Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Who ARE you?.....

Do 75% of the shows on television now use The Who songs for their themes? Is it really The Who if only Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey show up for concerts (drummer Keith Moon and bassist John Entwistle are unable to appear because they, well, are dead)? Perhaps they should be called Who are Pete 'N Roger.

The Who launch tour with classic-laden show by Jon Hurdle

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Who kicked off the U.S. leg of their first world tour for more than 20 years on Tuesday with a two-hour set that included a full complement of classic hits, a smattering of new material, and some rough edges.

The legendary British rock band which came to prominence in the early 1960s with songs about youthful rebellion and alienation has only two of its original members -- singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend. The gray-bearded Townshend, 61, periodically pumped up the capacity crowd at South Philadelphia's Wachovia Center with his classic arm-twirling power-chord style while Daltrey, 62, looking younger in jeans and a plain blue T-shirt, belted out the lyrics of The Who's extensive back catalog.

The band, also consisting of Townshend's brother Simon on guitar, Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey on drums, Pino Palladino on bass and John Bundrick on keyboards -- fluently delivered many crowd-pleasing anthems including "Won't Get Fooled Again," "My Generation," "Teenage Wasteland" and "Behind Blue Eyes". - complete article

2 comments:

Steve said...

Zak Starkey is a pretty good drummer, but he hasn't driven any Bentleys into swimming pools or thrown TVs out of windows. But even more tragic than CSI: Everywhere Else having a Who song for the theme is Pearl Jam mutilating Baba O'Reilly

Johnnyk said...

and how tragic is hearing "Magic Bus" while watching a minivan commercial???