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Utah Who bash a raving lunatic success / Dance It Away



Nick came over last night and we just had a kick ass time as we watched
Sunday's Bridge School set in its entirety and the 20 minute Pixelon
highlights that were broadcast on cable.  We also enjoyed some brews
while cranking up the bootlegs LOUD in my house while various Who video
footage rolled on the small screen.

Anyone observing the scene would have thought we were posessed!
(Perhaps we were :)  They would have seen two geezers with big
shit-eating grins on their faces, bobbing their heads in unison to the
thundering bass of "big, bad, black Johnny twinkle" (as Roger once
quipped in a bit of between-song concert banter).

We stuck to the vinyl material I had since that represented the rarest
quantity available on which we could feast our ears!  Highlights were
the last side of the Kids soundtrack: Join Together/Roadrunner/My
Generation Blues from Pontiac, MI followed by Won't Get Fooled Again
from Shepperton.  To me, this single album side represents a more
powerful thrust than Leeds.  Especially if you just crank it up :-).

>From there we went to various boots -- Fillmore East '68 for Easy Goin
Guy and Relax (8 minutes?), but mostly stuck to the 3-album boot from
Kenney's birthday at Madison Square Garden in 1979.  This is the boot
that came up recently in the discussion of Dance It Away.  In this
show, Kenney and John lay down a beat that drives the band through the
concert like a freight train with no brakes!  We listened pretty much
to the entire thing -- all 3 albums.

We also looked through various other 'stuff' I had -- books, the
Chicago HOB concert poster, and my singles.  A lot of these things I
hadn't looked at for a couple of years myself.  I forgot that "Dance
It Away" appeared as the B-side to the Uniforms single from Chinese
Eyes.  It has a picture sleeve, but is not a picture disc, so I think
its different from the one that was mentioned earlier on the list by
joseph stralo.  The record label on the single reads Atco K11751
1982.

I had forgotten that I had this version of Dance It Away, and joseph
is right, it is much different from the bootleg jam.  Its kind of like
getting two songs for one ;-).

Happy Wholidays All!
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