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How I caught the Who Disease.




Hopefully this doesn't bore anyone but after reading everyone else's
accounts I couldn't help but tell mine.   

When I was in 9th grade one of my good friends managed to introduce me to
the Beatles, which ended up saving me from rap music (it was all i
listened to).   Soon after that for the first couple of years of high
school if it wasn't the Beatles, for me, it wasn't music.  After some time
I began to open up my mind and I started listening to a lot of classic
rock radio stations.  However, there are only a few Who songs that they
would play, so I never really knew WHO they were. (There is an obsenely
low number of who fans in Salt Lake City) I always used to think
"Won't get fooled again" was an Allman Brothers song, if you believe that.
Well, obviously didn't know much about the Allman Brothers either.  But
anyway, I ended up joining a rock band when I was junior in high school.
Not long after, the drummer of the rock band played me a few tracks off of
Tommy to demostrate how incredible the Who's drummer was.  I remember
hearing Pinball Wizard, which I never really knew was a who song.  The
overture completely blew me away, along with the bass solo in Sparks.  So
I ended up buying the album, and it went from there.   

Now I'm a sophomore in college, and I live in a fraternity house.  I am
always blasting the Who, and for a long time I was always getting shit for
it.  After living in the house for over a year, all of the guys that I
live with are starting to buy Who albumns and they rarely listen to the
music they used to listen to, like rap, heavy metal bands, etc.  Won't Get
Fooled Again has almost become our anthem while we are partying.   Imagine
20 or 30 drunk fraternity guys screaming YEAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! at the top of
their lungs to get pumped up.  This coming friday my band is playing for a
party and were covering WGFA, along with Behind Blue Eyes, Young Man
Blues, Can't Explain, Heaven and Hell, and 5:15 (we even have a brass
section).

Anywho, thats my story, hope I didn't bore anyone too much.

Nick in Salt Lake