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It's the Year 2000--Come See The Who!



Jon, re:
>>It wouldn't surprise me if, several years down the road, Pete comes to
terms with The Who and tours and records with it again.  It has happened so
often lately with groups that seemingly would never get back together that it
could
happen with the Who.<<

You're saying Pete may soften and tour with the Who again.  Do you really
want to see a mid-50s Who slinging their bodies over the stages of America?
 Yes, many people in their 50s lead active lives, but...Their hearing will be
worse, not better, and they will have slowed noticeably.  Y'know, guys, "all
good things must come to an end" (and I can get some Trek content in as
well).  Pining for the Who will never get you what they had or were able to
put across in their prime.  The Who I saw in 82 and the quasi-Who I saw in 89
did not equal what they had done in 70-73, and I can say that without having
seen them then!

I don't want to hear them do another FACE DANCES or IT'S HARD (the latter
contains some decent Who songs but is still noticeably flawed compared to
their great body of work).  And I see no evidence that another Who album
would be much different from those last two that we already have.

--Jim

PS. It would be interesting to see how this breaks out:  are those who pine
for another Who tour mostly those who have never the Who at all?  Do those of
us who've seen them at least once accept that the Who really don't need to
tour anymore?