Re: The Who Digest Vol 3 Num 143

[Alan McKendree <amck@eden.com>]

> Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 12:01:52 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jason Hare <hare@acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
> Subject: Bunches of Who-related thoughts (maybe)
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Okay, I listened to the damn thing again.  Keith says, "He was a rust
> repairer (laughs from audience"......I was a rust repairer and full time
> survivor. I survived all the (speech problem from Keith) major
> earthquakes..." so I'm keepin' it in anyway.  Pbbblt.

Thanks for checking.  Sorry for all the confusion.



>      Litgo, re:
>      
>      >What were others' firsts, BTW?

I'd heard some singles but hadn't really paid much attention (too
young).  It all really started with Tommy, when a friend played it for
me straight through in March 1971, when I was 14.  I liked what I
heard from Who's Next a lot, but I didn't buy the album.  Bought Quad
after hearing it at a friend's dorm room (first year in college) and
saw them in Dallas 11/73 shortly thereafter.  Things progressed nicely
from there...:-)


> From: NakedEye10@aol.com
> Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 14:18:56 -0400
> Subject: Who Stuff
> 
> When discussing "Buddy's Song" a week or two ago, someone stated that Bill
> Curbishley was Roger's manager.  While that was indeed the case (even before
> he took over The Who), as of DST, Roger was being managed by a guy out of NYC
> by the name of Richie Flanzer.

I think Flanzer is not Roger's manager anymore.

> From: btm805@btrtx9.hrz.uni-bayreuth.de (B. Gramlich)
> Subject: Re: Tommy in Germany
> 
> Fang, Re:
> 
> > They probably figured out that less people in Germany speak English than they
> > original thought... You can count me in the numbers of people who didn't see
> > it there (or here) too...
> 
> I don't think that this was the reason.  Many Germans don't understand Italian
> and nevertheless enjoy Italian operas...

Bernd, whether Fang knows it or not, I don't think his explanation was
to be taken seriously.  Thanks for the thoughtful explanation of the
_Tommy_ shutdown in Germany.  I have a friend in Heidelberg who I
hoped would go see it; guess he's missed his chance...:-)


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