)?
The current line-up is just a torso - no Keith, no Ox = no arms, no legs.
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shortfatfanny
Re: OT: The Who Hits 50! tour
Posted by: HMS ()
Date: August 3, 2015 22:27
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Beast
...with Townshend feeling “it was one of the very worst [shows] the band had ever played”.
Oh Pete, how can you do this to me. Listened to the 100min Glastonbury-concert last week and thought it was very good.
Who do you think you are...
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HMS
Nowadays the scream comes from tape at least that´s what I´ve been told.