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Re: Live in 1964



To jump ahead a few years, I have been listening to the MFSL Tommy disc and
the version of The Hawker is a re recorded version from 1970?, well I was
wondering why did they rerecord it and were there any other tracks
rerecorded from Tommy.
drew w
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff House <jjthandmeh@juno.com>
To: <thewho@igtc.com>
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 1:05 PM
Subject: Live in 1964


> I have been enjoying the ghostly-sounding recordings of our heroes from
1964
> (at The Scene Club).  What is striking to me is how terrible they sound.
> They had much to learn about each other and their instruments.
>
> Keith's playing is the exception, his natural talent and drive
overshadowed
> the others.  Roger is doing a bad Howlin' Wolf impersonation regardless of
> the song.  John thumps along generally hitting the melody.  Pete seems to
be
> learning chords and plays straight rhythm all the way through.
>
> You can hear the makings of their unique sound.  Drums leading the way,
> guitar keeping rhythm while the bass takes the melody.  Roger's throaty
> vocals sound much like Pete's later crunchy guitar sound.
>
> Jeff
> back on topic
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