Re: Pete's guitar playing in 79 & 82

[mleaman@sccoast.net (Mark Leaman)]

>Is Who's Last not a prime candidate for a remastering?  There's two 
>possibilities:  collapse the thing onto one disc and give it a better 
>sound.  Two:  leave two CD's, but put in another 80 min. of material, 
>from Athena and the other stuff they played from the latter-day albums to 
>anything else that fits.  There's gotta be plenty of tapes, and a good 
>double set would be more than enough to give a good representation of the 
>Who live at the time.  And if they ever do this, they should try to 
>locate more stuff like the LLR reprise on the second disc.

LP:

I would say that it certainly couldn't hurt to remaster WHO'S LAST. However,
it has many faults...the prime one being (in my mind) that it didn't come
from a single performance. This seems to be something that works
particularly well for The Who...of course, most live albums are
compilations; that's the industry standard. We have three examples
(officially) of The Who live: LEEDS (from a single performance) and WL &
JOIN TOGETHER (from many). LEEDS is a landmark album and WL pretty much
sucks. Toronto, from the same tour, is quite good. JT is merely OK (IMHO). I
know from being at a show (not to mention boots) that JT doesn't capture the
strength of a single performance.
This is also my prime argument for a live TOMMY from a single performance.
Taken from many shows, it will lose something...I just know it.
And WF, feel free to pass that along to "those in charge of The Who" if you
like.

           Cheers                      ML