Re: Listening to you, I get the music

[Cheryl <otter@execpc.com>]

Frank:

> And on a different note, to Cheryl, what about us rowdy
> intellectuals?

Then you get to enjoy the music from _both_ perspectives!  : )

Mike:

> Rock journalist
> Dave Marsh, who is one of the best out there, made a similar
> comparrison in an
> article he wrote about the band in the early eighties.  If I remember
> right it
> was for a Rolling Stone Rock Encyclopedia, or something of that
> nature.  In it
> he described the effect The Who had on their fans and how they could
> be split
> into two categories.

I haven't read many Who books and am not familiar with that article; my
theory is based on the way I've seen people act at concerts.  Although I
place myself in the non-rowdy camp, it's true that by the time the
encores start, I'm usually jiggling up and down and howling piercingly
at Pete!  Perhaps the real magic of the music is the way it unites
thousands of odds and sods into one ecstatic group.  By the time the
show is over, does it really matter where the spiritual joy ends and the
animal happiness begins?

--Cheryl