[QUOTE=Seafroggys]I think John is my favorite member, actually. I'm a drummer, and Keith Moon is my favorite drummer, so you would think using basic logic that he would be my favoirte of the Who. Not true. I like John more :D[/QUOTE]

Same exact thing with me. John is just so cool.

[QUOTE=robo2448]Maybe they just thought they could never replicate the live power of it in the studio. And they wouldn't have been able to.[/QUOTE]

Yea, Heaven and Hell relied so much on the energy of the band live, it wouldn't translate well to the studio. The Who's Missing version is unimpressive, and although John's anthology is very good, his solo version doesn't hold a candle to the Leeds version either.

I love John, but never got into his solo material. Rigor Mortis was "OK". Not as bad as Keith Moon's solo album, and certainly not as bad as anything Daltrey has done! Only Pete's solo work has stood up to anything the Who has done. Still missing a lot of Pete's albums though...

Who Came First - classic in every way
Rough Mix - superb! Love Ronnie's Lane's stuff.
Empty Glass - cheesy at parts, overall quite excellent
Chinese Eyes - different, but still quite good. Slit Skirts is ace.
White City - OK... 2 good songs, a lot of filler. Face the Face blows.
Psychoderelict - all around unimpressive, but the non-narrative version is listenable but forgetable.
Lifehouse Chronicles - I prefer my homemade Lifehouse mix, the way the Who should have done it.

John has some good stuff, like My Size.

i love the song Horror Rock. Now that was some cool John solo work! :thumb:

I've always loved "Boris The Spider" because of the bass.

That's such a fun song. I love singing along to the "creepy-crawly" part.

John made some good contributions to The Who's repitoire. "Trick of the Light" is one often overlooked.

[QUOTE=I'm The Face].
Psychoderelict - all around unimpressive, but the non-narrative version is listenable but forgetable.
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Couldn't be more untrue... amazing tunes on that record, just get 1993 Mayfair Hotel show where he plays songs with just acoustic guitar. Songs are truely brilliant. In fact, you really realise how great songs they are everytime Pete plays them as solo acoustic versions.

[QUOTE=rockinbass17]That's such a fun song. I love singing along to the "creepy-crawly" part.[/QUOTE]
It was my favorite song of their's when I was little.

I've always loved "Pictures Of Lilly" as well.

Man, they made so much good music. It blows me away all the time.

Damn, that was really long. But very good. The Who is a great band, hands, frikkin, down.

It's quite interesting seeing all of these newer members come into this thread all at once. :p

Welcome to the forums, and thread. :)

Cool, man.

I liked A Quick One and Sell Out a lot when I was younger. And of course Tommy.

[QUOTE=Seafroggys]I think John is my favorite member, actually. I'm a drummer, and Keith Moon is my favorite drummer, so you would think using basic logic that he would be my favoirte of the Who. Not true. I like John more.[/QUOTE]
It's always been Pete for me. No matter what. He is just so awesome as a songwriter, guitar player, and performer. I just can't say enough about the old guy.
[QUOTE=I'm The Face]I love John, but never got into his solo material. Rigor Mortis was "OK". Not as bad as Keith Moon's solo album, and certainly not as bad as anything Daltrey has done! Only Pete's solo work has stood up to anything the Who has done. Still missing a lot of Pete's albums though...

Who Came First - classic in every way
Rough Mix - superb! Love Ronnie's Lane's stuff.
Empty Glass - cheesy at parts, overall quite excellent
Chinese Eyes - different, but still quite good. Slit Skirts is ace.
White City - OK... 2 good songs, a lot of filler. Face the Face blows.
Psychoderelict - all around unimpressive, but the non-narrative version is listenable but forgetable.
Lifehouse Chronicles - I prefer my homemade Lifehouse mix, the way the Who should have done it.[/QUOTE]
I like all this stuff. I don't see where Empty Glass was cheesy, though. Keep On Working, yeah. A bit eccentric. I am an animal, the same. But not as much. And I like the big musical flourishes he put in that. Chinese Eyes is one of my fave albums ever. A real Townshend classic, IMO. I love everything about that album. White City. Eh, a bit stuck in the eighties. But some great songs on there nonetheless. Hiding Out and Brilliant Blues come to mind. White City Fighting, Second Hand Love. Psychoderelict, meh. Pete at his most pretentious. Except for The Iron Man, perhaps. But as user Wanderer said the songs stripped bare are much better.
[QUOTE=rockinbass17]That's such a fun song. I love singing along to the "creepy-crawly" part.

John made some good contributions to The Who's repitoire. "Trick of the Light" is one often overlooked.[/QUOTE]
Trick Of The Light is awesome. And his Face Dances and Its Hard contributions were solid as well. I've always seen The Quiet One as his theme song.
[QUOTE=wanderer]Couldn't be more untrue... amazing tunes on that record, just get 1993 Mayfair Hotel show where he plays songs with just acoustic guitar. Songs are truely brilliant. In fact, you really realise how great songs they are everytime Pete plays them as solo acoustic versions.[/QUOTE]
Yes. Nice to see you wanderer. That mp3 you sent of that performance is tremendous :). And I guess you can agree with most of us here that Wire And Glass is a great success...
[QUOTE=fwqhgads ²]It's quite interesting seeing all of these newer members come into this thread all at once. Welcome to the forums, and thread.[/QUOTE]
Nice work getting the new people in and feeling welcome, Jeff :)


EDIT: omg for crimes! :eek:

^^ 123 with Pete.

He's been my favorite for forever as well.

I get unbanned later tonight. =]

I'm going to try to be good.

My favorite member's Rodger. I mean, cmon! It's Rodger. He's like teh singer.

And he can beat the other members up. Except for John, who would just deflect him by not caring.

That does seem to be what he does best. In the early concerts, Pete and Keith are smashing the hell out of the entire stage, Rodger's fixing his hair and John's cowering in the corner protecting his bass.

Ah, simpler times.

[QUOTE=Lunch]And he can beat the other members up. Except for John, who would just deflect him by not caring.[/QUOTE]
refl

:upset:

I always found it hilarious when they were all "crashing" and you could just hear through the piercing feedback, and explosions, a bass line playing on, and on..

[QUOTE=Lunch]And he can beat the other members up. Except for John, who would just deflect him by not caring.[/QUOTE]
but pete would crack him over the head with his guitar sometimes. that has got to be smarts :(

And then he got knocked out and sent to the hospital with minor amnesia. Sounds like PWNED to me.

One time Keith's cymbal hit Pete on the leg and Pete, in turn, gave Keith a knock on the head with his guitar.

That was when Keith and John left the band for a week and made plans to create their own supergroup, with the name Lead Zeppelin, coined by John.

But they rejoined the Who shortly after that, and a smarmy manager took the name to guitarist Jimmy Page.

And the rest, they say, is history.

When I go see them, i'm going to ask Pete for a guitar and if he refuses, i'll just smash one of his guitars. There's a risk that i'll get arrested but it's worth it. All of that guitar smashing makes me cry.

[QUOTE=RNR]When I go see them, i'm going to ask Pete for a guitar and if he refuses, i'll just smash one of his guitars. There's a risk that i'll get arrested but it's worth it. All of that guitar smashing makes me cry.[/QUOTE]

nice.

Anyone have links to videos of The Who performing live when they went crazy on stage and started breaking stuff?

I'm sure if you go onto Youtube and search for it, you'll find it.

Sunny Afternoon: Nice avatar man :thumb:

There is some stuff on Youtube, yeah

there's allways stuff on youtube.

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[QUOTE=knox]Anyone have links to videos of The Who performing live when they went crazy on stage and started breaking stuff?[/QUOTE]

You owe it to yourself to just watch the Kids Are Alright Dvd, they have a nice montage of various destruction sequences after the My Generation from the Monterey Pop Festival.