Re: Opening Acts

[Doug Ciceri <dciceri@credit.erin.utoronto.ca>]

You're absolutely right!

That show must have been brilliant.  I wish I could have been there and saw
the crowds response during the opening notes of the Who's set!!

Later.

DC

At 10:02 PM 5/15/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Or my first concert. The Who for Herman's Hermits.
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>>Wow!
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>>Joe, you actually saw this show??  Were the Who better than the Hermits
>>(i.e., I know that we all love The Who but at that time were The Who already
>>flexing their muscles so to speak and outperforming the headliner?).
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>"Were The Who better than the Hermits?" Doug, how could you ask such a
question!
>When The Who opened the show, all the little girls shit in their pants.
>They saved the pee for Herman.
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>I didn't mean to be so vivid, and I wasn't there, but I was already a rabid
>Who fan in the summer of '67. Can you imagine all the teenybobbers, having
>paid their money to see Herman's Hermits, being, instead, hit head-on by
>the best British band of the time? Complete with smoke bombs, high volume,
>general destruction and Keith's brand new straight-from-the-factory
>"patented exploding drum kit"?
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>I wish I'd have seen that, and I'm sorry no videos of the tour have shown
>up. It must have been glorious!
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