I wasn't aware that KJ had already joined The Who before the 80's started, actually. (I guess I must re-visit Peter's book Who I Am)
But then again, my story with the Who ended with Who Are You, despite me seeing them twice on their farewell tour (including the tour finale in Toronto's MLG)
OK, not "boring to death"... just boring ... especially compared to Loonie
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Kenney Jones' drumming sounds a bit more explosive on It's Hard. The mix also tends to push the drums more to the front, so the contrast with the classic Who records is less obvious. It sounds as if they were trying to recapture some of the old energy, without really having the passion for it. Still I think it was a decent album and not a bad one to end the first part of their career with.
Unlike KJ, Keith Moon was a pin-up boy and the greatest showman among the drummers....Though, I find his life story as rather sad than "funny".Originally Posted by Trane
Oh and just one more song from Face Dances of which I think that there was no way that Keith Moon was able to play so majestically like KJ did do, especially not in 1981 as Moonie's health was ruined already in 1977
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As with his one-time bandmate Ronnie Wood in The 'Stones, you won't find Kenney Jones' best work in The Who- the best work of both can be found in The Faces (and Small Faces in Jones' case). He plays much more effectively on things like 'Green Circles', 'Tin Soldier', 'Stay With Me', 'I Know I'm Losing You', 'You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything' etc.
There's just too much space in Jones' strict time-keeping style in The Who IMHO. Keith Moon's style of playing is what those songs were meant to have, and it sounds weird without that. But the nadir of The Who for me came in that late 80s period, with Simon Phillips on drums. (Incidentally, I think that's the only time Phil has ever appeared with them...he did 'Fiddle About' live with them in that period. I can see the 'Phil Collins ruined The Who' remarks already...) By the time Zak Starkey joined, they were sounding right again...such a shame about Entwistle's death and the hard-to-believe circumstances.
Sadly, they didn't recorded a studio album at the time when Zak Starkey was already with The Who and before Entwiste's death in Vegas.
Pete Townshend said that he had enough songs for that.
For example this vid features an early version (ending riff, actually) of Old Red Wine, and that was four years before the song was released.
Indeed, the band was great in 2000.
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Greg Lake was drafted in to play bass for those songs...I am unaware if any more than two were recorded.
Did you heard the story that after Endless Wire was released, Roger Daltrey had an idea that T Bone Burnett to produce a new studio album of The Who but with the covers of some old R&B songs? And that Pete Townshend rejected the project?
I also wonder what became of Pete Townshend's project Floss, which (at least at some point) was supposed to give birth to a rock opera and a new Who album.
Yes I remember that he said that it would be The Who new concept album about a pub-rocker, then that it would be a theatre play, but nothing happens actually.
Sexy sexy Phil, imagine Roger and Phil. I think the female race would go extinct from the hotness
As The Who always has mostly male audience (that's the only link to prog), I can't imagine some big exodus of the female fans due to Phil, lol.
Anything is possible my friend. Something that hot couldn't be hidden forever...
I would have joined The Who if asked too.
Phil: Come on guys, can't we do something a bit more...pastoral?
Like paying their Mastercharge bills...
You mean their first Farewell tour? Around 86 or so? Of course, they're still around...
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