Re: Athena live

[Henry Gambill <hgambill@pepperdine.edu>]

Thanks, Jim.  This is very interesting, to me.  Are there any live bootlegs of
"Athena?"  Does anyone know?  Did they "change" or expand on the song as they
did with "Cry If You Want?"  My best, Henry

On Tue, 4 Jun 1996 Jacksonjim@aol.com wrote:

> Henry G.:
> 
> ATHENA was played live, at least at the start of the 82 tour. I saw the Who
> on the 5th date in the States in Indianapolis, and they played it (I can
> remeber that it was kind of rough sounding).  So, sorry, Henry, but they did
> give it some support. My wife saw them on the second leg of that tour in Nov.
> 82, and she said they didn't do ATHENA then, so I have to presume it was
> dropped from the set list sometime in the first leg (probably when the band
> was noting that it wasn't charting all that well...?)
> 
> --Jim