I like The Who. Well, some of their stuff. Never had a bunch of their albums, but I did have a few. Tommy, of course. Who’s Next, of course. And a couple of others.
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I saw The Who at Randy Quaid’s Biggest Party In History in the Astrodome.
Yes really!
It was before he became a member of the Permanently Giggling Academy™️. We showed up in time to see the last song of Stevie Ray Vaughn’s set. Our tickets were for all day so we could have watched his whole show. I loved the Who’s Show but I regret not seeing more of SRV.
On a side note, Pete Townsend broke his hand when smashing a guitar at the end of the show. So there’s that.
Saw SRV play 1,200 seat theater just a year or so before he died. The Fabulous Thunderbirds opened. Great show. For an encore Stevie and Jimmie played together on a double-necked guitar. Such fun.
Never saw the Who, but I had a childhood friend who claimed to have suffered some permanent hearing loss from sitting close to a speaker at one of their shows. I think he wears that like a Deaf Badge of Honor.
I saw them at the old Foxboro stadium. We were literally as far away from the stage as you could get and still be in the stadium. Even at that distance there were several times during the concert when it got so loud that the music just dissolved into white noise. It was loud.
Let’s play the Possom Lodge Word Game………………….
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
When all else fails…play dead!
I was mad for the Quadrophenia soundtrack.
Also, got to see them at the Oakland Colosseum on their 25th anniversary tour back in 89
That was the same tour I saw. The Randy Quaid BPiH was in 1989.
I saw them at Alpine Valley in ’89. Can’t say I was ever mad for them. I absolutely hate “Tommy”. But “Who’s Next” is one of the all time great R&R albums.
I got tickets to see The Who in August 1983 in Orlando. The show was on a Saturday. I was scheduled to work, but swapped shifts with a guy named Ed. I took Ed’s Wednesday overnight shift and he was gonna take my Saturday shift. On Thursday morning, as the overnight shift was ending, Ed walked in, handed over his keys, and walked out.
My brother-in-law went with my wife to the show. That was also my daughter’s first concert. She was born the next month.
I never saw The Who.
I saw the Who at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago in 1969 or so. They were opening for Buddy Rich’s band. My hearing recovered in 1972 or so.
William Talman, who had quite a successful career playing bad guys in movies and on television (he played Hamilton Burger in the Perry Mason television series), was born February 4, 1915, in Detroit.