Re: Tommy

[Jukka Salo <k20963@kyyppari.hkkk.fi>]

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> From daemon Thu Mar 21 15:37:12 1996
> From: WFang01@aol.com
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:16:45 -0500
> Message-Id: <960321081551_173673147@emout08.mail.aol.com>
> To: thewho@mpath.com
> Subject: Re: Tommy
> Sender: owner-thewho@mpath.com
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> 
> Jon, re:
> 
> << Even worse than that, on all the copies of the re-release I have seen,
> there is nothing on the cover to even obviously indicate that it is anything
> new.  >>
> 
> Actually, they used "reverse psychology" on this one! It seems every "Tommy"
> in the last several years had some sort of "label" indicating something on
> it. While I was in Canada, the stores were full of the OLD "Tommy" which said
> "Remastered by Pete Townshend", which, considering the new release is VERY
> misleading (think about some poor schmuck reading about a "new" "Tommy",
> rushes to the store and buys THAT piece of... <Picard>...

Here in Europe, the most recent Tommy (like all the other new
reissues) has a sticker on the box telling what it is.
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Jukka
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