the Kenney years

[Kentthe1@aol.com]

Scott wrote:
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<watch the thirty  yrs maximum r&b video and look at the 
79 performance for the concerts for kampuchea behind blue eyes on the 79 
chicago set with pinball wizard.  those were great and kenny played like a 
madman whalin away. in 81-81 it seemed in my opinion he just sat there and 
played.>

This always puzzled me, I mean I used to read the stuff about how great they 
were when Kenney first joined, making the covers of Time and so forth, but 
the only thing I had to guage was the Who's Last album. Not until Maximum R&B 
video did I get glimpse of what everyone was raving about. How could they 
sound that good in '79 and so bad in '82. Granted the Who Rocks America video 
has a better song selection but performances pale to those clips from '79 
Chicago show. Even the stuff I've heard on bootleg from Face Dances tours is 
better. On Max R&B versions of Music Must Change and 5:15 are better than 
studio.

Kentavo