Why do you fags post in gay threads like this, but not my thread?

hey robots gtfo out of my WHO THREAD! :mad:



[QUOTE=wanderer;15378564]All this is silly talk since Sell Out is best thing Townshend has ever done. Absolutely nothing uneven about. All of his other record combined don't come even close to that record. Face Dances is also one the best records Pete ever did, total POP music/lyrical goodness.[/QUOTE]
grand overstatement froim wanderer, just like the good 'ol days....

Townshend, "Lone Ranger Street Music Reduction"

[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=n2nTlvtsi5k[/url]

Townshend, "What Is Love"

[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=s0RILBFGI_U[/url]

hey guys this looks cool i found it on a sputnik ad. i am def getting this. check out the previews and reviews:

[url]http://www.thewhomovie.com/[/url]

i clicked the ad and made jeremy some sweet cash :cool:

Sell Out and A Quick One are two of their better records, and perhaps the two most interesting. Sell Out contends at times for my favorite Who record, I think it's brilliant. Armenia is a great opener, Relax is criminally underrated, Mary Anne, Tattoo, I Can See for Miles, etc. The bonus tracks are a great addition unlike many remastered CDs (as someone already said, Jaguar, Hall of the Mountain King, Glittering Girl, and Girl's Eyes are outstanding). Rael, two years before Tommy, is an outstanding step forward for the group and certainly a noteworthy effort on Pete's behalf.

Where these two stack up against their 80's albums is debatable, but each is 10 times more interesting than their debut

English Boy, Later wit Jools

[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=CQ0G5BQw4rw[/url]

Outlive the Dinosaur - New York 1993

[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=1j5UzSFofBc[/url]

Damn, but listening to [I]Who's Nex[/I]t whilst studying is a bad idea. I just end up singing along to the songs and browsing MX instead. :p

The Who has/had some of the most talented people at their instruments ever. Seeing Pete's windmill live is phenomenal...

/wearing The Who tour shirt

[QUOTE=Riva;15511061]Damn, but listening to [I]Who's Nex[/I]t whilst studying is a bad idea. I just end up singing along to the songs and browsing MX instead. :p[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=NemesisDivina;15511088]The Who has/had some of the most talented people at their instruments ever. Seeing Pete's windmill live is phenomenal...

/wearing The Who tour shirt[/QUOTE]
yes The Who were mighty, indeed....

thanks to Riva and the mod team at R&M for letting this thread survive, although somewhat inactive. i plan on posting more mini essays and up to date info, but with the last tour and stuff, it really knocked the thread out some. i don't know if it was a climax to all the activity and anticipation, or if people just saw The Who differently at 60 and without John. plus Roger's apparent decline....

i myself love The Who <3. but the way they came back was bittersweet for me. i like the album (Endless Wire) although in need of trimming, and the tour was ok. but i think this needs to be said: the tour was ok and just ok. the band had its moments, sometimes in stretches, and its great they played lots of new tunes. but the rest of the set was the same they have been doing for eight years, the loss of john hurt more then what could have been imagined in 2002 and 2004 when they toured without him (Endless Wire also would have been a different album with him), Roger has declined after many good years, and the weak spot in the band, Zak Starkey, seemed to stop drumming with his sights on Moon and started drumming more like a standard time keeper. i looked at a vid of My Gen live the other day and at the bridge where he used to tear it up, he just keeps the beat whike the band goes nuts. maybe Pete told him to do it like that, maybe he did it himself, but meh. not the drummer he was in '99 or '02 for them.

but i want to post here more. i want to remember The Who as they have apparently ended, with less then a bang, but also like we used to before they came back in '06. like we used to discuss here. the albums, the fire, the passion, the performances we all missed, the freakin' GREATEST ROCK N ROLL BAND EVER!

That was The Who. still is, always will be, lets not forget it here at R&M.

So yeah, how 'bout that Who....:chug:

I started repeatedly listening to their Greatest Hits CD the other week and loving it. You Better You Bet is a freaking awesome song, I got extra-hooked on that one.

Don't have any of their actual albums, though.

You Better You Bet is a great pop song. The Who made some great pop music in their day.

so far ad getting a Who album if you don't have one in mind already, well, its hard to recommend. they were a much different band onstage then in the studio, and had such a long, varied career of music making its hard to say what to start anyone with, although we all have our opinions.

i like to recommend The Kids Are Alright soundtrack, myself. its what got me listening / hooked and i think it could do the same for many. live stuff, singles, rarities. its good stuff to be sure. i also recommend the DVD video "30 Years Of Maximum R&B Live." those are both very good introductions to the band, as the band explains the whole twisted logic that is The Who. or they try to....

don't know about the new "Amazing Jouney:The Story Of The Who," but it covers everything up to present, features Roger, Pete, and others from the organization, and is getting rave reviews:

[url]http://www.thewhomovie.com/[/url]

The Who are good at this rock documentary thing...and great subjects, as well....

So I saw this documentary on the Who on USA the other night, it was apparently one that originally aired on VH1 Classic about 3 weeks ago, I remember seeing ads for it but since I don't have Digital Cable I don't get it.

Anyway, it was REALLY good. I learned a lot from it. They had current interviews with Roger and Pete, and they also included interviews with John that were probably done in 2000-02 era before he died. Lots of new stuff learned. They also showed concert footage I had never seen elsewhere, and alternate camera angles to concerts that I have seen. For example, the first gig that they did for The Kids are Alright (that was later aborted in favor of the second one at Shepparton in May 78, this first one was in late 77 I think) they played a cool version of Who Are You, no synthesizer backing track, Pete just sort of built up the riff on the guitar and they launched into the song. So Moonie did have a chance to play that song live!

And what surprised me the most.....there's ****ing film footage of Live at Leeds. It was a camera in the back corner of the room that was stationary, and B&W, but there was a camera there. It was ****ing amazing, I didn't think such footage existed, only audio.

EDIT: Oh, you already talked about it. It was Amazing Journey. ****ing amazing, me tell you.

[QUOTE=i am the robots;15378610]Why do you fags post in gay threads like this, but not my thread?[/QUOTE]

why do you think this thread is gay??

because its not heavy screamo shit?

the who is a lot better than that crap

[QUOTE=Milestogo05;15513649]why do you think this thread is gay??

because its not heavy screamo poop?

the who is a lot better than that crap[/QUOTE]

wow....just wow....

I need to get Tommy and Quad back. I've loaned them out for like 3 months now!

That documentary was really good. They showed it on VH1 with no commercials.

yea I recorded it, haven't watched it yet though

You'll love it. My parents walked by and ending up getting sucked in as well haha

yea my dad said it was solid, and he's got a pretty high standard for things like that. He said they played a lot of their early material (a lot of the unreleased stuff that ended up on Thirty Years of Maximum R&B or other compilations) which is cool.

The Who - 1980 Toronto CNE and Maple Leaf Gardens footage

[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ivnx6k-iSuc[/url]

I don't know if I mentioned this, but I lost Sell Out.

I bought it in early October, I listened to it once, and I haven't found the CD since. I didn't even have a chance to rip the MP3s off of it.

haha you suck at backing up The Who :lol:

Lol I actually lost Sell Out right after I bought it too. I forget where I found it, but I had already put it on my mp3 player. I still don't like the album much.

hey its still here!

hooray

anyway the old guys are still going strong. well maybe not strong but they are going :p

did anyone see the VH1 Honors show on tv? that was pretty good. i still have a problem with others covering The Who live (bands seem to fare better on record where The Who sometimes fared worse) but the talent assembled did ok.

i didn't care much for what foo fighters did to Young Man Blues and Bargain. basically made them standard hard rock songs. and whereas Keith was a powerful drummer, that foo fighter drummer was just overkill. You don't have to pound the skins like you're trying to bust them to play Who songs

too much bombast

i thought Flaming Lips fared well....as well as Tenacious D . and Pearl Jam did very nicely. those three sort of showed they understand Who music. i think your average hard rock or metal band kinda doesn't

i especially liked the beginning of the show when they assembled popular artist from music, tv, film, and asked them about The Who. what was The Who to them. great, great answers. the best one i thought came from Conan 'O Brien. when they asked the folks (Slash, Sting, Joan Jett, Cameron Crowe, Dennis Hopper, Noel Gallegher, Mick Jones, among other notables) to sum up The Who to them in one word, some really accurate descriptions came in. but Conan said it all when he looked straight at the camera and said with a very convincing sneer not typical of Conan...

[i]"untidy"[/i]

you just had to see it. i just sort of thought 'yup, thats it'


LONG LIVE THE WHO

Also, seems The Who have a new album coming out pretty soon. I'm not sure if its this year or next, but its produced by noted board man T Bone Burnett and is said to be an album of R&B covers with perhaps some originals thrown in for good measure

Pete says he hopes its as good as some of the "original" Who albums (perhaps he is talking of the old "Maximum R&B" days) and also says it will be a "more conventional" Who album then the bands 2006 release Endless Wire.

Rogers voice is the wild card here. its pretty much blown. but for singing some gruff R&B vocals i think it'll do ok. maybe Burntett can smooth them out. on Endless Wire Pete just recorded Rog's vocals raw. i still wonder why he did that

meh...with no John its not really "The Who." I think we all know that. but on record the other guys (Pino) do good and the old men still have some kick in them yet. i'm looking forward to it

Long Live Rock, etc

The Who are playing some dates this coming Fall. these have been announced, more to follow.


[b]Oct. 21 Palace of Auburn Hills
Detroit, MI

Oct. 22 Copps Coliseum
Hamilton, Ontario

Oct. 24 TD Banknorth Garden
Boston, MA

Oct. 26 Wachovia Center
Philadelphia, PA

Oct. 28 Mohegan Sun Arena
Uncasville, CT

Oct. 29 Izod Center
East Rutherford, NJ

Oct. 31 The Borgata
Atlantic City, NJ

Nov. 03 Verizon Center
Washington, DC

Nov. 8 Nokia Theatre
Los Angeles, CA

Nov. 9 Nokia Theatre
Los Angeles, CA [/b]

[QUOTE=JohnXDoe2;16555539][b]Also, seems The Who have a new album coming out pretty soon.[/b] I'm not sure if its this year or next, but its produced by noted board man T Bone Burnett and is said to be an album of R&B covers with perhaps some originals thrown in for good measure[/QUOTE]
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So, I was pleasantly surprised at their Super Bowl performance.

I was under the impression that when I saw them in 2006 (jesus, its been over 3 years since that tour? man the time flies) that they'd just go downhill from there. Especially Roger, although Townshend probably has many years of rock 'n roll left in him. I must say, despite the crappy medley-ness of the show, they rocked just as hard as they did in 2006, and I have to admit even Roger's voice may have improved a little.

So here's hoping that they still got a few more in them.

Apparently Pete is coming out with a new rock opera soon? I read that last year sometime.

who dat band that played halftime tonight

dudes are very energetic for their age. also:

RIP John Entwistle