The Who

[Jah Oatcake]

Just seen The Who at Ashton Gate, Bristol City's ground...phenomenal. (No trite asides please I'm a lad in my late 40's who remembers the mod years and tonight Daltrey and Townshend did us proud). The aggression, style and thrust of the early years was there to make Moon and Entwhistle proud...Superb.....Un-fucking-beatable....

 

[thefuse]

hardly worth mentioning i know but seeing as you brought it up...
i loaded a bit of equipment for their tour into a van last week.
it was the most interesting thing that happened in a very boring day at my very boring job

 

[A Dashing Blade]

Anyone else off to see them at Hyde Park on Sunday?

 

[sir.clip]

The who ?

 

[Billy Hunt]

You can't whack The Who.

 

[djbombscare]

Ah this would be the reason why it took me 2 hrs to get home last night

 

[Mr Retro]

Great band. I think Pete Townsend is a fucking nob though. That windmilling bollox he goes on with playing the guitar makes me fucking cringe.

 

[fishfingerer]

Great band. I think Pete Townsend is a fucking nob though. That windmilling bollox he goes on with playing the guitar makes me fucking cringe.

Yeah but try doing it without a) smashing your hand off the top of the guitar or b) missing the strings completely.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

 

[sir.clip]

the Who ?

 

[nellyphant]

Are you trying to say that they are a load of pants or they are a bit classy like?

 

[audiotech]

Saw them at Harewood House last Sunday. I also saw them thirty years ago at Swansea football ground. Thirty years ago they were awesome, however I got the impression thirty years on that they were showing their age (as they would be of course).

I don't recommend Harewood as a concert venue either. It took us three hours to get out of the place (one exit). Felt that the promoters had taken our money for the day and then just left (no stewarding to the one exit at the end), giving us two fingers as they went. This could have had major consequences with regards to health and safety.

 

[Jah Oatcake]

Well the Bristol City gig was good, well organised if not a tad expensive - and £3.50 for a pint of course...

 

[sir.clip]

THE WHO.

 

[Sunspots]

FYI: there's a documentary just started on ITV4.

 

[belboid]

Saw them at Harewood House last Sunday. I also saw them thirty years ago at Swansea football ground. Thirty years ago they were awesome, however I got the impression thirty years on that they were showing their age (as they would be of course).

I don't recommend Harewood as a concert venue either. It took us three hours to get out of the place (one exit). Felt that the promoters had taken our money for the day and then just left (no stewarding to the one exit at the end), giving us two fingers as they went. This could have had major consequences with regards to health and safety.

I was at that one too - pretty good show overall I thought - even the new ones werent too bad. I did keep thinking Daltrey looked like Andy Wilson (ex-swp, you know him) tho, which was a tad disconcerting.

the exit palaver was a fucking shambles.

 

[audiotech]

I was at that one too - pretty good show overall I thought - even the new ones werent too bad. I did keep thinking Daltrey looked like Andy Wilson (ex-swp, you know him) tho, which was a tad disconcerting.

Do I know you belboid?

 

[belboid]

i suspect so, tho never worked out who you are

 

[audiotech]

FYI: there's a documentary just started on ITV4.

The 'Kids are Alright', a superb biography of The Who, with Keith Moon excelling with his humour and vocals in 'Barbara Ann' - gawd bless him.

 

[bertifrew]

Yeah but try doing it without a) smashing your hand off the top of the guitar or b) missing the strings completely.

or not impaling your hand on the wamy bar, as towndsend has himself done.

great band.

one of the first albums i ever bought was the jams, in the city. My uncle heard it eminating from my room once and informed me that i should be listenig to my generation instead. So it became the next album i bought, i've been hooked eversince.

there's a concert on the tv after the kids are alright.....

 

[audiotech]

i suspect so, tho never worked out who you are

Let's keep it that way old chap.

 

[bertifrew]

watching live in boston now, boy do they miss the ox.

 

[audiotech]

watching live in boston now, boy do they miss the ox.

I'm watching Townsend playing some shit-hot, machine-gunning guitar.

 

[bertifrew]

I'm watching Townsend playing some shit-hot, machine-gunning guitar.

Old pete has still got it, he sounds good, but there's big spaces in the sound. 5:15 was good, it's one of my favourates but it misses that bass.

 

[Spencer1]

message for jah oatcake

Jah Oatcake,

This may sound a little odd, but I spotted your post from two years ago about a black Kona Lana'i (http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=164541).

Do you have a phone number I can call you on?

Thanks

 

[longdog]

Same broom.

Two new heads and three new heads but it's the same broom.

The Who without The Ox?