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Re: Pete's guitar playing in 79 & 82




>Date:	Sat, 6 Jan 1996 17:11:53 -0500
>From:	WFang01@aol.com
>Sender:	owner-thewho@gateway.mpath.com
>To:	thewho@mpath.com
>Subject:	Re: Pete's guitar playing in 79 & 82
>

>
>Yes, that vocal appeared on the reissue of "Tommy" in the UK in '73, when
>they changed printers from Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd.  To Howard Printers
>(Slough) Ltd. However, I've been told that the 2nd vocal track was recorded
>just prior to the album's reissue. I would say that this is probably true
> as
>Daltrey's vocals are closer to his "later" voice, rather than his previous.
>

I don't believe so.  Obviously Daltrey is singing an octave lower (or near 
it) on the alternative vocal, but his voice doesn't have the rough edge that 
had begun to appear in '71.  So just like with Too Much of Anything I would 
think it's just a alternate take.