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Topic: The Who At Jones Beach Return to archive Page: 1 2 3 4
15th September 2006 03:28 AM
Zack
quote:
Joey wrote:








What's Richard Thompson doing in the Who?

"Fuck off and go see Kiss." Ilove it!
15th September 2006 07:48 AM
justinkurian From the NY Times:

The Who’s Youth Is Lost, but Not the Power Chords

By JON PARELES
WANTAGH, N.Y.



YOUNG rockers don’t know any better than to write brash anthems like the songs that gave the Who its place in rock history. Aging rockers have to deal with disillusionment, ambivalence, waning energy and nostalgia. At the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater on Wednesday night, starting a string of local concerts, the Who grappled with both its past and its present. It will never be the band it was in the 1960’s and 70’s, when every power chord delivered by Pete Townshend’s windmilling arm sounded like an insurrection, and when Roger Daltrey was a cocky, pugnacious rock archetype. But it can still pack a kick.

On the Who’s umpteenth tour since its farewell concerts in 1982, the band has something new: songs from its first full album of new material in 24 years, set for release on Oct. 31. Once again, Mr. Townshend, 61, is writing songs for Mr. Daltrey, 62, to sing, reclaiming both hard-rock muscle and introspection to reveal what’s on his mind now: memories, the state of the world, metaphysics. Onstage, Mr. Townshend was almost apologetic about including new songs amid the oldies. The new songs are decidedly mixed, but they’ve freed the Who from its routines.

“My Generation” started as usual, with power chords, complaints and defiance. Video screens showed not just the Who’s own generation, England’s Mods, but punks, breakdancers and jitterbuggers. Then the three-minute original grew into a psychedelic jam, eventually merging with “Cry If You Want,” a song about lost youth from the Who’s 1982 retirement album, “It’s Hard.” In between, Mr. Townshend crooned into the microphone: first, “Hope I die,” then “Hope I die before I get old,” then “I hope I get old,” then “What am I gonna be when I grow up?”

Mr. Townshend has never been subdued onstage, but now he is more clearly than ever the band’s vital center. Mr. Daltrey’s voice is weathered, straining at high notes, and when he twirled a microphone on its cord, it looked hokey. But Mr. Townshend’s guitar — in power chords, wailing blues lines, probing modal phrases, architecturally placed riffs and savage little trills — is still a bulwark and a goad.

Pino Palladino on bass and Zak Starkey (Ringo Starr’s son) on drums, replacing the Who’s original members, recreate the old rhythm section’s rumbles and crashes. (Simon Townshend, Pete’s brother, on second guitar, and John Rabbit Bundrick on keyboards complete the band.) Few surprises remain in songs like “Who Are You” or “Substitute,” but they were unimpeachably solid, and the inevitable “Tommy” medley was nothing short of majestic.

The new songs, which will be on an album called “Endless Wire,” reshuffle old Who ideas; “Fragments” even reprograms the synthesized sounds of “Baba O’Riley.” At Jones Beach the band played a 14-minute “mini-opera,” about three kids forming a band and getting a hit, that reached back to the early Who’s Motown beat and the suitelike constructions of its later songs.

There was a folky anticlerical protest song, “Man in a Purple Dress,” that sounded like an also-ran at open-mike night. But at least one of the new songs — “Black Widow’s Eyes,” about Stockholm syndrome — had both expansive melodies and a gathering suspense. It’s not a generational anthem to eclipse “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” or “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere,” but striving gives the Who reason enough to persist.

Who shows are scheduled for Monday and Tuesdayat Madison Square Garden, (212) 465-6741, and Thursdayat the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J., (732) 335-8698.
15th September 2006 07:51 AM
justinkurian The cover is pretty bad...it has the doves from the Tommy cover.

Endless Wire cover - Design & Art Direction is by long-time Pete/Who collaborator Richard Evans, utilising elements created with the Visual Harmony software designed by Dave Snowdon and Lawrence Ball.

15th September 2006 08:11 AM
Maxlugar
quote:
lotsajizz wrote:

speaking of yourself couchbag?





I'm sorry, do I know you?
15th September 2006 09:48 AM
Joey " I'm sorry, do I know you?"


15th September 2006 11:22 AM
glencar "Mr. Townshend has never been subdued onstage, but now he is more clearly than ever the band’s vital center. Mr. Daltrey’s voice is weathered, straining at high notes, and when he twirled a microphone on its cord, it looked hokey. But Mr. Townshend’s guitar — in power chords, wailing blues lines, probing modal phrases, architecturally placed riffs and savage little trills — is still a bulwark and a goad."

YES!
15th September 2006 11:27 AM
Joey

Nanky ?!



15th September 2006 11:28 AM
Joey
quote:
glencar wrote:

But Mr. Townshend’s guitar — in power chords, wailing blues lines, probing modal phrases, architecturally placed riffs and savage little trills — is still a bulwark and a goad."





Blue ...............


Is THIS a compliment ?!

15th September 2006 11:29 AM
glencar Of course it was, Jooseph!
15th September 2006 11:31 AM
glencar
quote:
Joey wrote:


Nanky ?!





I wish the UN did need phony celebs to tell it what is morally necessary!
15th September 2006 11:31 AM
glencar
quote:
glencar wrote:
Of course it was, Joseph!

15th September 2006 11:33 AM
Saint Sway Ok... So Wire & Glass is the 1st new Who album in 24 years...

the cover looks just as old

when was this designed? In 1985?

15th September 2006 11:34 AM
Egbert
quote:
Saint Sway wrote:
Ok... So Wire & Glass is the 1st new Who album in 24 years...

the cover looks just as old

when was this designed? In 1985?





Put a pasty white chick on it and you've got Undercover.
15th September 2006 11:36 AM
Saint Sway
quote:
Egbert wrote:


Put a pasty white chick on it and you've got Undercover.



or Tears For Fears.. or Miami Vice.. Or Billy Ocean... Or Hall & Oats.. or Duran Duran... or any other bad 80s album cover


WHO-MILIATION!



[Edited by Saint Sway]
15th September 2006 11:37 AM
Joey
quote:
Egbert wrote:


Put a pasty white chick on it and you've got Undercover.



FUNNY !!!!!
15th September 2006 11:40 AM
glencar It is a bad cover...
15th September 2006 11:51 AM
Madafaka
quote:
glencar wrote:
Yes. Click on the link supplied above. It takes about 30-60 days after the concert is performed. It's a bit expensive but the money goes to charity.



Wow! I can't believe it!

15th September 2006 11:54 AM
glencar Much better than crappy bootlegs!
15th September 2006 12:02 PM
Madafaka
quote:
glencar wrote:
Much better than crappy bootlegs!


Of course! Most bands could be things like that... What about RS?
18th September 2006 11:17 AM
glencar
quote:
Madafaka wrote:

Of course! Most bands could be things like that... What about RS?

Now that'd be a treat! I'd stop attending these far-off concerts & just buy the DVD's!
18th September 2006 11:17 AM
Joey
quote:
glencar wrote:
Now that'd be a treat! I'd stop attending these far-off concerts & just buy the DVD's!



Blue ..........

Saigon... ... I'm still only in Saigon.... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. I'm here a week now... waiting for a mission... getting softer; every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter.

Kins.

18th September 2006 11:20 AM
glencar Joey, I just so "Lost In Translation" & it wasn't as bad as when I slept through it!
18th September 2006 11:23 AM
Joey
quote:
glencar wrote:
Joey, I just so "Lost In Translation" & it wasn't as bad as when I slept through it!




" Lost In Translation " was achingly , ACHINGLY boring .

Now , about that song " The Man in the Purple Dress " :

This is obviously a reaction by Pete of the Magistrate who sat in judgment of him over the internet porn unpleasantness of a few yaers ago. Scathing take on the English justice system. Word .
18th September 2006 11:31 AM
Saint Sway I will see my 1st Who show tonite.

I've met "The Two" before. But this will be my first time seeing them perform.

Pete is dope. Zach is the shit. This should be good...
18th September 2006 11:33 AM
glencar
quote:
Joey wrote:



" Lost In Translation " was achingly , ACHINGLY boring .

Now , about that song " The Man in the Purple Dress " :

This is obviously a reaction by Pete of the Magistrate who sat in judgment of him over the internet porn unpleasantness of a few yaers ago. Scathing take on the English justice system. Word .

I thought so too the first two times I fell asleep whilst watching it. But the 3rd time was a charm!


BTW Man In A Purple Dress is NOT about magistrates. Have you read the lyrics?
18th September 2006 11:35 AM
Joey
quote:
glencar wrote:
Have you read the lyrics?



Er , ..... No .


Forgive me Blue --- I never studied .

kins.
18th September 2006 11:42 AM
glencar It's an anti-clerical song. Right up your hole...
18th September 2006 11:55 AM
justinkurian Anyone know what time the Who have been going on? I'm seeing 'em tomorrow night and don't care for the opening band...
18th September 2006 12:03 PM
Joey
quote:
justinkurian wrote:
Anyone know what time the Who have been going on? I'm seeing 'em tomorrow night and don't care for the opening band...



Cool .... please provide a review of the show tomorrow .


BEST WHO YET !


18th September 2006 12:04 PM
Joey " It's an anti-clerical song. Right up your hole..."


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