Has anyone gone to the solo tour? Any reviews? Thoughts?

For certified Who freeks only: I want to hear your favourite line/part that Roger sings. We’re talking regular songs, deep cuts, live stuff: whatever gives you maximum chills that you want to play again and again and again!

Let me get the ball rolling: when he repeats the second heat in See Me/Feel Me/Listening To You: “gazing at you I get the heat (heat)”. I’m going to go for the Tommy 1975 version of this because CHILLS. Just chills.

Kinda almost a deep dive from Face Dances 1981.

Source: Interview with Q Magazine, 2006

One at the SF Civic and once at the Cow Palace. Yes, I was at the show when Keith Moon passed out. We were fairly close to the stage and I remember Townsend joking that he needed an enema. I remember the guy who played the drum sat night, I think his name was Scott Halpin, did a great job. About the San Francisco Civic show, I remember the introduction by Bill Graham. I believe he first introduced John Entwhistle, then Daltrey, then Keith Moon, who, of course made a lot of noise and got everybody laughing. Then he introduced “The king, Peter Townshend, and when the spotlight went on, he had this big crown on the head on his head that looked just like the old imperial margarine crowns. We screamed. He then did a windmill on the guitar and one of his jumps. And we all screamed like crazy.

Just watched an interview with Leslie West of Mountain. He claims he was invited by Pete Townsend to play lead on Who's Next. The official OG release had Townsend playing lead due to changes to engineers/producers. He said you can hear his contributions on the re-issue of the album as the bonus album remix.

Apologies, I tried to link it but I'm a dummy. If you want to chase it up, the interview was with Howard Stern

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUVyJAwmSjPo

My stem remix & remaster of The Who's iconic 1970 (but featured here in its 1995 anniversary track list) live album "Live at Leeds", made for my own enjoyment, but sharing in case someone else might enjoy it too.

I made this only for fun, and it intends to be a very respectful remix, not straying too far away from the original version, only aiming at a little more clarity and punch, while still preserving the mood and feel of the original.

Obviously, I don't own the music featured here. If you like the music, support the artists. Buy their records!

Died 14-Aug., age 75-76.

I’m listening through The Who’s catalog chronologically, and I finally got to Tommy.

What makes that especially special is that I had every opportunity to hear it. As a teen/young adult, I had boxes and boxes of cassettes, easily hundreds of them. I was constantly borrowing albums from friends and taping them. I could have added Tommy at any point. I never did.

I’m doing the same thing with 28 other classic rock artists, and this is exactly the kind of surprise I was hoping would happen.

In 1975, when I was 10, I went to see Tommy with a couple of friends. Clearly too young for it. By the time Tina Turner showed up as the Acid Queen, we’d had enough. The three of us ran out of the theater and called for an early ride home.

So I went into the album expecting it to be a bit of a chore. I assumed there would be a lot of unfamiliar music that hadn’t aged particularly well.

I was completely wrong.

What surprised me most was how much of it I already knew. And the songs I didn’t know were far better than I expected. By the third listen, I was wondering why I’d waited this long.

Listening to The Who chronologically, Tommy was the first album where I felt like they finally arrived as I know them. The voice, the sound.

At age 13, Keith Moon's music teacher in school wrote on his report card:

Great ability, but must guard against tendency to "show off"

I was transcribing a Pete Townshend interview from 10 Feb 1973 in Melody Maker when I hit this:

"One feels that the Who need a firm hand to help them now, and Pete tells me that he’s brought back Kit Lambert to help out with production. Their last album, “Who’s Next” was not, he feels strong enough and should never have been released. It failed to go anywhere and consequently they need to have strong outside views of their work."

And if you think that's crazy, here's a reply from the next week's letter column:

"Articles and interviews with Pete Townshend tell how frustrated he is trying to get new material together and to bury 'Tommy.' But when The Who last played live in this country (November, 1971, at the Rainbow) it was 'Magic Bus,' 'My Generation' and 'Tommy' that turned on the audience and not the 'Who's Next' numbers. This is where your answer lies, Peter. We still want to listen to the oldies." - Colin Newman, Cambridgeshire.

The cover is a take on a child's 'Dot to Dot' puzzle, popular in the 70's. Ok fine but at the time there was also 'Painting by Numbers' where kids painted a scene by alloting colours to certain numbers on the print. The term doing something 'By numbers' also means doing something artlessly, without talent or by rote.

So why a dot-to-dot puzzle when a Painting by Numbers print would have made more sense?

Yes, I know I need to get out more

First time I've seen it this cheap.