Speaking of form, here is a pic of Roger and Robert from a few years ago...you can tell who took care of himself (no pun intended).
Posted on 11/14/2018 6:29:49 PM PST by Rummyfan
Out of my brain on the train...
Great minds!
Boring loud group who went about smashing their own instruments. Not fit to even tune a Beatle’s guitar.
Amoeba?
Great story!
Missed them in the day.
Now that I’ve gotten old and in no hurry to die...
Eminence Front is my favorite of theirs. Didn’t even recognize their work.
Speaking of form, here is a pic of Roger and Robert from a few years ago...you can tell who took care of himself (no pun intended).
The Who definitely put their backs into their living.
To this day, I can sing the melody and lyrics to every song on “Tommy” ... in order.
Masters of the power chord. And I always thought Daltrey was far cooler than Jagger.
The one band I regret never having seen.
I thought Tommy was a great idea, but not sure that The Who was really up to the challenge, though it was still an excellent album. I think “Whos Next” was really their masterpiece.
Mark
I was growing up in the 70s as well. Born in the early 60s, I got to listen to some of the great bands and even see some of them live in their prime.
Something interesting is that on YouTube, there are A LOT of videos of younger people discovering great 1970s music for the first time, and they're absolutely blown away, hearing classic Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Yes, and Rush, and other band, they can't believe they're listening to music recorded decades before they were born, and how amazing it it.
Seeing their reactions brings me back in time, remembering how I felt when the music was new to me too.
Mark
“I thought Tommy was a great idea, but not sure that The Who was really up to the challenge”
I can’t think of many albums that tried to tell a single story that were very good. One notable exception that comes to mind is “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway,’ by Genesis. Back in the good ol’ days when Peter Gabriel was the lead singer.
I like “Bat Out of Hell,” by Meat Loaf. After that...hmmm
BTW, Chris Squire had a couple of amazing albums, one a Christmas album, “Chris Squire’s Swiss Choir,” is really incredible, and led to a later collaboration with Steve Hackett of Genesis, “Squakett.” But his solo album, “Fish Out of Water” is amazing. Chris Squire listed John Entwistle as a major influence in developing his sound and musical style, and quite sadly, they both died on June 27, 13 years apart, Entwistle in 2002, and Squire in 2015. Crazy, huh?
Mark
Roger still looks great at 75.
My all-time favorite album. (Well I go back and forth between that and A Trick of The Tail)
I thought Squire’s best moment was “Tempus Fugit” from “Drama”.
I know Yes fans in general hate on that album because Trevor Horn sang on it, but I thought that Squire and Steve Howe were fantastic on it.
“On the dry and dusty road
The nights we spend apart alone
I need to get back home to cool, cool rain
I can’t sleep and I lay and I think
The night is hot and black as ink
Oh God, I need a drink of cool, cool rain”
Keith Richards’ “Life” is also a great read.
Funny to consider that Ox and Moonie were set to join Zep if the Who broke up.
My trashed hearing has ruined my music experience.
Believe it or not, I saw Tull as the warmup band for Led Zep. The sound for mick’s guitar was fargued for half their set.
Good for you...I saw Hendrix with the Monkees and it took me at ten years old two songs to figure who it was
And best of all I saw Pig Pen era Dead in 8th grade
But he was fading fast
Late 60s Vanilla Fudge and Animals and Rascals
And so on....
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