FW: Times Quad Ad

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>It's Chad!
>Any self-respecting fan knows that.  Actually, i was at a friends' house on
>the weekend, and he showed me his mint vinyl copy of Quad, and i was reading
>the "poem" inside.  The credits list the mod as only "Chad".
>Mike
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>From: 	Gary M. Gillman[SMTP:garyg@inforamp.net]
>Sent: 	Sunday, June 16, 1996 7:51 PM
>To: 	thewho@igtc.com
>Subject: 	Times Quad Ad
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>The full page ad in today's New York Times (Arts and Leisure section) for
>the upcoming MSG shows states that Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Pete
>Townshend, with special guests in concert, will perform The Who's
>Quadrophenia, words and music by Pete Townshend, on July 16, 17 and 18 at
>MSG. In other words the surviving members of the Who are not billing
>themselves as "the Who" for these shows at least. I think this is fully
>appropriate, not because Zak Starkey and assorted guest and supporting
>musicians will be on stage but because the Who have not been a functioning
>band since the early 1980's. It would have been easy and, as WF has pointed
>out, in the commercial interest of the band to present themselves as the Who
>for these shows - the fact that they have opted to present themselves as
>individual performers is to their credit in artistic and moral terms,
>however. It shows that they are aware of and willing to run the risk that
>advertising the show in this way may result in fewer tickets being sold,
>although in fact I don't think they have anything to worry about... BTW, the
>picture from the cover of the original Quad album, of a parka-clad figure on
>a scooter, is reproduced in the ad albeit with an understated faintness.
>Looking at this picture closely for the first time in a number of years, I'm
>wondering who the figure on the machine is. Is it Keith Moon?.....Gary M.
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