Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V3 #178

>I know WF and some others disagree with me, but I can hear the decline
>starting with Quadrophenia. There is a constriction, hoarseness, and lack of
>power starting with that album which simply got worse as time went by.
>Listen to Love Reign O'er Me for example in Toronto in '82 - a particularly
>awful nadir.

Well, I for one don't agree with that.  I've always considered his singing
to be more expressive (in studio recordings) AFTER Quad, with him reaching a
peak around the time 
of McVicar.  'Course, others might disgree with that.   
"If you ask me to explain it, I'll start to whimper."