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First time I saw the Who (fwd)



Colin Hartridge writes:
> From list-owner-thewho  Tue Sep 27 10:10:35 1994
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> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 10:09:52 -0800
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> From: colinh@wimsey.com (Colin Hartridge)
> Subject: First time I saw the Who
> 
> Hello all: I subscribe to the digest version of this list, and I've been
> following all the messages with great interest. Anyway, it's time for me to
> introduce myself:
> 
> I'm Colin Hartridge, from Vancouver BC (Canada!), and I'm a 40-ish
> musician/graphic artist. I first saw The Who when they came to town in 1967
> on the Herman's Hermits tour. The show featured the Blues Magoos as opening
> act, with the Who next up, followed by Herman. Naturally we went to see the
> Who and weren't disappointed!
> 
> They opened up with Summertime Blues and did all their current tunes like
> Pictures of Lily and I'm a Boy, ending with a particularly "smashing"
> version of My Generation: PT totally destroyed a Fender Telecaster, and
> Keith Moon's drumkit (the pyschedelic kit in the old Premier ads) was
> scattered all over the stage.
> 
> Footnote to this story: When PT broke his guitar, the neck separated from
> the body, and he tossed the neck into the audience. Years later, at the
> 1989 Vancouver show, a 39-year-old woman approached the backstage area and
> informed management that in 1967, she was in the audience when the guitar
> neck was tossed -- at the time, she got hit with the neck and lost a tooth!
> (They let her in free for the 1989 show!)
> 
> I also saw The Who in '68 in Vancouver, only that time they were the
> headliners. Instead of smashing his guitar at the end of My Generation, PT
> threw a Stratocaster over the back of the stage (I still have the newspaper
> clipping which shows a photo of this feat). I remember them playing Sell
> Out material, particularly Relax and Tattoo.
> 
> Keep on rockin,
> Colin
> 
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