VH, Jr. wants to see the Half-Who. I saw them on a stadium tour in 1989 and it was fine - very focused on 70s stuff, which wasn't my bag. Should we take him?
I'm in a distinct minority here, but I'm not interested in seeing well-past-their-prime bands. Yet, if the boy really wants to see them and you can justify the price, why not?
I just hate being bored at concerts. And I want him to be excited, so I will have to act excited. And it's hard to be excited about the half-Who. But lawn seats are pretty cheap, so I will think about it. I envision this:
JB: "They have a famous lyric about how they hope to die before they get old."
VHJ: "Half of them lied."
I love, love LOVE early Who. Can't stand much else. But I think part of that is because of CSI saturation, which I know is mainly my fault.
I've said before that despite some cool songs that came after, I like a timeline where the band was wiped out in an explosion before recording Tommy.
After Who's Next would have suited me. If they left the best best 6 songs from Quadrophenia to be released posthumously, that would have been a bonus.
That's fair. There are plenty of songs from all those albums that I really like. I picked Tommy as the cut-off because that's when Pete's rock-as-high-art attitudes became too up his the rectum. Sell Out is a wonderfully playful concept album of sorts—take out the commercial goofs and it's just a regular album—but then it starts to get annoyingly "important" (well, "Squeeze Box"—I love that one).
I love, love LOVE early Who. Can't stand much else. But I think part of that is because of CSI saturation, which I know is mainly my fault.
I've said before that despite some cool songs that came after, I like a timeline where the band was wiped out in an explosion before recording Tommy.
After Who's Next would have suited me. If they left the best best 6 songs from Quadrophenia to be released posthumously, that would have been a bonus.
That's fair. There are plenty of songs from all those albums that I really like. I picked Tommy as the cut-off because that's when Pete's rock-as-high-art attitudes became too up his the rectum. Sell Out is a wonderfully playful concept album of sorts—take out the commercial goofs and it's just a regular album—but then it starts to get annoyingly "important" (well, "Squeeze Box"—I love that one).
I love, love LOVE early Who. Can't stand much else. But I think part of that is because of CSI saturation, which I know is mainly my fault.
I've said before that despite some cool songs that came after, I like a timeline where the band was wiped out in an explosion before recording Tommy.
After Who's Next would have suited me. If they left the best best 6 songs from Quadrophenia to be released posthumously, that would have been a bonus.
That's fair. There are plenty of songs from all those albums that I really like. I picked Tommy as the cut-off because that's when Pete's rock-as-high-art attitudes became too up his the rectum. Sell Out is a wonderfully playful concept album of sorts—take out the commercial goofs and it's just a regular album—but then it starts to get annoyingly "important" (well, "Squeeze Box"—I love that one).
I love, love LOVE early Who. Can't stand much else. But I think part of that is because of CSI saturation, which I know is mainly my fault.
I've said before that despite some cool songs that came after, I like a timeline where the band was wiped out in an explosion before recording Tommy.
After Who's Next would have suited me. If they left the best best 6 songs from Quadrophenia to be released posthumously, that would have been a bonus.
That's fair. There are plenty of songs from all those albums that I really like. I picked Tommy as the cut-off because that's when Pete's rock-as-high-art attitudes became too up his the rectum. Sell Out is a wonderfully playful concept album of sorts—take out the commercial goofs and it's just a regular album—but then it starts to get annoyingly "important" (well, "Squeeze Box"—I love that one).
Sell Out is my favourite Who album.
It's tight for me between that one and The Who Sings My Generation. I lean to Sell Out, tho, because of the playfulness of it all.
Re: So what's your concert schedule looking like?
Posted: 30 Jan 2019, 2:45am
by BostonBeaneater
I'm going to see Dave Hause in April. He's an aging hardcore guy from Philly and put out a fantastic aging hardcore guy with guitar record a year or so ago.
Re: So what's your concert schedule looking like?
Posted: 08 Feb 2019, 4:45am
by Flex
Holy shit, Elton was great. Full review after I recover.
